Social Data

This section contains a variety of informative little nuggets which are best summarized as social data. Some are research findings, some are statistics, and some are information from the media. This odd category of social data highlights two things: [1] that we are treating the information here as good or accurate or at least as a very good approximation to the truth, and [2] that academic research is not the only way to establish what's happened but one of several methods of asserting that something is 'data'. Additionally, it shows how often sources of data actually intermingle, so, for example, government reports, academic research, and journalist investigation frequently appear together in the same final write-up.

Torture & rights in Bahrain

Comments Posted on Jul 12, 2011

A special report on the torture and human rights violations against the detainees in the case of "Alliance for the Republic":

http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/en/node/4386

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Youth Attitudes on Drugs

Comments Posted on Jul 12, 2011 Posted by European Commission

A report from The Irish Needle Exchange Forum 12 July 2011

The current Flash Eurobarometer on “Youth attitudes on drugs”, requested by Directorate General Justice, builds on these earlier surveys in order to measure the trend in attitudes of this target group towards drugs. In response to recent developments in the EU drug market, in the current survey, young people were also asked about their experiences with and attitudes towards new substances that imitate the effects of illicit drugs, so-called new psychoactive substances or “legal highs”.

This survey’s objective was to study young EU citizens’ attitudes to – and perceptions about – drugs and related issues. Here is the link to the download:

http://networkedblogs.com/ki3o4

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Economic & Social Data Service

Comments Last Updated Jul 11, 2011

British Social Attitudes Surveys, lifestyle surveys etc from the Economic and Social Data Service

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London Lives 1690-1800

Comments Posted on Jul 28, 2010

Follow this link to discover a mine of information about Crime, Poverty and Social Policy, particularly in relation to the working class in London 1690-1800:

London Lives

London Life in the Eighteenth Century

What was it like to live in the world's first million person city? Crime, poverty, and illness; apprenticeship, work, politics and money; how people voted, lived and died; all this and more can be found in these documents. For more information see the Historical Background pages.

About this Project

Funded by the ESRC, and implemented by the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and the Higher Education Digitisation Service at the University of Hertfordshire, the London Lives project is directed by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker. The project manager is Sharon Howard. See about this project.

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The Exile Nation Project

Comments Posted on Apr 08, 2011

The American use of punishment is so pervasive, and so disproportionate, that even the conservative magazine, The Economist, declared in 2010, 'never in the civilized world have so many been locked up for so little.'

This collection of testimonials from criminal offenders, family members, and experts on America's criminal justice system puts a human face on the millions of Americans subjugated by the US Government's 40 year, one trillion dollar social catastrophe: The War on Drugs; a failed policy underscored by fear, politics, racial prejudice and intolerance in a public atmosphere of 'out of sight, out of mind.'

The Exile Nation Project