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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Welfare states in rich democracies have returned to a more ‘disciplinary’ agenda in recent decades. This has occurred roughly simultaneously with the so‐called ‘punitive turn’ in criminal justice. We argue that it makes sense to analyse the two movements together, as manifestations of the novel concept of the ‘disciplinary state’. Empirically,
Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Discover PsychologyBackground School attendance problems are common among youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We investigated the role of ASD and ADHD symptoms in school attendance problems among youth with rare ...
Stian Orm +3 more
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School refusal and truancy [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1997 ### DEFINITION School refusal is a condition characterised by reluctance and often outright refusal to go to school in a child who: (1) seeks the comfort and security of home, preferring to remain close to parental figures, especially during school hours; (2) displays evidence of emotional upset when faced with the prospect of having to attend school,
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Combating truancy: Can the computer help schools? [PDF]
Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993 Introduction ARS is an acronym for Absence Registration System, a computer-assisted system that supports the registration of absent students as well as the analysis of absence data. The design and development of the system resulted from an initiative by the Dutch government, which was looking for a means to reduce absenteeism and therefore started a ...
Visscher, Arend J., Bos, Klaas
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Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 13, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT We investigate whether having more classmates with ECE experience affects junior high school studentsʼ non‐cognitive/socio‐emotional skills. We draw on panel data from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) and leverage the exogenous variation in classroom ECE experience composition brought by the random assignment of students when they ...
Yuhe Guo, Chengfang Liu, Yalin Tang
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The Impact of Truancy on Educational Attainment: A Bivariate Ordered Probit Estimator with Mixed Effects [PDF]
This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic is that both
Anna Conte, Franz Buscha
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Ability grouping in the secondary school: attitude of teachers of practically based subjects [PDF]
, 2008 This research aimed to explore the attitudes of teachers of practically based subjects (arts and sports) towards ability grouping. Teachers from 45 secondary schools adopting different levels of ability grouping completed a questionnaire which elicited ...
Hallam, Susan +2 more
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International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Introduction Despite evidence suggesting language and cognition deficits are prevalent for justice involved youth, little research explores how juvenile justice personnel experience language and cognition behaviours in the youth they serve. Aims This qualitative study explored how juvenile justice personnel understand language and cognition ...
Anne M. Perrotti +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 School membership appears to be an important factor in explaining the relationship between students and schools, including school staff. School membership is associated with several school-related outcomes, such as academic performance and expectations ...
Jorge Gaete +5 more
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