• Foreword by Carolyn Strange
• 1. Crime and Empire: Introduction by Graeme Dunstall and Barry S. Godfrey
• 2. The Changes in Policing and Penal Policy in Nineteenth-century Europe by Clive Emsley
• 3. Explaining the History of Punishment by John Pratt
• 4. Crimes of Violence, Crimes of Empire? by Mark Finnane
• 5. Colonialism and the Rule of Law by Julie Evans
• 6. Colonial History and Theories of the Present: Some Reflections upon Penal History and Theory by Mark Brown
• 7. Crime, the Legal Archive, and Postcolonial Histories by Cathy Colborne
• 8. Traces and Transmissions: Techno-scientific Symbolism in Early Twentieth-century Policing by Dean Wilson
• 9. The English Model? Policing in Late Nineteenth-century Tasmania by Stefan Petrow
• 10. The Growth of Crime and Crime Control in Developing Towns: Timaru and Crewe, 1850-1920 by Barry Godfrey and Graeme Dunstall
• 11. (Re)presenting Scandal: Charles Reade's Advocacy of Professionalism within the English Prison System by Sarah Anderson
• 12. 'Saving our Unfortunate Sisters'?: Establishing the First Separate Prison for Women in New Zealand by Anna McKenzie
• 13. Maori Police Personnel and the Rangitiratanga Discourse by Richard Hill
• 14. 'To Make the Precedent Fit the Crime': British Legal Responses to Sati in Early Nineteenth-century North India by Jane Buckingham
• 15. 'Everyday Life' in Boer Women's Testimonies of the Concentration Camps of the South African War, 1899-1902 by Helen Dampier
• 16. Codification of the Criminal Law: The Australasian Parliamentary Experience by Jeremy Finn.
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This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its overarching theme is the transformation and convergence of criminal justice systems during a period that saw a broad shift from legal pluralism to the hegemony of state law in the European world and beyond.
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• Why attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder, why mothers?
• Methodology
• British and Canadian con(text)ual spaces
• Mothers talk about the early years
• Ideals and actualities in identification and assessment
• Challenges and conflicts in treating AD(H)D
• Resistance, risk, and the chimera of choice.

Mothers of children with Attention Deficit Disorder must inevitably make decisions regarding their children's diagnosis within a context of competing discourses about the nature of the disorder and the legitimacy of its treatment. They also make these decisions within an overriding climate of mother-blame. Claudia Malacrida's Cold Comfort provides a contextualized study of how mothers negotiate with/against the 'helping professions' over assessment and treatment for their AD(H)D children. Malacrida counters current conceptions about mothers of AD(H)D children (namely that mothers irresponsibly push for Ritalin to manage their children's behaviour) as well as professional assumptions of maternal pathology. This thought-provoking examination documents Malacrida's extensive interviews with mothers of affected children in both Canada and the United Kingdom, and details the way in which these women speak of their experiences. Malacrida compares their narratives to national discourses and practices, placing the complex mother-child and mother-professional relations at the centre of her critical inquiry. Drawing on both poststructural discourse analysis and feminist standpoint theory, Malacrida makes a critical contribution to qualitative methodologies by developing a feminist discursive ethnography of the construction of AD(H)D in two divergent cultures. On a more personal level, she offers readers a moving, nuanced, and satisfying examination of real women and children facing both public and private challenges linked to AD(H)D.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Why attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder, why mothers?
• Methodology
• British and Canadian con(text)ual spaces
• Mothers talk about the early years
• Ideals and actualities in identification and assessment
• Challenges and conflicts in treating AD(H)D
• Resistance, risk, and the chimera of choice.

Mothers of children with Attention Deficit Disorder must inevitably make decisions regarding their children's diagnosis within a context of competing discourses about the nature of the disorder and the legitimacy of its treatment. They also make these decisions within an overriding climate of mother-blame. Claudia Malacrida's Cold Comfort provides a contextualized study of how mothers negotiate with/against the 'helping professions' over assessment and treatment for their AD(H)D children. Malacrida counters current conceptions about mothers of AD(H)D children (namely that mothers irresponsibly push for Ritalin to manage their children's behaviour) as well as professional assumptions of maternal pathology. This thought-provoking examination documents Malacrida's extensive interviews with mothers of affected children in both Canada and the United Kingdom, and details the way in which these women speak of their experiences. Malacrida compares their narratives to national discourses and practices, placing the complex mother-child and mother-professional relations at the centre of her critical inquiry. Drawing on both poststructural discourse analysis and feminist standpoint theory, Malacrida makes a critical contribution to qualitative methodologies by developing a feminist discursive ethnography of the construction of AD(H)D in two divergent cultures. On a more personal level, she offers readers a moving, nuanced, and satisfying examination of real women and children facing both public and private challenges linked to AD(H)D.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)