Mark Brown
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3720192 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Brown |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Brown |
| FIRMA | BROWN M |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4098-2929 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 162 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Hurry Up and Get Me out of Here’
Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets. However, most of the reduction can be attributed to death and people turning 65 rather than to people moving into better housing. This qu…
Fisheries and aquaculture by-products
Between the Lines
The growth in online higher education has seen the ‘unbundling’ of some services as universities have partnered with private companies in an effort to enhance their services. This paper explores university students’ use and perceptions of the third-party online learning support platform, Studiosity, at Dublin City University. Studiosity was engaged to support undergraduate and postgraduate distance students, by offering support beyond existing ca…
Public perceptions towards Moocs on social media
This study attempted to assess public perceptions of and interest in MOOCs by examining how Weibo increases public discussion of MOOCs as well as by interpreting how individual learners talk about their learning experiences. Over 4,000 microblog posts were collected and analysed between 2013 and 2018. The findings showed that Weibo is used as a public service medium to augment the publicity of the MOOC movement and increase the accessibility of M…
Optimising mothers’ health behaviour after hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
The Blood Pressure Postpartum study was prospectively registered as a clinical trial with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (anzctr.org.au) on 13 December 2018 (registration number: ACTRN12618002004246)
Unboxing micro-credentials
Micro-credentials are the latest shiny new thing attracting the attention of politicians, policy-makers and educational leaders. This paper endeavours to ‘unbox’ the micro-credential by peeling away inherent tensions in competing definitions and underlying drivers. It reports the tripartite methodology adopted for a state-of-the-art literature review which offers an inside, upside and downside view on the micro-credential. Selected findings illus…
Do young people with neurological conditions in residential aged care use hospitals differently than those in the community? Evidence from Victorian hospital data, 2014–2017
This study describes the duration and reasons for hospitalisation for three cohorts of younger adults with neurological conditions who either used residential aged care (RAC) or lived in the community. Hospitalisations as a clinical event indicate conditions for which younger people in RAC may need support as they move into community-based housing. Data describing 3 years of hospitalisations in Victorian public hospitals and emergency departments…
Young people in residential aged care
Over 4500 people under 65 years of age live in residential aged care (RAC) in Australia, and they experience poorer quality of life than people with similar disabilities in other settings. Governments have long aimed to reduce admissions of young people to RAC, but in 2019, for the first time, the Australian Government adopted target dates for resolving the issue. The targets include reducing admissions of young people to near zero by 2022 and en…
Clear waters
Long-term sustainability of South Africa’s boat-based whale-watching (BBWW) industry requires any desired growth to be achieved within sustainable parameters. Given that advertising is often the first point of exposure for potential tourists, transparency regarding permit regulations that support sustainable tourism and manage tourist expectations is important. To assess transparency, textual information and photographic content from 17 South Afr…
John Rawls’ Concept of the Reasonable
In his political philosophy, John Rawls has a normative notion of reasonable behaviour expected of citizens in a pluralist society. We interpret the various strands of this idea and introduce them to the discourse on stakeholder dialogue in order to address two shortcomings in the latter. The first shortcoming is an unnoticed, artificial separation of words from actions which neglects the communicative power of action. Second, in its proposed new…
Imperial legacies and southern penal spaces
Southern penal spaces are marked by resemblances and affinities with colonial regimes of control, yet they also reflect quite distinctive postcolonial social and political dynamics found in the global south. Here, legacies of control, forms of exile, status reductions, hierarchical social stratifications and other like forms come together in robust modes of containment suitable for managing ‘marginal’ and ‘suspect’ populations. We draw on ethnogr…
Modification of the third phase in the framework for vertebrate species persistence in urban mosaic environments
Truth and Method in Southern Criminology
What does it mean to “do” southern criminology? What does this entail and what demands should it place on us as criminologists ethically and methodologically? This article addresses such questions through a form dialogue between the Global North and the Global South. At the center of this dialogue is a set of questions about ethical conduct in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding in human relations. These develop into a conversation that en…
‘The Pandemic Will Not be on Zoom’
This paper aims to interpret, analyse, and critique educational pasts, presents, and\nfutures. It is framed by potentially falsifiable memories of colonization and struggles\nfor identity and social justice. We adopt the device of social science fiction (Gerlach\nand Hamilton 2003) as a specialist genre of speculative fiction (Graham et al. 2019).\nSuch speculative approaches seek to develop provocations rather than predictions\n(Selwyn et al. 20…
Collaboration, collation, and competition
This paper reports on a distinctive one-year online open crowdsourcing initiative which originated in the Republic of Ireland with a view to compiling an A–Z directory of educational technology tools for teaching and learning. Through analysis of multiple sources of data, the paper presents an intrinsic case study which outlines the design and implementation of the initiative and offers critical insights into engagement and participation in the p…
Designing for Disability
This project evaluates the current state accessibility of video games, specifically in terms of designing for disability. We evaluate 50 games chosen for their sales data, critical reception, awards won, and other criteria to examine the widest possible sample of the most prominent games released in 2019. This approach to selecting games allows for identifying design trends as they emerge from the most widely played or influential games. The resu…
Armed conflict as a determinant of children malnourishment
Conflict-exposed children are particularly vulnerable to malnourishment, and this association is mostly explained by key socio-demographic factors. With the prolonged political instability in The Sudan, sustainable nutritional interventions are necessary to ease hard conditions in conflict-exposed states, and also among disadvantaged families in conflict-free regions
E. Stanley, Human Rights and Incarceration
Pathways to ethnic differences in obesity
Previous research has identified ethnic differences in abdominal obesity but has not fully explored the pathways that explain these ethnic differences, which may relate to individual and contextual characteristics. This research identifies ethnic differences in waist circumference for eight ethnic groups in England, before and after accounting for a range of individual-level and area-level factors. Three key pathways to obesity are explored: migr…
A cross‐sectional survey of mental health service users’, carers’ and professionals’ priorities for patient safety in the United Kingdom
BACKGROUND: Establishing patient safety priorities in psychiatry has received less international attention than in other areas of health care. This study aimed to identify safety issues as described by people in the United Kingdom identifying as mental health service users, carers and professionals. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey was distributed via social media. Identified safety issues were mapped onto the Yorkshire Contributory Facto…
Colonial States, Colonial Rule, Colonial Governmentalities
The colonial state has been an object of intense study and debate among historians and postcolonial scholars. In this special issue, devoted to questions of colonial state crime, I consider the utility of the colonial state as a conceptual and analytic category for state crime scholars. Focusing upon European colonialism in South Asia, the article first examines definitional problems: within what normative parameters might colonial state behaviou…
In the Footsteps of Mackintosh and Innis
In this article, we track the historical movement in Canada’s economic centre of gravity (ECG) since the early 20th century. A simple weighted mean centre approach is applied to a novel data set containing long-run estimates of household income at the provincial level. The analysis reveals that from 1926 to 2013, Canada’s ECG shifted westward by a net distance of 204 kilometres. Concomitant with this broad geographical shift, we identify six dist…
"An Unqualified Human Good"? On Rule of Law, Globalization, and Imperialism
Forty years ago, E. P. Thompson praised the English rule of law forged during the bloody and fractious eighteenth century, calling it not only "an unqualified human good," but also a "cultural achievement of universal significance." This article examines colonial rule-of-law development as another example of law and state building. Both have relevance for contemporary rule-of-law programming in the Global South where Thompson's "cultural achievem…
Environmental Science and Politics
This chapter examines the relation between environmental science and politics with regard to its implications for environmental values, expert advice, and the public understanding of science. Environmental thinkers have offered powerful critiques of modern science, but they have also relied on science both to understand environmental problems and to legitimate political responses to them. Ironically, both romantic critics of science and their rat…
Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration
What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists…
The good lives model and conceptual issues in offender rehabilitation
There has been a profound shift in attitudes toward offender rehabilitation in the last two decades from a conviction that nothing works to the confident announcement that certain kinds of treatment strategies reliably reduce reoffending rates. The treatment approach currently dominant in the corrections area is the risk-need model where dynamic risk factors associated with recidivism are systematically targeted in treatment and the intensity (i.…
Penal Power and Colonial Rule
This book provides an account of the distinctive way in which penal power developed outside the metropolitan centre. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power – discipline – that had inserted itself into the very centre of punishment, it argues that Foucault’s alignment of sovereign, disciplinary and governmental power will need to be reread and rebalanced to…
Ethnology and colonial administration in nineteenth-century British India
This paper examines the central role of ethnology, the science of race, in the administration of colonial India. This occurred on two levels. First, from the late eighteenth century onwards, proto-scientists and administrators in India engaged with metropolitan theorists through the provision of data on native society and habits. Second, these same agents were continually and reciprocally influenced in the collection and use of such data by the p…
Postcolonial penality
This article reports primary archival data on the colonial penal history of British India and its reconfiguration into the postcolonial Indian state. It introduces criminologists to frameworks through which postcolonial scholars have sought to make sense of the continuities and discontinuities of rule across the colonial/postcolonial divide. The article examines the postcolonial life of one example of colonial penal power, known as the criminal t…
The politics of penal excess and the echo of colonial penality
Recent trends towards more severe forms of punishment in western nations have been interpreted as undermining the central tenets of penal modernity: rationality, scientism and restraint. Analyses of the turn to penal severity have emphasized a variety of factors, each said to underpin this departure from modern penal doctrines. In this article I take up the issue of penal excess, arguing instead that it is a foundational and central element of pe…
Race, Science and the Construction of Native Criminality in Colonial India
For most of the 19th century, race theory and its scientific study—known as ethnology—were regarded as key tools for unlocking the secrets of human history and explaining social and biological differences among human beings. In this article the influence of race and ethnology in the development of ideas about native criminals in colonial British India is examined. The article situates discourses about crime and criminality within a wider set of d…
Quantifying the Muslim population in Europe
A review of the growing literature on the Muslim population in Europe shows that it remains poorly captured in official statistics. There is no authoritative map of the distribution of Muslims in Europe, and little quantitative evidence on their demographic, social or economic characteristics. This paper undertakes a systematic review of the conceptual and methodological issues surrounding the quantification of Muslim populations. With few countr…
Crime, Governance and the Company Raj. The Discovery of Thuggee
Crime, Governance and the Company Raj. The Discovery of Thuggee Get access Mark Brown Mark Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 77–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/42.1.77 Published: 01 January 2002
Cross-National Comparisons of Imprisonment
Cross-national comparisons of incarceration are often invoked, usually to make a critical comparison between the invoker's jurisdiction and others. Most such comparisons are limited to average numbers confined or census date populations and are inherently misleading. Some countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, have smaller average prison populations per capita than most countries but annual rates of prison admissions that are …
Crime, Liberalism and Empire
Cultural analyses of empire inspired by Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) have focused on certain artefacts of imperial thought, representing them as emblematic of a totalizing Orientalist discourse. This article examines one such case in nineteenthcentury India: the identification and legal notification of communities as Criminal Tribes. Taking the case of the Mina tribe of northern India, an attempt is made to illustrate how strategies like the …
Embedding quantitative skills into the social science curriculum
Those aiming to respond to the recognised shortage in quantitative skills within the UK social sciences have increasingly focused on the content of undergraduate degree programmes. Problems occur when quantitative methods are generally confined to a dedicated module, detached from substantive topics. This model makes it hard for students to understand or engage with the contribution of quantitative research to their discipline and can perpetuate …
Imperial legacies and southern penal spaces
Southern penal spaces are marked by resemblances and affinities with colonial regimes of control, yet they also reflect quite distinctive postcolonial social and political dynamics found in the global south. Here, legacies of control, forms of exile, status reductions, hierarchical social stratifications and other like forms come together in robust modes of containment suitable for managing ‘marginal’ and ‘suspect’ populations. We draw on ethnogr…
Truth and Method in Southern Criminology
What does it mean to “do” southern criminology? What does this entail and what demands should it place on us as criminologists ethically and methodologically? This article addresses such questions through a form dialogue between the Global North and the Global South. At the center of this dialogue is a set of questions about ethical conduct in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding in human relations. These develop into a conversation that en…
In the Footsteps of Mackintosh and Innis
In this article, we track the historical movement in Canada’s economic centre of gravity (ECG) since the early 20th century. A simple weighted mean centre approach is applied to a novel data set containing long-run estimates of household income at the provincial level. The analysis reveals that from 1926 to 2013, Canada’s ECG shifted westward by a net distance of 204 kilometres. Concomitant with this broad geographical shift, we identify six dist…
"An Unqualified Human Good"? On Rule of Law, Globalization, and Imperialism
Forty years ago, E. P. Thompson praised the English rule of law forged during the bloody and fractious eighteenth century, calling it not only "an unqualified human good," but also a "cultural achievement of universal significance." This article examines colonial rule-of-law development as another example of law and state building. Both have relevance for contemporary rule-of-law programming in the Global South where Thompson's "cultural achievem…
Do young people with neurological conditions in residential aged care use hospitals differently than those in the community? Evidence from Victorian hospital data, 2014–2017
This study describes the duration and reasons for hospitalisation for three cohorts of younger adults with neurological conditions who either used residential aged care (RAC) or lived in the community. Hospitalisations as a clinical event indicate conditions for which younger people in RAC may need support as they move into community-based housing. Data describing 3 years of hospitalisations in Victorian public hospitals and emergency departments…
Young people in residential aged care
Over 4500 people under 65 years of age live in residential aged care (RAC) in Australia, and they experience poorer quality of life than people with similar disabilities in other settings. Governments have long aimed to reduce admissions of young people to RAC, but in 2019, for the first time, the Australian Government adopted target dates for resolving the issue. The targets include reducing admissions of young people to near zero by 2022 and en…
Informing Policy-Making at Sub-Local Authority Spatial Levels
This article discusses how the release of small area microdata (SAM) from the 2001 UK Population Census could help provide better information in the policy-making process at sub-local authority spatial levels. An experimental set of SAM from the 1991 Census, provided by National Statistics, was used to develop a methodology which can provide SAM estimates of the effects of area at ward level, and can separate these spatial effects from compositio…
We are neutral therapists”
This article discusses the engagement of psychology in the political domain of punishment. Three aspects of contemporary cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) intervention are considered. It is concluded that the State's instrumental demands for psychology to utilise behavioural control techniques upon offenders has lead the discipline and its practitioners on a course that is worthy of much greater scrutiny than it currently receives
The ComitÉ Franco-Polonais and the French reaction to the Polish uprising of November 1830
Journal Article The ComitÉ Franco-Polonais and the French reaction to the Polish uprising of November 1830 Get access MARK BROWN MARK BROWN Kingston Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIII, Issue 369, October 1978, Pages 774–793, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIII.369.774 Published: 01 October 1978
Religion
Black for the people; green for the land; red for the blood of the martyrs
Cross-National Comparisons of Imprisonment
Cross-national comparisons of incarceration are often invoked, usually to make a critical comparison between the invoker's jurisdiction and others. Most such comparisons are limited to average numbers confined or census date populations and are inherently misleading. Some countries such as Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, have smaller average prison populations per capita than most countries but annual rates of prison admissions that are …
Problem Oriented Policing and Organisational Form
Victoria's Project Pathfinder
Quantifying the Muslim population in Europe
A review of the growing literature on the Muslim population in Europe shows that it remains poorly captured in official statistics. There is no authoritative map of the distribution of Muslims in Europe, and little quantitative evidence on their demographic, social or economic characteristics. This paper undertakes a systematic review of the conceptual and methodological issues surrounding the quantification of Muslim populations. With few countr…
The Most Desperate Characters in All India
Race, Science and the Construction of Native Criminality in Colonial India
For most of the 19th century, race theory and its scientific study—known as ethnology—were regarded as key tools for unlocking the secrets of human history and explaining social and biological differences among human beings. In this article the influence of race and ethnology in the development of ideas about native criminals in colonial British India is examined. The article situates discourses about crime and criminality within a wider set of d…
Dangerous Offenders
List of Contributors. Introduction Mark Brown and John Pratt Part I: Dangerousness: A Social History 1. Risk societies and the government of crime Pat O'Malley 2. The birth of dangerousness John Pratt Part II: Legal Responses and Responsibilities 3. Guerillas in our midst? Judicial responses to governing the dangerous Arie Freiberg 4. Civil commitment as social control: Managing the risk of sexual violence Eric Janus Part III: Practical Risks: Da…
The politics of penal excess and the echo of colonial penality
Recent trends towards more severe forms of punishment in western nations have been interpreted as undermining the central tenets of penal modernity: rationality, scientism and restraint. Analyses of the turn to penal severity have emphasized a variety of factors, each said to underpin this departure from modern penal doctrines. In this article I take up the issue of penal excess, arguing instead that it is a foundational and central element of pe…
We are neutral therapists”
This article discusses the engagement of psychology in the political domain of punishment. Three aspects of contemporary cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) intervention are considered. It is concluded that the State's instrumental demands for psychology to utilise behavioural control techniques upon offenders has lead the discipline and its practitioners on a course that is worthy of much greater scrutiny than it currently receives
Crime, Governance and the Company Raj. The Discovery of Thuggee
Crime, Governance and the Company Raj. The Discovery of Thuggee Get access Mark Brown Mark Brown Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 42, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 77–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/42.1.77 Published: 01 January 2002
Dangerous Offenders
Ethnology and colonial administration in nineteenth-century British India
This paper examines the central role of ethnology, the science of race, in the administration of colonial India. This occurred on two levels. First, from the late eighteenth century onwards, proto-scientists and administrators in India engaged with metropolitan theorists through the provision of data on native society and habits. Second, these same agents were continually and reciprocally influenced in the collection and use of such data by the p…
Crime, Liberalism and Empire
Cultural analyses of empire inspired by Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) have focused on certain artefacts of imperial thought, representing them as emblematic of a totalizing Orientalist discourse. This article examines one such case in nineteenthcentury India: the identification and legal notification of communities as Criminal Tribes. Taking the case of the Mina tribe of northern India, an attempt is made to illustrate how strategies like the …
Learning and teaching online with the UK census
This paper describes the online learning and teaching resources that are currently being developed for the contemporary and historical UK censuses as part of a project that is being funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to support its ‘Information Environment’. The online resources are intended to support learners and teachers in the UK Higher and Further Education sectors who are interested in UK census data. A variety of reso…
Informing Policy-Making at Sub-Local Authority Spatial Levels
This article discusses how the release of small area microdata (SAM) from the 2001 UK Population Census could help provide better information in the policy-making process at sub-local authority spatial levels. An experimental set of SAM from the 1991 Census, provided by National Statistics, was used to develop a methodology which can provide SAM estimates of the effects of area at ward level, and can separate these spatial effects from compositio…
The good lives model and conceptual issues in offender rehabilitation
There has been a profound shift in attitudes toward offender rehabilitation in the last two decades from a conviction that nothing works to the confident announcement that certain kinds of treatment strategies reliably reduce reoffending rates. The treatment approach currently dominant in the corrections area is the risk-need model where dynamic risk factors associated with recidivism are systematically targeted in treatment and the intensity (i.…
When Ancient Meets Modern
Extended durations of postpartum non-susceptibility (PPNS) comprising lactational amenorrhoea and associated taboos on sex have been a central component of traditional reproductive regimes in sub-Saharan Africa. In situations of rising contraceptive prevalence this paper draws on data from the Demographic Health Surveys to consider the neglected interface between ancient and modern methods of regulation. The analysis reports striking contrasts be…
Wendell Berry's Farmer
In this article I take as my starting point the call to explore ways of' relating to nature through a discussion of the poet and farmer Wendell Beny's idea r~f' community. Exploring the ethics of ecological community, l suggest that they parallel the Emersonian conception of self reliance. f proceed with an explication of some of the relationships that exist within Berry's community with nature, examining attitudes to both wild nature and to the …
Census Fieldwork in the UK
Interviews with fieldworkers from the UK 2001 Census give voice to a unique, grounded view of the operational quality of census-taking. While the overall response to the census has been estimated at 94%, enumerators and their managers explain why differential undercount between social and geographical groups remained a problem. Fieldworkers subjected the census to criticism, from form design and quality checks to address-listing and management. P…
Assisting and Supporting Women Released from Prison
Mentoring is widely regarded as a positive form of post-prison support for women. Yet our data from a Victorian study of mentoring reveal that many women drop out early in the mentoring experience: many prior even to meeting their mentor in prison and as many as half directly upon release. This article therefore considers the question of the suitability of mentoring. It asks why mentoring seems ‘right’ for some women and not others and reports th…
Howard Barker Interviews 1980-2010
Trait Valence and the Better-Than-Average Effect
People tend to regard themselves as having superior personality traits compared to their average peer. To test whether this "better-than-average effect" varies with trait valence, participants (N = 154 students) rated both themselves and the average student on traits constituting either positive or negative poles of five trait dimensions. In each case, the better-than-average effect was found, but trait valence had no effect. Results were discuss…
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