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The politics of statistics: Variations on a theme

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In this paper, A. rapelle que cet outil d'analyse est avant tout un instrument de comprehension sociale, and souligne l'importance de l'enseignement de cette discipline.
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Dans cet article, l'A. fait part de ses reflexions concernant l'utilisation de la statistique par les sciences politiques. En confrontant les statistiques dans un contexte politique aux politiques administratives, a la gouvernance et a l'identite des individus, l'A. rapelle que cet outil d'analyse est avant tout un instrument de comprehension sociale, et souligne l'importance de l'enseignement de cette discipline

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Displaced Expertise Three Constraints on the Policyrelevance of Criminological Thought

TL;DR: The long-standing relationship between criminal justice policy and the advice of criminologists has been ruptured in the past two decades as discussed by the authors, and three interrelated factors help to account for this displacement: the rise of neo-liberal forms of governance, the ascendancy of a highly symbolic public discourse about crime, and the transformation of the criminal justice system by new technologies of detection, capture and monitoring.
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Counting woman abuse: a cautionary tale of two surveys

TL;DR: The authors describes how the findings of two nationally representative Canadian surveys on woman abuse were taken up by both academics and the media, and argues that the wider shift to neo-liberal forms of governance must be considered by feminists who count woman abuse in order to avoid contributing to this shift.
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Youth Living in Residential Care: Implications for Leisure and Identity

Austin Oswald
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the intersection of living in residential care, leisure engagement, and adolescent identity development, and found that living with residential care is rife with dialectical tensions that impact leisure and identity.