Barbara Wootton (1897–1988): pioneering social scientist,feminist and policymaker

This article briefly surveys the life and work of Barbara Wootton, who made an outstanding contribution to the social sciences and to public life, and to the connection between the two, between the 1920s and 1980s, but is too little remembered now. She campaigned for the parliamentary vote for women, for equality in public life when women had the vote, for equal pay, abortion, abolition of capital punishment, homosexual law reform, reform of the criminal justice system to encourage rehabilitation in place of punishment, for social equality more broadly and for policy changes to be underpinned by sound research. She deserves to be remembered.     

Ethnic differentials: Sri Lanka,Malaysia, and Israel

Studies in Comparative International Development -     

Book review

Vanecko, J.J., &; Ames, N.C. (1980). Who benefits from federal education dollars? Cambridge, Massachusetts: Abt Books, pp. 205, $ 27.00.

Wise, A.E. (1979). Legislated learning - The bureaucratization of the American classroom. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp.219. $ 10.95.

Goldberg, Steven S. (1982). Special education law: a guide for parents, advocates and educators. New York: Plenum Press, pp.229. $ 24.50.

Tucker, H. J., and Zeiqler, L. 8. (1980). Professionals versus the public: Attitudes communication and response in school districts. New York: Longman, 230 pp. $25 . 00     

A Crime–Terror Nexus? Thinking on Some of the Links between Terrorism and Criminality 1

Decreasing state sponsorship for terrorism in the post-9/11 environment has pressed terrorist groups to find alternative sources of financial support. Some groups have created their own “in-house” criminal capabilities, for example FARC, the LTTE, and Al Qaeda. Several analysts have argued that this “mutation” in organizational form may lead terrorist groups to ally with organized crime, whereas others have suggested that distinct organizational and ideological differences between the two will preclude cooperation. Drawing on both accounts, it is argued in this article that the degree of a terrorist group's organizational capacity and need are key predictors of the types of crime they will engage in, while ideological (political) distinctiveness will preclude fully symbiotic cooperation between terrorists and organized crime groups.     

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Home Truths about Child Sexual Abuse: Influencing Policy and Practice: A reader Catherine Itzin (4) Routledge, London, 2000. ISBN0415 15261 5 (hbk) f55.0O/f18.990415 152623 (pbk) £18.99

Child Sexual Assault: Feminist perspectives Pat Cox, Sheila Kenhaw andJoy Trotter (eds) Palgrave, London. 2000. 248pp. ISBN 0 333 77153 2. (hbk) £45.00

Athletes and Acquaintance Rape Jeffrey R Benedict Sage (Violence Against Women Series). London, 1998. 120pp ISBN 0 7619 0966 4 (hbk) f47.00 / 0 7619 0967 2 (pbk) £19.00

Whistleblowing in the Social Services: Public accountability and professional practice Geoffrey Hunt (ed.), Foreword by Allan Levy, QC Edward Arnold, London, 1998. 278pp. ISBN 0 340 65245 4 (pbk) £18.99