Established in 2006, TATA Africa Services (Nigeria) Limited operates as the nodal point for Tata businesses in West Africa. TATA Africa Services (Nigeria) Limited has a strong presence in Nigeria with investments exceeding USD 10 million. The company was established in Lagos, Nigeria as a subsidiary of TATA Africa Holdings (SA) (Pty) Limited, South Africa and serves as the hub of Tata’s operations in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa.

What About Us

Nos últimos trinta trinta anos, houve profundas mudanças na forma como compreendemos o crime e a justiça criminal. O crime tornou-se um evento simbólico, um verdadeiro teste para a ordem social e para as políticas governamentais, um desafio para a sociedade civil, para a democracia e para os direitos humanos. Segundo David Garland, professor da Faculdade de Direito da New York University, um dos principais autores no campo da Sociologia da Punição e com artigo publicado na Revista de Sociologia e Política , número 13, na modernidade tardia houve uma verdadeira obsessão securitária, direcionando as políticas criminais para um maior rigor em relação às penas e maior intolerância com o criminoso. Há trinta anos, nos EUA e na Inglaterra essa tendência era insuspeita. O livro mostra que os dois países compartilham intrigantes similaridades em suas práticas criminais, a despeito da divisão racial, das desigualdades econômicas e da letalidade violenta que marcam fortemente o cenário americano. Segundo David Garland, encontram-se nos dois países os “mesmos tipos de riscos e inseguranças, a mesma percepção a respeito dos problemas de um controle social não-efetivo, as mesmas críticas da justiça criminal tradicional, e as mesmas ansiedades recorrentes sobre mudança e ordem sociais”1 (GARLAND, 2001, p. 2). O argumento principal da obra é o seguinte: a modernidade tardia, esse distintivo padrão de relações sociais, econômicas e culturais, trouxe consigo um conjunto de riscos, inseguranças e problemas de controle social que deram uma configuração específica às nossas respostas ao crime, ao garantir os altos custos das políticas criminais, o grau máximo de duração das penas e a excessivas taxas de encarceramento.

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The culture of control: crime and social order in contemporary, society

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

4. Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research

新書介紹－－Learning as Transformation: Critical Perspectives on a Theory in Progress

In this article, we examine gender and the work culture in Australian private law firms.
Our primary focus is the extent to which flexible work practices remain a quagmire for
female lawyers. We consider the systemic barriers affecting women lawyers, including
hidden attitudes, the persistence of a gendered division of labour in the private sphere,
the ongoing gender pay gap in Australia, and the ways in which the law firm ethos of long
working hours disadvantages women. We then present some practical steps to remedy this
situation, including accommodating working mothers’ time constraints, mentoring and
networking, and training for managers and support staff. It is proposed that more needs
to be done to encourage employers to implement these methods with confidence that
flexible work arrangements can provide benefit to the firm as a whole, as well as
individual employees. To achieve this, we put forward a reform of the framework in order
to implement these practical steps. We also discuss some ways to possibly effect attitudinal
change in law firm culture and conclude with some observations about the future of legal
practice in this context. Finally, further involvement of the Law Council of Australia is
proposed, to impose conditions on the practising certificates of lawyers in supervisory
roles to assist them in complying with the framework. This would also ensure that flexible
work arrangements are accessible to both employers and employees, which in turn will
assist in dissolving the systematic discrimination that female lawyers face in private law
firms.

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Flexible Work Practices and Private Law Firm Culture: A Complex Quagmire for Australian Women Lawyers

Return-to-prison rates in Australia are high, with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) having the highest rate. Research has consistently shown the importance of service provision while a person is incarcerated and post-release in overcoming post-release challenges that may lead to reincarceration. This article draws on the qualitative experiences of 11 people who had recently been released from the ACT adult prison, the Alexander Maconochie Centre. Participants felt there were limited programs inside prison to help them with adjusting to life post-release and some suggested that programming both during and after incarceration should focus on developing self-efficacy. Point-of-release service delivery was particularly lacking. We recommend more efforts to connect people with service providers before release, to facilitate the development of trusting relationships that will be beneficial for service delivery post-release. 

‘Just a bunch of what ifs and unknowns’: The post-prison service provision experiences of people in Canberra, Australia

Qualitative Criminology: Stories from the Field brings to life the stories behind the research of both emerging and established scholars in Australian criminology. The book’s contributors provided honest, reflective, and decidedly unsanitised accounts of their qualitative research journeys - the lively tales of what really happens when conducting research of this nature, the stories that often make for parenthetical asides in conference papers but tend to be excised from journal articles. This book considers the gap between research methods and the realities of qualitative research. As such, it aims to help researchers and students who conduct qualitative criminological research reflect upon their role as researchers, and the practical, ideological and ethical issues which may arise in the course of their research. It is also a call to criminologists to make public the ‘failures’ and missteps of their research endeavours so that we can learn from one another and become better informed and more reflexive qualitative criminologists.

The Story Behind the Stories: Qualitative Criminology Research in Australia

This chapter examines human rights standards in the prison context. It presents an overview of international framework governing the treatment of prisoners' and discusses the extent to which this has been adopted in Australia, as well as considering the relevant Australian guidelines. Australia has a federal government structure and management, with the management of prisoners in Australia governed by the laws of its six states and two territories. The key focus of the chapter is the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), which opened Australia's first 'human rights' prison, the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC), in 2009. We argue that the introduction of the Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT) (HRA) and the Corrections Management Act 2007 (ACT) (CMA), together with the establishment of the AMC, are significant developments of international consequence in the recognition, if not protection, of human rights for prisoners. However, we also argue that the principles on which these laws are based have not been effectively implemented in the transition from paper-based ideas to bricks-and-mortar reality, despite significant efforts on the part of the ACT government. There is clearly still a long way to go before the human rights of prisoners in the ACT are adequately realized. Nevertheless, we are optimistic about what other jurisdictions in Australia and overseas can learn from what has been achieved so far.

Human rights and prison: A case study from the Australian Capital Territory

This article provides a brief overview of a national study commencing in early 2014 which will use jurors from criminal trials to explore public opinions about sentencing. Judges sitting in trials for sex offences and serious violence offences in metropolitan and selected regional courts will be asked to invite jurors to participate in the national study following the return of a guilty verdict in the trial.

Lorana Bartels

Papers

Flexible Work Practices and Private Law Firm Culture: A Complex Quagmire for Australian Women Lawyers

‘Just a bunch of what ifs and unknowns’: The post-prison service provision experiences of people in Canberra, Australia

The Story Behind the Stories: Qualitative Criminology Research in Australia

Human rights and prison: A case study from the Australian Capital Territory

National research with jurors on sentences for sexual offenders