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Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: Studies in Northern Ireland and South Africa. (2017)
Journal Article
Tropp, L. R., Hawi, D. R., O'Brien, T. C., Gheorghiu, M., Zetes, A., & Butz, D. A. (2017). Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: Studies in Northern Ireland and South Africa. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 23(3), 239-249. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000236

With surveys of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, and Whites and Blacks in South Africa, this research examines how both contact quality and exposure to intergroup conflict predict attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors relevant to intergroup... Read More about Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: Studies in Northern Ireland and South Africa..

'Siblings as better together': Social worker decision-making in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour (2017)
Journal Article
Yates, P. (2017). 'Siblings as better together': Social worker decision-making in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour. British Journal of Social Work, bcx018(1), 176-194. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx018

Sibling abuse is arguably the most prevalent form of family violence (Meyers, 2014), with sibling sexual abuse more common than parental sexual abuse (Krienert and Walsh, 2011). However, research on social worker decision making has been limited to s... Read More about 'Siblings as better together': Social worker decision-making in cases involving sibling sexual behaviour.

Mental Health and Unemployment in Scotland: Understanding the impact of welfare reforms in Scotland for individuals with mental health conditions (2017)
Report
Maclean, G., Marks, A., & Cowan, S. (2017). Mental Health and Unemployment in Scotland: Understanding the impact of welfare reforms in Scotland for individuals with mental health conditions. Edinburgh: Carnegie Trust

During 2016, 30 individuals with a mental health condition (who claimed ESA, have had their ESA withdrawn and moved on to JSA, or have been directed into the WRAG group based on the decision of the WCA) were interviewed. The 30 participants were recr... Read More about Mental Health and Unemployment in Scotland: Understanding the impact of welfare reforms in Scotland for individuals with mental health conditions.

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.

Group guidance – is it time to flock together? (2017)
Journal Article
Meldrum, S. (2017). Group guidance – is it time to flock together?. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 38(1), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.3806

This article calls for delivery models which encourage the collective career learning of groups to be brought to the centre stage of career guidance practice. It challenges the long term focus of the sector on the one-to-one guidance interview and co... Read More about Group guidance – is it time to flock together?.

(Un)translatable queer? Or what is lost and can be found in translation... (2012)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R., Mizielińska, J., & Stasinska, A. (2012). (Un)translatable queer? Or what is lost and can be found in translation... In S. Mesquita, M. K. Wiedlack, & K. Lasthofer (Eds.), Import - Export - Transport. Queer Theory, Queer Critique, and Activism in Motion (115-145). Zaglossus

Perhaps some of the most interesting recent developments in queer studies are those books criticizing the US American bias within the discipline (e.g., Hemmings 2007; Mizielinska 2010; Downing and Gillett 2011), and a move towards embracing “non-West... Read More about (Un)translatable queer? Or what is lost and can be found in translation....

LGBT Issues and the Queer Approach (2010)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2011). LGBT Issues and the Queer Approach. In J. T. Ishiyama, & M. Breuning (Eds.), 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook (856-864). SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412979351.n99

The primary focus of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the contemporary debates surrounding LGBT issues in U.S. politics. It is done by looking at LGBT movements and major issues raised by those communities. First, a historical context is of... Read More about LGBT Issues and the Queer Approach.

Pushing the theoretical boundaries of restorative justice: Non-sovereign justice in radical political and social theories (2018)
Book Chapter
Maglione, G. (2018). Pushing the theoretical boundaries of restorative justice: Non-sovereign justice in radical political and social theories. In T. Gavrielides (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Restorative Justice. London, UK: Routledge

This chapter is an exercise in political and ethical imagination. It starts from the premise that the recent centralised institutionalisation of restorative justice has outstripped this field of its radical political-ethical potential. The process... Read More about Pushing the theoretical boundaries of restorative justice: Non-sovereign justice in radical political and social theories.

Patrick v Patrick and Re A letter to a Young Person : Judicial Letters to Children – an Unannounced, but not an Unwelcome, Development (2018)
Journal Article
Barnes Macfarlane, L. (2018). Patrick v Patrick and Re A letter to a Young Person : Judicial Letters to Children – an Unannounced, but not an Unwelcome, Development. Edinburgh Law Review, 22(1), 101-107. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2018.0458

"A letter", Nietzsche once wrote, "is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises". Given the extremely personal nature of many family law judgments, it is rare and rather surprising when parties, their children or, indeed, the judi... Read More about Patrick v Patrick and Re A letter to a Young Person : Judicial Letters to Children – an Unannounced, but not an Unwelcome, Development.

Working with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour. (2018)
Book
Allardyce, S., & Yates, P. (2018). Working with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press

‘At a time when a better-informed picture about the realities of child sexual abuse is urgently needed, this book provides a vital part of this complex jigsaw’ from the Foreword by Professor Simon Hackett. Approximately one third of child sexual a... Read More about Working with children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour..

Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit (2018)
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2018). Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12249

Community is a nebulous, contested concept in geography spanning research on social networks, encounters, mobilities, citizenship and belonging. However, its use as a discursive trope in public, policy and academic work points to continued relevance... Read More about Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit.

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.

An exploration of community health from an environmental justice perspective. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carnegie, E. (2005, September). An exploration of community health from an environmental justice perspective. Paper presented at Health Protection Agency Annual Conference 2005, University of Warwick

Public health interventions need to be based on theoretical approaches that seek to elucidate environmental components within health inequalities. Protection of the environment will lead to stronger communities in the long term. The new public health... Read More about An exploration of community health from an environmental justice perspective..

Empowering Young People in Disempowering Times. Fighting Inequality Through Capability Oriented Policy (2017)
Book
H. Otto, V. Egdell, J. Bonvin, & R. Atzmüller (Eds.), (2017). Empowering Young People in Disempowering Times. Fighting Inequality Through Capability Oriented Policy

Following the 2008 economic crisis, the situation for young people deteriorated dramatically in many European countries. Employment and training opportunities have reduced, and levels of poverty and social exclusion have increased. This book evaluate... Read More about Empowering Young People in Disempowering Times. Fighting Inequality Through Capability Oriented Policy.

Introduction: empowering young people in disempowering times? Creating collaborative and transformative capabilities through participation (2017)
Book Chapter
Otto, H., Egdell, V., Bonvin, J., & Atzmüller, R. (2017). Introduction: empowering young people in disempowering times? Creating collaborative and transformative capabilities through participation. In H. Otto, V. Egdell, J. Bonvin, & R. Atzmüller (Eds.), Empowering Young People in Disempowering Times. Fighting Inequality Through Capability Oriented Policy (1-19). (1). Edward Elgar Publishing

No abstract available.

Integrating young people into society: perceptions of enabling agents (2017)
Book Chapter
Raeside, R., Egdell, V., & Graham, H. (2017). Integrating young people into society: perceptions of enabling agents. In H. Otto, V. Egdell, J. Bonvin, & R. Atzmüller (Eds.), Empowering Young People in Disempowering Times. Fighting Inequality Through Capability Oriented Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing

No abstract available.

‘Living Rights’, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people – the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum (2018)
Journal Article
Sanghera, G., Botterill, K., Hopkins, P., & Arshad, R. (2018). ‘Living Rights’, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people – the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum. Citizenship Studies, 22(5), 540-555. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2018.1484076

This paper examines the rights claims-making that young people engaged in during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum when the right to vote was extended to 16- and 17-year-olds for the first time in the UK. Understanding citizenship and rights... Read More about ‘Living Rights’, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people – the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum.

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.