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Last year was the eightieth anniversary of George Orwell's book The Road to Wigan Pier--a fascinating narrative of difficult working-class lives in the England of the 1930s, with applications to [...]

On election night, Tuesday, November 6, returns came in. There were wins and losses. My blood pressure rose and fell, exulting in victories and anguished in defeats. But morning came, [...]

Introduction: Wraparound services (i.e., community-based collaborative care) for children with severe mental health needs have been reported as effective. Yet, no attention has been given to aggregating treatment results across racially and economically diverse groups of youth. While controlling for socioeconomic status (i.e., free/reduced lunch status) this study explored potential racial disparities in response to wraparound services. Method: Data from a diverse statewide sample (N = 1,006) of low-income youth (ages 6-18 years) identified as having a serious emotional disturbance were analyzed for differences in wraparound attrition, fidelity, and effectiveness. Results: African American youth receiving free/reduced lunch failed to complete wraparound services at significantly higher rates when compared to Caucasian youth. For those who met treatment goals (i.e., completed services), mean intervention fidelity scores showed services to be implemented similarly across youth. Furthermore, wraparound services resulted in improvements in mental health functioning, though racial background and attrition status impacted exit scores. Discussion: Collaborative community-based mental health services improve youth outcomes and physicians and school personnel should strive to be part of these teams. Further research is needed to more closely examine the challenges of helping youth to meet the goals associated with their wraparound services. Relatively higher service attrition rates in low-income African American youth warrants further investigation. Keywords: wraparound services, racial diversity, evidence-based interventions, attrition, fidelity, The majority of research conducted on addressing mental health concerns has been based on individuals of the dominant race and culture (i.e., Caucasian; Suter & Bruns, 2009). Therefore, investigating whether [...]

This paper uses Canada's corporate criminal liability legislation as an empirical exemplar with which to interrogate the limits of using the law to address the abuses of corporate power and to protect workers' safety. The author draws from Althusser's notion of interpellation to contemplate whether demands to discipline corporations through the law, particularly by labour/unions, misrecognise the problems of workplace safety, including that workers are routinely injured and killed in the pursuit of surplus profits. The author concludes that the problems of workplace safety ultimately demand broader strategies that challenge and transform the capitalist mode of production. Keywords Althusser, corporate crime, neo-Marxism, regulation, safety crimes, Introduction The seemingly endless list of serious crimes and human rights abuses by corporations around the world in recent decades has generated considerable discussion and debate about how best to [...]

Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the many factors influencing a person's alcohol use and related outcomes. Findings have indicated that people with higher SES may consume similar or greater [...]

Byline: Asha. Reddy, Naga. Mullapudi, Kirti. Kabeer, Ramesh. Nimmagadda, Selvi. Radhakrishna CONTEXT: The management of breast cancer in older patients is challenging due to factors such as comorbidities, limited mobility, [...]

The articles included here are based on a conference held in Upper Bavaria in 2011, convened with the purpose of fleshing out how Indian 'tribal' populations use expressive culture to bolster claims of indigeneity. Within India, the focus is narrowed to Middle India and the Nilgiri Hills of South India, despite the fact that the issues collectively addressed here transcend local and regional issues. After providing a survey of the literature on 'tribes' in India, the authors pinpoint areas of intersection that weave the enclosed articles together thematically. Further reflections on the concept of indigeneity as a global phenomenon conclude this introduction. KEYWORDS: cultural representation--ethnicity--indigeneity--Middle India--Nilgiri Hills--social classification--tribes, THIS VOLUME is the fruit of an interdisciplinary symposium that the guest editors of this special issue organized on an island monastery in Frauenchiemsee, Upper Bavaria, in January 2011. (1) [...]

Author(s): Mike Savage (corresponding author) [1] Global economic divisions have become so stark in the past decade that they have transformed the research agenda. Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First [...]

Byline: Legese. Chelkeba, Arezoo. Ahmadi, Mohammad. Abdollahi, Atabak. Najafi, Mojtaba. Mojtahedzadeh Introduction: Survival sepsis campaign guidelines have promoted early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) as a means for reduction of mortality. On [...]