Convict Criminology is an international research-activist movement of which the first two named authors are leading figures in the UK. It started in North America in the 1990s and has more recently emerged in Europe and, most lately South America. It focuses on collaborative teaching and learning. More generally, Convict Criminology aims to produce critical research that is grounded in first-hand accounts of prison life, as well as current and former prisoner-led academic engagement with prison authorities and activists: to bridge the gap between universities and prisoners through developing insider (in this case prisoner and former prisoner) perspectives in the discipline of Criminology. This chapter outlines the authors' efforts to develop such a collabora-tive research activist agenda between social scientists, prisoners, and former prisoners, and to support prisoners and former prisoners through higher education and into academic and criminal justice positions. It demonstrates further that participation in prison education not only also has the potential to transform Criminology, but also has the potential for significant institutional and societal impact. The projects described in this chapter provide prisoners with qualifications, opening up a range of opportunities and pro-social life choices. They are also specifically designed to engage prisoners in reflecting upon their experiences of crime and punishment, demonstrated in critical pedagogical and desistance-from-crime literature to be an effective means of challenging offenders' perceptions of themselves as antisocial citizens and figures of authority (such as prison staff) as enemies. Keywords Convict Criminology; research activism; collaborative knowledge production; prison education. Resumo A Criminologia dos Condenados é um movimento internacional de pesquisa ativismo do qual os dois primeiros autores são figuras de destaque no Reino Unido. Começou na América do Norte nos anos 90 e emergiu mais recentemente na Europa e ultimamante na América do Sul. Ele se concentra no ensino e aprendizagem colaborativo. De forma geral, a Convict Criminology tem como objetivo pesquisas críticas baseadas em contas da primeira mão da vida nas prisões, bem como envolvimento com autoridades penitenciários e ativistas de prisão liderado por prisioneiros e egressos: para preencher a lacuna entre universidades e prisioneiros através do desenvolvimento de perspectivas privilegiadas (neste caso, prisioneiro e ex-prisioneiro) na disciplina de Criminologia. Este capítulo descreve os esforços dos autores para desenvolver uma agenda ativista de pesquisa colaborativa entre cientistas sociais, prisioneiros e ex-prisioneiros, e apoiar prisioneiros e ex-prisioneiros através do ensino superior e entrar em cargos acadêmicos e de justiça criminal. Demonstra ainda que a participação na educação prisional não apenas tem o potencial de transformar a Criminologia, mas também o potencial de um impacto institucional e social significativo. Os projetos descritos neste capítulo fornecem aos presos qualificações, abrindo uma gama de oportunidades e opções de vida pró-sociais. Eles também são

Racism has a really long history but, until today, we don't even have a history of ›racism‹, i.e. a solid study of the development of its conceptual history. I hereby start a compilation of references referring to the early usage of the word ›racism‹ and ›racist‹ (›racisme‹ and ›raciste‹, ›Rassismus‹ and ›rassistisch‹, ›razzismo‹ and ›razzista‹, ›racismo‹ and ›racista‹, ›ρατσισμός‹ and ›ρατσιστής‹ etc.). Everybody who can contribute to this collection is very welcome. Please send me your pieces of evidence in the form documented below. I will add them to this repository (with the name of the respective correspondent), which, bit by bit, will perhaps morph into a sort of thesaurus.

American libraries began to be developed in the middle of the nineteentb century and were among the world's most prominent a century later. The remarkable history of the major libraries in North America, their European models and tbeir strong and innovative leadership is reported here in more or less chronological sequence from tbe earliest efforts to about 1970, when tbe unprecedented growth came to an end. The building of the international library collections could not bave been acbieved without tbe enterprising efforts of many booksellers in England and on the European continent. Among those who made significant contributions were tbree booksellers from tbe Netberlands: Frederik Muller, Martinus Nijhoff and S wets & Zeitlinger. Tbis article describes their role, but concentrates on Martinus Nijboff, publisber and bookseller in Tbe Hague, wbo bad by far tbe longest successful tenure in supplying American libraries witb European books and periodicals. Between 1853 and 1971, tbree generations of tbe Nijboff family-Martinus, Woiiter and Wouter Pzn-, with tbeir staff members, built one of tbe leading international publishing and bookselling bouses in tbe Netherlands. Their legacy is permanently embedded in tbe collections of the great North American libraries.

In the focus of the paper are the activities of Croatian students in publishing their magazines at the beginning of the 20th century. The emphasis is placed on the magazines that were published in Zagreb, but considering a strong student fluctuation at that period, it is not possible to fix certain publication within a single university centre. The analysis of their contents and circumstances of publication are stressed, as well as the analysis of the nature of student magazines as a historiographical source. Belonging to various political and cultural groups, students’ publications illustrate fresh ideas that were brought to Croatian public life but also provide wide range of information of different aspects of students’ social and everyday life.

I present the results of an inquiry I have conducted about presumed cases of fraud in experimental reports published by the biochemist Dmitry A. Kuznetsov.

Over 450 years have elapsed since the English navigator Richard Chancellor arrived by chance in the White Sea and made his way to the Moscow of Ivan the Terrible. It was a ‘discovery’ that eventually would lead to the establishment of commercial, political and cultural relations between Great Britain and Russia that provide a fascinating history of political estrangement and reconciliation and cultural rejection and acceptance.

Introduction: Peer-reviewed journals in psychiatry are the primary source of new information for researchers and clinicians. New evidence is emerging faster than ever. To maintain the highest standards of practice, clinicians and researchers need to make sense of the latest research. To facilitate this, papers need to be clear, concise, and highly readable. Clear communication is especially important in fields like psychiatry which brings together many different research approaches. Aim: To assess the readability of the most prominent journals in psychiatry. Methods: We tested the readability over time of articles from eight of the most widely cited psychiatric journals. We sampled 504 articles from different issues and years of publication (2002-2013) and looked at their abstracts, introductions, and discussion sections using five validated readability metrics. We also compared the readability of psychiatry journals to general medicine journals for the year 2013. Results: The reada...