This book offers a unique perspective on reimagining the youth justice system by drawing on diverse international models of justice and applying a scientific lens to core global youth justice issues. Unlike existing works that focus solely on either reimagining the system or addressing global issues, this volume pioneers an exploration of how an evidence-based, reimagined system intersects with and addresses central concepts and topics from a global perspective. Drawing upon contemporary evidence, this book dissects and challenges longstanding presuppositions in youth justice, ranging from the nature of youth offending to responses to it, and highlights the crucial role of scientific insights in shaping these domains.

With a focus on core global issues such as the school-to-prison pipeline, gang culture, the radicalisation of youth, child soldiering, and the distinctive category of child victim-offender overlap, this comprehensive work serves as a vital resource for scholars, students, policymakers, and practitioners alike. By fostering dialogue between empirical evidence, varied justice models, systemic organisational structures, and pressing global issues, this book aims to provoke critical reflection and drive transformative change in the field of youth justice.

By analyzing how protest fused the politics of reading and writing in 1968 West Germany, author Peter Schweppe uncovers the vibrant history of an alternative literary form during a watershed moment of social upheaval. Out of Line interlinks the politics of reading and writing with the verve of Global Sixties' protest, where fringe books, underground newspapers, incendiary flyers, and furtive graffiti galvanized readers and writers alike. The phrase "out of line" scrutinizes the emerging performative relationship between visual and textual media in the late 1960s as it metamorphosed modes of West German literary production, channeled the agenda of the protest movement, and, in doing so, shaped new kinds of textual meaning. Through its engagement with theories of materiality and "things," Out of Line interrogates the dynamic ways that protest readers and writers pushed and broke conventional boundaries. Schweppe's exploration of form discloses how reading and writing out of line implicates a textual and material history of protest and the lessons it offers protest histories to come.

This book provides a theoretically grounded, practically oriented framework for fostering creativity in second and additional language education. Creativity is among the most valued graduate qualities of our time ? yet how to cultivate it deliberately in language education in the age of generative AI remains an open question. Drawing on sociocultural, psycholinguistic, cognitive, and linguistic theories, it offers research-informed pedagogical strategies and assessment methods that integrate AI ethically and productively ? as a partner for idea generation, a scaffold for multilingual practice, and a prompt for critical reflection. Illustrated with authentic classroom cases, it addresses learner agency, teacher creativity, academic integrity, and inclusive assessment. An essential resource for language teachers, researchers, curriculum designers, and students navigating creativity and AI in language education.

With a keen attention to how culture and elite conflict shape politics, The Great Separation upends deterministic understandings of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the market reforms that followed. This ambitious posthumous volume by sociologist Xiaohong Xu turns the existing scholarship on China's "neoliberalism" on its head by demonstrating that the effort to separate mass politics from economic policy had its origins well before the Reform and Opening-up era.

Over the course of the Cultural Revolution, unfolding factional dynamics and interpretive struggles enabled Chairman Mao and his radical colleagues to mobilize workers to advance their own political goals while neutralizing the masses' economic demands, symbolically separating the political from the economic. This set the stage for a more thoroughgoing depoliticization of the economy after 1989, when China faced challenges from students and workers whose economic grievances had rapidly morphed into political demands for democracy. The result was what Xu calls ordoeconomism: an ideology that valorizes economic development, rejects mass politics, and views the state as the apolitical guardian of the economy. As Xu demonstrates, while ordoeconomism may share some affinities with neoliberalism, it is a distinctively Chinese approach that must be understood on its own terms.

Building on the conceptual framework established in earlier volumes, The Sustainable Organization ? Volume 3 advances the conversation from principles to practice. This volume focuses on how sustainability and the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are actively enabled, taught, governed, and implemented across academic institutions, industry, and cross-sector collaborations?guided by the Three?Pillar Model.

Spanning foundational reflections, academic research, and real?world case studies, the book brings together diverse perspectives from universities, global enterprises, public institutions, and innovators. Contributions explore topics such as transformative education, data-driven sustainability, circular business models, governance systems, fashion and luxury industries, MedTech, logistics, and collaborative sourcing.

Rather than prescribing a single pathway, this volume embraces plurality, connectivity, and purpose-driven transformation. Historical insights, contemporary case studies, and philosophical reflections underscore both the urgency of action and the opportunity for reconstruction?of organizations, leadership, and sustainability itself. This book serves as both inspiration and guidance for academics, practitioners, and decision-makers committed to shaping resilient, responsible, and future-ready organizations.

This book discusses?environmental, social and governance?(ESG) reporting as a measurement of the performance of organisations in achieving sustainable development. It provides an understanding of how businesses manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities, and assists readers in communicating sustainability initiatives by facilitating investors' measurement of risk and company performance to accurately inform business decisions in a sustainability context.?From January 2024, according to the UE 2022/2464 Directive, known as “Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive” (CSRD), the number of companies required to submit their ESG report is expected to grow by about 50.000 companies in Europe. Given the importance of the subject, the book presents an examination of the concept of sustainability combined in three dimensions: environmental, social, and economic. In addition, the manuscript describes the significance and role of the ESG report for enterprises, which will, in a short time, also involve small and medium-sized enterprises, not currently covered by the obligations of the Community Directive, but that, operating within production and distribution chains, will be led to present their sustainability report.?The book is aimed at entrepreneurs and practitioners who want to use sustainability reporting to declare their ESG performances.

This second part of a two-volume work offers a comprehensive exploration of China's ambitious "Made in China 2025" initiative and its broader geopolitical implications. By examining China's strategic shift from a low-cost manufacturing hub to a high-tech powerhouse, chapters provide a critical assessment of the initiative's progress and its impact on global economic dynamics.

In this volume, authors explore the idea that through the MIC 2025 initiative, China seeks not only to reduce structural dependencies on advanced economies but also to redefine the institutional logic governing.

Through expert contributions, readers will gain insights into the challenges and opportunities presented by China's industrial strategies, including the semiconductor "chips war" and the new global bipolarity centered around technology and innovation.

This volume is essential for scholars and practitioners in international political economy, Chinese studies, and global economic governance. It offers a nuanced understanding of China's evolving role on the global stage, making it a valuable resource for graduate-level courses and research institutions focused on contemporary China. With its interdisciplinary approach, the book provides a holistic view of China's rise and its implications for the future of global economic and strategic competition.

The volume offers a pioneering intervention in global literary and cultural studies by tracing representations of disability across the entire twentieth century-from early modernist literature to late postcolonial and popular cultural forms. Unlike most existing works that focus primarily on twenty-first-century narratives, this volume provides rare historical depth and a globally inclusive perspective.

Bringing together literary, cinematic, regional, and mythic narratives from Western and non-Western contexts-including Indian literature and film-the book constructs a comparative framework that illuminates how disability is embedded in diverse historical, cultural, and political settings. Covering texts from Kafka and Faulkner to Odia fiction and Indian partition narratives, it spans early modernism, interwar poetics, post-World War II trauma narratives, and late-century cultural media such as cinema, comics, autobiography, and myth.

Balancing academic rigour with accessibility, this book is an essential resource for scholars, students, and educators interested in literature, culture, and critical disability studies.

This edited book examines how institutional abandonment-states' knowing or deliberate neglect of moral or legal obligations-harms population health and undermines democratic accountability. In this international volume for sociologists of health and illness as well as scholars of public health and bioethics, migration studies, political sciences, citizenship studies, critical border studies and psychology, the chapters show how abandonment is intensified by Othering and produces patterned harms, including legal insecurity, chronic uncertainty, injury, untreated illness and psychological distress.

Conceptual chapters develop institutional abandonment as a political determinant of health and theorise the ethical critique and reform of concrete borders and boundary-making practices. Using interdisciplinary lenses, empirical case studies range from arbitrary expatriations under the Nazi dictatorship and 'civic death' in post-2016 Tuerkiye to wartime Ukraine, Gaza's water and sanitation crisis, exclusionary psychosocial healthcare for refugees in Germany and the longer after-effects of Othering for Nigerian returnees. A final section analyses how civil-society organisations, grassroots initiatives and artistic practices expose abandonment, mitigate harm and press institutions to meet their obligations, while arguing for liberal-democratic repair rather than institutional dismantling.

This book explores the integration of AI and knowledge management to achieve sustainability in the digital era. AI's ability to process vast data and generate actionable insights revolutionizes decision-making and resource optimization, while knowledge management ensures these insights foster continuous learning. This book highlights aligning these practices with sustainability goals to reduce environmental impact and drive long-term success. Emphasizing principles of the circular economy, resource efficiency, and environmental stewardship, it examines AI's role in modern workplaces, ethical considerations, and balancing economic growth with environmental preservation. It provides practical strategies, case studies, and emerging trends for implementing sustainable digital practices. This book bridges theory and practice, offering actionable insights for fostering a sustainable future through digital transformation. It is intended for business leaders, managers, and academics.

This book seeks to incorporate often-neglected perspectives within discussions on migration and the global labour market. It focuses on the role and experiences of women involved in South-North migration and looks at the factors that lead to their migration and movement. Based on empirical evidence of women migrating from sub-Saharan African to Europe, the outcomes of migration are contextualised within the conditions female migrants faced in their original country. Access to waged employment and shifts within household power dynamics often appeal to women who live in countries where they only have access to unwaged work and where their civil, political, and economic freedoms are restricted. Insight into the economic and structural inequalities that prevent the marginalized, including women in less gender equal societies, from migration opportunities are also covered.

This book is a corrective to the current conversations on migration that overlook the economic and social experiences of women in the Global South. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in the economics of migration and the experiences of migrants.

This edited volume brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical contributions at the intersection of international economics, development, and regional analysis.

The contributions are organized in three parts. Part 1, New Perspectives in International Trade, examines how firms and governments interact in international markets, with particular attention to trade policy, market structure, and the conditions under which trade liberalization can be sustained. Part 2, Global Interactions Through Factor Mobility and Services, covers the movement of people and capital across borders?including the consequences of international migration for income inequality, the governance challenges raised by forced return migration, and the growing economic significance of tourism and foreign direct investment. Part 3, Global Interactions and Economic Development, takes a broader view of how global forces shape development outcomes, addressing themes such as innovation-driven growth, institutional quality and corruption, climate risk perception, and the spatial effects of infrastructure change on regional populations.

The contributors are economists, predominantly from Italy and Japan, whose collaboration grew out of the long-standing academic partnership between the University of Bari Aldo Moro and Chukyo University. Several of the chapters were presented at the annual conference “Economics of Global Interactions: New Perspectives on Trade, Factor Mobility and Development,” held in Bari, Italy, though the volume also includes work developed independently within this research community. Together, the contributions reflect more than a decade of dialogue on the economic challenges shared?and sometimes distinctively faced?by Italy, Japan, and the broader global economy. The book will be of interest to academics and graduate students in international and regional economics, as well as to readers following debates on trade fragmentation, rising protectionism, migration governance, climate risk, and uneven regional development.

This textbook provides a clear and comprehensive economic perspective on energy transition, highlighting that it involves more than just replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. It discusses critical interventions in the optimizing decisions of economic agents to achieve a reliable and sustainable future.

Students learn about the conditions under which such interventions can improve societal welfare, building on the fundamental economic principle that optimal outcomes arise when coordination mechanisms function effectively.

The book explores key motivations and drivers behind energy transition policies, including the depletion of energy resources, energy security, environmental impacts of fossil fuel use, and the challenges of high and volatile energy prices. It provides detailed analyses of the efficiency, effectiveness, and distributional effects of various government policy measures, such as capacity mechanisms, energy taxation, renewable energy support schemes, and emissions trading systems.

In addition to a societal and governmental perspective, the book discusses the roles of stakeholders within energy systems ? such as producers, grid operators and consumers, as well stakeholders within organizations?such as shareholders, employees, and customers?in driving the energy transition. While grounded in economic principles, it integrates insights from other disciplines, including engineering, law, and social sciences, to provide a holistic understanding of energy systems and their transformation.

Designed for students and scholars, this book equips readers with the knowledge and tools to understand the economic principles underpinning a reliable and sustainable energy future.

In this book, economist Orhan Erdem?breaks down key social insights from COVID-19 and other pandemics throughout human history. It explores the myriad ways that a global pandemic impacts?social structures and communities.

Drawing on examples throughout human history, the book highlights the key insights researchers have gathered and what the public can do to prevent the same disruptive responses in the future. The chapters explore core aspects of social life: healthcare, politics, education, community, and technology. Building on stories from literature and lived experience, the book offers a narrative exploration of how a pandemic’s aftershocks reshape social life, educational systems, public policy, technology, and economies.

This textbook introduces the Self-Leadership Stance (SLS), a practical framework built on five daily actions (start with yourself, be curious, access resources, cultivate discipline, and show compassion) that students carry from chapter to chapter and into their daily lives. Organized as a journey in three parts, the book moves from leading yourself (self-awareness, emotional intelligence, wellness, integrity, motivation, and resilience) to leading with others (communication, relationship building, conflict resolution, and time management) to leading in the world (global leadership, personal vision and mission, and designing a self-leadership development plan).

Each chapter pairs current research with tools students can use immediately: self-assessments, reflective journaling exercises, case studies, life and workplace application activities, peer-coaching prompts, and discussion questions. Short introduction videos accompany every chapter. The final chapter guides students through building a personalized development plan that ties together everything they have learned.

Written in a conversational, mentor-like style grounded in real-world experience, this textbook helps students build a strong foundation in leadership development, starting with the one person they fully control.

Boards today are operating in the most volatile governance environment in modern history, defined by rapid technological change, AI-driven decision-making systems, geopolitical instability, regulatory scrutiny, and rising stakeholder expectations. This book addresses why traditional governance models fail under pressure and how boards must evolve to remain effective, resilient, and credible.

Drawing on cutting-edge research and two decades of executive and boardroom experience, this book introduces a connected governance model that integrates network science, AI oversight, cognitive diversity, and crisis preparedness. Rather than treating governance as a static compliance function, this book reframes it as a dynamic leadership system that depends on how boards process information, manage interdependencies, and anticipate emerging risks.

Through in-depth case studies of Silicon Valley Bank, Boeing, OpenAI, FTX, Signature Bank, and First Republic, the book reveals common governance breakdowns and extracts actionable lessons for directors and executives to avoid similar failures. Readers are guided through practical tools for board mapping, artificial intelligence (AI) risk oversight, data-driven self-assessment and scenario-based decision-making.

Written for directors, senior executives, and governance professionals, Board Governance Rewired serves as both a diagnostic guide and implementation playbook. It equips readers with immediately usable frameworks to strengthen board effectiveness, enhance resilience, and deliver ethical, future-ready governance in an age of constant disruption.

This collection marks the 20th anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT). It focusses on one major component of?a?growing network of monitoring bodies, that is, the establishment of NPMs (National Preventive Mechanisms) in a European context.?The contributors come from different parts of Europe and bring their unique expertise into the book.?In their chapters they reflect on questions related to their countries' processes in ratifying OPCAT as well as the establishment and functioning of the NPMs.?The book explores the variety of ways in which NPMs implement their mandate in practice, as well as the key opportunities and challenges they encounter in fulfilling their role.

This book explores the portmanteau as a popular language trend. A portmanteau is a lexical blend in which at least one of the two original words is shortened in the process of combination, such as brunch (breakfast + lunch) or motel (motor + hotel). Although portmanteaus have a long history in the English language, they are experiencing a significant proliferation in online communication. The power of the portmanteau lies in its ability to bring concepts together both sonically and n writing. In doing so, portmanteaus carry the associations of their source words through multiple and shifting contexts, making them complex sites of rhetorical inquiry. This book examines the portmanteau form by analyzing a range of contemporary blend words. It theorizes a method of "critical portmanteau decomposition" that illustrates the ways the portmanteau's form contributes to its functioning by forging conceptual associations between its components. These associations become clear when the blend is "decomposed" into its constituent parts: the source words and the extra linguistic contexts surrounding both the source words and the blend as a whole. This complex blending process reflects and constructs conceptual networks that can be easily masked by the form, which is often viewed as playful and innocuous. This is particularly significant when the portmanteau transmits ideology, as the playful form is at odds with its content. Critical portmanteau decomposition takes into account the pieces of the portmanteau, the cognitive process of blending, the connections forged among elements, and the context of the complete word.