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What Pollock and Rothko may have announced and Restorative Justice may have to deal with: sovereign victim culture (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). What Pollock and Rothko may have announced and Restorative Justice may have to deal with: sovereign victim culture. Restorative Justice, 455-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/20504721.2017.1392777

A close reading of EU Directive 2012/29/EU of 25 October 2012 (EU Member States to comply by 16 November 2015), ‘establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime’, may reveal that a particular image of victimho... Read More about What Pollock and Rothko may have announced and Restorative Justice may have to deal with: sovereign victim culture.

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.

Hearing the voice of looked after children: challenging current assumptions and knowledge about pathways into offending (2017)
Journal Article
Day, A.-M. (2017). Hearing the voice of looked after children: challenging current assumptions and knowledge about pathways into offending. Safer Communities, 122 - 133

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to assess the early findings of research which aims to hear the voice of looked after children about their pathways into offending and subsequent entry into the youth justice system, and the implications that thi... Read More about Hearing the voice of looked after children: challenging current assumptions and knowledge about pathways into offending.

The Role of the Visual in the Restoration of Social Order (2017)
Book Chapter
Kearon, T. (2017). The Role of the Visual in the Restoration of Social Order. In Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology (255-267). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315713281-20

This chapter takes as its central theme the processes of re-imposition of social order in the aftermath of a series of high-profile riots that occurred in several English cities in 2011. The focus here is not on the possible motivations of the rioter... Read More about The Role of the Visual in the Restoration of Social Order.

The disjuncture between confidence and cooperation: Police contact amongst Polish migrants and established residents (2017)
Journal Article
Griffiths, C. (2018). The disjuncture between confidence and cooperation: Police contact amongst Polish migrants and established residents. European Journal of Criminology, 15(2), 197-216. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370817712962

Trust and confidence in such criminal justice institutions as the police is considered crucial for the successful functioning of society and to allow for greater voluntary compliance and cooperation with institutions of control. There is a plethora o... Read More about The disjuncture between confidence and cooperation: Police contact amongst Polish migrants and established residents.

Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation (2017)
Book
Featherstone. (2017). Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212500

The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist... Read More about Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation.

Using the ‘recovery’ and ‘rehabilitation’ paradigms to support desistence of substance-involved offenders: Exploration of dual and multi-focus interventions (Invited Paper) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Using the ‘recovery’ and ‘rehabilitation’ paradigms to support desistence of substance-involved offenders: Exploration of dual and multi-focus interventions (Invited Paper). Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 274-290. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCRPP-09-2016-0021

Purpose
The links between substance use and offending are well evidenced in the literature, and increasingly, substance misuse recovery is being seen as a central component of the process of rehabilitation from offending, with substance use identifi... Read More about Using the ‘recovery’ and ‘rehabilitation’ paradigms to support desistence of substance-involved offenders: Exploration of dual and multi-focus interventions (Invited Paper).

The everyday work of the drug treatment practitioner: The influence and constraints of a risk-based agenda (2016)
Journal Article
Weston, S. (2016). The everyday work of the drug treatment practitioner: The influence and constraints of a risk-based agenda. Critical Social Policy, 36(4), 511-530. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018316632666

Crime reduction is a key objective in drug treatment policy and practice, and the criminal justice system (CJS) is a key player in the delivery of treatment, particularly its potential to provide a pathway into drug treatment. Despite cultural, ideol... Read More about The everyday work of the drug treatment practitioner: The influence and constraints of a risk-based agenda.

The Angered Versus the Endangered: PCCs, Roads Policing and the Challenges of Assessing and Representing ‘Public Opinion’ (2016)
Journal Article
Wells. (2016). The Angered Versus the Endangered: PCCs, Roads Policing and the Challenges of Assessing and Representing ‘Public Opinion’. British Journal of Criminology, 95-113. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw079

Part of the rationale for introducing elected Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) was a suggestion that the police and public needed to be ‘reconnected’, with the public more readily able to shape the type of policing they wished to receive. Appare... Read More about The Angered Versus the Endangered: PCCs, Roads Policing and the Challenges of Assessing and Representing ‘Public Opinion’.

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.

Examining Risk as a Political Construct: The Impact of Changing Views of the Prevailing Threats to Public Safety on the Definition of Risk (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Examining Risk as a Political Construct: The Impact of Changing Views of the Prevailing Threats to Public Safety on the Definition of Risk. In Criminal Justice and Security in Central and Eastern Europe: Safety, Security and Social Control in Local Communities (221 - 228)

Purpose:
This paper examines whether the concept of risk in legal responses of Western liberal democracies is politically constructed and defined according to changing views of the prevailing threats to public safety.
Methods:
Based on theoretical... Read More about Examining Risk as a Political Construct: The Impact of Changing Views of the Prevailing Threats to Public Safety on the Definition of Risk.

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.

The Spectacle of Terrorism: Exploring the Impact of ‘Blind Acting Out’ and ‘Phatic Communication’ (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The Spectacle of Terrorism: Exploring the Impact of ‘Blind Acting Out’ and ‘Phatic Communication’. Journal of Terrorism Research, 91-102. https://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.1192

The present paper proposes the parallels between ‘staged’ incidences of terrorism and ‘spectacular public disorder’ as a supplementary reading of terrorism. I claim that, while the spectacular in both is not par se- or even an exhaustive- account of... Read More about The Spectacle of Terrorism: Exploring the Impact of ‘Blind Acting Out’ and ‘Phatic Communication’.

A “respectable” convict? Challenging the idea of the criminal classes in mid­-Victorian England (2016)
Presentation / Conference
(2016, March). A “respectable” convict? Challenging the idea of the criminal classes in mid­-Victorian England. Presented at Social History Society, Lancaster

In 1884 Henry was described by the deputy governor of Portland Prison as “…the point where the gentleman ends and the habitual criminal begins”. The habitual criminal was, in mid-Victorian England, conceived as a member of the criminal classes, who w... Read More about A “respectable” convict? Challenging the idea of the criminal classes in mid­-Victorian England.

A qualitative exploration of UK prisoners’ experiences of substance misuse and mental health difficulties, and the Breaking Free Health and Justice interventions (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). A qualitative exploration of UK prisoners’ experiences of substance misuse and mental health difficulties, and the Breaking Free Health and Justice interventions. Journal of Drug Issues, 198-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022042616630013

This qualitative study explored prisoners’ lived experiences of substance use and mental health difficulties and aimed to examine perceived links between these two areas and how they might be associated with recovery during engagement with the Breaki... Read More about A qualitative exploration of UK prisoners’ experiences of substance misuse and mental health difficulties, and the Breaking Free Health and Justice interventions.