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Are risk factors for drug use and offending similar during the teenage years? (2014)
Journal Article
Aston, E. V. (2015). Are risk factors for drug use and offending similar during the teenage years?. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26(4), 396-403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.11.002

Background
This paper explores whether at different stages of the developmental cycle of adolescence, drug use and offending are associated with a similar set of risk factors relating to: socio-structural position, informal social control, deviant p... Read More about Are risk factors for drug use and offending similar during the teenage years?.

What Works to Reduce Crime - A Survey of the Evidence (2014)
Report
Levy, L., Santhkumaran, D., & Whitecross, R. W. (2014). What Works to Reduce Crime - A Survey of the Evidence. Edinburgh: Scottish Government

A systematic review of the available literature based on a logic model approach to crime reduction.

‘They think it's all up to the girls’: gender, risk and responsibility for contraception (2014)
Journal Article
Brown, S. (2015). ‘They think it's all up to the girls’: gender, risk and responsibility for contraception. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 17(3), 312-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2014.950983

Much research suggests that attitudes towards responsibility for use of contraception amongst young people are strongly gendered. However, decision making, if ‘decisions’ happen at all, is bound up with notions of hegemonic masculine and feminine rol... Read More about ‘They think it's all up to the girls’: gender, risk and responsibility for contraception.

Giving us the ‘Biggest Bang for the Buck’ (or Not): Anti-trafficking government funding in Ukraine and the United Kingdom (2014)
Journal Article
Sharapov, K. (2014). Giving us the ‘Biggest Bang for the Buck’ (or Not): Anti-trafficking government funding in Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Anti-trafficking review, 3, 16-40. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.20121432

The focus of this paper is on government anti-trafficking policies and funding allocations in two case-study countries, Ukraine and the United Kingdom (UK). The paper discusses specific ways, or ‘vectors’, in which human trafficking has been discursi... Read More about Giving us the ‘Biggest Bang for the Buck’ (or Not): Anti-trafficking government funding in Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President? (2014)
Journal Article
Kulpa, R. (2014). On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President?. Sexualities, 17(7), 781-801. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460714531431

In this article I ask why gay and lesbian people in Poland mourned their infamously homophobic president Lech Kaczynski, and, in turn, what it means to mourn one's own enemy. In examining this extraordinary case of national bereavement and the collec... Read More about On Attachment and Belonging: Or Why Queers Mourn Homophobic President?.

'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aston, E. (2014, September). 'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing. Paper presented at 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Prague, Czech Republic

Aston, E. (2014, September). 'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing. Paper presented at 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Prague, Czech Repub... Read More about 'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing.

Local Policing in Scotland: three pre-reform case-studies. Scottish Institute for Policing Research Summary No 18 (2014)
Report
Aston, E., & Scott, K. (2014). Local Policing in Scotland: three pre-reform case-studies. Scottish Institute for Policing Research Summary No 18. Dundee: Scottish Institute for Policing Research

The research was based on a series of case studies, one in each of three legacy forces, Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary, Grampian Police, and Strathclyde Police force areas. This Research Summary presents some of the main f... Read More about Local Policing in Scotland: three pre-reform case-studies. Scottish Institute for Policing Research Summary No 18.

How might healthcare systems influence speed of cancer diagnosis: A narrative review (2014)
Journal Article
Brown, S., Castelli, M., Hunter, D. J., Erskine, J., Vedsted, P., Foot, C., & Rubin, G. (2014). How might healthcare systems influence speed of cancer diagnosis: A narrative review. Social Science and Medicine, 116, 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.030

Striking differences exist in outcomes for cancer between developed countries with comparable healthcare systems. We compare the healthcare systems of 3 countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), 3 UK jurisdictions (England, Wales and Northern Ireland), 3... Read More about How might healthcare systems influence speed of cancer diagnosis: A narrative review.

Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest (2014)
Other
Kulpa, R. (2014). Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest. https://eurovisionproject.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/sexual-politics-and-the-eurovision-song-contest/

In this post I would like to draw readers’ attention to the issue of how Eurovision is entangled with sexual politics in the new EUrope: how it sometimes is used as the marker of gay rights and freedoms vs. homophobia, as a rainbow-coloured symbol of... Read More about Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest.