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BSC Learning and Teaching Network Roundtable Studying Criminology: Students' and academic perspectives as partners (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Strudwick, K., Young, S., Dingwall, G., Haddow, C., & Wane, P. (2021, July). BSC Learning and Teaching Network Roundtable Studying Criminology: Students' and academic perspectives as partners. Paper presented at British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Online

This roundtable presents reflections from members of the BSC Learning and Teaching Network on current debates to meet challenges within Higher Education. The panel seeks to report on research, reviews and pedagogic innovation, conducted during the ti... Read More about BSC Learning and Teaching Network Roundtable Studying Criminology: Students' and academic perspectives as partners.

Progressive penality as performance (2023)
Journal Article
Buchan, J., & McNeill, F. (2023). Progressive penality as performance. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 62(3), 325-340. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12516

Scotland's prison population remains stubbornly high despite reforms to sentencing and community penalties (most recently in 2016). Seeking to advance the debate on punishment in Scotland, we use empirical data to support a novel theoretical synthesi... Read More about Progressive penality as performance.

‘Why would we not want to keep everybody safe?’ The views of family members of people who use drugs on the implementation of drug consumption rooms in Scotland (2022)
Journal Article
Parkes, T., Price, T., Foster, R., Trayner, K. M. A., Sumnall, H. R., Livingston, W., Perkins, A., Cairns, B., Dumbrell, J., & Nicholls, J. (2022). ‘Why would we not want to keep everybody safe?’ The views of family members of people who use drugs on the implementation of drug consumption rooms in Scotland. Harm Reduction Journal, 19(1), Article 99. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00679-5

Background People who use drugs in Scotland are currently experiencing disproportionately high rates of drug-related deaths. Drug consumption rooms (DCRs) are harm reduction services that offer a safe, hygienic environment where pre-obtained drugs c... Read More about ‘Why would we not want to keep everybody safe?’ The views of family members of people who use drugs on the implementation of drug consumption rooms in Scotland.

Drug Consumption Rooms and Public Health Policy: Perspectives of Scottish Strategic Decision-Makers (2022)
Journal Article
Nicholls, J., Livingston, W., Perkins, A., Cairns, B., Foster, R., Trayner, K. M. A., Sumnall, H. R., Price, T., Cairney, P., Dumbrell, J., & Parkes, T. (2022). Drug Consumption Rooms and Public Health Policy: Perspectives of Scottish Strategic Decision-Makers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), Article 6575. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116575

There is widespread support for the introduction of Drug Consumption Rooms (DCRs) in Scotland as part of a policy response to record levels of drug-related harm. However, existing legal barriers are made more complex by the division of relevant power... Read More about Drug Consumption Rooms and Public Health Policy: Perspectives of Scottish Strategic Decision-Makers.

‘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.

Experiences of families using prison visitors’ centres (2019)
Book Chapter
Foster, R. (2019). Experiences of families using prison visitors’ centres. In M. Hutton, & D. Moran (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family (251-272). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12744-2_13

Prison visitors’ centres are unique spaces, typically distinct from the prisons they are connected to; they are the areas where families wait prior to entering the prison where visits take place. There is increasing recognition of the role visitors’... Read More about Experiences of families using prison visitors’ centres.

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/10.1057/978-1-137-56057-5_7

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.

Challenges for drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions (2022)
Journal Article
Falzon, D., Aston, E. V., Carver, H., Masterton, W., Wallace, B., Sumnall, H., Measham, F., Fletcher, E., Gittins, R., Priyadarshi, S., & Parkes, T. (2022). Challenges for drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions. Harm Reduction Journal, 19(1), Article 105. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00686-6

Background The impact of policing practices on the engagement of people who use drugs (PWUD) with harm reduction services is well evidenced. Although the police have traditionally taken an enforcement role in responding to drug use, it is increasing... Read More about Challenges for drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions.

Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice: Addressing the Justice Gap (2022)
Book
Keenan, M., & Zinsstag, E. (2022). Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice: Addressing the Justice Gap. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Concerned by the high attrition rates for sexual crime and the secondary victimization experienced by victims during their participation in the criminal justice system, this book analyses the extent to which restorative justice can address the justic... Read More about Sexual Violence and Restorative Justice: Addressing the Justice Gap.

Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism (2022)
Book Chapter
Wairuri, K. (2022). Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism. In J. Bach (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa (354-366). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426957-34

This chapter seeks to understand the designation of Kenya as a competitive authoritarian state through an examination of the use of the state police to, as it were, police politics. The use of state security apparatuses to enhance the capacity of the... Read More about Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism.

Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches (2022)
Other
Boulila, S., Browne, K., Chauvin, S., Filep, K., Blidon, M., Zarate, M., Akyuz, L., Titley, G., Carastathis, A., & Kulpa, R. (2022). Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches. Dublin

Anti-gender politics pose a grave threat to modern democratic formations because they challenge people's everyday survival, bodily integrity, and self-determination. Anti-gender spans the political spectrum and manifests not only in illiberal and aut... Read More about Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches.

Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa (2023)
Journal Article
Soliman, F. (2023). Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa. Critical Criminology, 31, 725-741. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-023-09692-x

In this paper I examine authorities’ management of migrant boats on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, as an example of environmental border harm. A danger to trawlers, sunken wrecks are also hazardous to the environment, with pollutants such as oil and... Read More about Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa.

The criminalisation of coercive control (2019)
Report
Soliman, F. (2019). The criminalisation of coercive control. Northern Ireland Assembly Research and Information Service

This research paper outlines the different approaches taken to criminalise coercive control in the UK and in the Republic of Ireland. It also summarises the emphasis placed on coercive control by government-level strategy in each jurisdiction, and th... Read More about The criminalisation of coercive control.