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BY JOHN ASHTON
Introductory: “Difference between Gaming and Gambling-Universality and Antiquity of Gambling-Isis and Osiris-Games and Dice of the Egyptians-China and India-The Jews-Among the Greeks ancl Romans-Among Mahometans Early DicingDicing in England in the r3th and 14th Centuries--In the r7th Century-Celebrated Gamblers-Bourchier-Swiss Anecdote Dicing in the 18th Century.”
LONDON. DUCKWORTH & CO. 3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. 1898. 297p.
By Patrick Williams
The key to overcoming institutionalised racism in work with black, Asian and minority ethnic people in contact with the criminal justice system
Why read this evidence review?
This evidence review provides an in-depth look at growing rates of racial disparity in our criminal justice system and highlights key principles for effective interventions with people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds in contact with the system.
Patrick Williams, Senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, reviews the current evidence-base - to which he is an important contributor - and covers a number of key issues:
Racial disparity within the criminal justice system
The multidimensionality of social inequalities experienced by minority groups
The lack of a clear strategy and officially approved programs to tackle racial disparity in the criminal justice system
The criminal justice system’s preoccupation with risk as opposed to need
Principles to govern minority ethnic interventions
The importance of acknowledging racialisation and racism(s)
Community empowerment models
The argument for paying participants to engage
The importance of the voluntary sector.
An online evidence base for the voluntary sector working in the criminal justice system
This article forms part of a series from Clinks, created to develop a far-reaching and accessible evidence base covering the most common types of activity undertaken within the criminal justice system. There are two main aims of this online series:
To increase the extent to which the voluntary sector bases its services on the available evidence base
To encourage commissioners to award contracts to organisations delivering an evidence-based approach.
London: Clinks, 2023. 11p.
By E. P. Thompson
From the introduction: “This book has a clumsy title, but it is.one which meets its purpose. making, because it is a study in an active process, which owes as much to agency as to conditioning. The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making. Class, rather than classes, for reasons which it is one purpose of this book to examine. There is, of course, a difference. "Work ing classes" is a descriptive term, which evades as much as it defines. It ties loosely together a bundle of discrete phenomena. There were tailors here and weavers there, and together they make up the working classes.”
Vintage Books· A Division Of Random House. New York. 1963. 423p. CONTAINS MARK-UP
