Culture, equality and anti-social behaviour

Culture, equality and anti-social behaviour by Nimisha Patel Download PDF EPUB FB2

Often indeed he feels there is nothing wrong with these boys at all, that schools categorize them as ill to save themselves the bother of relating equality and anti-social behaviour book their normal behaviour.

He analyses attitudes to child development in many different cultures and looks at how western economic/political hegemony influences pharmaceutical/medical dominance in what should be therapeutic Cited by:   This book ‘aims to provide a new contribution to the debate on anti-social behaviour in Britain’ (p.

viii) and Donoghue unambiguously sets out her stall by stating that her intention is to provide a critical reading of the existing literature. She argues that ‘much of the available literature on anti-social behaviour policy and the use of ASBOs has necessarily Cited by: 1.

This book vigorously challenges the dominant academic view of ASBOs as erroneous tools of social control, and offers an alternative perspective on anti-social behaviour management which argues that ASBOs are capable of enabling a positive process of engagement among local authorities, housing professionals and Culture.

Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs was Alfred Adler's assistant and collaborator, and is well known for his many books on social psychology, including Challenge of Marriage, Psychology in the Classroom, Parents' Guide to Child Discipline, and Children: the Challenge. He was Professor Emeritus at the Chicago Medical School, Cited by: Cate Curtis’ coverage in this book on Anti-social behaviour is breath-taking.

It is centred on challenging taken for granted assumptions concerning the three Rs: ‘risk’, ‘resilience’ and ‘recovery’ whilst questioning what is respectable everyday activities and extreme behaviour in culture and society.

In this book, Dr Timimi argues that this crisis reflects a fundamental ambivalence that Western culture has toward children which affects boys in particular.

Using material from diverse sources, the author shows how Western Society's political, social and economic value system is bad for families and children, and how positive alternatives can be found in. Popular Social Inequality Books Showing of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by.

Barbara Ehrenreich (shelved 5 times as social-inequality) avg rating —ratings — published Want to Read saving Want to Read. boisterous and rowdy behaviour by children; young people congregating; young people causing damage to property and the environment; and the anti-social use of cars and motorbikes by children and young people.

People were also concerned about drug and alcohol misuse, and the impact of neighbour disputes and ‘problem families’.Cited by: Meanwhile, at the start of the 21st century, politicians have (once again) revived and stoked public fears of juvenile misbehaviour. A new Anti-Social Behaviour Act has given British authorities extraordinary liberty-eroding powers.

Mainstream journalists often parrot government press releases. Example: Anti-social behaviour Nothing in the HRA provides occupiers of social housing with an excuse for deliberately engaging in behaviour which is a nuisance or annoyance to others.

Social landlords and other agencies that proportionately take measures to address and control such behaviour will not be infringing any human rights. book Culture and Social Behavior. He uses the concepts of emics, culture-specific, unique elements that apply within the system of a culture but do not offer much value when contrasting different ones, and etics, universal cultural elements whose study helps in finding and formulating cross-cultural generalizations.

The Equality Impact Assessment is part of the review of the Tameside Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership’s Anti-Social Behaviour strategy and the development of a RESPECT action plan.

The strategy is the framework for tackling anti-social behaviour in Tameside. In Culture and Equality, Barry offers an incisive critique of these arguments and suggests that theorists of multiculturism tend to misdiagnose the problems of minority groups. Often, these are not rooted in culture, and multiculturalist policies may actually stand in the way of universalistic measures that would be genuinely beneficial/5(10).

Challenging Diversity brings a new and original approach to key issues facing social, political and cultural theory. Critically engaging with feminist, radical democratic and liberal scholarship, the book addresses four major challenges confronting a radical equality by: Request PDF | On Jan 1,Timimi and others published Naughty Boys: Anti-social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture | Find, read Author: Sami Timimi.

Cultural evolutionary theory supplies important tools and approaches for building theories to explain human social behavior. Comparative research from diverse societies shows that human social behavior varies immensely across a broad range of domains, including cooperation, fairness, trust, punishment, aggressiveness, morality and by:   It was here in late that Sean, Joseph and Michael McCann - when they w 15 and 13 - became subjects of one of the government's first anti-social behaviour orders.

Since its introduction inthe antisocial behaviour order has been used as an instrument of social control with varying degrees of success Holly Bentley Tue 26 Aug EDT First. Boys in the West are being labelled as having psychiatric disorders, behaviour problems and special educational needs, and are receiving psychiatric drugs in ever-greater numbers.

In this book, Dr Timimi argues that this crisis reflects a fundamental ambivalence that Western culture has toward children which affects boys in particular.

Using material from. Culture 1 and social behavior Joseph Henrich,2 Comparative research from diverse societies shows that human social behavior varies immensely across a broad range of domains, including cooperation, fairness, trust, punishment, aggressiveness, morality and competitiveness.

Efforts to explain this global variation have increasingly pointed to the. Cornerstone on Anti-Social Behaviour: the new law is a practical guide to the new toolkit introduced by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act It clearly explains, through the use of case studies, practical examples and tactical advice how the new tools operate and how they may be used to best effect.5/5(3).Reduce crime and anti-social behaviour Our corporate equality and diversity action plan We have developed a Corporate Equality and Diversity Action Plan .On 24 Decemberthe Government published the revised Statutory Guidance for Frontline Professionals on anti-social behaviour (ASB) powers available under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (the Act).

It is the first revision since the Act entered into force in October (ironically the original guidance was produced, in Julysome three months .