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Who cares about lab rodents? (2024)
Journal Article
Davies, G., Kirk, R. G., Greenhough, B., Hobson-West, P., Myelnikov, D., & Roe, E. (2024). Who cares about lab rodents?. Science, 385(6715), 1270-1273. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adr6151

Rodents are widely seen as a commensal pest species and an unwelcome addition to human society. Consequently, caring about mice and rats—relative to more charismatic species, such as cats or dogs—is less commonly a focus of public concern. Yet, in di... Read More about Who cares about lab rodents?.

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. (2024). Moving on: The overrepresentation of Black and minoritised households in out of area housing placements in England. Critical Social Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241274659

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.

Barriers and opportunities for prison services in developing reintegrative pathways for justice-involved people subjected to MSHT exploitation (2024)
Journal Article
Sandy, L., Snowden, A., Tangen, J., & Gardner, A. (2024). Barriers and opportunities for prison services in developing reintegrative pathways for justice-involved people subjected to MSHT exploitation. Prison Service Journal, 20-29

Vulnerable people who are subjected to modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) exploitation and become justice-involved, face complex challenges in both recovering from their experiences and achieving ongoing protection. An evaluation of internat... Read More about Barriers and opportunities for prison services in developing reintegrative pathways for justice-involved people subjected to MSHT exploitation.

Learnings from the vaccines taskforce: an apotheosis in mission, purpose and handling risk (2024)
Journal Article
Carroll, S. M., Van-Tam, J. N., Shaw, I., Todd, R., & Bell, E. (2024). Learnings from the vaccines taskforce: an apotheosis in mission, purpose and handling risk. Journal of Medical Economics (JME), 27(1), 1119-1123. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696998.2024.2395741

The Vaccines Task Force was established by the UK government in April 2020, with the objective of securing early access to effective COVID-19 vaccines for the UK population and internationally. The VTF was successful in securing the earliest access t... Read More about Learnings from the vaccines taskforce: an apotheosis in mission, purpose and handling risk.

Making moral and economic inferior others: Everyday racialization of Asian migrants in South Korea (2024)
Journal Article
Choi, J. (2024). Making moral and economic inferior others: Everyday racialization of Asian migrants in South Korea. Current Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921241269190

Recent studies have explored racialization among groups with subtle or no phenotypical differences; however, a crucial connection to racial capitalism remains unexplored. This article investigates the everyday racialization of migrants in Wongok-dong... Read More about Making moral and economic inferior others: Everyday racialization of Asian migrants in South Korea.

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. (2025). Reconceiving Domestic Burning Controls: Air Quality Alerts, Behavioural Responsive Regulation, and Designing for Compliance. Environmental Management, 75, 761-777. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-024-02014-z

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.

Nostalgia, anomia and the fear of crime (2024)
Journal Article
Hirtenlehner, H., & Farrall, S. (2024). Nostalgia, anomia and the fear of crime. Journal of Criminology, 58(1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076241260847

In times of change, individuals may feel disoriented and alienated, be afraid of crime and long for a supposedly better past. Despite these interdependencies, the interrelationships between anomia, nostalgia and fear of crime have remained under-rese... Read More about Nostalgia, anomia and the fear of crime.

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.

The Digital Desistance Manifesto (2024)
Book Chapter
Knight, V., Elison-Davies, S., Farley, H., & Tangen, J. (2024). The Digital Desistance Manifesto. In I. Mahoney, & R. Chowdhury (Eds.), Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending (62-80). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003342328-5

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.

Explore the relationship between childcare gap policies and children’s social quality: a comparative analysis of European countries (2024)
Journal Article
Yu, W. K., Chau, R. C. M., Yu, C., & Ho, G. (2024). Explore the relationship between childcare gap policies and children’s social quality: a comparative analysis of European countries. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 44(11/12), 955-973. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-03-2024-0116

Purpose: This article focuses on children’s social quality. Social quality can be understood as the extent to which people can engage in the social, economic, and cultural lives of their communities, under conditions that strengthen their well-being... Read More about Explore the relationship between childcare gap policies and children’s social quality: a comparative analysis of European countries.