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The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas (2015)
Book Chapter
Doherty. (2015). The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas. In Breaking Down the State: Protesters Engaged (27 - 51)

In this chapter we analyze cases where social movement activists are prosecuted in the courts for protest actions. The courthouse is a significant arena for social movement strategy, a symbolic site for the arbitration of collective disputes, the leg... Read More about The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas.

Disturbing Disgust: Gesturing to the Abject in Queer Cases (2015)
Book Chapter
(2015). Disturbing Disgust: Gesturing to the Abject in Queer Cases. In Queering Criminology (83-101)

Emotion plays a central role in the criminalisation of non-normative sexualities, desires, and relationships. Disgust, in particular, has been mobilised as a gesture to condemn queer bodies or intimacies that refuse to subscribe to reproductive heter... Read More about Disturbing Disgust: Gesturing to the Abject in Queer Cases.

Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2015). Introduction. In Voluntary sector and criminal justice (1-12)

Criminal Investigation Through the Eye of the Detective: Technological Innovation and Tradition (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Criminal Investigation Through the Eye of the Detective: Technological Innovation and Tradition. Surveillance & Society, https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v13i3/4.5403

Technological elements and scientific knowledge are steadily transforming both the traditional image of the detective and the nature of contemporary police work. However, despite the potential utility of scientific methods and new technologies in cri... Read More about Criminal Investigation Through the Eye of the Detective: Technological Innovation and Tradition.

Gendered dynamics of mentoring (2015)
Book Chapter
Corcoran. (2015). Gendered dynamics of mentoring. In Women and Criminal Justice: From the Corston Report to Transforming Rehabilitation (153 - 172)

An investigation into the early detection of psychosis and depression in individuals via Social Media (Twitter) (2015)
Presentation / Conference
COLLINS EADE, A., DE QUINCEY, E., & FOSTER, J. (2015, October). An investigation into the early detection of psychosis and depression in individuals via Social Media (Twitter). Presented at 3rd GRF One Health Summit 2015, One Health, One Planet, One Future: Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration for global public and animal health, Davos, Switzerland

Identity concealed or revealed?: the use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system (2015)
Presentation / Conference
(2015, August). Identity concealed or revealed?: the use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system. Presented at British Association of Victorian Studies, Leeds

Photography promised 'an enhanced mastery of nature' and was adopted by the police and prison services as a means of identifying suspects who endeavoured to conceal their names and previous convictions. The end of transportation to the colonies was p... Read More about Identity concealed or revealed?: the use of photography in the Victorian criminal justice system.

Soilwater conductivity analysis to date and locate clandestine graves of homicide victims (2015)
Journal Article
Pringle, J. P., Cassella, J. P., Jervis, J. R., Williams, A., Cross, P., & Cassidy, N. J. (2015). Soilwater conductivity analysis to date and locate clandestine graves of homicide victims. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 60(4), 1052-1060. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.12802

In homicide investigations, it is critically important that postmortem interval and postburial interval (PBI) of buried victims are determined accurately. However, clandestine graves can be difficult to locate; and the detection rates for a variety o... Read More about Soilwater conductivity analysis to date and locate clandestine graves of homicide victims.

Ages and stages: the place of theatre in the lives of older people (2015)
Journal Article
Rickett, M., Bernard, M., Munro, L., Murray, M., Rezzano, J., & Amigoni, D. (2015). Ages and stages: the place of theatre in the lives of older people. Ageing and society, 1119 - 1145. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X14000038

Despite the growing interest amongst gerontologists and literary and cultural scholars alike, in arts participation, ageing and the artistic outputs of older people, comparatively little attention has yet been paid to theatre and drama. Likewise, com... Read More about Ages and stages: the place of theatre in the lives of older people.

PCCs, roads policing and the dilemmas of increased democratic accountability (2015)
Journal Article
Wells. (2015). PCCs, roads policing and the dilemmas of increased democratic accountability. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 274-292. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv037

In the era of the Police and Crime Commissioner, when the benefits of democratic accountability are placed centre stage, and the public are encouraged to believe that they should dictate the type of policing they receive, this article considers the p... Read More about PCCs, roads policing and the dilemmas of increased democratic accountability.

The War Against Terror and Transatlantic Information Sharing: Spillovers of Privacy or Spillovers of Security? (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The War Against Terror and Transatlantic Information Sharing: Spillovers of Privacy or Spillovers of Security?. Merkourios, 87 - 103. https://doi.org/10.5334/ujiel.cq

The EU-US Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreement has been among the most controversial instruments in the fight against terrorism that the EU negotiated with the US after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The agreement has been heavily criticised for its im... Read More about The War Against Terror and Transatlantic Information Sharing: Spillovers of Privacy or Spillovers of Security?.

Social solidarity, social work and Chinese people (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Social solidarity, social work and Chinese people. International Social Work, 773-786. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872814559557

Differences in social solidarity among Chinese in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom have been identified from two linked studies. Significant differences emerged between the two Chinese communities. Notably, respondents in Hong Kong reported a higher... Read More about Social solidarity, social work and Chinese people.