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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.

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.