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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Crime prevention and the development of the Safer Communities Evidence Matrix Scotland (SCEMS). (2015)
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Aston, E. V., & Lum, C. (2015). Crime prevention and the development of the Safer Communities Evidence Matrix Scotland (SCEMS). Scottish Justice Matters, 3(2), 17-18

THE Safer Communities Evidence Matrix Scotland (SCEMS) is a knowledge exchange tool which aims to provide easy access to evidence on policing and community safety from Scotland and
farther afield. It has emerged against the backdrop of a collaborati... Read More about Crime prevention and the development of the Safer Communities Evidence Matrix Scotland (SCEMS)..

An integrated model of victimization as an explanation of non-involvement with the criminal justice system (2015)
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Fohring, S. (2015). An integrated model of victimization as an explanation of non-involvement with the criminal justice system. International Review of Victimology, 21(1), 45-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269758014547993

This article presents an integrated theoretical model of victimization supported by both quantitative and qualitative data. By combining and clarifying existing criminological and psychological theory it highlights the influence of victims’ perceptio... Read More about An integrated model of victimization as an explanation of non-involvement with the criminal justice system.

Assessing the impact of a high-intensity partnership between the police and drug treatment service in addressing the offending of problematic drug users. (2010)
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Best, D., Walker, D., Aston, E., Pegram, C., & O'Donnell, G. (2010). Assessing the impact of a high-intensity partnership between the police and drug treatment service in addressing the offending of problematic drug users. Policing and Society, 20(3), 358-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2010.493609

While there is a considerable evidence base showing links between drug use and offending and clear evidence of the impact of treatment engagement on drug-related offending, there is a much smaller UK evidence base on ‘what works’ in treatment and cri... Read More about Assessing the impact of a high-intensity partnership between the police and drug treatment service in addressing the offending of problematic drug users..

Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample (2009)
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Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2009). Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(4), 235-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.03.005

Anecdote and samples from extreme populations suggest military interests and ‘esoteric’ or Gothic interests (collectively referred to as sensational interests) are a predictor of offending. We examined such interests and offending in a large sample o... Read More about Sensational interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: Evidence from a large normal British sample.