All Outputs (10)

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.

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

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.

Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects: Executive summary, May 2023 (2023)
Report

This is the Executive Summary of the final report arising out of a study funded by the Nuffield Foundation which involved examining the efficacy of legal safeguards for children held in police custody. A mixed methods approach was adopted drawing on... Read More about Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects: Executive summary, May 2023.

Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects (2023)
Report

The Nuffield Foundation funded this three year project which involved examining the efficacy of legal safeguards for children held in police custody. A mixed methods approach was adopted drawing on over 50,000 electronic custody records drawn from e... Read More about Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects.

Are women of all age groups equally affected by the shadow of sexual assault? Evidence from Germany (2023)
Journal Article

Ample evidence suggests that women are more fearful of crime than men. The ‘shadow of sexual assault hypothesis’ offers a possible explanation for this gender gap: in patriarchal societies females are more afraid of sexual violence, which, in turn, d... Read More about Are women of all age groups equally affected by the shadow of sexual assault? Evidence from Germany.

Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers (2022)
Journal Article

Criminal careers research is one of the largest fields of research in modern criminology. However, it has almost exclusively focussed on individual-level explanations of onset, maintenance and desistance. In this article, and in part inspired by rece... Read More about Life-courses, social change and politics: Evidence for the role of politically motivated structural-level influences on individual criminal careers.

Desistance and the state: revisiting the individualization thesis in criminology and criminal justice (2022)
Journal Article

The growing influence of neo-liberalism in crime policy and practice has resulted in the responsibilization of individuals: criminality and risk tend now to be seen as operating at the individual level, rather than the structural level. Individuals a... Read More about Desistance and the state: revisiting the individualization thesis in criminology and criminal justice.

The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation (2022)
Journal Article

This paper combines archival data and statistical analysis to investigate the context-specific ways that prisons expanded and affected communities in the UK, focusing closely on the role of the UK's political economy. We present evidence of a signifi... Read More about The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation.