1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910437646303321

Autore

Caputo Clementina

Titolo

Using Ostraca in the Ancient World : new discoveries and methodologies / / edited by Clementina Caputo and Julia Lougovaya

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2021

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020]

©2021

ISBN

3-11-071290-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 245 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s)

Collana

Materiale Textkulturen ; ; 32

Classificazione

AM 45200

Disciplina

932

Soggetti

Ostraca

Ostraca - Egypt

HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt

Egypt Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- I. Documentation and Interpretation of Ostraca as Archaeological Objects -- Papyri and Ostraca as Archaeological Objects: The Importance of Context -- Pottery Sherds for Writing: An Overview of the Practice -- Photography of Papyri and Ostraca -- II. Cultural Contexts and Practices -- The Survival of Pharaonic Ostraca: Coincidence or Meaningful Patterns? -- Greek Literary Ostraca Revisited -- III. Ostraca in Context: Case Studies -- Hi Aḥuṭab: Aramaic Letter Ostraca from Elephantine -- Ostraca and Tituli Picti of Samut North and Bi’r Samut (Eastern Desert of Egypt): Some Reflections on Find Location -- Demotic Ostraca and Their Use in Egyptian Temple Context from the Greco-Roman Period: Soknopaiou Nesos and Hut-Repit -- “Forgive Me, Because I Could Not Find Papyrus”: The Use and Distribution of Ostraca in Late Antique Western Thebes -- Contributors -- Indices

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout Egypt’s long history, pottery sherds and flakes of limestone were commonly used for drawings and short-form texts in a number of languages. These objects are conventionally called ostraca, and thousands of them have been and continue to be discovered. This



volume highlights some of the methodologies that have been developed for analyzing the archaeological contexts, material aspects, and textual peculiarities of ostraca.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782970003321

Titolo

After crime and punishment : pathways to offender reintegration / / edited by Shadd Maruna and Russ Immarigeon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cullompton, Devon, U.K. ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Willan Pub., , 2004

ISBN

1-135-98670-3

1-135-98663-0

1-281-33146-5

9786611331467

1-84392-420-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ImmarigeonRussell

MarunaShadd

Disciplina

364.8

Soggetti

Ex-convicts - Rehabilitation

Criminals - Rehabilitation

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to offender reintegration; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Foreword; Notes on contributors; Part I Desistance Theory and Reintegration Practice; Chapter 1 Ex-offender reintegration: theory and practice; Chapter 2 Reintegration and restorative justice: towards a theory and practice of informal social control and support; Chapter 3 Social capital and offender reintegration: making probation desistance focused; Part II Methodological Considerations

Chapter 4 Connecting desistance and recidivism: measuring changes in criminality over the lifespanChapter 5 Somewhere between persistence and desistance: the intermittency of criminal careers; Part III Applied Research on Desistance; Chapter 6 Jail or the army: does military



service facilitate desistance from crime?; Chapter 7 To reoffend or not to reoffend? The ambivalence of convicted property offenders; Chapter 8 Desistance from crime: is it different for women and girls?; Part IV Desistance-focused Reintegration Research

Chapter 9 Beating the perpetual incarceration machine: overcoming structural impediments to re-entryChapter 10 With eyes wide open: formalizing community and social control intervention in offender reintegration programmes; Chapter 11 'Less than the average citizen': stigma, role transition and the civic reintegration of convicted felons; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of the Atlantic. In the USA the former Attorney General Janet Reno identified the issue as 'one of the most pressing problems we face as a nation' in view of the massive prison population and the rapid increase in rates of incarceration, while in the UK it has become an increasingly important issue for similar reasons, and the subject of recent reports by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM Inspectorate of Probation, as well as from the Social Exclusion Unit of the H



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139176903321

Titolo

Borneo research bulletin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Williamsburg, Va., : Borneo Research Council

ISSN

2162-8432

Disciplina

915

915.98/3/033

Soggetti

Research

Periodicals.

Borneo Research Periodicals

Borneo

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed