All Outputs (32)

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.

(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales (2023)
Journal Article

Because states must rebut the presumption of responsibility, all prisoner deaths must be investigated. These investigations frequently illustrate the tip of an iceberg of rights abuses and systemic hazards but have largely escaped analysis in prison-... Read More about (Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales.

The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms (2023)
Journal Article

This article examines the development of international human rights standards and oversight mechanisms directed at addressing the negative effects of imprisonment. We identify this as the rules-based prison-regulation project, widely endorsed by inte... Read More about The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms.

Prisoners on prisons: Experiences of peer-delivered suicide prevention work (2023)
Journal Article

Prison suicide is a global concern, with rates consistently exceeding those in non-incarcerated populations. Prisoners deliver (suicide prevention) initiatives in jurisdictions around the world. As part of a research project seeking to foreground pri... Read More about Prisoners on prisons: Experiences of peer-delivered suicide prevention work.

Improving prisoner death investigations and promoting change in prisons: a findings and recommendations report (2023)
Report

Making prisoner deaths visible: Towards a new epistemological approach (2023)
Journal Article

In custodial contexts, the duty of states to protect the most fundamental right-to life-is heightened. Nevertheless, prisoner deaths are a universal and frequent concern. The mortality rate among the 11.5 million prisoners globally is up to 50% highe... Read More about Making prisoner deaths visible: Towards a new epistemological approach.

Improving Prisoner Death Investigations And Promoting Prison Safety - Policy Brief (2023)
Report

Prisoner Death Investigations: Setting the Agenda for Change (2022)
Journal Article

Deaths in prison: Examining causes, responses, and prevention of deaths in prison worldwide (2022)
Report

Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot (2022)
Journal Article

Prisoners are a critical source of prison regulation around the world, but regulation by (rather than of) prisoners remains little analysed. In this article, we utilise the 1990 riots at HMP Strangeways (England), as a case study of prisoners (re)sha... Read More about Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot.

Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation? (2022)
Journal Article

In prisons, participatory mechanisms can foster important outcomes including fairness, legitimacy and dignity. Complaints are one significant (symbolic) mechanism facilitating prisoner participation. Ombud institutions/ Ombudsmen handle complaints ex... Read More about Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?.

Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations: Whose ‘Satisfaction’? (2022)
Journal Article

A duty to investigate deaths in detention is enshrined within international legislation including Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). A core purpose of these investigations, following UK case law, is that bereaved families ‘h... Read More about Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations: Whose ‘Satisfaction’?.

‘The human toll’: Highlighting the unacknowledged harms of prison suicide which radiate across stakeholder groups (2022)
Journal Article

Highlighting “Risky Remands” Through Prisoner Death Investigations: People With Very Severe Mental Illness Transitioning From Police and Court Custody Into Prison on Remand (2022)
Journal Article

Prison suicide/self-inflicted death is an international public health crisis, harming stakeholders including bereaved families, prisoners, prison staff and death investigators. England and Wales' record prison suicide numbers in 2016 cost at least £4... Read More about Highlighting “Risky Remands” Through Prisoner Death Investigations: People With Very Severe Mental Illness Transitioning From Police and Court Custody Into Prison on Remand.

“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story-lines as emotion work (2022)
Journal Article

The voluntary sector acts as the last line of defense for some of the most marginalized people in societies around the world, yet its capacities are significantly reduced by chronic resource shortages and dynamic political obstacles. Existing researc... Read More about “How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story-lines as emotion work.

Woodhill. A short film (2021)
Report

This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector (2021)
Journal Article

Increasing calls for 'nothing about us without us' envision marginalised people as valuable and necessary contributors to policies and practices affecting them. In this paper, we examine what this type of inclusion feels like for criminalised people... Read More about This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector.

Characterising the outcomes, impacts and implementation challenges of advanced clinical practice roles in the UK: A scoping review (2021)
Journal Article

Objectives In response to demographic and health system pressures, the development of non-medical advanced clinical practice (ACP) roles is a key component of National Health Service workforce transformation policy in the UK. This review was undertak... Read More about Characterising the outcomes, impacts and implementation challenges of advanced clinical practice roles in the UK: A scoping review.

Prisoner death investigations: a means for improving safety in prisons and societies? (2021)
Journal Article

(Inter)national law imposes obligations to investigate prisoner deaths. These investigations create rich data which are little utilised by academia, policy or practice (inter)nationally, but provide a window to identify, organise and apply learning t... Read More about Prisoner death investigations: a means for improving safety in prisons and societies?.

Reconceptualizing multisectoral prison regulation: Voluntary organizations and bereaved families as regulators (2021)
Journal Article

Prison health, prisoner safety and imprisonment rates matter: intrinsically and for health and safety outside. Existing prison regulation apparatuses (e.g. OPCAT) are extensive and hold unrealised potential to shape imprisonment. However, criminologi... Read More about Reconceptualizing multisectoral prison regulation: Voluntary organizations and bereaved families as regulators.