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'I Feel Trapped': The Role Of The Cell In The Embodied And Everyday Practices Of Police Custody (2020)
Book Chapter
Wooff, A. (2020). 'I Feel Trapped': The Role Of The Cell In The Embodied And Everyday Practices Of Police Custody. In J. Turner, & V. Knight (Eds.), The Prison Cell: Embodied and Everyday Spaces of Incarceration (95-118). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39911-5

This chapter explores the police custody cell from the perspective of policing staff. Legally it is the cornerstone of the criminal investigation process, being the place where arrested persons are taken while charging decisions are made. Police cust... Read More about 'I Feel Trapped': The Role Of The Cell In The Embodied And Everyday Practices Of Police Custody.

Co-authoring desistance narratives: Analysing interactions in groupwork for addressing sexual offending (2019)
Journal Article
Mullins, E., & Kirkwood, S. (2021). Co-authoring desistance narratives: Analysing interactions in groupwork for addressing sexual offending. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 21(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895819863101

Research and theory suggest desistance narratives and pro-social identities are key to the process of desistance from crime. However, little research has examined how desistance narratives and related identities are produced in contexts other than re... Read More about Co-authoring desistance narratives: Analysing interactions in groupwork for addressing sexual offending.

Achieving cultural change through organizational justice: the case of Stop and Search in Scotland (2019)
Journal Article
Aston, E., Murray, K., & O'Neill, M. (2021). Achieving cultural change through organizational justice: the case of Stop and Search in Scotland. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 21(1), 40-56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895819839751

In recent years, the scale, impact and legality of stop and search in Scotland has been subject to intense critical scrutiny, leading to major legal and policy reform in 2016. Based on these events, including an early unsuccessful attempt by Police S... Read More about Achieving cultural change through organizational justice: the case of Stop and Search in Scotland.

Compromise, Partnership, Control: Community Justice Authorities In Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
Buchan, J., & Morrison, K. (2020). Compromise, Partnership, Control: Community Justice Authorities In Scotland. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 20(2), 131-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818814903

Community Justice Authorities (CJAs) were heralded on their inception as modernising Scotland’s community justice system and resolving longstanding tensions between central and local government over community justice control, by encouraging partnersh... Read More about Compromise, Partnership, Control: Community Justice Authorities In Scotland.

Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths (2018)
Journal Article
Sharapov, K., & Mendel, J. (2018). Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths. Cultural Sociology, 12(4), 540-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975518788657

This paper responds to Gozdziak's (2015: 30) call to explore how the knowledge that informs public debates about human trafficking is generated. Media imagery and narratives play a significant role in constructing both knowledge and ignorance. This p... Read More about Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths.

Changing Stop and Search in Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
O'Neill, M., & Aston, E. (2018). Changing Stop and Search in Scotland. European Journal of Policing Studies, 5(4), 129-154

Compared to other areas in the UK, stop and search in Scotland was on a disproportionately large scale prior to 2015 and targeted children and young people. Scottish police officers conducted more non-statutory searches than statutory, putting into q... Read More about Changing Stop and Search in Scotland.

The political rationality of restorative justice (2018)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2018). The political rationality of restorative justice. Theoretical Criminology, 136248061875636. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480618756364

This paper investigates the political conditions which have enabled the development of restorative justice, in England and Wales, over the last 30 years. The rise of restorative justice is considered integral to the emergence of a (rather incoherent)... Read More about The political rationality of restorative justice.

Immature offenders. A critical history of the representations of the offender in restorative justice (2017)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2017). Immature offenders. A critical history of the representations of the offender in restorative justice. Contemporary Justice Review, 21(1), 44-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2017.1413360

This paper reconstructs and discuss how the 'offender' is represented within policy documents, legal statutes and scholarly literature on restorative justice, published and circulated in England and Wales over the last thirty years. The research firs... Read More about Immature offenders. A critical history of the representations of the offender in restorative justice.

Book review: Community Punishment: European Perspectives McNeil,Fergus,Robinson,Gwen (eds), Community Punishment: European Perspectives, Routledge: London, 2016; 9781138783782, 9781138818644, (2017)
Journal Article
Morrison, K. (2017). Book review: Community Punishment: European Perspectives McNeil,Fergus,Robinson,Gwen (eds), Community Punishment: European Perspectives, Routledge: London, 2016; 9781138783782, 9781138818644,. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 17(5), 643-645. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895816663860

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The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody (2017)
Journal Article
Wooff, A., & Skinns, L. (2017). The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody. Punishment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474517722176

Police custody is a complex environment, where police officers, detainees and other staff interact in a number of different emotional, spatial and transformative ways. Utilising ethnographic and interview data collected as part of a five-year study w... Read More about The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody.

Police legitimacy in context: an exploration of “soft” power in police custody in England (2017)
Journal Article
Skinns, L., Rice, L., Sprawson, A., & Wooff, A. (2017). Police legitimacy in context: an exploration of “soft” power in police custody in England. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 40(3), 601-613. https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-06-2016-0077

For the most part, the procedural justice model has been found to generalise across different social groups and social contexts in the Anglo-American world (e.g. Jackson et al. 2013: 17). However, police custody is qualitatively different from other... Read More about Police legitimacy in context: an exploration of “soft” power in police custody in England.

Multiple traumatic experiences, post-traumatic stress disorder and offending behaviour in female prisoners (2017)
Journal Article
Mirza, K., Conway, L., Karatzias, T., Power, K., Woolston, C., Apurva, P., Begley, A., Quinn, C., Jowett, S., Howard, R., & Purdie, A. (2018). Multiple traumatic experiences, post-traumatic stress disorder and offending behaviour in female prisoners. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 28(1), 72-84. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2043

Background Although Q4 it is well established that prisoners commonly have histories of childhood trauma, little is known about mediators between exposure to trauma and criminal behaviour. Hypotheses We hypothesised that the experience of trauma in a... Read More about Multiple traumatic experiences, post-traumatic stress disorder and offending behaviour in female prisoners.

Police custody delivery in the twenty-first century in England and Wales: current arrangements and their implications for patterns of policing. (2017)
Journal Article
Skinns, L., Sprawson, A., Sorsby, A., Smith, R., & Wooff, A. (2017). Police custody delivery in the twenty-first century in England and Wales: current arrangements and their implications for patterns of policing. European Journal of Policing Studies, 4(3), 325-348

Since the 1980s, police custody in England and Wales has experienced civilianization and privatization of roles once performed by the police. The purposes of this paper are to explore these organisational arrangements and to reflect on what they reve... Read More about Police custody delivery in the twenty-first century in England and Wales: current arrangements and their implications for patterns of policing..

Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context (2017)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2017). Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 50, 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlcj.2017.02.004

This work is a critical analysis of how the main crime stakeholders (victim, offender and community) are represented within policy and legal statutes on restorative justice. The paper starts by sketching out the legal and policy archive of restorativ... Read More about Imaging victims, offenders and communities. An investigation into the representations of the crime stakeholders within restorative justice and their cultural context.

Embodied Victims: An archaeology of the ‘ideal victim’ of restorative justice (2016)
Journal Article
Maglione, G. (2017). Embodied Victims: An archaeology of the ‘ideal victim’ of restorative justice. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 17(4), 401-417. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895816677172

This article seeks to provide a historical-critical framework to reconstruct and discuss how the crime victim is portrayed within theoretical literature, policy and legal documents on restorative justice, with an emphasis on England and Wales. It fir... Read More about Embodied Victims: An archaeology of the ‘ideal victim’ of restorative justice.

Research, knowledge and criminal justice policy: the Scottish experience. (2016)
Book Chapter
Morrison, K., & Sparks, R. (2016). Research, knowledge and criminal justice policy: the Scottish experience. In H. Croall, G. Mooney, & M. Munro (Eds.), Crime, Jusice and Society in Scotland (30-44). Routledge

Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland is an edited collection of chapters from leading experts that builds and expands upon the success of the 2010 publication Criminal Justice in Scotland to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of Scottish c... Read More about Research, knowledge and criminal justice policy: the Scottish experience..