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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’.

Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services (2016)
Journal Article
Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2016). Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services. Capital and Class, 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816816667423

This article examines the impact on staff of state-imposed public sector reforms alongside austerity cuts since 2010 in the emergency services of England. We discuss the contextual imperatives for change in the police, fire and ambulance services whi... Read More about Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services.

Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002). The Journal of North African Studies, 109-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2016.1229184

This article charts the roles and representations of Algerian Women as both agents and victims of violence in the War of Independence (1956–1962) and the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s in which the role of women emerged as a significant site of ideo... Read More about Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002).

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.

Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2016)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., Mendonça, M., Pikhart, H., Frisher, M., de Oliveira, C., & Shelton, N. (2016). Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Journal of epidemiology and community health, 70(8), 764-770. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2015-206949

Background Older people who drink have been shown to have better health than those who do not. This might suggest that moderate drinking is beneficial for health, or, as considered here, that older people modify their drinking as their health deterio... Read More about Is regular drinking in later life an indicator of good health? Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

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.

Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010). French Cultural Studies, 62-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155815602158

This article addresses the audio-visual representation of the victims of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in Algeria in the 1990s, drawing on both historical and testimonial sources before examining Xavier Beauvois’s Des hommes et des dieux (2010). B... Read More about Terrorism and visibility in Algeria’s ‘black decade’: Des hommes et des dieux (2010).

Long-term Geophysical Monitoring of Simulated Clandestine Graves using Electrical and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods: 4–6 Years After Burial (2016)
Journal Article
Pringle, J. K., Jervis, J. R., Roberts, D., Dick, H. C., Wisniewski, K. D., Cassidy, N. J., & Cassella, J. P. (2016). Long-term Geophysical Monitoring of Simulated Clandestine Graves using Electrical and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods: 4–6 Years After Burial. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 61(2), 309-321. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13009

This ongoing monitoring study provides forensic search teams with systematic geophysical data over simulated clandestine graves for comparison to active cases. Simulated ‘wrapped’, ‘naked’ and ‘control’ burials were created. Multiple geophysical surv... Read More about Long-term Geophysical Monitoring of Simulated Clandestine Graves using Electrical and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods: 4–6 Years After Burial.