This book sets to explore the key issues and future prospects facing critical criminology, bringing together a set of leading authoriries in the field from the UK, Australasia and the USA. A key concern of the book is to review the possibilities and strategies of pursuing critical criminological scholarship in the context of an increasingly dominant administrative criminology paradigm, reflected in the rise of neo-liberalism, a governmentalized criminology of risk, crime control and situational crime prevention.

A recognized leader in the learning industry, The Forum Corporation "pulls back the curtain" to reveal not only their research data and case studies, but many of the practices they use with clients to help them cohesively integrate learning into everyday work, and drive business results through learning. With such robust data, strategies, and tools, Forum's Principles of Learning: A Guidebook for Advancing Performance in Today's Workplace is an indispensible tool for L&D and line leaders alike.

Explosive kung-fu epics, tragic leftist melodrama, chest-thumping propaganda films, and more are covered in this movie guide that explores a century of Chinese filmmaking, from the silent era to the present. The greatest Chinese movies cover a wide range of genres, are authoritatively listed in this book, and are described in thorough detail that is accessible to film buffs, students, and casual viewers alike. The compendium goes beyond art house and kung fu films that are popular with international audiences to also present movies that connect with Mainland Chinese audiences. Alongside the...

This new book will provide a ground breaking discussion of a major but little considered issue - the silence of the archive: why archives, sometimes seen as the repositories of truth, often fail to satisfy users because they do not contain information which they expect to find.