Justice Reinvestment: “Motherhood and Apple Pie?”—Matching Ambition to Capacity and Capability

Motherhood, apple pie, and COPC.

Of the Importance of Motherhood and Apple Pie: What Big Data Can Learn From Small Data.

Sex, slaves and citizens: the politics of anti-trafficking

T raffi cking is in the news. It is on the political agenda, both nationally and internationally. Thousands of individuals, hundreds of groups, dozens of newspapers are determined to stamp it out. This focus on traffi cking consistently refl ects and reinforces deep public concern about prostitution/sex work, and also about immigration, and the abuse and exploitation it so frequently involves. ...

Motherhood and Apple Pie: A UK Perspective on Mothers Who Misuse Drugs.

In this commentary, I explore two questions raised by Angelotta and Appelbaum's study. First, I offer an English legal perspective on the protection of children from their mothers, looking at both civil (family) and criminal law. Second, I discuss the idealization of motherhood that is implied by the prosecution of pregnant women; the denigration of those who fail this ideal; and the way that i...

Fast Least Square Matching

Least square matching (LSM) is one of the most accurate image matching methods in photogrammetry and remote sensing. The main disadvantage of the LSM is its high computational complexity due to large size of observation equations. To address this problem, in this paper a novel method, called fast least square matching (FLSM) is being presented. The main idea of the proposed FLSM is decreasing t...