There is a plethora of criminological explanations why criminal violence increased during the three decades between the early 1960s and the early 1990s. This paper argues that most available interpretations are lacking in three respects: they lack a historical perspective that anchors the three critical decades in a wider understanding of long-term trends; they take the nation-state as their un...

ANYONE WHO HAS BROWSED THE HUMAN GENOME SEQUENCE CAN READILY appreciate its immense power and potential as well as its staggering complexity, and imperfection. Nevertheless, following its release, British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared, “Today we are witnessing a revolution in medical science whose impact can far surpass the discovery of antibiotics.” And just 5 days prior, fears about the ...

Introduction In 2003, the British Cabinet Office Strategy Unit published a major report establishing that the employment position of racialized minorities had undergone a dramatic transformation over the past four decades (Strategy Unit 2003). Unlike the 1960s and 1970s, when racialized minority groups had found themselves located overwhelmingly at the bottom of the English occupational structu...

addicts emerging not from the traditional milieu changes. As pharmaceutical companies gained of the urban underclass but from the white control over research and the subsequent suburban middle-classes, and from the 1980s marketing of drug therapies, the faith in science with the disastrous spread of HIV/AIDS, gave increasingly meant a faith in pharmaceutical impetus to new non-medical movements...

I believe that we are at a turning point for public health—and that our choices are stark: either we reorient and strengthen public health within both modern and developing societies and institute a resilient system of global governance for health or we will face dire consequences in terms of human, social, and economic development. At present, it is the poorest countries that are paying the pr...

ANYONE WHO HAS BROWSED THE HUMAN GENOME SEQUENCE CAN READILY appreciate its immense power and potential as well as its staggering complexity, and imperfection. Nevertheless, following its release, British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared, “Today we are witnessing a revolution in medical science whose impact can far surpass the discovery of antibiotics.” And just 5 days prior, fears about the ...

There is a long and ignoble trend within British social policy making of blaming parents for problems—particularly when the problem poverty, are impoverished. But by end 20th century, parent was assuming new cultural form. The not framed ‘only’ in terms those who failed to shoulder their responsibilities, such as ‘feckless’ fathers or ‘unfit’ mothers, but deficit on part all mothers fathers, we...

This paper takes the view that concepts of social exclusion are socially constructed by different combinations of economic, social and political processes. It is suggested that the core meaning of social exclusion is bound up with social isolation and social segregation, and it is therefore argued that an analysis of social mobility (or the lack of it) is crucial to understanding the content an...

Background Previous studies have demonstrated that male gender and higher level of education are independently associated with a lower hazard sick leave in patients axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA), while female has disadvantageous effect on employment. However, few identified socio-economic profiles their association the severity disease disability. Objectives a) to identify clusters r-axSpA ac...

Smoking is being increasingly banned where there is power and the will to enact bans—cars transporting children, hospital grounds, public buildings, public transport, parks and private apartment blocks [1–4]. Internationally, smokers are being excluded from opportunities, such as employment with the World Health Organization and free health insurance in Jakarta [5,6]. Here in Australia we only ...