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Publication date: 10 October 2016

Pushing the boundaries: urban unrest as anti-social behaviour

Gareth James Young

To explore the way in which responses to urban disorder have become part of the anti-social behaviour (ASB herein) toolkit following the 2011 disorders in England. In…

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Purpose

To explore the way in which responses to urban disorder have become part of the anti-social behaviour (ASB herein) toolkit following the 2011 disorders in England. In particular, the purpose of this paper is to unpack the government’s response to the riots through the use of eviction. It is argued that the boundaries of what constitutes ASB, and the geographical scope of the new powers, are being expanded resulting in a more pronounced unevenness of behaviour-control mechanisms being deployed across the housing tenures.

Design/methodology/approach

Using a qualitative research design, 30 in-depth interviews were undertaken with housing, ASB, and local police officers alongside a number of other practitioners working in related fields. These practitioners were based in communities across east London, the West Midlands and Greater Manchester. This was augmented with a desk-based analysis of key responses and reports from significant official bodies, third sector and housing organisations.

Findings

Findings from the research show that responses to the 2011 riots through housing and ASB-related mechanisms were disproportionate, resulting in a rarely occurring phenomenon being unnecessarily overinflated. This paper demonstrates, through the lens of the 2011 riots specifically, how the definition of ASB continues to be expanded, rather than concentrated, causing noticeable conflicts within governmental approaches to ASB post-2011.

Research limitations/implications

This research was undertaken as part of a PhD study and therefore constrained by financial and time implications. Another limitation is that the “riot-clause” being considered here has not yet been adopted in practice. Despite an element of supposition, understanding how the relevant authorities may use this power in the future is important nonetheless.

Originality/value

Much effort was expended by scholars to analyse the causes of the 2011 riots in an attempt to understand why people rioted and what this says about today’s society more broadly. Yet very little attention has been focused on particular legislative responses, such as the additional riot clause enacted through the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. This paper focuses on this particular response to explore more recent ways in which people face being criminalised through an expansion of behaviour defined as ASB.

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Safer Communities, vol. 15 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-02-2016-0005
ISSN: 1757-8043

Keywords

  • Inequality
  • Social housing
  • Anti-social behaviour
  • 2011 riots
  • Eviction
  • Stimgatization
  • Urban unrest

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Publication date: 26 October 2020

Exploring children’s reactions to sponsorship transition: a study of interpersonal and pro-social demands

Robert James Thomas, Gareth Reginald Terence White and Anthony Samuel

The purpose of this study is to evaluate children’s perceptions and attitudes towards sponsorship transition, specifically the change from Nike to PUMA as kit sponsors for…

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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to evaluate children’s perceptions and attitudes towards sponsorship transition, specifically the change from Nike to PUMA as kit sponsors for Manchester City Football Club (MCFC) in July 2019.

Design/methodology/approach

A sample of 368 children, between 7 and 16 years of age were recruited for the study. Using electronic diaries, 1,577 diary entries were captured between February 2019 and March 2020.

Findings

Data reveals that children conceptualise sponsorship as a social exchange, with sponsoring brands seen as human entities and interaction with them reflecting the dynamism of social and familial relationships. Consequently, children in this study demanded prosocial and interpersonal behaviours from sponsors and sponsee during the transition period.

Research limitations/implications

The research has an immediate and direct application for brand managers and the sponsee when considering terminating long-term sponsorship. Both the departing and incoming sponsors can maximise their relationships with these younger fans through an orchestrated departure, arrival and dedicated handover.

Practical implications

The findings enable marketing brand managers to effectively evaluate sponsor transition to maximise opportunities to maintain, and indeed start, brand relationships with younger fans.

Originality/value

This is the first study that has examined sponsorship children’s responses to sponsorship transition.

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Young Consumers, vol. 21 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/YC-06-2020-1174
ISSN: 1747-3616

Keywords

  • Brand management
  • Sponsorship
  • Children and brands
  • Event diaries

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Publication date: 2 July 2018

Insider dealer or unknowing participant: HK court of appeal confirms SFC’s broad powers to pursue insider dealing and fraud offences

Gareth Hughes, James Comber and Emily Austin

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of a recent Court of Appeal case regarding the Securities and Futures Commission’s (SFC’s) powers to seek remedial…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of a recent Court of Appeal case regarding the Securities and Futures Commission’s (SFC’s) powers to seek remedial orders with respect to market misconduct.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper summarises the decision of the Court of First Instance and the judgement on appeal to the Court of Appeal, and the practical implications for financial institutions in preventing and detecting the disclosure and use of confidential material price-sensitive information.

Findings

The Court of Appeal’s decision reconfirms the extensive powers of the SFC to pursue conduct involving insider dealing, including where this involves trading in overseas-listed shares and a substantial measure of the elements of the offence that occurred in Hong Kong. The decision also affirms the breadth of the SFC’s powers to seek remedial orders against anyone involved in such offences, even where the person is unaware of the particular contravention.

Practical implications

Organisations should ensure they have adequate systems and controls established to prevent and detect the disclosure or use by employees of confidential material price-sensitive information, including strong information barriers. Insider dealing policies should also expressly cover both Hong Kong and overseas-listed securities, and employees should be given regular training to ensure that they are aware of their obligations with respect to such inside information.

Originality/value

This paper presents a summary that assesses developments in the case of law regarding the SFC’s powers to pursue remedial orders by experienced contentious regulatory lawyers.

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Journal of Investment Compliance, vol. 19 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOIC-04-2018-0022
ISSN: 1528-5812

Keywords

  • Hong Kong
  • Securities and futures commission (SFC)
  • Policies and procedures
  • Court of appeal
  • Insider dealing
  • Remedial orders

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Publication date: 3 April 2017

Expectations of choice: an exploration of how social context informs gendered occupation

Gareth James Brennan and MaryBeth Gallagher

Occupational choice describes the process that leads to occupational engagement as a result of intrinsic and extrinsic influences. There has been a considerable amount of…

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Occupational choice describes the process that leads to occupational engagement as a result of intrinsic and extrinsic influences. There has been a considerable amount of research concerning occupational choice, gender and adolescence. However, this has largely focused on the areas of career choice and engagement in risky health behaviours. This paper aims to expand on the literature by providing a broader scope of occupation more aligned with the concept associated with occupational science. Furthering this, the researcher aims to examine the influence of gender as an extrinsic influence on occupational choice. The researcher aims to explore how contextual influences inform gendered occupational choice.

Design/methodology/approach

An exploratory qualitative approach was used in the current study. Incorporating photographs as a means of elucidating conversation during the interview process, photo-elicitation interview techniques were used as part of the data collection. This involved using a collection of photographs to prompt participants to discuss their interpretations of various occupations. Six adolescent boys and girls aged 11-14 years participated in the study. Participants were recruited from mixed-gendered sports clubs in the West of Ireland. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. An occupational justice perspective was used to interpret the data.

Findings

Responses suggest that gender informs occupational choice through different mechanisms. These included social systems, physical and institutional opportunities as well as expectations participants held of themselves and others they considered to be within their social grouping. Social systems included groups such as friends and family. The ease of access to physical and institutional resources was another factor that informed choice. Participants projected views of expectations they perceived others held for them informed how the participants made their choices. These factors varied across gender. Despite opportunities being available to both sexes, choices were often restricted to particular occupations.

Originality/value

The findings suggest that factors informing the occupational choices of adolescents included a combination of intrinsic factors such as gender and perspectives, as well as external factors including peers, family and opportunities in the local community. Practical applications of this involve acknowledging and further understanding the contextually situated nature of choice to provide more equitable practice. The results of the study may provide more insight into the factors that enable and inhibit occupation. A further understanding of these influences can redirect how we view adolescent occupations in a way that promotes health.

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Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy, vol. 45 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOT-01-2017-0003
ISSN: 2398-8819

Keywords

  • Occupational choice
  • Photo-elicitation interview

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Publication date: 1 September 2000

Work futures

Jonathan C. Morris

Looks at the 2000 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference held at the University of Cardiff in Wales on 6/7 September 2000. Spotlights the 76 or so presentations within…

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Looks at the 2000 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference held at the University of Cardiff in Wales on 6/7 September 2000. Spotlights the 76 or so presentations within and shows that these are in many, differing, areas across management research from: retail finance; precarious jobs and decisions; methodological lessons from feminism; call centre experience and disability discrimination. These and all points east and west are covered and laid out in a simple, abstract style, including, where applicable, references, endnotes and bibliography in an easy‐to‐follow manner. Summarizes each paper and also gives conclusions where needed, in a comfortable modern format.

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Management Research News, vol. 23 no. 9/10/11
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/01409170010782370
ISSN: 0140-9174

Keywords

  • Management research
  • Assets management
  • Personnel psychology
  • Motivation
  • Innovation
  • Service sectors
  • Work skills
  • Teamwork
  • Unions
  • Performance

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Publication date: 6 August 2018

The British Olympic football team: A quasi-experimental assessment of support for a new sport team among Scottish and English football fans

Stephen Hills, Bob Heere and Matt Walker

The decision by the British Olympic Association to enter a soccer team into the Olympic Games of 2012, having not participated in the Olympic soccer competition since…

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The decision by the British Olympic Association to enter a soccer team into the Olympic Games of 2012, having not participated in the Olympic soccer competition since 1960, provided an opportunity to study representation as a predictor of fan identification. The paper aims to discuss this issue.

Design/methodology/approach

Using a quasi-experimental research design, the authors empirically validated the value of representation by comparing the identity levels of homogeneous samples of English and Scottish respondents toward the Great Britain Olympic National Football, participating in the Olympic Games of 2012.

Findings

Only partial support for four sets of hypotheses was found. In general, there seemed to be low levels of identity of each of the samples with the football team, because neither English nor Scottish respondents perceived the team to be representative of them. Nevertheless, the results support the general notion that representation is a valuable predictor of consumer identification.

Originality/value

Representation has been proposed as a central component of a sport team’s ability to serve as a symbol to their community, which enables the team to benefit from existing fan identities and the community the team is associated with. Yet, an empirical assessment of this phenomenon is lacking.

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International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, vol. 19 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSMS-05-2016-0017
ISSN: 1464-6668

Keywords

  • Olympics
  • Representation
  • Football
  • Soccer
  • Team identity

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Publication date: 1 April 1977

Library Review Volume 26 Issue 4

THE Reference Department of Paisley Central Library today occupies the room which was the original Public Library built in 1870 and opened to the public in April 1871…

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THE Reference Department of Paisley Central Library today occupies the room which was the original Public Library built in 1870 and opened to the public in April 1871. Since that date two extensions to the building have taken place. The first, in 1882, provided a separate room for both Reference and Lending libraries; the second, opened in 1938, provided a new Children's Department. Together with the original cost of the building, these extensions were entirely financed by Sir Peter Coats, James Coats of Auchendrane and Daniel Coats respectively. The people of Paisley indeed owe much to this one family, whose generosity was great. They not only provided the capital required but continued to donate many useful and often extremely valuable works of reference over the many years that followed. In 1975 Paisley Library was incorporated in the new Renfrew District library service.

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Library Review, vol. 26 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb020923
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 9 March 2010

Comedy as freedom of expression

Paul Sturges

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the practice of comedians in relation to freedom of expression, so as to throw light on the issue of giving or avoiding offence.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the practice of comedians in relation to freedom of expression, so as to throw light on the issue of giving or avoiding offence.

Design/methodology/approach

The literature of comedy, newspaper coverage of comedy in the UK in 2008, observation of comedians in performance, and a small, informal interview programme with stand up comedians were used in the preparation of the paper.

Findings

Stand up comedians, despite their own sense that they defy restriction and popular perception of their material as often offensive, do monitor their material for potential offence. They assess the extent of offence and modify their performances in response. In some cases they apply personal formulae to this process.

Research limitations/implications

The interview programme is too small to claim to be fully representative and is intended only to give an indicative view of the field.

Practical implications

Examination of comedians' practice has implications for information service institutions and the giving of access to potentially offensive content.

Originality/value

The paper may be the first study of comedy in an information science context and it contains implications for further studies that use comedy as an example of content, and creative practice to further develop understanding of information provision issues.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 66 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/00220411011023661
ISSN: 0022-0418

Keywords

  • United Kingdom
  • Information exchange
  • Entertainment industry
  • Freedom of information
  • Humour

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Publication date: 29 August 2018

Endnotes

Matt Bolton and Frederick Harry Pitts

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Corbynism: A Critical Approach
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-369-020181011
ISBN: 978-1-78754-372-0

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Publication date: 1 July 1966

The Library World Volume 68 Issue 1

IF we count the University of Strathclyde School of Librarianship as a “new” school—rather than simply an old school transferred from a College of Commerce to a…

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IF we count the University of Strathclyde School of Librarianship as a “new” school—rather than simply an old school transferred from a College of Commerce to a university—then four “new” schools were established between 1963 and 1964, three of the four in universities and the other closely linked with a university, though remaining independent. All four schools have their special features but I consider the more significant of Belfast's features to be its right, from the outset, to conduct all its own examinations for graduates and non‐graduates. Queen's was also the first British university to provide non‐graduates with courses in librarianship. (Strathclyde is the second.) All successful students are eligible for admission to the Register of Chartered Librarians (ALA) after they have completed the prescribed period of practical experience.

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New Library World, vol. 68 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009509
ISSN: 0307-4803

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