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Disentangling Practitioners’ Understandings of Child Sexual Exploitation: The Risks of Assuming Otherwise? (2021)
Journal Article
Weston, S., & Mythen, G. (2021). Disentangling Practitioners’ Understandings of Child Sexual Exploitation: The Risks of Assuming Otherwise?. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 22(4), 618-635. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895821993525

This paper reports findings from a qualitative study investigating the efficacy and the effects of a Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) awareness raising intervention with young people. Drawing on in-depth interviews with members of a multi-agency team... Read More about Disentangling Practitioners’ Understandings of Child Sexual Exploitation: The Risks of Assuming Otherwise?.

Finding the Eye of the Octopus: the Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales (2021)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2021). Finding the Eye of the Octopus: the Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.7888

This article discusses the constraints on, and conflicts over, the oversight and regulation of mixed public-private entities, using the part-privatisation of the probation service in England and Wales – a policy called Transforming Rehabilitation (TR... Read More about Finding the Eye of the Octopus: the Limits of Regulating Outsourced Offender Probation in England and Wales.

Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography (2019)
Thesis
Molesworth, S. K. (2019). Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413840

This inquiry considers the importance of tacit knowledge, and how it might be characterised in an NHS memory service and a local authority day-care and respite service for people with dementia. When investigating the sorts of knowledge that might be... Read More about Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The ritual moment of social death (2018)
Journal Article
Parish. (2018). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The ritual moment of social death. Anthropology Today, 34(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12414

This article is an ethnographic study of individuals self-diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in Liverpool, UK. While much research on OCD has concentrated upon superstitious belief, psychosis and anxiety provoking disorder, the articl... Read More about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: The ritual moment of social death.

Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times (2017)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2017). Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times

Civil society is regaining critical relevance after decades of attempts to suborn non-governmental organisations and more recent governmental manoeuvres in Western democracies to control activists and social advocates (Civicus, 2016:31-32). In this a... Read More about Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times.

Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender (2017)
Journal Article
Wells, H., & Savigar, L. (2019). Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 19(2), 254-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895817738555

Roads policing is the most likely generator of an adverse-outcome encounter between the general public and the police and is therefore one of the most likely situations in which individuals are confronted with their own ‘law-abidingness’, or lack of... Read More about Keeping up, and keeping on: Risk, acceleration and the law-abiding driving offender.

Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu. Review of African Political Economy, 7 - 24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2017.1367655

The article considers the historiography of labour and class studies in sub-Saharan Africa in relation to the contemporary ‘cultural turn’ in sociological studies of class. It identifies three phases: from the 1960s, a highly empiricist Marxist appro... Read More about Rethinking class and culture in Africa: between E. P. Thompson and Pierre Bourdieu.

Implementation and evaluation of the Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery treatment programs for substance-involved offenders (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Implementation and evaluation of the Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery treatment programs for substance-involved offenders

In 2013, Breaking Free Group, a digital healthcare company based in Manchester, developed two accredited substance misuse treatment and recovery programmes for offenders within the criminal justice system. Based on community-setting versions of Break... Read More about Implementation and evaluation of the Breaking Free Online and Pillars of Recovery treatment programs for substance-involved offenders.

The evolving (re)categorisations of refugees throughout the ‘Refugee/Migrant crisis’ (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The evolving (re)categorisations of refugees throughout the ‘Refugee/Migrant crisis’. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 105-114. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2302

The UK media’s reporting of events in 2015 contained constantly evolving categorisations of people attempting to reach Europe and the UK, each with different implications for their treatment. A discursive analysis of UK media outputs charts the devel... Read More about The evolving (re)categorisations of refugees throughout the ‘Refugee/Migrant crisis’.

The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police. https://doi.org/10.23666/zzr201601

In the UK, private policing institutions have been rapidly increasing since the 1980s, so the lines between public- and private police have been blurred. This paper explores whether there is a policing function that is inherent in public police and i... Read More about The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police.

Peeling back the bask: sociopathy and the rhizomes of the EU food industry (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Peeling back the bask: sociopathy and the rhizomes of the EU food industry. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 176-195. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718174-24032091

This article examines the eu food industry (apropos of the 2013 ‘Horse Meat Scandal’) applying the notion of sociopathy which has hitherto been confined to analyses of corporate banking and insurance. In the ‘underground’ of the eu meat industry we e... Read More about Peeling back the bask: sociopathy and the rhizomes of the EU food industry.

‘How do you Say “Stop that!” in Slovakian?’: A8 Immigra-tion and Scotland’s Race and Ethnic Diversity Narrative (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). ‘How do you Say “Stop that!” in Slovakian?’: A8 Immigra-tion and Scotland’s Race and Ethnic Diversity Narrative

‘How do you Say “Stop that!” in Slovakian’: A8 Immigra¬tion and Scotland’s Race and Ethnic Diversity Narrative. In 2004 8 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Sloveni... Read More about ‘How do you Say “Stop that!” in Slovakian?’: A8 Immigra-tion and Scotland’s Race and Ethnic Diversity Narrative.

Disparities in public protection measures against sexual offending in England and Wales: an example of preventative injustice? (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Disparities in public protection measures against sexual offending in England and Wales: an example of preventative injustice?. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 561-577. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895815577219

This article analyses the use of criminal justice measures aimed at the prevention of sexual offending across England and Wales. Specifically, it focuses on measures such as the ‘sex offenders register’ and sexual offences prevention orders (SOPOs) a... Read More about Disparities in public protection measures against sexual offending in England and Wales: an example of preventative injustice?.

A transnational bicultural place model of cultural selves and psychological citizenship: the case of Chinese immigrants in Britain (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). A transnational bicultural place model of cultural selves and psychological citizenship: the case of Chinese immigrants in Britain. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 440 - 450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.10.005

The transnational bicultural place of Hong Kong (HK) Chinese immigrants in United Kingdom (UK) comprises bicultural social networks of UK British and UK Chinese connected transnationally by a third network of home compatriots (HK Chinese). Through de... Read More about A transnational bicultural place model of cultural selves and psychological citizenship: the case of Chinese immigrants in Britain.

Trends in the management of registered sexual offenders across England and Wales: a geographical approach to the study of sexual offending (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). Trends in the management of registered sexual offenders across England and Wales: a geographical approach to the study of sexual offending. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 56 - 70. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2014.949314

Social scientists, and geographers in particular, have long been interested in examining spatial patterns of offending in order to generate a “geography” of crime and criminality. This paper examines what value, if any, a geographical approach to the... Read More about Trends in the management of registered sexual offenders across England and Wales: a geographical approach to the study of sexual offending.