SOLON Law, Crime and History - Volume 1, No 1https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/87882024-03-29T06:05:14Z2024-03-29T06:05:14ZProvidentialism, The Pledge and Victorian Hangovers: Investigating Moderate Alcohol Policy in Britain, 1914-1918Yeomans, Henryhttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/88602019-05-22T15:27:31Z2011-01-01T00:00:00ZProvidentialism, The Pledge and Victorian Hangovers: Investigating Moderate Alcohol Policy in Britain, 1914-1918
Yeomans, Henry
2011-01-01T00:00:00ZHuman Rights and the Use of Law in the Modern StateJones, Vaughanhttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/88592019-05-22T15:27:31Z2011-01-01T00:00:00ZHuman Rights and the Use of Law in the Modern State
Jones, Vaughan
2011-01-01T00:00:00ZThe More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Criminal Law, Down Syndrome, and a Life Worth LivingWright, Franhttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/88582019-05-22T15:27:31Z2011-01-01T00:00:00ZThe More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Criminal Law, Down Syndrome, and a Life Worth Living
Wright, Fran
This article considers changes in how legal rules reflect attitudes towards children with Down Syndrome between the early 1980s and the present day. In the early 1980s children with Down Syndrome did not have the same access to medical treatment and education as other children, and were not fully included in their local communities. Some children and adults lived in state-run institutions. As a result of case-law and legislative changes, children with Down Syndrome are now unlikely to be denied medical treatment and they are included in mainstream education. Most children live with their own parents and there is support for adults who wish to live independently. Both adults and children with Down Syndrome are visible members of the community. However, despite changes in the law and in public attitudes towards disability generally and Down Syndrome in particular, the majority of parents who receive a pre-natal diagnosis of Down Syndrome terminate the pregnancy. This reflects concerns about the child's quality of life and also the effect that bringing up a child with a disability would have on the quality of life of other family members. These concerns are legitimated by the government policy of supporting and extending pre-natal testing, with the explicit goal of detecting serious disability. Further legitimation is provided by abortion legislation which permits termination on the ground of serious disability at any stage in pregnancy. The article concludes that although there have been many changes in the lives of those with Down Syndrome since the early 1980s, there are still socially constructed barriers to their full participation in society and their lives are considered less worth living than those of normally developing children.
2011-01-01T00:00:00ZCommunity Mothers or Impromptu Actresses? The Multifaceted Experience of Women in the New York Police Department (1900-1941)Philippe, Yannhttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/88572019-05-22T15:27:31Z2011-01-01T00:00:00ZCommunity Mothers or Impromptu Actresses? The Multifaceted Experience of Women in the New York Police Department (1900-1941)
Philippe, Yann
In the first half of the twentieth century, women police played a small yet active role in the New York Police Department. This article does not intend to narrate the growing presence of policewomen in the department but to examine their professional roles, identities, activities and experiences. It emphasizes the diversity of their tasks and social background, taking especially into account the division between former police matrons and social workers. Given this diversity, the category of gender is thus reinterpreted to understand how it functioned as a flexible and complex identity in relation to other forms of identity. Gender could be played up or down and negotiated according to circumstances and individuals, to either integrate a male-dominated institution, perform social work or do investigative work.
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