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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.

Queering Judgment: The Case of Gender Identity Fraud (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Queering Judgment: The Case of Gender Identity Fraud. Journal of Criminal Law, 417-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018317728828

This article is a response to a series of recent successful sexual offence prosecutions brought against transgender and other gender non-conforming people for gender identity fraud, and specifically to Leveson LJ’s judgment in the Court of Appeal dec... Read More about Queering Judgment: The Case of Gender Identity Fraud.

Formulating the post-industrial self: the role of petty crime among unemployed, working-class men in Stoke on Trent (2017)
Book Chapter
Mahoney, I., & Kearon, T. (2018). Formulating the post-industrial self: the role of petty crime among unemployed, working-class men in Stoke on Trent. In Masculinity, Labour and Neoliberalism: Working-Class Men in International Perspective (77-100). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63172-1_4

This chapter draws on a series of interviews with young working-class men in a former industrial heartland in the English Midlands. It explores the responses, coping strategies and alternative narratives of self that were mobilized by these men in th... Read More about Formulating the post-industrial self: the role of petty crime among unemployed, working-class men in Stoke on Trent.

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.

Educational forensic e-gaming as effective learning environments for Higher Education students (2017)
Book Chapter
Pringle, J. K., Bracegirdle, L., & Potter, J. A. (2017). Educational forensic e-gaming as effective learning environments for Higher Education students. In Forensic Science Education and Training (119-136). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118689196.ch9

Current Higher Education undergraduates are mostly so-called generation ‘Y’ students who have grown up with computer technologies and computer gaming. As such, learning resources that employ computer game interfaces and design provide a familiar expe... Read More about Educational forensic e-gaming as effective learning environments for Higher Education students.

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.

More than a little act of kindness?: Towards a typology of volunteering as unpaid work (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). More than a little act of kindness?: Towards a typology of volunteering as unpaid work. Sociology, 1239-1256. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038517692512

Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collectiv... Read More about More than a little act of kindness?: Towards a typology of volunteering as unpaid work.