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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)
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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.