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Policy frameworks and supply?chain accounting (2018)
Book Chapter
Thornley, P., & Mohr, A. (2018). Policy frameworks and supply?chain accounting. In C. Gough, P. Thornley, S. Mander, N. Vaughan, & A. Lea-Langton (Eds.), Biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS): unlocking negative emissionsWiley

Restorative policing for the 21st century: Historical lessons for future practice (2018)
Book Chapter
Clamp, K. (2018). Restorative policing for the 21st century: Historical lessons for future practice. In T. Gavrielides (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Restorative Justice. Routledge

Restorative policing has experienced somewhat of a tumultuous journey within the international criminal justice landscape. The practice first emerged in Wagga Wagga, Australia in the early 1990s where its architects drew inspiration from both the New... Read More about Restorative policing for the 21st century: Historical lessons for future practice.

Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism (2018)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2018). Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism

After the end of the Cold War Marxist thought entered into a long crisis from which it is only just beginning to emerge. After 1989 it was no longer clear, apart from a few revolutionary outposts, what a commitment to Marxism meant. Not surprisingly... Read More about Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism.

The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course (2018)
Journal Article
O’Brien, R., Goldberg, S. E., Pilnick, A., Beeke, S., Schneider, J., Sartain, K., …Harwood, R. H. (2018). The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course. PLoS ONE, 13(6), Article e0198567. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198567

Background A quarter of acute hospital beds are occupied by persons living with dementia, many of whom have communication problems. Healthcare professionals lack confidence in dementia communication skills, but there are no evidence-based communic... Read More about The VOICE study – a before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course.

The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence (2018)
Journal Article
Schneider, J. M. (2018). The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(6), Article 1151. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15061151

The growing prevalence of dementia, combined with an absence of effective pharmacological treatments, highlights the potential of psychosocial interventions to alleviate the effects of dementia and enhance quality of life. With reference to a manifes... Read More about The arts as a medium for care and self-care in dementia: arguments and evidence.

Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab (2018)
Journal Article
McLeod, C., Saille, S. D., & Nerlich, B. (2018). Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab. EMBO Reports, 19(7), Article e45958. https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201845958

How do synthetic biologists think about the risks in their research? This paper reports on a novel elicitation method that got surprising answers. Participants reflected not only on technical, but also on societal and psychological risks and responsi... Read More about Risk in synthetic biology: views from the lab.

Refugees’reception in Italy: past and present of a humanitarian crisis (2018)
Book Chapter
D'Angelo, A. (2018). Refugees’reception in Italy: past and present of a humanitarian crisis. In A. Petroff, G. Milios, & M. Pérez (Eds.), Refugiados en movimiento: retos políticos, legales y sociales = Refugees on the move: political, legal and social challenges in times of turmoil (92-106). Bellaterra: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily (2018)
Journal Article
D’Angelo, A. (2019). Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(12), 2213-2226. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2018.1468361

The recent surge of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in search of protection has presented a major challenge for the whole European Union. What has been labelled as a ‘refugee crisis’ is first and foremost a crisis of international politics and th... Read More about Italy: the ‘illegality factory’? Theory and practice of refugees’ reception in Sicily.

Mind the gap: Sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory (2018)
Journal Article
Henley, A. (2018). Mind the gap: Sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory. Probation Journal, 65(3), 285-301. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550518776773

© The Author(s) 2018. This article discusses the relationships and tensions between the sentencing, statutory supervision and legal rehabilitation of lawbreakers under UK legislation. It does so with reference to both the Rehabilitation of Offenders... Read More about Mind the gap: Sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory.

Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain (2018)
Journal Article
Warren, T., & Lyonette, C. (2018). Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain. Work, Employment and Society, 32(4), 747-767. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017018762289

Britain has long stood out in Europe for its extensive but low quality part-time labour market dominated by women workers, who are concentrated in lower-level jobs demanding few skills and low levels of education, offering lower wage rates and restri... Read More about Good, bad and very bad part-time jobs for women? Re-examining the importance of occupational class for job quality since the ‘great recession’ in Britain.

The categorisation of resistance: interpreting failure to follow a proposed line of action in the diagnosis of autism amongst young adults (2018)
Journal Article
Hollin, G., & Pilnick, A. (2018). The categorisation of resistance: interpreting failure to follow a proposed line of action in the diagnosis of autism amongst young adults. Sociology of Health and Illness, 40(7), 1215-1232. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12749

sessions and ask how diagnosticians distinguish between interactional resistance as, on the one hand, a diagnostic indicator and, on the other, as a reasonable choice from a range of possible responses. We find evidence of various forms of resistance... Read More about The categorisation of resistance: interpreting failure to follow a proposed line of action in the diagnosis of autism amongst young adults.

A role for independent peer review: reflections on the gateway review process (2018)
Journal Article
Cluley, V., Radnor, Z., Salvatori, F., & Whiting, A. (2018). A role for independent peer review: reflections on the gateway review process. British Journal of Healthcare Management, 24(5), 242-249. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2018.24.5.242

Healthcare organisations face constant pressure to change in order to pursue quality and performance improvements. As a result, professionals are often said to be experiencing change fatigue. This can be problematic for policy implementation initiati... Read More about A role for independent peer review: reflections on the gateway review process.

A comparison of mental health symptomatology and levels of social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals who identify as binary and non-binary (2018)
Journal Article
Thorne, N., Witcomb, G. L., Nieder, T., Nixon, E., Yip, A., & Arcelus, J. (2019). A comparison of mental health symptomatology and levels of social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals who identify as binary and non-binary. International Journal of Transgenderism, 20(2-3), 241-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/15532739.2018.1452660

Background: Previous research has consistently reported high rates of mental health symptomatology and lower social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals. However, these studies have failed to distinguish between transgender peop... Read More about A comparison of mental health symptomatology and levels of social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals who identify as binary and non-binary.

Policing the Community Together: The Impact of Technology on Citizen Engagement (2018)
Book Chapter
Brewster, B., Gibson, H., & Gunning, M. (2018). Policing the Community Together: The Impact of Technology on Citizen Engagement. In G. Leventakis, & M. Haberfeld (Eds.), Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology (91-102). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89297-9_11

Despite broad and often varied underlying definitions, a common theme throughout community and neighbourhood policing strategies establishes the need to target improvements in the relationship and level of engagement between the police and the commun... Read More about Policing the Community Together: The Impact of Technology on Citizen Engagement.