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Unsettled crossings: Underpass journeys in an English town (2023)
Journal Article
Bahceci, S., Bradford, B., Girling, E., Loader, I., & Sparks, R. (2023). Unsettled crossings: Underpass journeys in an English town. Criminological Encounters, 6(1),

What kinds of ‘sensory configurations’ (Thomas, 2010), and moral orders, are created in places that are simultaneously formed and rendered marginal by infrastructures of hegemonic automobility? In this paper, we explore this question with reference t... Read More about Unsettled crossings: Underpass journeys in an English town.

Policing and Sense of Place: ‘Shallow’ and ‘Deep’ Security in an English Town (2023)
Journal Article
Bradford, B., Girling, E., Loader, I., & Sparks, R. (2023). Policing and Sense of Place: ‘Shallow’ and ‘Deep’ Security in an English Town. British Journal of Criminology, Article azad062. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azad062

Much policy discourse concentrates on the contribution of police to keeping people safe. Often, this means minimising fear of crime. Yet, more expansive accounts stress the extent to which deeper-rooted forms of security and belonging might also be i... Read More about Policing and Sense of Place: ‘Shallow’ and ‘Deep’ Security in an English Town.

Sites of crossing and Death in Punishment: The parallel lives, trade-offs and equivalencies of the Death Penalty and Life without Parole in the US (2016)
Journal Article
Girling, E. (2016). Sites of crossing and Death in Punishment: The parallel lives, trade-offs and equivalencies of the Death Penalty and Life without Parole in the US. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 55(3), 345-361. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12174

The paper explores continuities and discontinuities between two kinds of death in punishment; of death as punishment and of death as the specified detritus of punishment (LWOP). It traces the parallel lives and equivalencies between life and death in... Read More about Sites of crossing and Death in Punishment: The parallel lives, trade-offs and equivalencies of the Death Penalty and Life without Parole in the US.