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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.

Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Asset-based Welfare and Housing in Great Britain (2024)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses (2024)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Using theory from the Global South: from social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu (2024)
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Criminologists adopting a southern or decolonial perspective bemoan the failure to use theories from the Global South in making sense of crime and responses to it. This article takes the African philosophy and ethics of ubuntu and demonstrates how th... Read More about Using theory from the Global South: from social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu.

Researching childhood vaccine hesitancy in the wake of COVID-19 (2024)
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a seismic effect on public healthcare, vaccine production, and on society. However, the pandemic has also had a methodological impact on social researchers, including those seeking to better understand vaccine hesitancy... Read More about Researching childhood vaccine hesitancy in the wake of COVID-19.

Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime (2023)
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Political parties occupy a contradictory position in the criminological literature: at once active participants in the political contestation of crime but virtually absent from contemporary debates concerning the relationship between crime and democr... Read More about Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime.

Indigenous or biomedical ethics, or both? A consideration from health-related ethnographic research conducted in a rural setting (2023)
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Generally, conventional biomedically rooted ethical guidelines developed in Western countries for ethnographic research in non-Western countries are often impractical and raise contention. Ethical approval from research ethics committees (RECs) is a... Read More about Indigenous or biomedical ethics, or both? A consideration from health-related ethnographic research conducted in a rural setting.

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

Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach (2023)
Journal Article

This paper draws on empirical evidence from a 3-year research project in Northern Uganda examining the educational experiences of refugees with disabilities. The authors present the compounded and interrelated challenges children with disabilities an... Read More about Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach.

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

Researching the researcher: producing emotionally-sensed knowledge in migration research (2023)
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Reflexivity has been central to recent debates in migration studies, focusing on how migration scholarship can become more equitable, inclusive, and attuned to the power dynamics inherent in research processes. In this article, we advance these debat... Read More about Researching the researcher: producing emotionally-sensed knowledge in migration research.

Editorial: The commodification of the public good—who wins and who loses? (2023)
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Building a Panopticon Through Nodal Governance: Mass Surveillance and Plural Policing in China’s COVID-19 Lockdown (2023)
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At one time monitoring over 900 million people, China’s health code system is arguably the most controversial invention of the pandemic. This study explores how the system emerged and its implications for security governance in urban communities. By... Read More about Building a Panopticon Through Nodal Governance: Mass Surveillance and Plural Policing in China’s COVID-19 Lockdown.

Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse: An under-Recognised Safeguarding Issue? (2023)
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Responding to domestic abuse is a key element of social work practice, in both child protection and adult safeguarding. This article sets out the ways in which rapid technological advances are being co-opted by perpetrators of domestic abuse to creat... Read More about Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse: An under-Recognised Safeguarding Issue?.

Learning from pandemic precarity: The future of early career researchers in qualitative health research (2023)
Journal Article

This commentary is a critical reflection by early career researchers (ECRs) working in qualitative health research (QHR) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The consequences of the pandemic have been acutely felt by ECRs working in QHR. Many studies stoppe... Read More about Learning from pandemic precarity: The future of early career researchers in qualitative health research.