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Reconceiving Domestic Burning Controls: Air Quality Alerts, Behavioural Responsive Regulation, and Designing for Compliance (2024)
Journal Article
Heydon, J., Chakraborty, R., Patel, V., Wood, C., Wood, M., & Bunce, C. (in press). Reconceiving Domestic Burning Controls: Air Quality Alerts, Behavioural Responsive Regulation, and Designing for Compliance. Environmental Management,

Domestic combustion emissions pose a growing risk to public health, especially in the UK. Existing responses are polarised, with government advocating use of lower emission fuels and stoves while clean air campaigners call for blanket bans on burning... Read More about Reconceiving Domestic Burning Controls: Air Quality Alerts, Behavioural Responsive Regulation, and Designing for Compliance.

Life after crime and punishment? Lifestyles changes and quaternary desistance (2024)
Journal Article
Gray, E., & Farrall, S. (2024). Life after crime and punishment? Lifestyles changes and quaternary desistance. International Journal of Criminal Justice, 6(1), 75-105. https://doi.org/10.36889/IJCJ.2024.003

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
Iafrati, S., Clare, N., & Lawrence, H. (in press). Moving on: the overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England. Critical Social Policy,

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.

Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Matthews, P., Barnett, C., Lambert, P., Gregory, L., & Formby, E. (2024). Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain. Social Policy and Society, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474746424000186

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
Quinn, K., Buck, G., & Tomczak, P. (2024). Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector. British Journal of Criminology, Article azae027. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae027

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
Farrall, S. (2024). Exploring reconvictions and ‘crime-free’ gaps over time: What were the experience of one cohort of English probationers?. Criminology and Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958241249845

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?.

Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses (2024)
Journal Article
Wagner, A., Polak, P., Rudek, T. J., Świątkiewicz-Mośny, M., Anderson, A., Bockstal, M., …Vuolanto, P. (2024). Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses. Social Science and Medicine, 346, Article 116725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116725

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.

Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Dixon, B. (2024). Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa. British Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae011

This article is an autoethnographic account of a 20-year engagement with South African criminology. It is written from the perspective of someone from the Global North, a beneficiary of Britain’s colonial past and the present dominance of northern wa... Read More about Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa.

Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study (2024)
Journal Article
Vuolanto, P., Nunes Almeida, A., Anderson, A., Auvinen, P., Beja, A., Bracke, P., …Wagner, A. (2024). Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 52(3), 379-390. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948231223791

This article presents the design of a seven-country study focusing on childhood vaccines, Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe (VAX-TRUST), developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study consists of (a) situation analysis of vaccine hesitancy (e... Read More about Trust matters: The Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe Study.