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Lesley McAra
Bio: Lesley McAra is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Justice (ethics) & Criminal justice. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 54 publications receiving 1649 citations.
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TL;DR: The authors assesses the effectiveness of the Scottish model of youth justice in the context of a growing body of international research that is challenging the ''evidence base'' of policy in many countries.
Abstract: This article assesses the effectiveness of the Scottish model of youth justice in the context of a growing body of international research that is challenging the `evidence base' of policy in many w...
298 citations
TL;DR: This paper explored children's experience of policing and argued that the police may be unfairly targeting certain cat-walkers. But they did not explore the effect of cat-walking on children's mental health.
Abstract: This article explores children's experience of policing. Drawing on findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, it argues that the police may be unfairly targeting certain cat...
231 citations
01 Feb 2011
228 citations
TL;DR: Based on findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, the authors challenges the evidence base which policy-makers have drawn on to justify the evolving models of youth transition and crime.
Abstract: Based on findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, this article challenges the evidence-base which policy-makers have drawn on to justify the evolving models of youth justic...
188 citations
TL;DR: A survey of Scotland's criminal justice institutions can be found in this article, with a focus on the history and politics of criminal justice in the UK and Ireland, and a survey of crime and punishment over the past 40 years.
Abstract: This survey of Scotland reviews: core Scottish criminal justice institutions; statistical trends in crime and punishment over the past 40 years; the history and politics of Scottish criminal justic...
98 citations
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3,713 citations
01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this article, the Schumpeterian Competition State and the Workfare State are discussed, with a focus on the role of social reproduction and the workfare state in the two types of states.
Abstract: List of Boxes. List of Tables and Figure. Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Capitalism and the Capitalist Type of State. 2. The Keynesian Welfare National State. 3. The Schumpeterian Competition State. 4. Social Reproduction and the Workfare State. 5. The Political Economy of State Rescaling. 6. From Mixed Economy to Metagovernance. 7. Towards Schumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regimes?. Notes. References. Index.
1,224 citations
TL;DR: Fifteen Thousand Hours is a study of what things do make a difference in pupil outputs in 12 London inner-city secondary schools, and in many ways, it is a substantial improvement, methodologically, over previous studies.
Abstract: We have come a long way from the heady days of the Great Society, when most people seemed to believe that education would solve all of our problems, both intellectual and social The Coleman Report in 1966 cast the first doubts, and Jencks ( Inequality ) and Averch ( How Effective is Schooling? ) in 1972 seemed to make it official: nothing that schools do really makes any difference Considering that we spend more on schools than most other state and local governmental functions combined, this is indeed a dreary state of affairs Fifteen Thousand Hours has the temerity to question our present conventional wisdom It is a study of what things do make a difference in pupil outputs in 12 London inner-city secondary schools In many ways, it is a substantial improvement, methodologically, over previous studies First, it studies not just one output (which has usually been the score on some standardized test),
684 citations
TL;DR: Booth and Ainscow as mentioned in this paper have published the third and "Green" edition of their book, which is the best yet, and the only one with a green cover.
Abstract: by Tony Booth and Mel Ainscow, Bristol, Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education (CSIE), 2011, 190 pp., £23.00, ISBN 978-1-872001-68-5 This is the third and “Green” edition – and the best yet. It ...
518 citations