Naked Civil Servant: Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas (2023)
Journal Article
Janes, D. (2023). Naked Civil Servant: Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas. History Workshop Journal, 96, 25–45. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbad014

The minutely documented diaries of an ‘everyman’ such as George Lucas enable us to view the complex pleasures and challenging realities of the postwar queer quotidian in remarkable detail. A sample of the years after 1957, when Lucas was aged in his... Read More about Naked Civil Servant: Queer Sex, Catholicism and Conformism in the Post-War London Diaries of George Lucas.

Police discretion and the role of the ‘spotter’ within football crowd policing: risk assessment, engagement, legitimacy and de-escalation (2023)
Journal Article
Hope, M., Radburn, M., & Stott, C. (2023). Police discretion and the role of the ‘spotter’ within football crowd policing: risk assessment, engagement, legitimacy and de-escalation. Policing and Society, 33(5), 485-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2173193

Discretion is a key feature of policing, yet its surrounding research has historically been heavily reliant upon exploring interpersonal or dyadic encounters between individual officers and members of the public. More recently, studies have explored... Read More about Police discretion and the role of the ‘spotter’ within football crowd policing: risk assessment, engagement, legitimacy and de-escalation.

Ideological passion and violent activism: The moderating role of the significance quest. (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). Ideological passion and violent activism: The moderating role of the significance quest. British Journal of Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12576

This research examines how the relationship between passion for an ideology and violent activism is magnified by the personal (vs. collective) loss of significance. In Study 1 (N =?238), the relationship between obsessive (but not harmonious) passion... Read More about Ideological passion and violent activism: The moderating role of the significance quest..

The dark tetrad personality traits moderate the relationship between ideological passion and violent activism. (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). The dark tetrad personality traits moderate the relationship between ideological passion and violent activism. Psychology of Violence, https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000414

Objective: This research examines the interface between ideological passion and the dark tetrad personality traits to predict violent (vs. peaceful) political activism. Meta-analytic research shows that ideological obsessive passion (OP) is one of th... Read More about The dark tetrad personality traits moderate the relationship between ideological passion and violent activism..

How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway (2021)
Journal Article
Drury, J., Stott, C., Ball, R., Barr, D., Bell, L., Reicher, S., & Neville, F. (2022). How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway. Political Psychology, 43(4), 651-669. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12786

Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in... Read More about How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway.

Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing (2021)
Journal Article
Kyprianides, A., Bradford, B., Beale, M., Savigar-Shaw, L., Stott, C., & Radburn, M. (2021). Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing. Policing and Society, 32(4), 504-521. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.1916492

Police organisations have a wealth of experience in responding to emergencies, but COVID-19 is unprecedented in terms of the speed, scale and complexity of developing doctrine and its implementation by officers. The crisis also threw into sharp relie... Read More about Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing.

A history of abuse: Documenting the harms experienced by the 'Trainspotting Generation' (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). A history of abuse: Documenting the harms experienced by the 'Trainspotting Generation'. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1172

The story of the past 40 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain leading to long-term unemployment and discarded generations that have been excluded socially and economically (Pearson 1987a, 1987b, Buchanan and Young 2000).... Read More about A history of abuse: Documenting the harms experienced by the 'Trainspotting Generation'.

A Defence of Nihilism (2020)
Book
Tartaglia, J., & Llanera, T. (2020). A Defence of Nihilism. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429277962

This book offers a philosophical defence of nihilism. The authors argue that the concept of nihilism has been employed pejoratively by almost all philosophers and religious leaders to indicate a widespread cultural crisis of truth, meaning, or morals... Read More about A Defence of Nihilism.

Group problem management plus for decreasing psychological distress in Syrian refugees in Turkey (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Group problem management plus for decreasing psychological distress in Syrian refugees in Turkey. European Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.627

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:sec> <jats:title>Background</jats:title> <jats:p>The crisis in Syria has caused millions of Syrians to seek refuge in neighboring countries and Europe. Refugees often experience war related traumatic events and... Read More about Group problem management plus for decreasing psychological distress in Syrian refugees in Turkey.

Positive Links Between Exposure to Police Violence, PTSD, and Depression Symptoms Among Yellow Vests Protesters in France (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Positive Links Between Exposure to Police Violence, PTSD, and Depression Symptoms Among Yellow Vests Protesters in France. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 088626052093586 - 088626052093586. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520935863

<jats:p> Police violence during protests occurs worldwide with varying levels ranging from physical abuse to lethal use of force. Although prior research has investigated the health consequences of exposure to police violence (EPV), EPV’s relationshi... Read More about Positive Links Between Exposure to Police Violence, PTSD, and Depression Symptoms Among Yellow Vests Protesters in France.

Putting more people in cages! That’s how we build our way out of the pandemic (2020)
Journal Article
Emmerich, F., & Adams, F. (2020). Putting more people in cages! That’s how we build our way out of the pandemic

We can't build ourselves out of the current crisis with buildings that reproduce racism, economic and environmental injustice

Democratic Innovations after the Post-Democratic Turn: Between Activation and Empowerment (2020)
Journal Article
Hammond. (2020). Democratic Innovations after the Post-Democratic Turn: Between Activation and Empowerment. Critical Policy Studies, 15(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2020.1733629

When it comes to the status of democracy, the current times present a curious chasm: On the one hand, the depoliticization of contemporary discourses and institutions has led to both the diagnosis of a factual ‘post-democracy’ and a normative legitim... Read More about Democratic Innovations after the Post-Democratic Turn: Between Activation and Empowerment.

Utilizing the moral nobility of older Chinese women in governance: The uses of humility, empathy, and an ethics of care in moral clinics in Huzhou city (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Utilizing the moral nobility of older Chinese women in governance: The uses of humility, empathy, and an ethics of care in moral clinics in Huzhou city. British Journal of Sociology, 300-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12736

This paper examines the emergence of the role of “moral doctors” who volunteer in what are called “moral clinics” in Huzhou city. In these moral clinics, the characteristics, experiences, and attributes of older women, in particular, are highly value... Read More about Utilizing the moral nobility of older Chinese women in governance: The uses of humility, empathy, and an ethics of care in moral clinics in Huzhou city.

Regaining Honour and Regaining Legitimacy: Shame, Obedience and Risk Practices Amongst Chinese Communist Officials (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Regaining Honour and Regaining Legitimacy: Shame, Obedience and Risk Practices Amongst Chinese Communist Officials. Economy and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2018.1528103

As part of its anti-corruption campaigns in China, the Communist Party of China (CCP) provides officials opportunities to redeem themselves and renew their vows of loyalty to the Party and the people they serve. Officials must regain honour through a... Read More about Regaining Honour and Regaining Legitimacy: Shame, Obedience and Risk Practices Amongst Chinese Communist Officials.

Police and cross-border crime in an era of globalisation: The case of the Benin–Nigeria border (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Police and cross-border crime in an era of globalisation: The case of the Benin–Nigeria border. Security Journal, 859 - 879. https://doi.org/10.1057/sj.2015.17

West Africa has become notorious for instability and armed conflict and is increasingly known for transnational criminal networks. Free movement across borders creates security threats in the sub-region. Smugglers, traffickers, terrorists and armed r... Read More about Police and cross-border crime in an era of globalisation: The case of the Benin–Nigeria border.

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.

The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police. https://doi.org/10.23666/zzr201601

In the UK, private policing institutions have been rapidly increasing since the 1980s, so the lines between public- and private police have been blurred. This paper explores whether there is a policing function that is inherent in public police and i... Read More about The Potential Use of Legitimate Force for the Preservation of Order: Defining the Inherent Role of Public Police Through Policing Functions That Cannot Be Carried Out by Private Police.

‘The changing face of youth justice’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Brammer. (2016). ‘The changing face of youth justice’. In Critical Issues in Social Work Law (100 - 116 (176))

In this chapter we are concerned with the operation of the criminal justice system as it applies to defendants under 18 years of age. This group includes children (10–13) and young persons (14–17), collectively referred to as ‘juveniles’ and, in this... Read More about ‘The changing face of youth justice’.