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Interrogration, intelligence and security : controversial British techniques
Examines the origins and effects of the use of interrogation techniques known as the 'five techniques'. Through its in-depth analysis, the book reveals how British forces came to use such controversial methods in counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and internal security contexts. This book will be of particualr interest to security professionals, academics and members of the public interested in the torture debate, intelligence, the military, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, foreign policy and law enforcement. -- P. [4] of cover.
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The Law of Disclosure
This edited collection explores the topic of disclosure of evidence and information in the criminal justice process.
The book critically analyses the major issues driving the long-standing problem of dysfunctional disclosure practice, with contributions from academics, lawyers, former police officers and current police policymakers. The ultimate objective is to review the key problems at the investigative, trial and post-conviction stages of criminal proceedings and to suggest a way forward through potential routes of reform, both legal and cultural. The collection represents a significant and novel contribution to the policy debate regarding disclosure and advances thought on resolving this issue in a fair and sustainable manner.
The book provides a valuable resource for academics, practitioners and policymakers working on this vital aspect of criminal procedure.
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Analysing Police Interviews
Winner of the British Society of Criminology 'Criminology Book Prize 2012' This book uses transcripts from real UK police interviews, investigating previously unexplored and under-explored areas of the process.It illustrates the way in which police and suspects use language and sounds to inform, persuade and communicate with each other.
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Heart Beats
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class.Heart Beatsis the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived.
Heart Beatsbegins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's \"Casabianca,\" Thomas Gray's \"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,\" and Charles Wolfe's \"Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna.\" To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's \"Invictus\" and Rudyard Kipling's \"If--,\" asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today.
Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities,Heart Beatsis an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.
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CONVERGENCE, NOT DIVERGENCE? Trends and Trajectories in Public Contact and Confidence in the Police
Public trust and confidence are vital to the police function. There has been much comment and debate about the apparent decline in confidence in the British police since the 1950s, most frequently evidenced by data from the British Crime Survey (BCS). Yet, there has been relatively little in-depth interrogation of the data at the heart of the discussion. Pooling data from 11 sweeps of the BCS (1984 to 2005/06), this paper shows a homogenization over time in trends in trust and confidence and experiences of encounters with the police. This pattern is found across both age and ethnicity, and can also be identified in other variables. The story that emerges therefore differs from analyses that emphasize the increasingly diffuse and variable nature of public experiences of the police.
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Intelligence and anti-terrorism legislation in the United Kingdom
The intelligence cycle provides a key to understanding the nature of the UK Government's anti-terrorism laws. The importance of intelligence has been reflected in institutional terms with the growth in expenditure on the intelligence community and the establishment, since September 11, 2001, of bodies such as the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre within the Security Service and the development of regional offices by the Security Service. Other developments include the regionalisation of police Special Branches and ports policing, and the establishment of a Police International Counter Terror Unit based within the Metropolitan Police and the National Counter Terrorism Security Office within M15. While the point about the predominance of intelligence is made widely, it is often ignored in discussions about the anti-terrorism laws currently set out in the Terrorism Act 2000, the Anti-Terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001 and the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005. They embody two main approaches. There is first the strategy of criminalisation. Consequently, the Acts set out special offences and, for Northern Ireland at least, special courts and criminal processes. The second purpose is not simply to sustain convictions but to prevent, disrupt and counter the threat of terrorism.
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Cultures of learning and learning culture: Socratic and Confucian approaches to teaching and learning
A wide variety of British universities are expanding efforts to attract international students. This article argues that higher education's implicit claim to all-inclusive 'universality' may hereby be challenged by subsequent issues of cultural particularity. Here I set to conceptualise possible differences in the learning culture of Asian international students through a Confucian-Socratic framework. The Socratic method, our archetypal Occidental model, is traditionally seen as an experiential learner-centred pedagogy that values creativity and intellectual independence. But the Confucian approach, the archetypal Oriental exemplar, is normally presented as a didactic teaching-centred pedagogy with greater emphasis on strategic, directed thinking. I conclude that refl ection in these ways may lead to a culturally sensitive form of education and also help identify the epistemological and ontological dimensions that enhance a more flexible approach to teaching and learning.
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POLICE INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES: Establishing Truth or Proof?
With the introduction of recording facilities in police interview rooms, the techniques that officers adopt when questioning suspects are being increasingly subjected to scrutiny. The research reported in this article, based upon 600 audio and video tapes recorded in three police forces in 1989 and 1990, examines the way in which interviews with suspects were conducted. The study suggests that greater efforts will need to be made in the future if public concern about interview procedures is to be assuaged.
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