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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.

Is the definition of task-irrelevant contextual information black and white? (2020)
Journal Article
Curley, L. J., Munro, J., Lages, M., MacLean, R., & Murray, J. (2020). Is the definition of task-irrelevant contextual information black and white?. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 65(2), 668-670. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14273

Author's response to "Commentary on: Curley LJ, Munro J, Lages M, MacLean R, Murray J. Assessing cognitive bias in forensic decisions: a review and outlook. J Forensic Sci doi: 10.1111/1556‐4029.14220. Epub 2019 Nov 6"

"It's Just the Abuse that Needs to Stop": Professional Framing of Sibling Relationships in a Grounded Theory Study of Social Worker Decision Making Following Sibling Sexual Behavior (2019)
Journal Article
Yates, P. (2019). "It's Just the Abuse that Needs to Stop": Professional Framing of Sibling Relationships in a Grounded Theory Study of Social Worker Decision Making Following Sibling Sexual Behavior. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 29(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2019.1692399

Sibling abuse is a global problem, arguably the most prevalent form of family violence, and as harmful as other familial abuse. There is evidence internationally that sibling abuse often goes unrecognized or is minimized by professionals from educati... Read More about "It's Just the Abuse that Needs to Stop": Professional Framing of Sibling Relationships in a Grounded Theory Study of Social Worker Decision Making Following Sibling Sexual Behavior.

Dams, barriers and beating yourself up: shame in groupwork for addressing sexual offending (2019)
Journal Article
Mullins, E., & Kirkwood, S. (2019). Dams, barriers and beating yourself up: shame in groupwork for addressing sexual offending. Journal of Social Work Practice, 33(4), 369-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2019.1594735

Shame is a powerful emotional experience embedded in prevailing social and cultural norms. It is the judgement or fear of judgement for who we are rather than what we have done. Braithwaite (1989) proposes shame can be re-integrative or stigmatising,... Read More about Dams, barriers and beating yourself up: shame in groupwork for addressing sexual offending.

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.

What is and isn’t working: Factors involved in sustaining community-based health and participation initiatives for people aging with intellectual and developmental disabilities (2019)
Journal Article
Spassiani, N., Meisner, B., Abou Chacra, M. S., Heller, T., & Hammel, J. (2019). What is and isn’t working: Factors involved in sustaining community-based health and participation initiatives for people aging with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 32(6), 1465-1477. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12640

As people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) age it is important that I/DD agencies are prepared to support healthy aging in homes and in communities. This study explored supports and barriers to sustaining community-based health... Read More about What is and isn’t working: Factors involved in sustaining community-based health and participation initiatives for people aging with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Positive changes and appreciation of life among economic immigrants in Scotland. (2019)
Journal Article
Bak-Klimek, A., Karatzias, T., Elliott, L., Dickson, A., & MacLean, R. (2020). Positive changes and appreciation of life among economic immigrants in Scotland. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 21, Article 57-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-019-00669-w

Objectives: Existing qualitative studies focussed predominantly on exploring immigrants’ stress, distress and coping aimed at reducing stress. Little attention has been paid to immigrants’ psychological growth or positive life changes. In the presen... Read More about Positive changes and appreciation of life among economic immigrants in Scotland..

Dialogicity, monologicity and the crisis of hospitality in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen. (2019)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, J. (2019). Dialogicity, monologicity and the crisis of hospitality in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen. Austrian Studies, 26, 91-105

This article argues that the combination of dialogicity, monologicity and polyphony in Jelinek’s play Die Schutzbefohlenen [Charges] serves to present Austria and the EU’s so-called ‘refugee crisis’ as a crisis of hospitality. Specifically, it analys... Read More about Dialogicity, monologicity and the crisis of hospitality in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen..

Trafficking in Human Beings and the Informal Economy (2018)
Book Chapter
Sharapov, K. (2018). Trafficking in Human Beings and the Informal Economy. In R. Piotrowicz, C. Rijken, & B. Heide Uhl (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking. Routledge

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Law enforcement and public health: setting the research agenda for Scotland . (2018)
Report
Murray, J., Heyman, I., Wooff, A., Dougall, N., Aston, L., & Enang, I. (2018). Law enforcement and public health: setting the research agenda for Scotland . Dundee: Scottish Institute for Policing Research

Police Scotland’s contact with people with vulnerability and health problems has been increasing year-on-year, with significant costs and unknown outcomes associated. This is unsustainable, and pathways involving increased partnership between the pol... Read More about Law enforcement and public health: setting the research agenda for Scotland ..

Community Based Dietician Services for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2018)
Journal Article
Friedman, C., & Spassiani, N. (2018). Community Based Dietician Services for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 15(4), 343-349. https://doi.org/10.1111/jppi.12253

Background. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience significantly poorer health outcomes and a shorter life expectancy when compared to the general population. People with IDD are also more likely to become over weigh... Read More about Community Based Dietician Services for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Examining Patterns of Adversity in Chinese Young Adults Using the Adverse Childhood Experiences – International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ) (2018)
Journal Article
Ho, G. W. K., Chan, A. C. Y., Chien, W.-T., Bressington, D. T., & Karatzias, T. (2019). Examining Patterns of Adversity in Chinese Young Adults Using the Adverse Childhood Experiences – International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ). Child Abuse and Neglect, 88, 179-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2018.11.009

Ample evidence supports significant and enduring associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and negative outcomes later in life. Subsets of ACEs (e.g. childhood maltreatment and household dysfunction) have been examined in Chinese popu... Read More about Examining Patterns of Adversity in Chinese Young Adults Using the Adverse Childhood Experiences – International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ).

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.

Tapping the thirdness in the intercultural space of dialogue (2018)
Journal Article
Zhou, V. X., & Pilcher, N. (2018). Tapping the thirdness in the intercultural space of dialogue. Language and Intercultural Communication, 19(1), 23-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2018.1545025

In this paper, we explore intercultural communication as dialogue occurring in a third space. Through seven students' reflective essays on group-based intercultural learning, we analyse the ever-shifting communicative space that interlocutors produce... Read More about Tapping the thirdness in the intercultural space of dialogue.

Analysis of accident injury-severity outcomes: The zero-inflated hierarchical ordered probit model with correlated disturbances (2018)
Journal Article
Fountas, G., & Anastasopoulos, P. C. (2018). Analysis of accident injury-severity outcomes: The zero-inflated hierarchical ordered probit model with correlated disturbances. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 20, 30-45

In accident injury-severity analysis, an inherent limitation of the traditional ordered probit approach arises from the a priori consideration of a homogeneous source for the accidents that result in a no-injury (or zero-injury) outcome. Conceptually... Read More about Analysis of accident injury-severity outcomes: The zero-inflated hierarchical ordered probit model with correlated disturbances.

Professionalism and affective learning for new prison officers: learning values, attitudes and behaviours in training at the Scottish Prison Service (2018)
Book Chapter
Morrison, K. (2018). Professionalism and affective learning for new prison officers: learning values, attitudes and behaviours in training at the Scottish Prison Service. In S. Loo (Ed.), Multiple Dimensions of Teaching and Learning for Occupational Practice. Routledge

This paper argues that, as the Scottish Prison Service moves towards professionalisation, the ‘ethical’ component of an officer’s work increases in importance, and that learning in the ‘affective domain’ (that which addresses values, attitudes, and b... Read More about Professionalism and affective learning for new prison officers: learning values, attitudes and behaviours in training at the Scottish Prison Service.