Christopher Holligan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5706816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Holligan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Holligan |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLIGAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West of Scotland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Paradox of the ‘Care’ of London’s Children
Using English prison inspectorate reports, the article presents an Ervine Goffman-inspired sociological discourse analysis of official political accounts about the living conditions of incarcerated children held in London’s Feltham prison. Through a close reading of inspection reports, we develop a critical window into their lived experiences in an exceptionally harmful UK prison regime. The construction of this prison estate conjures its dilapid…
Educative Psychological Treatment at Edinburgh’s Royal Asylum
This article examines moral therapy in relation to writing by fee-paying 'lunatic' asylum patients from the upper and middle classes. Their work was published in a nineteenth-century monthly periodical, The Morningside Mirror . There is an intersection of the periodical with status and the interests of gentlemanly values. Despite their psychopathological diagnoses, which included melancholia, writers for the Mirror retained their human capacity t…
Accommodating “Imbeciles”or the “Weak-Minded”
The authors would like to thank the Archivists at the National Records of Scotland for assistance with their many enquiries, and Robbie Duschinsky, Rab
Violence as an Environmentally Warranted Norm amongst Working-Class Teenage Boys in Glasgow
This study aimed to contribute to knowledge about contexts of violent assault perpetrated by white working-class teenage boys in Scotland. Despite studies exploring Scotland’s adolescent street gangs, there remains a gap in research where the collateral damage caused by gangs to others of the same class, age, and gender has gone unrecognized. Drawing upon insights from qualitative interviews with young, male, former offenders in Scotland we found…
Feudalism and academia
Our knowledge of research cultures in university education departments is still evolving, particularly in connection with the departments which have achieved a high ranking in the UK government's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and also the conditions under which ‘knowledge workers’ operate are under‐researched, although this is beginning to change. The purpose of this empirical study is to explore and describe characteristics of a research‐i…
Territorialities in Scotland
This paper presents the results of an exploratory, small-scale qualitative research enquiry into the perceptions and experiences of young people in communities afflicted by deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. The context within which we address this focus contains a culture reputed to involve sectarianism, territoriality and gangs. Glasgow has a reputation for being a 'hard place'. The official crime statistics are consistent with co…
Perceptual Dysfunction in Poor Readers
S ummary . The purpose of this study was to consider reading disorders in children within the context of their general perceptual development. A review of the literature suggested that visual and auditory perceptual skills advance from a holistic to an analytical approach, and that reading skills also show this progression. It was proposed that poor readers might show impairments in visual and auditory segmentation tasks, if these skills are impo…
Territorialities in Scotland
This paper presents the results of an exploratory, small-scale qualitative research enquiry into the perceptions and experiences of young people in communities afflicted by deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. The context within which we address this focus contains a culture reputed to involve sectarianism, territoriality and gangs. Glasgow has a reputation for being a 'hard place'. The official crime statistics are consistent with co…
Feudalism and academia
Our knowledge of research cultures in university education departments is still evolving, particularly in connection with the departments which have achieved a high ranking in the UK government's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and also the conditions under which ‘knowledge workers’ operate are under‐researched, although this is beginning to change. The purpose of this empirical study is to explore and describe characteristics of a research‐i…
Perceptual Dysfunction in Poor Readers
S ummary . The purpose of this study was to consider reading disorders in children within the context of their general perceptual development. A review of the literature suggested that visual and auditory perceptual skills advance from a holistic to an analytical approach, and that reading skills also show this progression. It was proposed that poor readers might show impairments in visual and auditory segmentation tasks, if these skills are impo…
Territorialities in Scotland
This paper presents the results of an exploratory, small-scale qualitative research enquiry into the perceptions and experiences of young people in communities afflicted by deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. The context within which we address this focus contains a culture reputed to involve sectarianism, territoriality and gangs. Glasgow has a reputation for being a 'hard place'. The official crime statistics are consistent with co…
Feudalism and academia
Our knowledge of research cultures in university education departments is still evolving, particularly in connection with the departments which have achieved a high ranking in the UK government's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and also the conditions under which ‘knowledge workers’ operate are under‐researched, although this is beginning to change. The purpose of this empirical study is to explore and describe characteristics of a research‐i…
Violence as an Environmentally Warranted Norm amongst Working-Class Teenage Boys in Glasgow
This study aimed to contribute to knowledge about contexts of violent assault perpetrated by white working-class teenage boys in Scotland. Despite studies exploring Scotland’s adolescent street gangs, there remains a gap in research where the collateral damage caused by gangs to others of the same class, age, and gender has gone unrecognized. Drawing upon insights from qualitative interviews with young, male, former offenders in Scotland we found…
Accommodating “Imbeciles”or the “Weak-Minded”
The authors would like to thank the Archivists at the National Records of Scotland for assistance with their many enquiries, and Robbie Duschinsky, Rab
The Paradox of the ‘Care’ of London’s Children
Using English prison inspectorate reports, the article presents an Ervine Goffman-inspired sociological discourse analysis of official political accounts about the living conditions of incarcerated children held in London’s Feltham prison. Through a close reading of inspection reports, we develop a critical window into their lived experiences in an exceptionally harmful UK prison regime. The construction of this prison estate conjures its dilapid…
Educative Psychological Treatment at Edinburgh’s Royal Asylum
This article examines moral therapy in relation to writing by fee-paying 'lunatic' asylum patients from the upper and middle classes. Their work was published in a nineteenth-century monthly periodical, The Morningside Mirror . There is an intersection of the periodical with status and the interests of gentlemanly values. Despite their psychopathological diagnoses, which included melancholia, writers for the Mirror retained their human capacity t…
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works)