Browsing 05 University of Plymouth Journals by Issue Date
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On Historical Contextualisation: Some Critical Socio-Legal Reflections
(University of Plymouth, 2007-03)This article examines the relationship of historico-legal studies to the wider context of socio-legal studies. It issues a challenge to rethink the nature and role of legal history in the light of socio-legal theory and ... -
Undiscovered Country: Towards a History of the Criminal 'Underworld'
(University of Plymouth, 2007-03)The concept of the underworld is a central feature in popular histories of crime and criminal behaviour but one that has tended to be dismissed by academic historians as somewhat nebulous and indefinable. This article ... -
Persistent Offenders in the North West of England, 1880-1940: Some Critical Research Questions
(University of Plymouth, 2007-03)This article examines the concept of the persistent offender as a group within society, and the presumed impact of that discrete group upon society via a case study of offending in Crewe between 1880 and 1940. The findings ... -
Convicted Murderers and the Victorian Press: Condemnation vs. Sympathy
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)Almost half of those receiving the death sentence in late-Victorian and Edwardian England were reprieved. The process of deciding which murderers were to hang and which were to be spared became an increasingly public one, ... -
Crime, Violence and the Modern State
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'On Historical Contextualisation': Some Further Reflections
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Unpalatable in Word or Deed: Hostility, Difference and Free Expression
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)This article conducts a review of the principal tools used in English criminal law, from the early modern period to the present, to impose limits on free expression, particularly the freedom to exhibit hate‘, in pursuit ... -
Deviance and Morals: a study of sixteenth-century Crete under Venetian rule: A first approach
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)This article examines indicatively offences such as blasphemy, sodomy, adultery and bigamy and the penalties imposed by the Venetian authorities on the island of Crete in sixteenth century. As the sixteenth century was ... -
Child on Child Killing: Societal and Legal Similarities and Dissimiliarities 1840-1890 and 1950-2000
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)This thesis contributes to research regarding social perceptions and legal responses to child criminality. It challenges existing preconceptions regarding the predictability of moral panic in such cases and the social ... -
'The Human Rights Act 1998 - The Needs of the Many and the Rights of One': Annual Pilgrim Father’s Lecture, 20 November 2008
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The Halliday Report: In Pursuit of a New Sentencing Framework or a Catastrophic Failure?
(University of Plymouth, 2008)In 2001 the Halliday Report, Making Punishments Work: A Review of the Sentencing Framework for England & Wales devised a sentencing framework where sentences – custodial and non-custodial - meant what they said, benefited ... -
Cohabitation and Property: The End of the Road for the Traditional Trust?
(University of Plymouth, 2008)It is generally assumed that financial apportionment between cohabiting parties, when the relationship ends, is determined by the law of property, in which the institution of the trust has a large role to play. Until ... -
How Effective are Anti-Doping Sport Measures in the UK?
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Access to Justice – Rights or Rations? Comparing European Legal Aid Systems in the Context of a Shrinking Budgetary Environment
(University of Plymouth, 2008)The inspiration for this thesis was derived from a week spent in the family law department of a local solicitor's practice. The UK government's reforms to the legal aid system were about to be implemented and appeared to ... -
Food Fraud, Current Issue but an Old Problem
(University of Plymouth, 2008)Purposes: This article addresses the topic of food fraud which has been so widely and variously reported over recent months and years. Its purposes are to set current experience into an historical context and to illustrate ... -
Do Anxiety Level and Anxiety-Related Content Affect Accuracy and Endorsement Rate on Syllogistic Reasoning by Increasing Reliance on Belief-Biased Heuristic Processing?
(University of Plymouth, 2008)This study used an adaptation of the belief bias paradigm and correlational analyses to investigate the effects of validity, believability, content, and anxiety level on syllogistic reasoning in a sample comprised of ... -
The Solent Sea Breeze: Occurrence, Classification and Forecasting Aspects
(University of Plymouth, 2008)The Solent sea breeze was studied from May-August 2006, wind speed, direction, air and sea temperature and humidity data recorded at Bramble Bank and Dockhead was provided by the hydrographer’s office in Southampton. A ... -
Factors that Affect Cardiovascular Health: A Review
(University of Plymouth, 2008)Cardiovascular disease is a major public health problem in terms of both high morbidity and mortality rates and large economic costs. Cardiovascular health and risk of disease are determined by a wide range of genetic and ... -
The Effect of Nucleotide-binding Oligomerization Domain (NOD) Proteins on the Secretion of Cytokines from Macrophages
(University of Plymouth, 2008)The study of Nucleotide-Binding Oligomerization Domain (NOD) Proteins is a very new area of immunology, with the gene for NOD2 having only been mapped in 2001 (Ogura et al 2001). It holds particular significance for those ...
