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Integrated Offender Management: A Microcosm of Central and Local Criminal Justice Policy Turbulence (2015)
Book Chapter
Worrall, A., & Corcoran, M. (2015). Integrated Offender Management: A Microcosm of Central and Local Criminal Justice Policy Turbulence. In The Management of Change in Criminal Justice (259-274). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137462497_15

For more than a decade, the government in England and Wales has insisted that a very small proportion of offenders (around 10%) are committing a very large proportion of crime (around 50%) at any point in time (Home Office, 2001; 2003; 2004). Althoug... Read More about Integrated Offender Management: A Microcosm of Central and Local Criminal Justice Policy Turbulence.

Statebuilding and the Politics of Non-Recognition (2015)
Book Chapter
Richards, R., & Smith, R. (2015). Statebuilding and the Politics of Non-Recognition. In Recognition in International Relations Rethinking a Political Concept in a Global Context. (1). springer. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137464729_9

Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series General Editors: Knud Erik Jørgensen, Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark Audie Klotz, Department of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public  ...

Religious literacy in higher education (2015)
Book Chapter
Jones, S. H. (2015). Religious literacy in higher education. In Religious Literacy in Secular Society: Theories, Policies and Practices of Faith in the Public Realm (187-206). Bristol: Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1t89c7n.15

In recent years, a number of authors have highlighted the role that universities could potentially play in improving the public conversation about religion and belief (Gilliat-Ray, 2000, p 59; Prothero, 2008, p 173; Woodhead, 2009, p 28). Ford (2004,... Read More about Religious literacy in higher education.

National Interest and the Falklands War (2014)
Book Chapter
Parr, H. (2014). National Interest and the Falklands War. In British Foreign Policy and the National Interest (66-82). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137392350_4

Was Britain’s decision to use military action in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War guided by concerns for Britain’s ‘national interest’? This chapter seeks to answer this question by surveying the events of the crisis and exploring the reasons British... Read More about National Interest and the Falklands War.

The Trajectory of Penal Markets in a Period of Austerity: The Case of England and Wales (2014)
Book Chapter
Corcoran, M. S. (2014). The Trajectory of Penal Markets in a Period of Austerity: The Case of England and Wales. In Punishment and Incarceration: A Global Perspective: Volume 19 (53-74). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1521-613620140000019002

This paper reviews the economic turn in criminology to contextualise the prominence of market rationalities in penal privatisation and outsourcing in England and Wales. It illuminates how fiscal crisis and austerity have provided opportunities for t... Read More about The Trajectory of Penal Markets in a Period of Austerity: The Case of England and Wales.

Researching ‘Hidden Populations’: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher in Understanding ‘Established’ and ‘Immigrant’ Groups’ Perceptions of Crime and Social (Dis)Order (2014)
Book Chapter
Griffiths, C. E. (2014). Researching ‘Hidden Populations’: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher in Understanding ‘Established’ and ‘Immigrant’ Groups’ Perceptions of Crime and Social (Dis)Order. In Reflexivity in Criminological Research (178-191). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379405_14

Re flexivity is often considered a ‘vital counterpoint… to the positivist, quan- titative agenda’ Qewkes 2012, 69). The aim of this chapter however is to provide a critical and reflexive account of a quantitative research project, that used supplemen... Read More about Researching ‘Hidden Populations’: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher in Understanding ‘Established’ and ‘Immigrant’ Groups’ Perceptions of Crime and Social (Dis)Order.

The making of mothers (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Donohoe, S., Hogg, M., Maclaran, P., Martens, L., & Stevens, L. (2013). The making of mothers. In Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203469729-1

In Korean author Kyung-sook Shin's best-selling novel, Please Look After Mom, when an elderly mother goes missing in Seoul, her family are desperate to find her, but to no avail. The book revolves around their search, with each chapter narrated by a... Read More about The making of mothers.

From anti-causalism to causalism and back (2013)
Book Chapter
D'Oro, G., & Sandis, C. (2013). From anti-causalism to causalism and back. In Reasons and Causes: Causalism and Anti-causalism in the Philosophy of Action

A bit neo-liberal, a bit Fabian (2013)
Book Chapter
Corcoran, M., & Fox, C. (2013). A bit neo-liberal, a bit Fabian. In Women Exiting Prison; Critical Essays on Gender, Post-Release Support and Survival. Taylor and Francis Group