Robin Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humber College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9703-2353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
International Survey of Family Law 2023
The International Society of Family Law is an independent, international, and non-political scholarly association dedicated to the study, research and discussion of family law and related disciplines. The Society's membership currently includes professors, lecturers, scholars, teachers, and researchers from more than 50 different countries, offering a unique opportunity for networking within a truly international family law community. The Interna…
Graph Theory in America
Consent for Intimate Exams on Unconscious Patients
The practice of nonconsensual intimate exams performed on unconscious patients by medical students during their training has received significant attention in the last several years. Clinicians, medical students, bioethicists, lawyers, and the public have called for explicit and specific consent to take place before all educational intimate examinations of unconscious patients. In response, since January of 2019, dozens of bills have been propose…
Four Colors Suffice
What Works (or Does Not) in Community Risk Management for Persons Convicted of Sexual Offenses? A Contemporary Perspective
Contemporary data from the United States show that rates of sexual offending and reoffending have been in steady decline for decades. Nonetheless, nonprofessionals continue to view sexual violence as a community safety issue fraught with risk and uncertainty. The past 30 years have been witness to considerable research and practice in the assessment, treatment, and risk management of persons who have sexually offended. Gains have also been made i…
From Bigotry to Tolerance
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Race, Religion, and Politics
Many authors hope events will make their book timely. Few could be more perfectly timed than Race, Religion, and Politics: Toward Human Rights in the United States. As this review was coming together, the country was reeling from the massacre of thirty-one Americans by two disaffected white males. Although explanations of what incubated such hatred in these men may be complex, one thing is clear: a hatred of others festered inside them. The El Pa…
The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is best known for his ‘Alice’ books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, written under his pen-name of Lewis Carroll. He is also remembered as a pioneer of Victorian photography. But his everyday job was a lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford University. What mathematics did he do? How good a mathematician was he? And how influential was his work, both at the time and since? This bo…
The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson
Geometry
This chapter presents Dodgson’s geometrical work, and in particular his interest in Euclid’s Elements . It describes the contents and structure of this work and considers the various Victorian editions, and looks at how Dodgson used the Elements in his teaching – both face-to-face and in his writing for students. Following a discussion of the Euclid debate, prevalent at the time, the chapter describes his book Euclid and his Modern Rivals , in wh…
Predictors of Daily Mobility of Adults in Peri-Urban South India
Daily mobility, an important aspect of environmental exposures and health behavior, has mainly been investigated in high-income countries. We aimed to identify the main dimensions of mobility and investigate their individual, contextual, and external predictors among men and women living in a peri-urban area of South India. We used 192 global positioning system (GPS)-recorded mobility tracks from 47 participants (24 women, 23 men) from the Cardio…
The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy
Taking a page from the late Justice Antonin Scalia, John Witte’s perfectly timed book, The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy, questions whether Obergefell v. Hodges 1 foreshadows a fight over
New Mobilities in Europe
James Wickham is rightly regarded as one of Ireland's leading social scientists and this monograph by a research team he assembled to realise his 2006 proposition of investigating Polish migration
Institutional Conscience and Access to Services
It appears, at times, that health care and religion do not mix. Consider the sterilization and contraception coverage mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The mandate requires nearly all employers and health insurers to cover as "essential health care services" certain sterilization procedures and contraceptives, including emergency contraceptives Members of the Catholic, evangelical Christian, Mennonite, and Muslim faith…
Autonomy and power-sharing in Northern Ireland
In recent years, Northern Ireland has been presented as a model for the resolution of violent conflicts in deeply divided societies. However, discussion of the “peace process” has occluded scrutiny of the governance arrangements arising, and whether these promote reconciliation across sectarian lines or even make for workable government. Close assessment, against the precedent of the power-sharing experiment of 1974 and efforts to establish power…
Lewis Carroll in Numberland
The philamath’s alphabet—S
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Professionally‐Facilitated Volunteerism in the Community‐Based Management of High‐Risk Sexual Offenders
This study represents an examination of recidivism rates associated with the pilot project of Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) in South‐Central Ontario, Canada. A group of 60 high‐risk sexual offenders involved in COSA after having been released at the end of their sentence were matched to a group of 60 high‐risk sexual offenders who had been released at the end of their sentence, but who did not become involved in COSA. Results show …
Circles of Support and Accountability
The release to the community of a sexual offender is frequently accompanied by intense coverage in the news media. Too often, the type of coverage these releases receive serves only to force many offenders into hiding or out of one community and into another. Forced to move to another community, the scapegoating process starts all over again. It is well known that secrecy and isolation are critical elements in sexual offending behaviour. Thus, fo…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Professionally‐Facilitated Volunteerism in the Community‐Based Management of High‐Risk Sexual Offenders
This study presents evaluation data from the Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) pilot project in South‐Central Ontario, Canada – specifically regarding the effect that COSA has had on the community and those personally involved in the project. Results suggest that the COSA initiative has had a profound effect on all stakeholders: offenders, community volunteers, affiliated professionals, and the community‐at‐large. Being involved in a C…
Rhetoric meets reality
In Northern Ireland the word ‘equality’ is frequently evoked, yet the society itself remains riven by social mistrust. It is not characterised by even a thin social solidarity, even though violence has mercifully diminished. This article teases out the very particular way in which equality has come to be defined in Northern Ireland – indeed, how battles over its definition have become part of continuing, even intensifying, sectarian political ant…
Michael Kerr
Why and how multi-ethnic societies dissolve into violent conflict, and whether and how those divisions may be healed through a politics of accommodation remain vital questions of our time. One way
Are Cognitive Problem-solving Skills Programmes Really Not Working? A Response to 'Evaluating Evidence for the Effectiveness of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation Programme
Many believe that offenders are involved in criminal activities because they make poor decisions. Accordingly, problem-solving skills programmes have been delivered to literally thousands of offenders on both sides of the Atlantic. In ‘Evaluating evidence for the effectiveness of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation Programme’ (Wilkinson 2005), the authors cite outcome research suggesting that involvement in Reasoning and Rehabilitation does not sign…
The Truth about Konigsberg
The virtual election
The paper sets the context for the November 2003 election, reports its results and discusses the consequences of the electoral outcomes. It notes that the election did not take place within an atmosphere that was conducive to the resolution of the outstanding difficulties, notably over the decommissioning issue, and that the advance of the DUP and Sinn Fein has frustrated the prospect of an early restoration of devolution. The paper also looks at…
The politics of contemporary ethno‐nationalist conflicts
That the 1990s began and ended with wars in the Balkans, often evoking reference to ‘ancient hatreds’, might suggest little has been learned since the fall of the Wall on how to address the recrudescence of violent ethno‐nationalist conflict – and indeed some fatalism as to whether this can be done at all. Yet the rethinking of notions of national sovereignty, the increasing minority‐rights jurisprudence and the development of anti‐essentialist c…
The virtual election
The paper sets the context for the November 2003 election, reports its results and discusses the consequences of the electoral outcomes. It notes that the election did not take place within an atmosphere that was conducive to the resolution of the outstanding difficulties, notably over the decommissioning issue, and that the advance of the DUP and Sinn Fein has frustrated the prospect of an early restoration of devolution. The paper also looks at…
Recent British Publications V
70 Recent British Publications V The primary concern of these occasional surveys is with books relating to the New Testament or Patristic fields, but recent publications include a num- ber of works outwith these limits which may yet be of interest to readers of this journal. It would therefore seem appropriate to make brief mention of them before turning to the principal subjects of this review. The Spring list of Oxford books, for example, annou…
Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland forum elections, May 1996
Robin Wilson assesses the influences on the Northern Ireland Forum election. He argues that the policies of both the British and Irish governments have contributed to the collapse of common ground between the two communities
The politics of contemporary ethno‐nationalist conflicts
That the 1990s began and ended with wars in the Balkans, often evoking reference to ‘ancient hatreds’, might suggest little has been learned since the fall of the Wall on how to address the recrudescence of violent ethno‐nationalist conflict – and indeed some fatalism as to whether this can be done at all. Yet the rethinking of notions of national sovereignty, the increasing minority‐rights jurisprudence and the development of anti‐essentialist c…
The Truth about Konigsberg
The virtual election
The paper sets the context for the November 2003 election, reports its results and discusses the consequences of the electoral outcomes. It notes that the election did not take place within an atmosphere that was conducive to the resolution of the outstanding difficulties, notably over the decommissioning issue, and that the advance of the DUP and Sinn Fein has frustrated the prospect of an early restoration of devolution. The paper also looks at…
Are Cognitive Problem-solving Skills Programmes Really Not Working? A Response to 'Evaluating Evidence for the Effectiveness of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation Programme
Many believe that offenders are involved in criminal activities because they make poor decisions. Accordingly, problem-solving skills programmes have been delivered to literally thousands of offenders on both sides of the Atlantic. In ‘Evaluating evidence for the effectiveness of the Reasoning and Rehabilitation Programme’ (Wilkinson 2005), the authors cite outcome research suggesting that involvement in Reasoning and Rehabilitation does not sign…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Professionally‐Facilitated Volunteerism in the Community‐Based Management of High‐Risk Sexual Offenders
This study represents an examination of recidivism rates associated with the pilot project of Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) in South‐Central Ontario, Canada. A group of 60 high‐risk sexual offenders involved in COSA after having been released at the end of their sentence were matched to a group of 60 high‐risk sexual offenders who had been released at the end of their sentence, but who did not become involved in COSA. Results show …
Circles of Support and Accountability
The release to the community of a sexual offender is frequently accompanied by intense coverage in the news media. Too often, the type of coverage these releases receive serves only to force many offenders into hiding or out of one community and into another. Forced to move to another community, the scapegoating process starts all over again. It is well known that secrecy and isolation are critical elements in sexual offending behaviour. Thus, fo…
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Professionally‐Facilitated Volunteerism in the Community‐Based Management of High‐Risk Sexual Offenders
This study presents evaluation data from the Circles of Support and Accountability (COSA) pilot project in South‐Central Ontario, Canada – specifically regarding the effect that COSA has had on the community and those personally involved in the project. Results suggest that the COSA initiative has had a profound effect on all stakeholders: offenders, community volunteers, affiliated professionals, and the community‐at‐large. Being involved in a C…
Rhetoric meets reality
In Northern Ireland the word ‘equality’ is frequently evoked, yet the society itself remains riven by social mistrust. It is not characterised by even a thin social solidarity, even though violence has mercifully diminished. This article teases out the very particular way in which equality has come to be defined in Northern Ireland – indeed, how battles over its definition have become part of continuing, even intensifying, sectarian political ant…
Michael Kerr
Why and how multi-ethnic societies dissolve into violent conflict, and whether and how those divisions may be healed through a politics of accommodation remain vital questions of our time. One way
The philamath’s alphabet—S
Lewis Carroll in Numberland
Autonomy and power-sharing in Northern Ireland
In recent years, Northern Ireland has been presented as a model for the resolution of violent conflicts in deeply divided societies. However, discussion of the “peace process” has occluded scrutiny of the governance arrangements arising, and whether these promote reconciliation across sectarian lines or even make for workable government. Close assessment, against the precedent of the power-sharing experiment of 1974 and efforts to establish power…
Institutional Conscience and Access to Services
It appears, at times, that health care and religion do not mix. Consider the sterilization and contraception coverage mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The mandate requires nearly all employers and health insurers to cover as "essential health care services" certain sterilization procedures and contraceptives, including emergency contraceptives Members of the Catholic, evangelical Christian, Mennonite, and Muslim faith…
New Mobilities in Europe
James Wickham is rightly regarded as one of Ireland's leading social scientists and this monograph by a research team he assembled to realise his 2006 proposition of investigating Polish migration
The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy
Taking a page from the late Justice Antonin Scalia, John Witte’s perfectly timed book, The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy, questions whether Obergefell v. Hodges 1 foreshadows a fight over
Predictors of Daily Mobility of Adults in Peri-Urban South India
Daily mobility, an important aspect of environmental exposures and health behavior, has mainly been investigated in high-income countries. We aimed to identify the main dimensions of mobility and investigate their individual, contextual, and external predictors among men and women living in a peri-urban area of South India. We used 192 global positioning system (GPS)-recorded mobility tracks from 47 participants (24 women, 23 men) from the Cardio…
The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is best known for his ‘Alice’ books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, written under his pen-name of Lewis Carroll. He is also remembered as a pioneer of Victorian photography. But his everyday job was a lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford University. What mathematics did he do? How good a mathematician was he? And how influential was his work, both at the time and since? This bo…
The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson
Geometry
This chapter presents Dodgson’s geometrical work, and in particular his interest in Euclid’s Elements . It describes the contents and structure of this work and considers the various Victorian editions, and looks at how Dodgson used the Elements in his teaching – both face-to-face and in his writing for students. Following a discussion of the Euclid debate, prevalent at the time, the chapter describes his book Euclid and his Modern Rivals , in wh…
Race, Religion, and Politics
Many authors hope events will make their book timely. Few could be more perfectly timed than Race, Religion, and Politics: Toward Human Rights in the United States. As this review was coming together, the country was reeling from the massacre of thirty-one Americans by two disaffected white males. Although explanations of what incubated such hatred in these men may be complex, one thing is clear: a hatred of others festered inside them. The El Pa…
Four Colors Suffice
What Works (or Does Not) in Community Risk Management for Persons Convicted of Sexual Offenses? A Contemporary Perspective
Contemporary data from the United States show that rates of sexual offending and reoffending have been in steady decline for decades. Nonetheless, nonprofessionals continue to view sexual violence as a community safety issue fraught with risk and uncertainty. The past 30 years have been witness to considerable research and practice in the assessment, treatment, and risk management of persons who have sexually offended. Gains have also been made i…
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