Heather Hamill
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 377471 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Heather Hamill |
| PRENOMES | Heather |
| SOBRENOME | Hamill |
| ASSINATURA | HAMILL H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0301-7057 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Transnational Criminal Enterprise
This article investigates the organization of a transnational criminal enterprise through a detailed case study of Operation Singapore, a network producing and trafficking falsified pharmaceuticals from China to the United Kingdom. Drawing on law enforcement records, court transcripts, digital communications, and expert interviews, the study maps the structure and strategies of this criminal enterprise. It applies Peter Reuter’s theory of crimina…
Medicines in motion
The informal cross-border trade (ICBT) in medicines in Africa is an under-explored phenomenon, with potentially serious public health implications. We conducted ethnographic research (Dec 2022-Jan 2023) at two major border crossings in East and West Africa: between Ghana-Togo at Aflao/Lomé and Kenya-Tanzania at Namanga. Observations at strategic locations were complemented by informal interviews with traders, transporters, retailers, border offic…
Antimalarial stocking decisions among medicine retailers in Ghana
Global health efforts such as malarial control require efficient pharmaceutical supply chains to ensure effective delivery of quality-assured medicines to those who need them. However, very little is currently known about decision-making processes within antimalarial supply chains and potential vulnerabilities to substandard and falsified medicines. Addressing this gap, we report on a study that investigated decision-making around the stocking of…
Antimalarial procurement in private-sector pharmaceutical outlets
Poor-quality medicines are a major threat to healthcare provision in low-income countries. The problem exacerbates disease vulnerabilities of already disadvantaged populations including children, women, and the elderly. However, while the higher-level structural drivers of this problem are well established, little is known about decision-making lower down pharmaceutical supply chains, and whether this might produce vulnerabilities for medicine qu…
Monitoring, reporting and regulating medicine quality
In 2012, the WHO launched its Global Surveillance and Monitoring System (GSMS) for substandard and falsified medicines, with the aim of improving the quality of reporting and using the data to inform post-market surveillance and build regulatory capacity. However, from a regulatory governance perspective, its effectiveness depends on the willingness and ability of actors ‘on the ground’ to identify, report and investigate possible infringements a…
Role of Trust in a Self-Organizing Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Model with Variable Good Quality and Imperfect Information
We present an Agent-Based Model (herea er ABM) for a pharmaceutical supply chain operating under conditions of weak regulation and imperfect information, exploring the possibility of poor quality medicines and their detection. Our interest is to demonstrate how buyers can learn about the quality of sellers (and their medicines) based on previous successful and unsuccessful transactions, thereby establishing trust over time. Furthermore, this netw…
Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Ghana
Conclusion
This concluding chapter comments on the changing political scene in Northern Ireland and reflects on the effect that these changes will have on the roles and functions of the various Republican and Loyalist paramilitary groups. As the number of PPAs diminishes, and the phenomenon perhaps ceases altogether, the chapter considers what effect this will have on the behavior of young people who, for so many years, have been victims of this violence. F…
The Hoods
This chapter attempts to understand the behavior of the hoods by examining their specific offense patterns. It provides evidence that the hoods operate in a subculture of delinquency described as a way of life that has somehow become traditional. Sociologists studying offending among young people have provided two basic insights about juvenile delinquency: first, that it typically is not a solitary enterprise, but a group activity; and second, th…
Search for Status
This chapter explains the dominant features of working-class culture. In particular, the ways in which status and prestige can be gained among the adult male population, and the fact that the hoods are excluded from these paths to power, are explored. This chapter also examines the relationships between the hoods and the influence of their friends and associates on their offending. The analysis here is framed in terms of the understandings that b…
Signaling Games
This chapter attempts to get to the heart of the matter and asks why the punishment administered by the paramilitaries and/or the state does not deter these young people from further recidivism. This lack of a specific deterrent effect violates the rational norm on which deterrence is founded, that certainty and severity of punishment will prevent reoffending, and has bewildered many local people, paramilitaries, criminal justice practitioners, a…
Loyalists
This chapter turns to the Protestant community and examines paramilitary punishment attacks (PPAs) perpetrated by Loyalist paramilitaries. Although the violent methods used by Republican and Loyalist armed groups are similar, their motivation is somewhat different. In particular, the supply of PPAs carried out by Loyalist paramilitaries outweighs the demand from the local population. In this case, PPAs are used against delinquent young people, bu…
West Belfast
This chapter argues that, from the early days of the political conflict in the 1970s the conditions were such that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) adopted some of the functions of the state, namely the provision of policing and punishment of ordinary crime. The hostility of the statutory criminal justice system, particularly the police, toward the working-class Catholic community dramatically increased the costs of using state services. The high …
The Hoods
A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to paramilitaries punishing their own people. But despi…
The application of Signalling Theory to health-related trust problems
In contexts where healthcare regulation is weak and levels of uncertainty high, how do patients decide whom and what to trust? In this paper, we explore the potential for using Signalling Theory (ST, a form of Behavioural Game Theory) to investigate health-related trust problems under conditions of uncertainty, using the empirical example of 'herbal clinics' in Ghana and Tanzania. Qualitative, ethnographic fieldwork was conducted over an eight-mo…
Does Affirmative Action Work? Evidence from the Operation of Fair Employment Legislation in Northern Ireland
An affirmative action programme, established by the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989, has been an important attempt to ensure 'fair participation' in employment for both Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland since 1990. The programme includes detailed monitoring of the community background of employees and requires employers to undertake remedial action where fair participation is not evident. Agreements were concluded between …
The Hoods
A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to paramilitaries punishing their own people. But despi…
It’s Not Who You Know—It’s What You Know About People You Don’t Know That Counts
This paper raises two difficulties with an earlier contribution to this Journal (Coles 2001) and proposes solutions. While we strongly support his suggestion that neglect of Social Network Analysis (SNA) has hampered criminology, and welcome his opening up of the debate, we argue that Coles has failed to make an important distinction between types of SNA data collection and presented a flawed ‘theoretical framework’. In the first section of this …
The Hoods
A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to paramilitaries punishing their own people. But despi…
The application of Signalling Theory to health-related trust problems
In contexts where healthcare regulation is weak and levels of uncertainty high, how do patients decide whom and what to trust? In this paper, we explore the potential for using Signalling Theory (ST, a form of Behavioural Game Theory) to investigate health-related trust problems under conditions of uncertainty, using the empirical example of 'herbal clinics' in Ghana and Tanzania. Qualitative, ethnographic fieldwork was conducted over an eight-mo…
Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Ghana
Does Affirmative Action Work? Evidence from the Operation of Fair Employment Legislation in Northern Ireland
An affirmative action programme, established by the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989, has been an important attempt to ensure 'fair participation' in employment for both Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland since 1990. The programme includes detailed monitoring of the community background of employees and requires employers to undertake remedial action where fair participation is not evident. Agreements were concluded between …
Medicines in motion
The informal cross-border trade (ICBT) in medicines in Africa is an under-explored phenomenon, with potentially serious public health implications. We conducted ethnographic research (Dec 2022-Jan 2023) at two major border crossings in East and West Africa: between Ghana-Togo at Aflao/Lomé and Kenya-Tanzania at Namanga. Observations at strategic locations were complemented by informal interviews with traders, transporters, retailers, border offic…
It’s Not Who You Know—It’s What You Know About People You Don’t Know That Counts
This paper raises two difficulties with an earlier contribution to this Journal (Coles 2001) and proposes solutions. While we strongly support his suggestion that neglect of Social Network Analysis (SNA) has hampered criminology, and welcome his opening up of the debate, we argue that Coles has failed to make an important distinction between types of SNA data collection and presented a flawed ‘theoretical framework’. In the first section of this …
It’s Not Who You Know—It’s What You Know About People You Don’t Know That Counts
This paper raises two difficulties with an earlier contribution to this Journal (Coles 2001) and proposes solutions. While we strongly support his suggestion that neglect of Social Network Analysis (SNA) has hampered criminology, and welcome his opening up of the debate, we argue that Coles has failed to make an important distinction between types of SNA data collection and presented a flawed ‘theoretical framework’. In the first section of this …
The Hoods
A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to paramilitaries punishing their own people. But despi…
Does Affirmative Action Work? Evidence from the Operation of Fair Employment Legislation in Northern Ireland
An affirmative action programme, established by the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989, has been an important attempt to ensure 'fair participation' in employment for both Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland since 1990. The programme includes detailed monitoring of the community background of employees and requires employers to undertake remedial action where fair participation is not evident. Agreements were concluded between …
The application of Signalling Theory to health-related trust problems
In contexts where healthcare regulation is weak and levels of uncertainty high, how do patients decide whom and what to trust? In this paper, we explore the potential for using Signalling Theory (ST, a form of Behavioural Game Theory) to investigate health-related trust problems under conditions of uncertainty, using the empirical example of 'herbal clinics' in Ghana and Tanzania. Qualitative, ethnographic fieldwork was conducted over an eight-mo…
Conclusion
This concluding chapter comments on the changing political scene in Northern Ireland and reflects on the effect that these changes will have on the roles and functions of the various Republican and Loyalist paramilitary groups. As the number of PPAs diminishes, and the phenomenon perhaps ceases altogether, the chapter considers what effect this will have on the behavior of young people who, for so many years, have been victims of this violence. F…
The Hoods
This chapter attempts to understand the behavior of the hoods by examining their specific offense patterns. It provides evidence that the hoods operate in a subculture of delinquency described as a way of life that has somehow become traditional. Sociologists studying offending among young people have provided two basic insights about juvenile delinquency: first, that it typically is not a solitary enterprise, but a group activity; and second, th…
Search for Status
This chapter explains the dominant features of working-class culture. In particular, the ways in which status and prestige can be gained among the adult male population, and the fact that the hoods are excluded from these paths to power, are explored. This chapter also examines the relationships between the hoods and the influence of their friends and associates on their offending. The analysis here is framed in terms of the understandings that b…
Signaling Games
This chapter attempts to get to the heart of the matter and asks why the punishment administered by the paramilitaries and/or the state does not deter these young people from further recidivism. This lack of a specific deterrent effect violates the rational norm on which deterrence is founded, that certainty and severity of punishment will prevent reoffending, and has bewildered many local people, paramilitaries, criminal justice practitioners, a…
Loyalists
This chapter turns to the Protestant community and examines paramilitary punishment attacks (PPAs) perpetrated by Loyalist paramilitaries. Although the violent methods used by Republican and Loyalist armed groups are similar, their motivation is somewhat different. In particular, the supply of PPAs carried out by Loyalist paramilitaries outweighs the demand from the local population. In this case, PPAs are used against delinquent young people, bu…
West Belfast
This chapter argues that, from the early days of the political conflict in the 1970s the conditions were such that the Irish Republican Army (IRA) adopted some of the functions of the state, namely the provision of policing and punishment of ordinary crime. The hostility of the statutory criminal justice system, particularly the police, toward the working-class Catholic community dramatically increased the costs of using state services. The high …
The Hoods
A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in joyriding and other types of antisocial behavior. Between 1973 and 2007, more than 5,000 nonmilitary shootings and assaults were attributed to paramilitaries punishing their own people. But despi…
Role of Trust in a Self-Organizing Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Model with Variable Good Quality and Imperfect Information
We present an Agent-Based Model (herea er ABM) for a pharmaceutical supply chain operating under conditions of weak regulation and imperfect information, exploring the possibility of poor quality medicines and their detection. Our interest is to demonstrate how buyers can learn about the quality of sellers (and their medicines) based on previous successful and unsuccessful transactions, thereby establishing trust over time. Furthermore, this netw…
Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Ghana
Monitoring, reporting and regulating medicine quality
In 2012, the WHO launched its Global Surveillance and Monitoring System (GSMS) for substandard and falsified medicines, with the aim of improving the quality of reporting and using the data to inform post-market surveillance and build regulatory capacity. However, from a regulatory governance perspective, its effectiveness depends on the willingness and ability of actors ‘on the ground’ to identify, report and investigate possible infringements a…
Antimalarial stocking decisions among medicine retailers in Ghana
Global health efforts such as malarial control require efficient pharmaceutical supply chains to ensure effective delivery of quality-assured medicines to those who need them. However, very little is currently known about decision-making processes within antimalarial supply chains and potential vulnerabilities to substandard and falsified medicines. Addressing this gap, we report on a study that investigated decision-making around the stocking of…
Antimalarial procurement in private-sector pharmaceutical outlets
Poor-quality medicines are a major threat to healthcare provision in low-income countries. The problem exacerbates disease vulnerabilities of already disadvantaged populations including children, women, and the elderly. However, while the higher-level structural drivers of this problem are well established, little is known about decision-making lower down pharmaceutical supply chains, and whether this might produce vulnerabilities for medicine qu…
Transnational Criminal Enterprise
This article investigates the organization of a transnational criminal enterprise through a detailed case study of Operation Singapore, a network producing and trafficking falsified pharmaceuticals from China to the United Kingdom. Drawing on law enforcement records, court transcripts, digital communications, and expert interviews, the study maps the structure and strategies of this criminal enterprise. It applies Peter Reuter’s theory of crimina…
Medicines in motion
The informal cross-border trade (ICBT) in medicines in Africa is an under-explored phenomenon, with potentially serious public health implications. We conducted ethnographic research (Dec 2022-Jan 2023) at two major border crossings in East and West Africa: between Ghana-Togo at Aflao/Lomé and Kenya-Tanzania at Namanga. Observations at strategic locations were complemented by informal interviews with traders, transporters, retailers, border offic…
Sociology (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Criminology (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Irish and British Studies (5 obras)