Outputs (830)

Life after crime and punishment? Lifestyles changes and quaternary desistance (2024)
Journal Article

Studies of why people stop offending have been one of the considerable growth areas of criminology and life-course studies since the early-1990s. Initially the research focused on assessing the extent to which people who had offending did cease offen... Read More about Life after crime and punishment? Lifestyles changes and quaternary desistance.

Moving on: the overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England (2024)
Journal Article

Based on freedom of information request data supplied by English local authorities, this paper identifies significant under-reporting of out of area housing placements in government statistics alongside an overrepresentation of Black and minoritised... Read More about Moving on: the overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England.

The Digital Desistance Manifesto (2024)
Book Chapter

Desistance theories in criminology explore how individuals stop engaging in criminal behaviours and have gained increased attention since the 1990s. Desistance involves actively leaving criminality behind and rebuilding one's identity in contrast to... Read More about The Digital Desistance Manifesto.

Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain (2024)
Journal Article

The role of housing in providing a welfare asset has been widely explored. With the growth in home ownership between 1979 and 2008 and erosion of the welfare state, housing wealth has become part of the welfare mix in the UK. Here, we present analysi... Read More about Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain.

Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector (2024)
Journal Article

Metaphors pervade media and political constructions of crime and justice, provoking responses and shaping actions. Scholarship in adjacent disciplines illustrates that emotion-metaphors offer unique insight into emotional and interpretive processes,... Read More about Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector.

Exploring reconvictions and ‘crime-free’ gaps over time: What were the experience of one cohort of English probationers? (2024)
Journal Article

Many, but not all, reconviction studies are undertaken over relatively short periods of time (such as 2 or 5 years) and are usually used to gauge the impact of various disposals against one another. This study, based on one cohort of probationers who... Read More about Exploring reconvictions and ‘crime-free’ gaps over time: What were the experience of one cohort of English probationers?.

Nostalgia, Anomia and the Fear of Crime (2024)
Journal Article

Abortion and Catholicism in Britain: Attitudes, Lived Religion and Complexity (2024)
Book

This book details how British Catholic communities view abortion, highlighting the diversity of positions which often contrast with the official line of Catholic Church doctrine. The authors’ extensive qualitative investigation involving various Cath... Read More about Abortion and Catholicism in Britain: Attitudes, Lived Religion and Complexity.

The politics of crime, punishment and justice: Exploring the lived reality and enduring legacies of the 1980's radical right (2024)
Book

This book explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the criminal justice system, and attitudes towards punishment in Britain. Grounded in a rigorous analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys such as the British Social Attitude... Read More about The politics of crime, punishment and justice: Exploring the lived reality and enduring legacies of the 1980's radical right.

Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses (2024)
Journal Article

Although Covid-19 was not the first pandemic, it was unique in the scale and intensity with which societies responded. Countries reacted differently to the threat posed by the new virus. The public health crisis affected European so... Read More about Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses.