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Working with children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour: A critical exploration of the factors that influence social work practice in one English Local Authority (2025)
Thesis
Hunt, G. L. (2025). Working with children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour: A critical exploration of the factors that influence social work practice in one English Local Authority. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109691

Research indicates that approximately a third of all child sexual abuse in the UK is initiated by children and young people; and despite an increasing awareness around the prevalence of harmful sexual behaviour (HSB), there are still no official stat... Read More about Working with children who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour: A critical exploration of the factors that influence social work practice in one English Local Authority.

‘Why aren’t you using Bluetooth?!’ Officer understanding of the dangers of handheld and handsfree mobile phone-use by drivers (2024)
Journal Article
Briggs, G., Savigar-Shaw, L., & Wells, H. (in press). ‘Why aren’t you using Bluetooth?!’ Officer understanding of the dangers of handheld and handsfree mobile phone-use by drivers. Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258x241309187

Phone-use by drivers contributes to increasing numbers of collisions and deaths worldwide. Despite clear evidence for the equal dangers of handsfree phone-use, most jurisdictions only prohibit handheld use. This mixed-methods study provides an in-dep... Read More about ‘Why aren’t you using Bluetooth?!’ Officer understanding of the dangers of handheld and handsfree mobile phone-use by drivers.

Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration (2022)
Journal Article
GRIFFITHS, C., & TREBILCOCK, J. (2022). Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration. Critical Social Policy, 43(3), 401-422. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221109133

Drawing on Bacchi’s (2009) ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ framework, this article provides a critical analysis of HM Government’s (2021a) New Plan for Immigration. We explore how immigration is problematised, the assumptions that underlie th... Read More about Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration.

Hero to zero? Navigating and negotiating the harms of criminalisation as a ‘veteran offender’ (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). Hero to zero? Navigating and negotiating the harms of criminalisation as a ‘veteran offender’. Probation Journal, https://doi.org/10.1177/02645505221095069

This article offers an original insight into the experiences of former military personnel navigating life after criminalisation in a time of austerity. Drawing on case studies of in-depth narrative and visual interview data with two 'veteran offender... Read More about Hero to zero? Navigating and negotiating the harms of criminalisation as a ‘veteran offender’.

Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment (2022)
Journal Article
Moreh, C., McGhee, D., & Vlachantoni, A. (2022). Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment. Sociological Research Online, 28(2), 462-481. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211058744

This article explores the motivational factors behind preferences for medical care in the country of residence or the country of origin among EU nationals living in the UK. Undertaking a thematic analysis on a large-N qualitative data set, the articl... Read More about Transnational Healthcare Preferences Among EU Nationals in the UK: A Qualitative Assessment.

Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester (2021)
Book Chapter
Doherty. (2021). Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester. In When Students Protest: Universities in the Global North

The Global Climate Strike (GCS) movement is by far the largest and most international youth protest movement to date. Drawing on surveys of UK protesters in two demonstrations, in semi-rural Truro in Cornwall and urban Manchester on 15 March 2019 thi... Read More about Global Climate Strike Protesters and Media Coverage of the Protests in Truro and Manchester.

Balancing value and effort: a classic grounded theory of frontline police practice (2021)
Thesis
Ash, D. P. (2021). Balancing value and effort: a classic grounded theory of frontline police practice. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis seeks to explain the behaviour of frontline police officers engaged in incident work. Policymakers try to improve police legitimacy by changing how individual police officers interact with the public at police incidents. However, police p... Read More about Balancing value and effort: a classic grounded theory of frontline police practice.

Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Corcoran. (2021, February). Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’. Presented at After Strangeways webinar series, London (Virtual)

This paper considers the response of activists and prison reforming NGOs to the prison disturbances in England in 1990. These prison uprisings led to an apparent flourishing of cooperation between the criminal justice authorities, state and civil soc... Read More about Mary Corcoran (2021) ‘The Woolf Report 30 Years on: the third sector legacy’..

Student motivations for studying criminology: A narrative inquiry (2021)
Journal Article
Griffiths, C., & Trebilcock, J. (2021). Student motivations for studying criminology: A narrative inquiry. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 22(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895821993843

The number of students studying criminology at university has significantly increased. Yet, criminology students have been all but ignored in research, despite being key stakeholders and ambassadors in the criminological enterprise. Drawing on the an... Read More about Student motivations for studying criminology: A narrative inquiry.

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?.

Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance (2020)
Journal Article
Corcoran. (2020). Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance. Theoretical Criminology, 651-668. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480618819796

The spectacle of the body in pain has long functioned heuristically in crime and justice. Within this phenomenon sits a counter-cultural tradition of re-enacting outrages in public view to rally against injustices. This article starts from the establ... Read More about Spectacular Suffering: the imprisoned body as an artefact of resistance.

Complexity and the governance of security in communal spaces: an ethnographic exploration of two university campuses (2020)
Thesis
Saduova, D. (2020). Complexity and the governance of security in communal spaces: an ethnographic exploration of two university campuses. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis sets out to explore how the physical security of communal spaces is governed on two university campuses. It draws upon non-participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore the authorization and provision of physical security. It... Read More about Complexity and the governance of security in communal spaces: an ethnographic exploration of two university campuses.

‘This isn’t just a case of taking someone to the hospital’: Police approaches and management of situations involving persons with mental ill health in the custody suite and beyond (2020)
Book Chapter
Weston, S., & Trebilcock, J. (in press). ‘This isn’t just a case of taking someone to the hospital’: Police approaches and management of situations involving persons with mental ill health in the custody suite and beyond. In Policing and Mental Health: Theory, Policy and Practice. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429470882-12

Mental health is now acknowledged as the ‘core business of policing’ (Adebowale, 2013, p. °6), with a third of people in police custody estimated to have some form of mental health problem (Leese and Russell, 2017). While the Police and Crime Act 201... Read More about ‘This isn’t just a case of taking someone to the hospital’: Police approaches and management of situations involving persons with mental ill health in the custody suite and beyond.

Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials (2019)
Book Chapter
Amietta. (2019). Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials. In Everyday Justice Law, Ethnography, Injustice (161 - 181). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108763530.010

Lay participation in state judicial procedures has been championed, in Argentina and elsewhere, as embodying new ways of making justice – imbued with the experiences and sentiments of ordinary people and carrying into courthouses the quotidien’s roma... Read More about Everyday justice at the courthouse? Governing lay participation in Argentina's criminal trials.

Photographing prisoners: the unworthy, unpleasant and unchanging criminal body (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Photographing prisoners: the unworthy, unpleasant and unchanging criminal body. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 591-604. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818800747

The use of photography in representing the criminal body has long been a focus of interest in the social sciences, especially so when exploring the historical evolution of criminal identification practices. By contributing to the emerging field of vi... Read More about Photographing prisoners: the unworthy, unpleasant and unchanging criminal body.

Ghana’s Health Policy: Human Resources and Health Outcomes Inequality in Northern and Southern Ghana (2019)
Thesis
Dery, L. G. (2019). Ghana’s Health Policy: Human Resources and Health Outcomes Inequality in Northern and Southern Ghana. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413811

Despite evidence of widening geographical inequalities in maternal and child health (MCH) coverage and outcomes between the Upper West region (UWR) in the north and the Ashanti region (AR) and Greater Accra region (GAR) in southern Ghana, the relativ... Read More about Ghana’s Health Policy: Human Resources and Health Outcomes Inequality in Northern and Southern Ghana.