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Tag: community

  • Return to Eden and Eden Lost – A Case Study in Problematic Masculinity?

    Starting in Spring 2016, Channel 4’s ‘Return to Eden’ was a year long social experiment in which 23 people moved to Inverness-shire in the Scottish Highlands – their mission – to form a community and survive for one year. The experiment was a somewhat artificial community-experiment – in that the people were selected by the…

  • Controlling and Reducing Crime – The Role of the Community

    Most people manage to get through their whole lives without getting on the ‘wrong side’ of the formal agents of social control (the police, the courts and prison), so it should be no surprise hat many of the perspectives emphasize the role that the community plays in preventing crime and controlling crime. Consensus Theory and…