This study examines how the intrusion of electronic monitoring systems (EMS) into the home environment affects families in the lower mainland of British Columbia. An historical overview of EMS is provided to gain an understanding of where the B.C. system fits within this development. Key controversies over the emergence of EMS are also examined. The social-psychological impact of EMS on the family is explored utilizing a contextual model of family stress and adaptation. Twenty-seven offenders and their spouses were interviewed. It was hypothesized that increases in stressful experiences associated with EMS and other family life events with decreasing levels of resource capability would result in lower levels of adaptation. This hypothesis was not supported by the current research. Overall findings suggest that EMS has both positive and negative effects on family members. The positive effects include: improved partner relationships, maintaining family relationships and family life, avoiding the dehumanizing conditions of prison, increased discipline and alcohol abstinence. The negative effects include:. increasing isolation (including less social support), reducing privacy, shifting roles and responsibilities for household labour, and reducing social and physical activities. While spouses in this study may be particularly affected by increased responsibilities for household tasks and childcare outside the home, offenders were more likely to feel isolated fiom the community and their friends. Generally the benefits of EMS seemed to outweigh the stress associated with the program. These findings are analyzed within a broader context to understand the social control implications that this type of state intervention has for the family and home environment. The shift toward community corrections is viewed as resulting in the expansion and intensification of social control networks (Garland, 1985). EMS is also viewed as part of the state's net-widening effort (Mainprize, 1992). Both positive and negative sides to the exercise of state power are considered. The meaning of the home to the family is also considered. Implications for policy are discussed.

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Electronic monitoring of offenders in british columbia: couples' perceptions of the impact on the home environment and the family

SUMMARY This article focuses on families in general, both those we as social workers and other mental health professionals work with and those within which we live. Specifically, the focus is on ways that growth may be facilitated as family members operate according to the principles of acknowledging connectedness, suspending judgment, trusting the universe, creating realities, and walking the path with heart. The ramifications for individuals, families and society of the choice to pursue soul healing, or to undertake consciously a journey toward wholeness, also is discussed.

Soul healing and the family

This article situates the ethics of information professionals within its contemporary public and political settings. An information ethics so contextualized can help promote the kinds of democratic and global citizenships that are the basis of this special issue of the Journal of Information Ethics. While this paper cannot fully canvas the issues raised, it can take us some way in balancing our perspective on the political issues packed inside the goals of an informed, global citizenry. It proposes a coherent network of concepts about the political context of the contemporary world by mapping its challenges. The article reviews the political and public content of the concepts of global and globalization, citizen and citizenship, and discusses the implied agency of the informed global citizen. It concludes with a discussion that draws out some of the broad responses to these contexts.The call for papers for the Information Ethics Roundtable 20i4 conference describes global citizenship as the possession of "knowledges, skills and attitudes that make it possible ... to be actively involved in local, national and global institutions and systems that directly or indirectly affect their lives" (University of Alberta, 20i4). Within this statement lie a number of political concepts that call for investigation. For instance, as Murdock and Golding note, citizenship is "no longer simply about participation in the political process," but includes debate and action that contributes to "conditions that allow people to become full members of the society at every level" (i989, p. i82). Agency is thus implied, pointing to ideas about informed ethical responsibility and the act of democratic citizenship. The statement is thus deeply entangled with information ethics. Since the scholarly enterprise of information ethics intersects with democratic politics, it is productive to unpack the meaning of these key concepts and their political context. This will not be an exercise in political philosophy (pondering the definition and relationship between concepts like order and power) but an examination in the practical vein of democratic theory where "issues are addressed because of their public importance [in an] attempt to compose a coherent network of concepts in order to analyze what is going on in the contemporary world" (Wolin, 2004, p. 504). These concepts are "always articulated within pragmatic and contentious political contexts" (Mara, 2008, p. 2i). This article is thus an exercise in proposing a coherent network of concepts about the political context of the contemporary world in order to foster a potential form of informed agency in a global context. This will be accomplished by mapping its challenges through constructing a "rough pragmatic resemblance to immediate reality that any analysis must have if it is to be translated into successful political strategy" or action (Hofstadter, i948, p. ii4). In this spirit, this article reviews the political content of the concepts of global and globalization, citizen and citizenship, and lastly the implied agency of the informed global citizen. The conclusion will seek to draw out some of the broader challenges and responses to these contexts.On Global and GlobalizationA great deal nests inside these concepts. First, "global" has come to be both highly significant and meaningless. The concept is "decidedly hollow[:] Although the global impinges on our local lives, we lack the ability to orient ourselves within it as a space of action" (Miller, 20i3, p. 429). This is because the planet-encompassing and deeply compelling issues of trade and finance, the environment, media and communication, and terror and violence, are primarily linked by globally "united financial markets" (Brosio, 20i3, p. 276). Appadurai (i998) characterizes globalization's basic ideas:The word globalization ... marks a set of transitions ... since the i970s, in which multinational forms of capitalist organization began to be replaced by transnational, flexible, and irregular forms of organization, as labour, finance, technology, and technological capital began to be assembled in ways that treated national boundaries as mere constraints or fictions [p. …

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Citizenship and Agency under Neoliberal Global Consumerism: A Search for Informed Democratic Practices/Response to Buschman

^ ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ^ iii LIST OF FIGURES v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ^ vi DEDICATION ^ vii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ^ 1 CHAPTER TWO: DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF CHILD NEGLECT ^ 17 Definition ^ 17 Scope of Child Neglect ^ 24 CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY ^ 30 Conceptual Model ^ 30 The Ruling Apparatuses of Child Welfare ^ 35 Ministry Files as the Source of Text 36 Procedures for Data Collection ^ 37 Analysis ^ 39 CHAPTER FOUR: PERSPECTIVES ON MOTHERHOOD AND THE FAMILY^44 Motherhood in Pre-modern Family ^ 47 Motherhood in Modern Family 53 CHAPTER FIVE: A CRITIQUE OF THEORIES OF CAUSATION OF CHILD NEGLECT ^ 70 Psychodynamic Theories of Causation ^ 71 Ecology Theory of Causation ^ 77 Feminist Theories of Causation 83 Historical Perspective of Child Neglect ^ 104 B.C. Child Welfare Legislation ^ 114 Provisions of the Family and Child Service Act ^ 116 Policy Change ^ 124 CHAPTER SEVEN: UNRAVELLING THE TEXT ^ 128 Eighteen Case Studies ^ 129 iv TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued)

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The social construction of child neglect

This article analyzes professional discourse on masturbation to illustrate how child sexuality serves as a site for symbolic ideological struggles. Sex instruction manuals written in central Europe in the nineteenth century Palestine and Israel in the twentieth century are the basis for broader discussions on religious and scientie c discourse on child and adolescent sexuality within the Jewish communities. By tracing the development of new forms of expert knowledge, we show how expert discourse on masturbation gradually transformed it from a symbolic moral evil into a medical disease and a psychological problem, before declaring it a legitimized behavior.

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Electronic monitoring of offenders in british columbia: couples' perceptions of the impact on the home environment and the family

Soul healing and the family

Citizenship and Agency under Neoliberal Global Consumerism: A Search for Informed Democratic Practices/Response to Buschman

The social construction of child neglect

The Sexual Body of the Young Jew as an Arena of Ideological Struggle, 1821–1948

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