Family studies, Evaluation, and Caring

More Info: co-authored with Jane Lindsay & Christine Atkins

Publication Date: 2010

Restorative Justice

More Info: co-authored with Ben Lyon & Theo Gavrielides

Publication Date: 2012

Criminology, Criminal Justice, Social Policy, and Domestic Violence

Publisher: eprints.kingston.ac.uk

Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011

Immigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy is about the asylum decision-making process situated in the US context. This scholarship could not be timelier as I came to read it when Europe is experiencing a significant i... more abstractImmigration Judges and U.S. Asylum Policy is about the asylum decision-making process situated in the US context. This scholarship could not be timelier as I came to read it when Europe is experiencing a significant influx of migrants who seek to claim political asylum. The question of whether the migrants are genuinely fleeing persecution or just want to pursue economic opportunities has become a thorny issue and has stirred much debate across European countries. Banks Miller, Linda Camp Keith and Jennifer Holmes painstakingly examine a range of determinants that influence a particular decision-making stage: whether to grant an applicant asylum. I am convinced that the readership will appreciate how interestingly the book delineates asylum as a highly charged political issue that is driven by various policy concerns rather than human rights commitments. Asylum policy is a component of a broader immigration control policy not only within the United States, but also in many other countries. Nonetheless, the United States accommodates the highest percentage of asylum claims of any receiving country and, for the past three decades, the country has granted asylum to over half a million applicants. Under the circumstances, the authors seek to enhance understandings of why immigration judges (IJs) in the United States do what they do and why there is such variation in the outcome of their decision-making. In so doing, they look into the cognitive approaches to decision-making of IJs in asylum cases to explain this disparity. Although one of the core arguments is that IJs use their policy proclivities (conservative or liberal) to inform their decision-making, the intention of the authors was to go far beyond this claim: We conceptualized IJs as filtering the 'facts' of a case through a perceptual filter, that is, in essence their policy proclivities. Therefore, rather that asserting that IJs use their policy preferences in decision making, we made a more nuanced and theoretically interesting argument: IJs perceive certain facts differently than other facts (189).

American Studies, Criminal Justice, Immigration, Asylum Law, and Asylum

Sociology, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Post-Socialist Societies, Poland, and 2 more

Providing a compelling case for greater gender sensitivity in transitional justice institutions, Mayesha Alam aims to offer a theoretical and conceptual analysis alongside revealing lived experiences with case studies... more abstractProviding a compelling case for greater gender sensitivity in transitional justice institutions, Mayesha Alam aims to offer a theoretical and conceptual analysis alongside revealing lived experiences with case studies from Kenya and Bangladesh.

Criminal Justice, Gender, Transitional Justice, Restorative Justice, and Justice

Sociology, Social Work, and Probation

Publisher: eprints.kingston.ac.uk

Publication Date: Jan 1, 2011

Publication Name: European Journal of Probation

Women's Studies, Gender, Punishment and Prisons, and Prisons

An introduction to the Troubled Families Programme (TFP) which explores the fundamentals of the approach in social work. It looks at its origins, implications and effectiveness as well as early intervention and family... more abstractAn introduction to the Troubled Families Programme (TFP) which explores the fundamentals of the approach in social work. It looks at its origins, implications and effectiveness as well as early intervention and family support in a broader context.

Social Work, Social Policy, and Troubled Families