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Experiences of youth justice: youth justice discourses and their multiple effects (2014)
Journal Article
McAlister, S., & Carr, N. (2014). Experiences of youth justice: youth justice discourses and their multiple effects. Youth Justice, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225414549694

Interventions within youth justice systems draw on a range of rationales and philosophies. Traditionally demarcated by a welfare/justice binary, the complex array of contemporary rationales meld different philosophies and practices, suggesting a muta... Read More about Experiences of youth justice: youth justice discourses and their multiple effects.

Trends in the management of registered sexual offenders across England and Wales: a geographical approach to the study of sexual offending (2014)
Journal Article
Hudson, K., Taylor, C., & Henley, A. (2015). Trends in the management of registered sexual offenders across England and Wales: a geographical approach to the study of sexual offending. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 21(1), (56-70). doi:10.1080/13552600.2014.949314. ISSN 1355-2600

Social scientists, and geographers in particular, have long been interested in examining spatial patterns of offending in order to generate a “geography” of crime and criminality. This paper examines what value, if any, a geographical approach to the... Read More about Trends in the management of registered sexual offenders across England and Wales: a geographical approach to the study of sexual offending.

Climate change and poverty: a new agenda for developed nations (2014)
Book
Fitzpatrick, T. (2014). Climate change and poverty: a new agenda for developed nations. Policy Press

Climate change and poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuelpoverty, food poverty, housin... Read More about Climate change and poverty: a new agenda for developed nations.

Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears (2014)
Book
Sandy, L. (2014). Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315762777

© 2014 Larissa Sandy. All rights reserved. Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia. Based on extensive original research, this book explores the nature of prostitution in Cambodia, providing explanations of why the p... Read More about Women and sex work in Cambodia: Blood, sweat and tears.

An analysis of the research team-service user relationship from the service user perspective: a consideration of ‘The three Rs’ (roles, relations, and responsibilities) for healthcare research organisations (2014)
Journal Article
Jordan, M., Rowley, E., Morriss, R. K., & Manning, N. (2015). An analysis of the research team-service user relationship from the service user perspective: a consideration of ‘The three Rs’ (roles, relations, and responsibilities) for healthcare research organisations. Health Expectations, 18(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12243

Background This article debates interview data from service users who engaged with the work of a Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC). The evidence base, to date, concerning the nature of CLAHRC work at the fro... Read More about An analysis of the research team-service user relationship from the service user perspective: a consideration of ‘The three Rs’ (roles, relations, and responsibilities) for healthcare research organisations.

Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications (2014)
Book Chapter
Bayerl, P. S., Akhgar, B., Brewster, B., Domdouzis, K., & Gibson, H. (2014). Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications. In B. Akhgar, A. Staniforth, & F. Bosco (Eds.), Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism Investigator's Handbook (197-220). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800743-3.00016-5

Social media has become a major aspect of online activity, and thus an essential part of cybercrime and cyber terrorism-related operations. As LEA’s (law enforcement agencies) focus upon cybercrime and cyber terrorism threats increase, so does the re... Read More about Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications.

The impact of out of pocket payments on health care inequality: the case of national health insurance in South Korea (2014)
Journal Article
Lee, W., & Shaw, I. (2014). The impact of out of pocket payments on health care inequality: the case of national health insurance in South Korea. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(7), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph110707304

The global financial crisis of 2008 has led to the reinforcement of patient cost sharing in health care policy. This study aimed to explore the impact of direct out-of pocket payments (OOPs) on health care utilization and the resulting financial burd... Read More about The impact of out of pocket payments on health care inequality: the case of national health insurance in South Korea.

Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Brewster, B., Andrews, S., Polovina, S., Hirsch, L., & Akhgar, B. (2023). Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats. In N. Hernandez, R. Jäschke, & M. Croitoru (Eds.), Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning: 21st International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2014, Iaşi, Romania, July 27-30, 2014, Proceedings (275-280). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08389-6_22

ePOOLICE aims at developing an efficient and effective strategic early warning system that utilises environmental scanning for the early warning and detection of current, emergent and future organised crime threats. Central to this concept is the use... Read More about Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats.

Abolishing the stigma of punishments served: Andrew Henley argues that those who have been punished should be free from future discrimination (2014)
Journal Article
Henley, A. (2014). Abolishing the stigma of punishments served: Andrew Henley argues that those who have been punished should be free from future discrimination. Criminal Justice Matters, 97(1), (22-23). doi:10.1080/09627251.2014.950521. ISSN 0962-7251

The Benthamite workhouse principle of ‘less eligibility’ dates back to the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and, since its application to the sphere of criminal justice, has long dictated that prisoners and other lawbreakers should always be last in the q... Read More about Abolishing the stigma of punishments served: Andrew Henley argues that those who have been punished should be free from future discrimination.

Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain (2014)
Journal Article
Reynolds, T., & Zontini, E. (2014). Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain. Families, Relationships and Societies, 3(2), 251-268. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674314X14008543149532

© 2014 Policy Press. Britain, alongside other Western contemporary societies, has undergone important social and demographic transformations resulting from increased migration. One important change is that family life is increasingly practised across... Read More about Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain.

Genealogies of autonomous mobility (2014)
Book
PAPADOPOULOS, D., & Martignoni, M. (2014). Genealogies of autonomous mobility. In E. F. Isin, & P. Nyers (Eds.), Routledge handbook of global citizenship studies, 38-48. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Economic crisis, work life balance and class (2014)
Book Chapter
Warren, T. (2014). Economic crisis, work life balance and class. In K. Farnsworth, Z. Irving, & M. Fenger (Eds.), Social Policy Review 26: analysis and debate in social policy 2014. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447315568.001.0001

Since the 2008 economic crisis, each year has brought new challenges to welfare states. This important annual volume with contributions from an exciting mix of internationally renowned experts within the social policy community examines the economic... Read More about Economic crisis, work life balance and class.

Expressive writing and posttraumatic growth: an Internet-based study (2014)
Journal Article
Stockton, H., Joseph, S., & Hunt, N. (2014). Expressive writing and posttraumatic growth: an Internet-based study. Traumatology, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.1037/h0099377

This study examined the effects of Internet-based expressive writing on posttraumatic growth. Expressive (n = 14) and control writing (n = 10) participants wrote for 15 min on 3 occasions spaced 3 days apart. Measures of intrusive and avoidant though... Read More about Expressive writing and posttraumatic growth: an Internet-based study.

Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults (2014)
Book Chapter
Yip, A. K., & Page, S. (2014). Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults. In R. L. Piedmont, & A. Village (Eds.), Research in the social scientific study of religion, Volume 25. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004272385

This paper examines the understandings and practices of 515 heterosexual religious young adults living in the UK in terms of their religious faith and sexuality. It presents qualitative and quantitative data drawn from uestionnaires, interviews, and... Read More about Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults.

Maternal perceptions of supervision in preschool-aged children: a qualitative approach to understanding differences between families living in affluent and disadvantaged areas (2014)
Journal Article
Ablewhite, J., Kendrick, D., Watson, M., & Shaw, I. (2015). Maternal perceptions of supervision in preschool-aged children: a qualitative approach to understanding differences between families living in affluent and disadvantaged areas. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 16(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/S1463423614000218

Aim: To explore maternal perceptions of supervision and childhood unintentional injury in order to develop understanding and explanation for differences in unintentional injury rates between an advantaged and disadvantaged area. Background: Uninten... Read More about Maternal perceptions of supervision in preschool-aged children: a qualitative approach to understanding differences between families living in affluent and disadvantaged areas.

Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management (2014)
Journal Article
Goulden, M., Bedwell, B., RODDEN, T., Rennick-Egglestone, S., & Spence, A. (2014). Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management. Energy Research and Social Science, 2, 21-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2014.04.008

Smart grids are a key feature of future energy scenarios, with the overarching goal of better aligning energy generation and demand. The work presented here considers the role of the user in such systems, and the contexts in which such roles might em... Read More about Smart grids, smart users? The role of the user in demand side management.

Imagining the Future at the Global and National Scale: A Comparative Study of British and Dutch Press Coverage of Rio 1992 and Rio 2012 (2014)
Journal Article
Hellsten, I., Porter, A., & Nerlich, B. (2014). Imagining the Future at the Global and National Scale: A Comparative Study of British and Dutch Press Coverage of Rio 1992 and Rio 2012. Environmental Communication, 8(4), 468-488. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2014.911197

Climate change and imagined futures are intricately linked, discussed by policymakers and reported in the media. In this article we focus on the construction of future expectation in the press coverage of the 1992 and 2012 United Nations conferences... Read More about Imagining the Future at the Global and National Scale: A Comparative Study of British and Dutch Press Coverage of Rio 1992 and Rio 2012.

Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC Working Group 1 report (2014)
Journal Article
Pearce, W., Holmberg, K., Hellsten, I., & Nerlich, B. (2014). Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC Working Group 1 report. PLoS ONE, 9(4), Article e94785. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094785

In September 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its Working Group 1 report, the first comprehensive assessment of physical climate science in six years, constituting a critical event in the societal debate about climate chan... Read More about Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC Working Group 1 report.

Human(e) rights and the cosmopolitan imagination: questions of human dignity and cultural identity (2014)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2014). Human(e) rights and the cosmopolitan imagination: questions of human dignity and cultural identity. Cultural Sociology, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975513494879

Here I seek to explore the cosmopolitan foundations of the idea of human rights. The argument begins by considering the popularity of the idea of human rights in a globalized and fast-moving commodified and digital culture. At this point I consider w... Read More about Human(e) rights and the cosmopolitan imagination: questions of human dignity and cultural identity.