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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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Staff understandings of abuse and poor practice in residential settings for adults with intellectual disabilities (2019)
Journal Article

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

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

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.