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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.

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.