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The structure, literary distinctiveness, and content of Caribbean literature for young people deserve attention to support the framing and inclusion of such texts in scholarly conversations, teacher-preparatory programmes, schools, libraries, and bookstores. The vulnerability of the child to the colliding forces of history finds expression not only in books for young people but also in mystery or detective fiction written for adults. Mystery fiction typically locates the murderer (whose kill is revealed as the book opens) as someone motivated by a single reason, offering readers a view of the world in which murder remains an intelligible readerly act. Child abuse, sexual molestation, and poverty overwhelm local families, often leading to children subsequently becoming killers as adults.

Les attentats à la bombe de Dublin et de Monaghan, qui ont tué 33 hommes, femmes et enfants et blessé environ 258 personnes le 17 mai 1974, restent à ce jour l’une des affaires de meurtre non résolues du conflit nord-irlandais puisque personne n’a encore été arrêté et condamné. Après des enquêtes bâclées par le gouvernement irlandais, les soupçons de collusion entre les auteurs de l’attentat et des agents de l’État britannique ont entravé le processus de justice individuelle et collective, que seules les représentations fictionnelles semblent pouvoir remplir. En 2019, deux œuvres de fiction, May Day 1974 de Rachel Hegarty et A Conspiracy of Lies de Frank Connolly, ont à nouveau exposé publiquement les événements à travers des témoignages romancés, ce qui implique que le processus de symbolisation à l’œuvre dans une forme artistique facilite la confrontation des individus et de la société à un passé traumatique. The Dublin and Monaghan bombings that killed 33 men, women and children and wounded around 258 people on 17 May 1974 remain to this day one of the unsolved murder cases of the Northern Ireland conflict since no one has yet been arrested and convicted. After botched investigations by the Irish government, suspicions that the attack involved collusion between the perpetrators and agents of the British State hindered the process of individual and collective justice, that only fictional representations seem to be able to fulfill. In 2019, two works of fiction, May Day 1974 by Rachel Hegarty and A Conspiracy of Lies by Frank Connolly, once again publicly exposed the events through fictionalized testimonies, which implies that the symbolization process at work in an artistic form makes it easier for individuals and society to confront a traumatic past.

Adult readers of YA, it was pointed out, are often reparenting themselves from trauma of when they were first learning to be human; even though the YA authors know this, they continue to write for their children readers, not for the adults. A lesbian fiction panel included Kristin Arnett, Kate Rounds, and Kayla Ubadyaya discussing lesbian imaginations at work; Sunday morning readings included zooms in from SF about a dog walking business, Murder at the Museum; and from Dayton, OH about a rooky detective. [...]anyone who attended the event, live or on zoom, found good role models, and excellent tips about craft and production.

This article analyzes Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and Raymond Postgate's Verdict of Twelve, both written toward the end of the interwar period and published at the outset of World War II. Christie and Postgate interrogate ethics in the British criminal justice system, using the figure of the child-victim to complicate interwar constructions of innocence.

Popular romantic fiction dating back to the 1700s often portrays a submissive/virginal female character and an aggressive/beastly male character. This binary portrayal of heterosexual relationships is problematic because it presents a power imbalance within the couple as essential for romance. Although several scholars have described this phenomenon, it has yet to be named and applied to violence prevention work. In response, the purpose of this study is to develop the term “virgin-beast trope” to capture this relationship dynamic and situate this concept within the larger body of relationship violence research. We use three of the most popular romantic fiction films (Beauty and the Beast, Twilight, and Fifty Shades of Grey) to illustrate the virgin-beast trope and demonstrate its continuity from childhood to adulthood. We then use the Abuse Litmus Test to identify examples of relationship abuse embedded within the virgin-beast trope as evidenced in these films. Although unhealthy features of these three relationships are often masked in romanticization, the inherent disproportional power dynamic of the virgin-beast trope results in the male partners using their ‘beastly power’ through threats, intimidation, isolation, and stalking to control the subordinate and virginal female partner. In response, the female partners try to ‘tame the beast’, but ultimately suffer harm as a result. The prominent virgin-beast trope across romantic fiction could be added to existing media literacy education to support more engaging conversations that address relationship violence prevention across developmental stages.

More important than a sense of closure is our hope that this round of debate will help clarify the role of statistical methods in research and theorizing about crime. The questions of relevance are whether chronic offenders are categorically distinct in terms of causal mechanisms (as Moffitt and many others explicitly claim), whether there are two distinct groups (as Moffitt also claims), and whether future career criminals can be robustly predicted-prospectively-among juvenile delinquents or those at risk. During the 2005-2006 academic year, he is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. The Albert J. Reiss, Jr, Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law, and Deviance Section; the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; and the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award from the American Society of Criminology.

This essay explores the complex entanglement of new reproductive technologies, genetics, health economics, rights-based discourses and ethical considerations of the value of human life with particular reference to representations of Down’s syndrome and the identification of trisomy 21. Prompted by the debates that have occurred in the wake of the adoption of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), the essay considers the representation of Down’s syndrome and prenatal testing in bioethical discourse, feminist writings on reproductive autonomy and disability studies and in a work of popular fiction, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s Someone To Look Over Me (2013), a novel set in Iceland during the post-2008 financial crisis. It argues that the conjunction of neo-utilitarian and neoliberal and biomedical models produce a hostile environment in which the concrete particularities of disabled people’s lives and experiences are placed under erasure for a ‘genetic fiction’ that imagines the life of the ‘not yet born’ infant with Down’s syndrome as depleted, diminished and burdensome. With close reference to the depiction of Down’s syndrome and learning disability in the novel, my reading explores the ways in which the generic conventions of crime fiction intersect with ideas about economics, politics and learning disability, to mediate an exploration of human value and social justice that troubles dominant deficit-led constructions of disability.

“Integration” refers to multiple arenas in German migration politics, including journalistic discourse, public policy, and cultural logics about incorporating immigrants and refugees into the nation. This article examines two non-fiction narratives, Das Ende der Geduld by Kirsten Heisig and Muslim Girls by Sineb El Masrar, to explore how each author characterizes integration from opposite sides of the political spectrum. In integration politics, adolescence is often construed as a problem, which—when improperly managed—leads to the criminalization or radicalization of youth of color. Comparative analysis of these two texts shows that institutions such as the school and the criminal justice system produce adolescence as a problem for integration and as a way to avoid acknowledging institutionalized inequity. These two examples exist as part of a longer genealogy of authors using mass-market paperbacks to comment on integration politics.

Growing up is the most exciting adventure of allJoin young Emil as he says goodbye to his mother, leaves his small town and sets off on a journey that will change his life. When his money is stolen on the train by a mysterious stranger, Emil thinks he's lost everything. But as he starts tracking down the thief, he soon discovers that he's not alone in the big city after all. For this classic tale of a boy learning to rely on himself - and on his new friends - the Olivier stage transforms into 1920s Berlin: a place full of surprises and danger, where everything moves at the speed of your imagination.