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Marginal gains or diminishing returns? Penal bifurcation, policy change and the administration of prisoner release in England and Wales (2019)
Journal Article
Guiney, T. (2019). Marginal gains or diminishing returns? Penal bifurcation, policy change and the administration of prisoner release in England and Wales. European Journal of Probation, 11(3), 139-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/2066220319895802

Prisoner release has emerged as a key site of penal policy contestation in England and Wales. A series of crises have undermined public confidence in the parole system and reopened longstanding debates over the confused normative basis of prisoner re... Read More about Marginal gains or diminishing returns? Penal bifurcation, policy change and the administration of prisoner release in England and Wales.

Social security coordination after Brexit: trying to take an egg out of an omelette? (2019)
Journal Article
Roberts, S. (2020). Social security coordination after Brexit: trying to take an egg out of an omelette?. ERA-Forum, 20(4), 531-547. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12027-019-00591-9

This article examines the negotiations to secure social security and healthcare rights after Brexit for people who have exercised their right to free movement or move between the EU and UK in the future. The analysis is based upon examination of draf... Read More about Social security coordination after Brexit: trying to take an egg out of an omelette?.

Rights-based claims made by UK anti-abortion activists (2019)
Journal Article
Lowe, P., & Page, S. (2019). Rights-based claims made by UK anti-abortion activists. Health and Human Rights,

This article analyzes the ways in which rights-based arguments are utilized by anti-abortion activists in the UK. Drawing on an ethnographic study featuring 30 abortion clinic sites, anti-abortion marches, and other campaigns, we argue that rights-ba... Read More about Rights-based claims made by UK anti-abortion activists.

Presenting a new defamilization and familization framework for investigating the residualization of old‐age income security measures—The case study of Hong Kong (2019)
Journal Article
Yu, S. W. K., Chau, R. C. M., & Jung, M. (2020). Presenting a new defamilization and familization framework for investigating the residualization of old‐age income security measures—The case study of Hong Kong. Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 14(1), 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/aswp.12192

Familisation and defamilisation studies are increasingly seen as an important component of welfare research. They are concerned with the threats to individuals’ welfare caused by involuntary participation in the unwanted family relationship. Moreove... Read More about Presenting a new defamilization and familization framework for investigating the residualization of old‐age income security measures—The case study of Hong Kong.

Familization risks, defamilization risks and older women (2019)
Journal Article
Chau, R. C., & Yu, S. W. (2021). Familization risks, defamilization risks and older women. Journal of Women and Aging, 33(3), 312-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2019.1692630

© 2019, © 2019 Taylor & Francis. This article is about the familization and defamilization risks faced by older women. Such risks are generated by the lack of one or both of two conditions: the freedom to choose whether or not to perform certain fa... Read More about Familization risks, defamilization risks and older women.

Progressing the Conceptualization of Value Co-creation in Public Service Organizations (2019)
Journal Article
Cluley, V., & Radnor, Z. (2020). Progressing the Conceptualization of Value Co-creation in Public Service Organizations. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, 3(3), 211-221. https://doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvz024

Value and how it is produced/created in public service organizations (PSOs) represents a current and significant issue for those researching and working in public sector management as well as public service users. Recently it has been suggested that... Read More about Progressing the Conceptualization of Value Co-creation in Public Service Organizations.

How to do things with epigenetics: An investigation into the use of metaphors to promote alternative approaches to health and social science, and their implications for interdisciplinary collaboration (2019)
Journal Article
Nerlich, B., Stelmach, A., & Ennis, C. (2020). How to do things with epigenetics: An investigation into the use of metaphors to promote alternative approaches to health and social science, and their implications for interdisciplinary collaboration. Social Science Information, 59(1), 59-92. https://doi.org/10.1177/0539018419887110

Epigenetics is a multifaceted field within genetics and genomics which focuses on discovering mechanisms involved in gene expression and regulation. It came to public attention around the turn of the millennium when the human genome began to be decip... Read More about How to do things with epigenetics: An investigation into the use of metaphors to promote alternative approaches to health and social science, and their implications for interdisciplinary collaboration.

Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories in the community: The United Kingdom experience (2019)
Journal Article
Khalifa, N., Hadfield, S., Thomson, L., Talbot, E., Bird, Y., Schneider, J., …Walker, D. (2020). Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories in the community: The United Kingdom experience. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 83(3), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308022619879334

Introduction We aimed to identify the barriers and facilitators to the implementation of a high fidelity individual placement and support service in a community forensic mental health setting. Method In-depth interviews were conducted with clinica... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of individual placement and support (IPS) for patients with offending histories in the community: The United Kingdom experience.

From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life (2019)
Journal Article
Ferguson, H., Leigh, J., Beddoe, L., Singh Crooner, T., Disney, T., Warwick, L., & Plumridge, G. (2020). From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life. British Journal of Social Work, 50(6), 1706–1723. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz119

Research into social work and child protection has begun to observe practice to find out what social workers actually do, however no such ethnographic research has been done into long-term practice. This paper outlines and analyses the methods used i... Read More about From snapshots of practice to a movie: Researching long-term social work and child protection by getting as close as possible to practice and organisational life.

Animals, veterinarians and the sociology of diagnosis (2019)
Journal Article
Hobson?West, P., & Jutel, A. (2020). Animals, veterinarians and the sociology of diagnosis. Sociology of Health and Illness, 42(2), 393-406. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13017

While sociologists of medicine have focused their efforts on understanding human health, illness, and medicine, veterinary medical practice has not yet caught their attention in any sustained way. In this critical review paper, we use insights from t... Read More about Animals, veterinarians and the sociology of diagnosis.

Staff understandings of abuse and poor practice in residential settings for adults with intellectual disabilities (2019)
Journal Article
Fyson, R., & Patterson, A. (2020). Staff understandings of abuse and poor practice in residential settings for adults with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 33(3), 354-363. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12677

Background A common factor in the abuse of people with intellectual disabilities in residential settings has been the failure of care staff and frontline managers to recognise poor practice at an early stage and prevent its development into a cult... Read More about Staff understandings of abuse and poor practice in residential settings for adults with intellectual disabilities.

Building a Bedrock of Trust Between Citizens, Law Enforcement and Other Stakeholders: A Scalable Architecture for Community Policing (2019)
Book Chapter
Marzell, L., & Brewster, B. (2019). Building a Bedrock of Trust Between Citizens, Law Enforcement and Other Stakeholders: A Scalable Architecture for Community Policing. In B. Akhgar, P. S. Bayerl, & G. Leventakis (Eds.), Social Media Strategy in Policing: From Cultural Intelligence to Community Policing (139-158). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22002-0_8

In today’s complex and interconnected world, the diverse communities that exist within it are complex ecosystems; no longer defined by geography alone. Instead, a multitude of factors, interests and connections, both virtual and physical, bind us tog... Read More about Building a Bedrock of Trust Between Citizens, Law Enforcement and Other Stakeholders: A Scalable Architecture for Community Policing.

Designing 'Healthy' Prisons for Women: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (TICP) into Prison Planning and Design (2019)
Journal Article
Jewkes, Y., Jordan, M., Wright, S., & Bendelow, G. (2019). Designing 'Healthy' Prisons for Women: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (TICP) into Prison Planning and Design. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(20), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203818

There has been growing acknowledgment among scholars, prison staff and policy-makers that gender-informed thinking should feed into penal policy but must be implemented holistically if gains are to be made in reducing trauma, saving lives, ensuring e... Read More about Designing 'Healthy' Prisons for Women: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (TICP) into Prison Planning and Design.

‘Delete the family’: platform families and the colonisation of the smart home (2019)
Journal Article
Goulden, M. (2019). ‘Delete the family’: platform families and the colonisation of the smart home. Information, Communication and Society, 24(7), 903-920. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2019.1668454

On its surface, the ‘smart home’ marks an effort to augment everyday domestic life to the benefit of its members, through the pervasive digital technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT). Through an analysis of the family-imitating group accounts o... Read More about ‘Delete the family’: platform families and the colonisation of the smart home.

Introducing the Slave Next Door (2019)
Journal Article
Birks, J., & Gardner, A. (2019). Introducing the Slave Next Door. Anti-Trafficking Review, 2019(13), 66-81. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201219135

Past studies have indicated that the British public consider human trafficking to be remote from their personal experiences. However, an increase in local press reporting, alongside the emergence of locally co-ordinated anti-modern slavery campaigns,... Read More about Introducing the Slave Next Door.

The Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: Concepts and an Agenda for an Emerging Field (2019)
Journal Article
Tomczak, P. (2019). The Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: Concepts and an Agenda for an Emerging Field. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 58(3), 276-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12326

Volunteers and voluntary organisations play significant roles pervading criminal justice. They are key actors, with unrecognised potential to shore up criminal justice and/or collaboratively reshape social justice. Unlike public and for-profit agents... Read More about The Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: Concepts and an Agenda for an Emerging Field.