J W Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 47434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J W Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | J W |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7111-1731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Year X of the National Revolution” — Salazarist palingenetic myth in the Diário da Manhã
This paper contributes to the debate surrounding the extent to which Salazarism constituted a fascist ideology by analysing the discourses in an edition of the Diário da Manhã — official organ of the National Union, the only legal political party during the Estado Novo — published on 28 May 1936. This edition of the Diário commemorated 10 years of the May 28 1926 coup which installed the Military Dictatorship, later transformed into the Estado No…
Introducing Healthy Together: A Monograph of African American Men, Chronic Disease, and Self-Management
Previous research has outlined evident disparities in the prevalence of chronic conditions among African Americans compared to other groups, with low-income African American men disproportionately affected by almost every disorder. Self-management programs are useful tools for managing chronic disorders beyond the doctor's office. This monograph provides a detailed looking into the current state of the research on low-income African American men …
Finance interrupted: Social impact bonds, spatial politics, and the limits of financial innovation in the social sector
An enduring legacy of the 2007-2009 financial crisis is the growth of "social" and "impact" investing, markets dedicated to the use of financial capital to achieve social good. This paper examines one key manifestation of these markets: the social impact bond, a financial device which uses private capital to fund social programs. While social impact bond (SIBs) have been viewed as a testament to the power of finance and the "financialization" of …
Limits to the financialisation of the state: Exploring obstructions to social impact bonds as a form of financialised statecraft in the UK, Israel, and Canada
Within the financialisation literature, scholars have turned their attention to the state, exploring the adoption of financial activities by state actors, paying less attention to the limits of state financialisation. This paper explores these limits using the case of social impact bonds (SIBs). Pioneered in the UK in 2010 and subsequently trialed in some 35 countries, SIBs use private capital to fund social programs, with governments providing a…
Let's Not Have the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good: Social Impact Bonds, Randomized Controlled Trials, and the Valuation of Social Programs
This article uses the case of "social impact bonds" (SIBs) to explore the role of social science methods in new markets in "social investment." Pioneered in the UK in 2010, SIBs use private capital to fund social programs with governments paying returns for successful outcomes. Central to the SIB model is the question of evaluation and the method to be used in determining program outcomes and investor returns. In the United States, the randomized…
Investing in crime prevention after the crisis: Social impact bonds, the value of (re) offending and the new ‘culture of crime control’
A recurring theme of criminal justice reform in the years following the financial crisis of 2008 has been the costs of incarceration and the effort to reduce correctional populations. This paper examines one aspect of this post-crisis landscape: the social impact bond (SIB). First piloted in Peterborough prison in 2010, SIBs use private investment to fund social programs with governments paying a return if these programs are successful. Drawing f…
Trial protocol: A clustered, randomised, longitudinal, type 2 translational trial of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm among adolescents in Australia
The trial was retrospectively registered in September, 2017 ( ACTRN12616001276448 ), as communities were selected prior to trial registration; however, participants were recruited after registration. Findings will be disseminated in peer-review journals and community fora
Surveying the SIB economy: Social impact bonds, “local” challenges, and shifting markets in urban social problems
Confronted with the challenge of how to address complex urban problems in a climate of fiscal austerity, many governments around the world have turned to a new funding tool: the social impact bond (SIB). Pioneered in the UK in 2010, SIBs are investment contracts in which investors offer upfront funding for preventative social programs, with government agreeing to repay the investment and provide a return if these programs meet specified outcomes.…
Econometrics as evidence? Examining the ‘causal’ connections between financial speculation and commodities prices
One of the lasting legacies of the financial crisis of 2008, and the legislative energies that followed from it, is the growing reliance on econometrics as part of the rulemaking process. Financial regulators are increasingly expected to rationalize proposed rules using available econometric techniques, and the courts have vacated several key rules emanating from Dodd-Frank on the grounds of alleged deficiencies in this evidentiary effort. The tu…
Law, Surveillance, and Financial Markets
.
DodgingDodd‐Frank: Excessive Speculation, Commodities Markets, and the Burden of Proof
Inspired by the wave of regulatory rulemaking, which followed the 2008 financial crisis and the passage of the Dodd‐Frank Act, this article examines the efforts of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to implement one such rule: Rule 76FR4752. Born of concerns with the impact of financial speculators on commodities prices, the rule calls for the expanded use of position limits to control “excessive speculation” inUScommodities markets. In d…
Feeding finance: A Critical Account of the Shifting Relationships Between Finance, Food and Farming
Whether in the form of commodity index funds, farmland investment funds or commodities trading by agri-food companies, there is evidence of an increasingly close relationship between finance, food and agriculture. While these developments have received some critical attention of late, existing accounts of the 'financialization of food' are limited to the extent that they view finance as an external force with emphasis placed on the unnaturalness …
Taking Exception: The Cases of Financial and Urban Governance
The concept of the exception has garnered increasing notice from scholars, where it has been used to denote the outer limits, and yet most absolute embodiment, of sovereign rule. However, the concept and its relevance to law and governance in specific contexts remain underdeveloped. Drawing on detailed studies of two domains – financial and urban governance – where the importance of the exception is evident yet unrecognized, we argue that this co…
Envisioning financial disorder: Financial Surveillance and the Securities Industry
With the emergence of increasingly digitized and electronically mediated financial markets has come a host of new technologies that seek to convert this new-found transparency into opportunities for financial monitoring and oversight. Adopting the term 'financial surveillance' as a descriptor for these emergent regulatory technologies, this article first develops this concept and then provides an in-depth analysis of one specific form of financia…
The lessons of `Enron: Media accounts, corporate crimes, and financial markets
While the novelty of Enron and WorldCom as corporate scandals should not be overstated, these events are distinguished by the sheer volume of media coverage that followed in their wake. Drawing from an analysis of over 300 newspaper and magazine articles, this article argues that while this media coverage varies in its diagnosis of the scandals, it is rooted in a common set of taken-for-granted assumptions as to the nature, form, and operation of…
Out of Place and Out of Line: Positioning the Police in the Regulation of Financial Markets
In November of 2003, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched a major initiative to combat securities fraud in Canada. Spurred by the Enron scandals in the United States, this involved the establishment of a series of specialized white‐collar crime units with the express mandate of investigating serious cases of securities fraud and protecting investors from the worst of the market's abuses. After four years of activity, these units have produc…
Private Legal Orders: Professional Markets and the Commodification of Financial Governance
Notwithstanding recent paradigmatic shifts from regulation as a state function to governance as an emergent property of interorganizational networks, conceptions of economic ordering in socio-legal studies remain rather short-sighted. In part, this theoretical myopia stems from a tendency to conceive of economic ordering in terms of a normative project cast at a macro level of analysis and rooted in the activities of formal institutions and state…
Governability Matters: The Private Policing of Economic Crime and the Challenge of Democratic Governance
Policing scholars have long recognized the challenges posed by the privatization and pluralization of policing to prospects for democratic governance. However, these concerns have been geared almost exclusively to the frontline policing functions of private security firms and have overlooked developments in the wider field of security. This article challenges this limited vision by extending the question of governance and accountability to the fi…
Reflections on the Private Versus Public Policing of Economic Crime
Journal Article Reflections on the Private Versus Public Policing of Economic Crime Get access James W. Williams James W. Williams Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 45, Issue 3, May 2005, Pages 316–339, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh083 Published: 03 September 2004
Factors related to patient smoking status
To investigate those factors associated with patients' cigarette smoking status, 455 consecutive patients seen in two specialty clinics and one general medicine clinic at a university medical center were studied. Patient's age, sex, health status, and number of previous cessation attempts discriminated current from ex-smokers. A strong interaction was observed between sex and disease status with females showing a greater impact of smoking-related…
II—The Economy of Ghana
The New Zealand Economy in War and Reconstruction
Recent Economic Developments in New Zealand
THOUGH HOSTILITIES have ceased, the economy of New Zealand, in common with that of most other countries, is still very much affected by the war.' Acute shortages of many consumption goods, and of men and materials with which to produce them, continue. The housing problem, in particular, is serious, and is affecting production because shortage of houses in certain areas prevents the most efficient distribution of manpower. Rationing, permits, and …
Feeding finance: A Critical Account of the Shifting Relationships Between Finance, Food and Farming
Whether in the form of commodity index funds, farmland investment funds or commodities trading by agri-food companies, there is evidence of an increasingly close relationship between finance, food and agriculture. While these developments have received some critical attention of late, existing accounts of the 'financialization of food' are limited to the extent that they view finance as an external force with emphasis placed on the unnaturalness …
The lessons of `Enron: Media accounts, corporate crimes, and financial markets
While the novelty of Enron and WorldCom as corporate scandals should not be overstated, these events are distinguished by the sheer volume of media coverage that followed in their wake. Drawing from an analysis of over 300 newspaper and magazine articles, this article argues that while this media coverage varies in its diagnosis of the scandals, it is rooted in a common set of taken-for-granted assumptions as to the nature, form, and operation of…
Surveying the SIB economy: Social impact bonds, “local” challenges, and shifting markets in urban social problems
Confronted with the challenge of how to address complex urban problems in a climate of fiscal austerity, many governments around the world have turned to a new funding tool: the social impact bond (SIB). Pioneered in the UK in 2010, SIBs are investment contracts in which investors offer upfront funding for preventative social programs, with government agreeing to repay the investment and provide a return if these programs meet specified outcomes.…
Reflections on the Private Versus Public Policing of Economic Crime
Journal Article Reflections on the Private Versus Public Policing of Economic Crime Get access James W. Williams James W. Williams Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 45, Issue 3, May 2005, Pages 316–339, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh083 Published: 03 September 2004
Envisioning financial disorder: Financial Surveillance and the Securities Industry
With the emergence of increasingly digitized and electronically mediated financial markets has come a host of new technologies that seek to convert this new-found transparency into opportunities for financial monitoring and oversight. Adopting the term 'financial surveillance' as a descriptor for these emergent regulatory technologies, this article first develops this concept and then provides an in-depth analysis of one specific form of financia…
Governability Matters: The Private Policing of Economic Crime and the Challenge of Democratic Governance
Policing scholars have long recognized the challenges posed by the privatization and pluralization of policing to prospects for democratic governance. However, these concerns have been geared almost exclusively to the frontline policing functions of private security firms and have overlooked developments in the wider field of security. This article challenges this limited vision by extending the question of governance and accountability to the fi…
Taking Exception: The Cases of Financial and Urban Governance
The concept of the exception has garnered increasing notice from scholars, where it has been used to denote the outer limits, and yet most absolute embodiment, of sovereign rule. However, the concept and its relevance to law and governance in specific contexts remain underdeveloped. Drawing on detailed studies of two domains – financial and urban governance – where the importance of the exception is evident yet unrecognized, we argue that this co…
Finance interrupted: Social impact bonds, spatial politics, and the limits of financial innovation in the social sector
An enduring legacy of the 2007-2009 financial crisis is the growth of "social" and "impact" investing, markets dedicated to the use of financial capital to achieve social good. This paper examines one key manifestation of these markets: the social impact bond, a financial device which uses private capital to fund social programs. While social impact bond (SIBs) have been viewed as a testament to the power of finance and the "financialization" of …
Let's Not Have the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good: Social Impact Bonds, Randomized Controlled Trials, and the Valuation of Social Programs
This article uses the case of "social impact bonds" (SIBs) to explore the role of social science methods in new markets in "social investment." Pioneered in the UK in 2010, SIBs use private capital to fund social programs with governments paying returns for successful outcomes. Central to the SIB model is the question of evaluation and the method to be used in determining program outcomes and investor returns. In the United States, the randomized…
DodgingDodd‐Frank: Excessive Speculation, Commodities Markets, and the Burden of Proof
Inspired by the wave of regulatory rulemaking, which followed the 2008 financial crisis and the passage of the Dodd‐Frank Act, this article examines the efforts of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to implement one such rule: Rule 76FR4752. Born of concerns with the impact of financial speculators on commodities prices, the rule calls for the expanded use of position limits to control “excessive speculation” inUScommodities markets. In d…
Private Legal Orders: Professional Markets and the Commodification of Financial Governance
Notwithstanding recent paradigmatic shifts from regulation as a state function to governance as an emergent property of interorganizational networks, conceptions of economic ordering in socio-legal studies remain rather short-sighted. In part, this theoretical myopia stems from a tendency to conceive of economic ordering in terms of a normative project cast at a macro level of analysis and rooted in the activities of formal institutions and state…
Out of Place and Out of Line: Positioning the Police in the Regulation of Financial Markets
In November of 2003, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched a major initiative to combat securities fraud in Canada. Spurred by the Enron scandals in the United States, this involved the establishment of a series of specialized white‐collar crime units with the express mandate of investigating serious cases of securities fraud and protecting investors from the worst of the market's abuses. After four years of activity, these units have produc…
Limits to the financialisation of the state: Exploring obstructions to social impact bonds as a form of financialised statecraft in the UK, Israel, and Canada
Within the financialisation literature, scholars have turned their attention to the state, exploring the adoption of financial activities by state actors, paying less attention to the limits of state financialisation. This paper explores these limits using the case of social impact bonds (SIBs). Pioneered in the UK in 2010 and subsequently trialed in some 35 countries, SIBs use private capital to fund social programs, with governments providing a…
Investing in crime prevention after the crisis: Social impact bonds, the value of (re) offending and the new ‘culture of crime control’
A recurring theme of criminal justice reform in the years following the financial crisis of 2008 has been the costs of incarceration and the effort to reduce correctional populations. This paper examines one aspect of this post-crisis landscape: the social impact bond (SIB). First piloted in Peterborough prison in 2010, SIBs use private investment to fund social programs with governments paying a return if these programs are successful. Drawing f…
Econometrics as evidence? Examining the ‘causal’ connections between financial speculation and commodities prices
One of the lasting legacies of the financial crisis of 2008, and the legislative energies that followed from it, is the growing reliance on econometrics as part of the rulemaking process. Financial regulators are increasingly expected to rationalize proposed rules using available econometric techniques, and the courts have vacated several key rules emanating from Dodd-Frank on the grounds of alleged deficiencies in this evidentiary effort. The tu…
Recent Economic Developments in New Zealand
THOUGH HOSTILITIES have ceased, the economy of New Zealand, in common with that of most other countries, is still very much affected by the war.' Acute shortages of many consumption goods, and of men and materials with which to produce them, continue. The housing problem, in particular, is serious, and is affecting production because shortage of houses in certain areas prevents the most efficient distribution of manpower. Rationing, permits, and …
The New Zealand Economy in War and Reconstruction
II—The Economy of Ghana
Factors related to patient smoking status
To investigate those factors associated with patients' cigarette smoking status, 455 consecutive patients seen in two specialty clinics and one general medicine clinic at a university medical center were studied. Patient's age, sex, health status, and number of previous cessation attempts discriminated current from ex-smokers. A strong interaction was observed between sex and disease status with females showing a greater impact of smoking-related…
Governability Matters: The Private Policing of Economic Crime and the Challenge of Democratic Governance
Policing scholars have long recognized the challenges posed by the privatization and pluralization of policing to prospects for democratic governance. However, these concerns have been geared almost exclusively to the frontline policing functions of private security firms and have overlooked developments in the wider field of security. This article challenges this limited vision by extending the question of governance and accountability to the fi…
Reflections on the Private Versus Public Policing of Economic Crime
Journal Article Reflections on the Private Versus Public Policing of Economic Crime Get access James W. Williams James W. Williams Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 45, Issue 3, May 2005, Pages 316–339, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azh083 Published: 03 September 2004
Private Legal Orders: Professional Markets and the Commodification of Financial Governance
Notwithstanding recent paradigmatic shifts from regulation as a state function to governance as an emergent property of interorganizational networks, conceptions of economic ordering in socio-legal studies remain rather short-sighted. In part, this theoretical myopia stems from a tendency to conceive of economic ordering in terms of a normative project cast at a macro level of analysis and rooted in the activities of formal institutions and state…
The lessons of `Enron: Media accounts, corporate crimes, and financial markets
While the novelty of Enron and WorldCom as corporate scandals should not be overstated, these events are distinguished by the sheer volume of media coverage that followed in their wake. Drawing from an analysis of over 300 newspaper and magazine articles, this article argues that while this media coverage varies in its diagnosis of the scandals, it is rooted in a common set of taken-for-granted assumptions as to the nature, form, and operation of…
Out of Place and Out of Line: Positioning the Police in the Regulation of Financial Markets
In November of 2003, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched a major initiative to combat securities fraud in Canada. Spurred by the Enron scandals in the United States, this involved the establishment of a series of specialized white‐collar crime units with the express mandate of investigating serious cases of securities fraud and protecting investors from the worst of the market's abuses. After four years of activity, these units have produc…
Envisioning financial disorder: Financial Surveillance and the Securities Industry
With the emergence of increasingly digitized and electronically mediated financial markets has come a host of new technologies that seek to convert this new-found transparency into opportunities for financial monitoring and oversight. Adopting the term 'financial surveillance' as a descriptor for these emergent regulatory technologies, this article first develops this concept and then provides an in-depth analysis of one specific form of financia…
Taking Exception: The Cases of Financial and Urban Governance
The concept of the exception has garnered increasing notice from scholars, where it has been used to denote the outer limits, and yet most absolute embodiment, of sovereign rule. However, the concept and its relevance to law and governance in specific contexts remain underdeveloped. Drawing on detailed studies of two domains – financial and urban governance – where the importance of the exception is evident yet unrecognized, we argue that this co…
Feeding finance: A Critical Account of the Shifting Relationships Between Finance, Food and Farming
Whether in the form of commodity index funds, farmland investment funds or commodities trading by agri-food companies, there is evidence of an increasingly close relationship between finance, food and agriculture. While these developments have received some critical attention of late, existing accounts of the 'financialization of food' are limited to the extent that they view finance as an external force with emphasis placed on the unnaturalness …
Law, Surveillance, and Financial Markets
.
DodgingDodd‐Frank: Excessive Speculation, Commodities Markets, and the Burden of Proof
Inspired by the wave of regulatory rulemaking, which followed the 2008 financial crisis and the passage of the Dodd‐Frank Act, this article examines the efforts of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to implement one such rule: Rule 76FR4752. Born of concerns with the impact of financial speculators on commodities prices, the rule calls for the expanded use of position limits to control “excessive speculation” inUScommodities markets. In d…
Econometrics as evidence? Examining the ‘causal’ connections between financial speculation and commodities prices
One of the lasting legacies of the financial crisis of 2008, and the legislative energies that followed from it, is the growing reliance on econometrics as part of the rulemaking process. Financial regulators are increasingly expected to rationalize proposed rules using available econometric techniques, and the courts have vacated several key rules emanating from Dodd-Frank on the grounds of alleged deficiencies in this evidentiary effort. The tu…
Trial protocol: A clustered, randomised, longitudinal, type 2 translational trial of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm among adolescents in Australia
The trial was retrospectively registered in September, 2017 ( ACTRN12616001276448 ), as communities were selected prior to trial registration; however, participants were recruited after registration. Findings will be disseminated in peer-review journals and community fora
Surveying the SIB economy: Social impact bonds, “local” challenges, and shifting markets in urban social problems
Confronted with the challenge of how to address complex urban problems in a climate of fiscal austerity, many governments around the world have turned to a new funding tool: the social impact bond (SIB). Pioneered in the UK in 2010, SIBs are investment contracts in which investors offer upfront funding for preventative social programs, with government agreeing to repay the investment and provide a return if these programs meet specified outcomes.…
Investing in crime prevention after the crisis: Social impact bonds, the value of (re) offending and the new ‘culture of crime control’
A recurring theme of criminal justice reform in the years following the financial crisis of 2008 has been the costs of incarceration and the effort to reduce correctional populations. This paper examines one aspect of this post-crisis landscape: the social impact bond (SIB). First piloted in Peterborough prison in 2010, SIBs use private investment to fund social programs with governments paying a return if these programs are successful. Drawing f…
Limits to the financialisation of the state: Exploring obstructions to social impact bonds as a form of financialised statecraft in the UK, Israel, and Canada
Within the financialisation literature, scholars have turned their attention to the state, exploring the adoption of financial activities by state actors, paying less attention to the limits of state financialisation. This paper explores these limits using the case of social impact bonds (SIBs). Pioneered in the UK in 2010 and subsequently trialed in some 35 countries, SIBs use private capital to fund social programs, with governments providing a…
Let's Not Have the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good: Social Impact Bonds, Randomized Controlled Trials, and the Valuation of Social Programs
This article uses the case of "social impact bonds" (SIBs) to explore the role of social science methods in new markets in "social investment." Pioneered in the UK in 2010, SIBs use private capital to fund social programs with governments paying returns for successful outcomes. Central to the SIB model is the question of evaluation and the method to be used in determining program outcomes and investor returns. In the United States, the randomized…
Introducing Healthy Together: A Monograph of African American Men, Chronic Disease, and Self-Management
Previous research has outlined evident disparities in the prevalence of chronic conditions among African Americans compared to other groups, with low-income African American men disproportionately affected by almost every disorder. Self-management programs are useful tools for managing chronic disorders beyond the doctor's office. This monograph provides a detailed looking into the current state of the research on low-income African American men …
Finance interrupted: Social impact bonds, spatial politics, and the limits of financial innovation in the social sector
An enduring legacy of the 2007-2009 financial crisis is the growth of "social" and "impact" investing, markets dedicated to the use of financial capital to achieve social good. This paper examines one key manifestation of these markets: the social impact bond, a financial device which uses private capital to fund social programs. While social impact bond (SIBs) have been viewed as a testament to the power of finance and the "financialization" of …
Year X of the National Revolution” — Salazarist palingenetic myth in the Diário da Manhã
This paper contributes to the debate surrounding the extent to which Salazarism constituted a fascist ideology by analysing the discourses in an edition of the Diário da Manhã — official organ of the National Union, the only legal political party during the Estado Novo — published on 28 May 1936. This edition of the Diário commemorated 10 years of the May 28 1926 coup which installed the Military Dictatorship, later transformed into the Estado No…
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