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Understanding Crime Trends in a Hybrid Society = The Digital Drift
This open access book critically revisits 30 years of debate surrounding the evolution of crime trends, aiming to reconcile various hypotheses and controversies. It scrutinizes the concept of the "crime drop," highlighting the methodological pitfalls in understanding the causation mechanisms behind this phenomenon. By examining the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on d…
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- 9783031723872
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- XV, 131 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Therapeutic Prison Art Interventions = Empirical Perspectives
This book is an Open Access book. This book discusses engaging prisoners in therapeutic art. It has been prepared for an academic and professional readership and has policy implications for prison governance worldwide. Following years of piloting research, the book presents a prototype for sensitively attuned art therapy delivery that promises new pathways for prisoner rehabilitation. The book …
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- 9783031859915
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- XLIV, 151 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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Development and Postdevelopmentalism in Studies on, to, with, for, by Young C…
This open access book directs its attention to a desire for inter- and transdisciplinary, reciprocal collaborations in studies concerning young children. It focuses on the possibilities and obstacles in collaborative forms of inquiry involving those stakeholders and actors whom the research concerns, specifically the participating children. The backdrop of the discussions and theoretical invest…
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- 978-3-031-75150-9
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- XV, 298
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Re-presenting Research A Guide to Analyzing Popularization Strategies in Sci…
This open access book focuses on the textual features, or ‘strategies’, which form popularization discourse. In popularization discourse, research findings from academia are re-presented to make them noteworthy to society and influential for everyday life. Popularization involves recontextualization, or reimagination of findings in an everyday and newsworthy context, and reformulation, the …
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- 978-3-031-28174-7
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- XI, 141
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Systematic Reviews in Educational Research: Methodology, Perspectives and App…
In this open access edited volume, international researchers of the field describe and discuss the systematic review method in its application to research in education. Alongside fundamental methodical considerations, reflections and practice examples are included and provide an introduction and overview on systematic reviews in education research.; Open Access With contributions from internati…
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- 978-3-658-27602-7
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- XXI, 161 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- 373
Educational Processes, Decisions, and the Development of Competencies from Ea…
The contributions to the open access volume are comprehensive summaries of important research findings from the two comprehensive interdisciplinary longitudinal studies BiKS-3-18 and BiKS-8-18 conducted by the research unit "BiKS" (“Educational Processes, Development of Competencies, and Formation of Educational Decisions”) funded by the German Research Foundation. The aim of the book is to…
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- 978-3-658-43414-4
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- VI, 326
Integrative Framing Analysis Framing Health through Words and Visuals
Much of framing scholarship focuses either exclusively on the analysis of words or of visuals. This book aims to address this gap by proposing a six-step approach to the analysis of verbal frames, visual frames and the interplay between them—an integrative framing analysis. This approach is then demonstrated through a study investigating the way words and visuals are used to frame people livi…
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- 9781315171456
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Methodological Individualism: Introduction and Founding Texts
Originating in the late 19th century and becoming the subject of ongoing methodological debates in the social sciences, methodological individualism is a paradigm that focuses on understanding social phenomena through the actions and choices of individuals rather than through collective explanations. This book highlights its theoretical bases as defined and developed in the writings of its foun…
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- 9781032627021
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Challenges and solutions in ethnographic research: ethnography with a twist
BSTRACT Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research: Ethnography with a Twist seeks to rethink ethnography ‘outside the box’ of its previous tradition and to develop ethnographic methods by critically discussing the process, ethics, impact and knowledge production in ethnographic research. This interdisciplinary edited volume argues for a ‘twist’ that supports openness, courag…
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- 9780429355608
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- 256 p
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Interdisciplinarity in the Scholarly Life Cycle
This open access book illustrates how interdisciplinary research develops over the lifetime of a scholar: not in a single project, but as an attitude that trickles down, or spirals up, into research. This book presents how interdisciplinary work has inspired shifts in how the contributors read, value concepts, critically combine methods, cope with knowledge hierarchies, write in style, and coll…
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- XVI, 337
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