Locating Social Reponsibility: CCTV & Public Space

Department of Psychology, Lancaster University – Mark Levine and John Dixon

ABSTRACT:This paper will present data from a Home Office funded study of the impact of public order measures like CCTV surveillance and street drinking legislation on social relations in public space. The focus of the research was the town square in Lancaster city centre. Data [...]

Stab proof school uniforms + hoodies

slash resistant tshirt

Guess the prison/gated apartment block/detention centre?

An article about how “The role of prisons or correctional systems is to make society a safer place” can be found here>

Christmas Island Detention Centre

The Christmas Island detention centre known as “Immigration Reception and Processing Centre” has recently been completed at the cost of AUS$360 million. Using the Pacific Solution policy (Australian government policy to transport asylum seekers to detention camps on small island nations in the Pacific Ocean, rather than allowing [...]

Introductory workshop – 4-5 Oct 2007 – Day 1

There are 45 people at the workshop from nearly all faculties at Lancaster University, as well as participants from Manchester and London. The annual research program was introduced by Corinne May-Chahal (FASS) and Ruth Wodak (Chair, Academic Board, IAS).
Professor Cindy Weber introduced the key questions for the program: how is safe living conceived today? However [...]