Colin Roberts: 5 books

A lighthearted look at some of the hazards you face in everyday life and some creative ways to deal with them. Who hasn't had to deal with such annoying things as Odd Sock Syndrome, or Dressing in the Dark? How do you deal with bathroom scales and team bonding courses? The answers are all here, though you may want to avoid some of the solutions! And please pay no attention to Daisy the cow.

Over the last few years intensive community programmes for both young and adult offenders have become established in the UK as an important new component of penal policy − the ISSP (Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme) for persistent and serious young offenders, and the ICCP (Intensive...

The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government. Such a position fundamentally undermines any notion of local self-government and makes the term ‘government’ in local government a misnomer. The book will examine...

Reports on a new generation of Internet controls that establish a new normative terrain in which surveillance and censorship are routine. Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic...

This collection of essays offers a unique contribution to the study of violence and justice in a late medieval and early modern Italy by combining a multivocal perspective with a case-study focus on the city-state of Bologna. Drawing on the city’s singularly rich archival resources, the authors...