1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484217203321

Autore

Hopkins Matthew (Actor)

Titolo

Acid Crime : Context, Motivation and Prevention / / by Matt Hopkins, Lucy Neville, Teela Sanders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030622961

3030622967

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society, , 2946-2525

Disciplina

364.15

Soggetti

Criminal behavior

Criminology

Critical criminology

Law and the social sciences

Criminal Behavior

Crime Control and Security

Critical Criminology

Socio-Legal Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1: Acid attacks and corrosive crime: an Introduction -- 2: Methodologies for researching acid attacks and corrosive crime -- 3: The contexts and characteristics of acid attacks/corrosive crime -- 4: Offender motivations for carrying and decanting acid and corrosives -- 5: The prevention of acid attacks and corrosive crime -- 6: conclusions and directions for future research/ policy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an authoritative overview of the contemporary phenomenon widely labelled as 'acid attacks'. Although once thought of as a predominantly 'gendered crime', acid and other corrosive substances have been used in a range of violence crimes. This book explores the historical use of corrosives in crime, legal definitions of such attacks, the contexts in which corrosives are used, victim characteristics, offender motivations for carrying and decanting corrosives, and preventative strategies. Data is drawn from the



international literature and the analysis of primary data collected in the UK (which is thought to have one of the highest rates of acid attacks in the world) from interviews with over 20 convicted offenders and from police case files relating to over 1,000 crimes involving corrosive substances. This book adds significantly to the international literature on weapons carrying and use, which to date has predominantly focused around the possession and useof guns and knives. Matt Hopkins is Associate Professor at the School of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK. Lucy Neville is Lecturer at the School of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK. Teela Sanders is Professor at the School of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910511407303321

Titolo

'Subordination' versus 'coordination' in sentence and text : a cross-linguistic perspective / / edited by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Wiebke Ramm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008

ISBN

9786612105609

9781282105607

1282105604

9789027290311

9027290318

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 98

Altri autori (Persone)

Fabricius-HansenCathrine

RammWiebke

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Subordinate constructions

Grammar, Comparative and general - Coordinate constructions

Grammar, Comparative and general - Clauses

Grammar, Comparative and general - Sentences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text; Editorial



page; Title page ; LCC data; Table of contents ; Editors' introduction; Subordination and coordination from different perspectives; 1. Preliminaries ; 2. 'Sentence' versus 'text' ; 3. Coordination and subordination as syntactic notions  ; 3.1 Coordination ; 3.2 Subordination ; 4. 'Coordination' and 'subordination' at text level  ; 4.1 Relevant discourse-theoretical distinctions ; 4.2 Syntactic coordination and subordination from a textual perspective ; 5. Outline of contents ; References

Part I. General and theoretical issuesRST revisited; Disentangling nuclearity ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Nuclearity in RST ; 2.1 The original idea: Mann, Matthiessen, and Thompson ; 2.2  Nuclei on the run: extensions by other authors ; 2.3  Other concepts of coherence relations ; 3. Salience in text ; 4. Problems with nuclearity in RST ; 4.1 Syntactic subordination and nuclearity ; 4.2 Nuclearity tied to relations ; 4.3 Enforced nuclearity ; 5. Multi-level discourse representation and annotation ; 5.1 Annotation framework ; 5.2 Levels of annotation ; 5.3 Example

4.2.2 The linguistic discourse model 4.2.3 Segmented discourse representation theory ; 4.3 Future perspectives ; 5. Conclusion ; References; Part II. Cross-linguistic approaches; A corpus-based perspective on clause linking patterns in English, French and Dutch*  ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Information packaging across languages ; 3. Close-up on English, French and Dutch ; 3.1 Review of the contrastive literature ; 3.1.1 English vs. French ; 3.1.2 English vs. Dutch ; 3.2 Research hypothesis ; 4.Corpus study ; 4.1Data and methodology ; 4.2 Corpus findings and hypothesis testing

4. Summary and discussion

Sommario/riassunto

The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination - or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization - at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch,