The developing world is being infested by Western-style social health problems such as obesity and “couch-potato” living, which could ultimately widen the global gap between rich and poor, new research suggests.
A study of how the Victorians considered transforming the British Empire into a “Greater Britain”, written by a Cambridge academic, has been announced as the joint winner of the 2008 Whitfield Book Prize.
The experience of “restorative justice”, in which offenders confront their crime victims, reduces the frequency of reconviction by an average of 27%, the independent evaluators of the scheme have found.
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