Bøger af David Wilson

This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city's South Side blues clubs and blocks. Like Chicago, cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia are experiencing a new redevelopment machine: one of tyrannizing and fear.

Alex Alexandrowicz spent 22 years in prison protesting his innocence - the result of a plea bargain which went wrong and turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare.

Looks at the way in which crime is packaged and presented for consumption by a news-hungry public and the pressure exerted on experts by the media.

Serial Killers looks at all serial murders in Britain from the 'gay murders' of Michael Copeland in 1960 to the Ipswich murders of 2006. Throughout, the work follows events from a social and victim-related perspective. With vast experience of working with serial killers behind him and from his studies, criminologist and ex-prison governor David Wilson concludes that we are not all at-risk everyday from what he terms 'hunting Britons', rather it is people from a variety of vulnerable groups: the elderly, women involved in prostitution, gay men, runaways, 'throwaways' and children and kids moving from place to place.

Images of Incarceration focuses on fictional portrayals of prison and prisoners to demonstrate how they are depicted in the cinema and on TV, featuring films such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Birdman of Alcatraz, Scum, McVicar, Brubaker, Cool Hand Luke, Made in Britain and Greenfingers as well as TV dramas like Porridge, Bad Girls, Buried and Oz. The book is part of the Prison Film Project sponsored by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation under its Rethinking Crime and Punishment initiative. It compares fictional representations with 'actual existing reality' to provide insights into how screen images affect understanding of complex social and penal issues: 'Is prison really as represented on screen, harsher, softer or different?'; 'Do viewers separate fact from fiction?'; and 'What might films tell us about the experiences of prisoners and whether prison reduces crime and protects victims?' As authors David Wilson and Sean O'Sullivan explain, prison may be violent and de-humanising but it makes for gripping drama and human interest. Most people know little about what really happens inside prison, so that as prison numbers in the UK and USA escalate as never before, the 'prison film' and 'TV prison drama' can have a significant influence on popular culture and attitudes towards penal reform. Informative, educational and illuminating, Images of Incarceration will be of value to anyone interested in the effect of screen representations on the democratic process, and in particular to people concerned with criminal justice, penal affairs, penal reform, sociology and the media.

A true crime memoir like no other, Professor David Wilson gets inside the mind of a murderer and tries to uncover what drives men to kill

A straightforward discussion of the issues surrounding immigration

Provides just the "right amount" of maternity and pediatric content in an easy-to-understand manner. This book includes 28 chapters on maternity nursing and the second part contains 27 chapters covering pediatric nursing. It includes illustrations, photos, boxes, and tables to clarify key content and help you quickly find essential information.

Assists students in understanding and applying material from each chapter in the text.

During its 13 years of office, Labour's modernization agenda transformed the world of UK local government. The fifth edition gives additional emphasis to local government in the devolved regions of the UK, and provides more extensive analysis of centre-local government relations.

Examines the 1990's rise of a black ghetto in rust belt America, 'the global ghetto.' This work finds out how race and political economy in cities dynamically connect in ways to deepen deprivation in these areas. It is useful for students of geography, urban studies and sociology.

A clinical guide to caring for children and their families in the hospital, community, and home. It features care plans, assessment tools, skills and procedures, patient teaching, and reference data. It includes modifiable nursing care plans, medication tables, emergency treatment information, and illustrated dermatologic problems.

The transformation of local governance in the 1980s and 1990s has put the nature and prospects for local democracy in question.

Meant for those who teach, study or are interested in criminology and the criminal justice systems of the UK. This book offers a critical introduction and considers issues in criminal justice, focusing on conceptions of crime and conflict resolutions, as well as introducing to researching criminal justice.

Edited by two leading experts and with an all-star cast of contributors, British Local Government into the 21st Century brings together a set of specially-commissioned and tightly-edited chapters to provide a comprehensive assessment of the issues and challenges facing local authorities as they search for a new role in a new century.

An Unlikely Photographer is an autobiographical account of David Wilson''s journey from near death and a life-changing disability to a vision which has uniquely captured the character of Wales''s landscapes in his lens.

This is the report of the excavation of an enigmatic site in South Gloucestershire, which contained a decorated cellar with a cruciform setting of channels beneath its floor, almost certainly of 'ritual' significance, and a very large bath-house which included a swimming pool some fourteen metres long. Both the cellar and the bath-house had painted wall plaster and the bath-house contained a small area of tessellated floor. No other rooms were decorated in any way. The site dates from the late 1st Century AD and there was no evidence of any earlier activity apart from a number of randomly distributed flints, mainly Mesolithic.With contributions from Michael J. Allen, Rosemary Braithwaite, Blue Circle Technical Centre, Tony Boxall, Janet Cooper, Hugh Corrie, Martin Henig, Mark Maltby, Fiona Roe, Erica Utsi, Bruce Waddell, Jenny Waring, John Peter Wild, David Williams and Kay Wood.

Fills an important gap in the global knowledge on programs addressing HIV and AIDS, providing robust evidence that good results can be achieved by investing in communities with even limited resources.

On Green Python details the results of four years of research into the conservation and ecology of Morelia viridis. This was the author's PhD topic while he was at the Australian National University. It represents the first study on the species, and is significant in its breadth and extent of coverage. The book covers growth and aging, reproductive activity, behaviour and activity patterns. It also solves the adaptive evolution of different colour morphs for juvenile and adult individuals.