All Outputs (27)

What Works? Collaborative Police and Health interventions for mental health distress (2018)
Report
McGeough, E., & Foster, R. (2018). What Works? Collaborative Police and Health interventions for mental health distress. Scottish Government

Charges reported under the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2016-2017 (2017)
Report
Foster, R., & Myant, K. (2017). Charges reported under the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2016-2017. Scottish Government

Religiously aggravated offending in Scotland in 2016-17 (2017)
Report
Foster, R., & Myant, K. (2017). Religiously aggravated offending in Scotland in 2016-17. Scottish Government

Exploring 'Betwixt and Between' in a Prison Visitors' Centre and Beyond (2017)
Book Chapter
Foster, R. (2017). Exploring 'Betwixt and Between' in a Prison Visitors' Centre and Beyond. In D. Moran, & A. K. Schliehe (Eds.), Carceral Spatiality: Dialogues between Geography and Criminology (169-198). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1

In order to maintain relationships with their loved ones, family members will often spend a great deal of time (as well as expense and emotional labour) visiting their loved one in prison. When visiting inside the prison, visitors occupy the liminal... Read More about Exploring 'Betwixt and Between' in a Prison Visitors' Centre and Beyond.

‘Doing the Wait’: An exploration into the waiting experiences of prisoners’ families (2016)
Journal Article
Foster, R. (2019). ‘Doing the Wait’: An exploration into the waiting experiences of prisoners’ families. Time and Society, 28(2), 459-477. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463x16633235

Waiting is a universal experience and a ‘taken for granted’ form of time. However, it is given a social specificity when embodied by particular agents in particular settings. This paper reflects on the universal experience of waiting in the very part... Read More about ‘Doing the Wait’: An exploration into the waiting experiences of prisoners’ families.

Knife Crime interventions: 'What Works'? (2014)
Report
Foster, R. (2014). Knife Crime interventions: 'What Works'?. Scottish Government

Getting it right for families affected by imprisonment: Lessons from ten years of research
Preprint / Working Paper
Barkas, B., Deacon, K., Foster, R., Jardine, C., Primrose, K., & Troy, V. (2021). Getting it right for families affected by imprisonment: Lessons from ten years of research