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Recovering Truth, Informing Justice. A public lecture by Phil Scraton
Subtitled 'Researching the Hillsborough Disaster', Queen's University, Belfast,7 April 2013
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Why were Hitler, Stalin and Trotsky in Vienna in 1913?
Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Freud, Jung, Tito - some of the most influential ..figures ..of the 20th century.A hundred years ago they were all living in central Vienna ... So how did these very disparate men end up living in such close proximity to one another?
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Lord Justice Leveson's full statement - video
Lord Justice Leveson delivers a statement on his long-awaited report on the inquiry into press standards on Thursday. Leveson proposes a new independent overhauled Press Complaints Commission, but recommends that a statutory body such as Ofcom should take responsibility for monitoring the independence of the regulator
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Stuart Hall on representation & the media
In this accessible introductory lecture, Hall focuses on the concept of "representation"- one of the key ideas of cultural studies- and shows how reality is never experienced directly, but always through the symbolic categories made available by society.
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Stuart Hall on racism as a discourse
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About Boardwalk Empire
A surprisingly educationally useful plug for the great tv series on 1920's America, although no substitute for watching it!
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Al Capone: a biography
Useful video on the famous man...
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My Generation lyrics and sound
The Who?
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Jock Young on Moral Panics (2010)
Jock Young delivering his paper 'Moral Panic and the Sociological Imagination' at the Moral Panics in the Contemporary World conference, Brunel University, 10-12 December 2010.
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'Throw them all out': on political corruption
Peter Schweizer, Stanford University, contends that members of Congress profit from insider trading and use their political influence for their own financial gain. The author reports on several current members of the House and Senate who, according to the author, have affected votes on bills or gathered information from briefings to benefit their financial portfolio.
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Laub & Sampson discuss desistance
John Laub, Director, Director, National Institute of Justice
Robert Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
NIJ Conference 2011, June 20-22
[One of 5 videos of interview with these two top US criminologists]
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Transforming Conflict
Various films from one of the leading providers of training and consultancy in the UK in the field of restorative approaches in schools, residential care and other youth settings. The films indicate and illustrate the value of restorative approaches in resolving conflicts within schools, and also the importance of integrating them with the learning ethos in the school.
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Charles Tilly: interview on historical sociology
From 'The Sociological Imagination' website
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Torture, not medicine. Graphic scene of shock treatment on young boy.
They say this is healing. It's torture, electric shock therapy used to stop aggressive behavior. There was a major struggle to prevent a jury from seeing this treatment on tape.
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Rupert Murdoch gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry
Highlights of Rupert Murdoch's first day of evidence before the Leveson inquiry. The News Corp chief denied using his newspapers to influence government to treat him favourably, that commercial interests were not a factor in political party preference, and that he never asked a British prime minister for anything
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Exhibit Reveals History of Lynching in California
"after gold was discovered in California, lynch mobs hanged more than 300 people. It was frontier justice delivered by vigilantes...Southern California art professor Ken Gonzales-Day found a picture, which led to.. an exhibit at the Vincent Price Museum of Art in Los Angeles."
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Guardian's Crisis in Democracy debate
Jonathan Freedland chairs a debate at the Guardian Open Weekend between David Miliband MP, economist at Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs, and professor of global economic governance at Oxford, Ngaire Woods
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Rational choice theory: the economics of crime
Excellent student presentation from LaTrobe Uni in Australia.
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Leaving prison: "the reality check kicks in"
In a new government approach to those leaving prison, ex-offenders will now get benefits immediately and will be put on a work programme as a way of helping to prevent re-offending. The Today programme's Zubeida Malik spoke to 56-year-old Larry and 22-year-old Kirk about the difficulties they faced after leaving prison.
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The future of the International Criminal Court
University of Southampton, Centre for Law, Ethics and Globalisation Annual Lecture. Speaker: Professor William A. Schabas. Uploaded 9/2/12.
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