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The Anatomy of Policing Domestic Abuse in England and Wales: An Exploration of Outcomes (2025)
Thesis
Alves Couto, L. S. (2025). The Anatomy of Policing Domestic Abuse in England and Wales: An Exploration of Outcomes. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5292400

The criminal justice system goal of punishing perpetrators is not always shared by domestic abuse victim-survivors. Each year more than half of domestic abuse crimes are closed because victim-survivors no longer support police action against their ab... Read More about The Anatomy of Policing Domestic Abuse in England and Wales: An Exploration of Outcomes.

An independent view: rebuilding trust and confidence in policing within minority communities (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
McKue, M. (2025). An independent view: rebuilding trust and confidence in policing within minority communities

Opening paragraph:
To understand the current situation between minority communities and policing in the UK, we must first examine the historical context. In the UK, the legacy of colonialism and the over-policing of Black and Asian communities durin... Read More about An independent view: rebuilding trust and confidence in policing within minority communities.

To study religion and media, we need to teach religion and media: economic realities, challenges, and future directions (2025)
Journal Article
Ornella, A. D. (2025). To study religion and media, we need to teach religion and media: economic realities, challenges, and future directions. Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 11(1), 27-47. https://doi.org/10.25364/05.11%3A2025.1.3

Universities in the United Kingdom, and also in the United States, Austria, and Germany, are facing increased financial pressures. This has already led to the closure of religious studies departments and courses. Course closures impact not only the s... Read More about To study religion and media, we need to teach religion and media: economic realities, challenges, and future directions.

Holloway Prison: Representations and realities in the history of a women's prison, 1902 to 1955 (2025)
Journal Article
Johnston, H. (2025). Holloway Prison: Representations and realities in the history of a women's prison, 1902 to 1955. Women & Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1080/08974454.2025.2492327

This article explores the media and cultural representations of HMP Holloway, London, England between 1902 and 1955 and contrasts this with the realities of the day-to-day female population and experience in the institution. Drawing on extensive hist... Read More about Holloway Prison: Representations and realities in the history of a women's prison, 1902 to 1955.

Domestic abuse in later life: A secondary analysis of the crime survey for England and Wales (2025)
Journal Article
Bows, H., Pullerits, M., & Brennan, I. (2025). Domestic abuse in later life: A secondary analysis of the crime survey for England and Wales. European Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708251335388

Until recently, older victims – and perpetrators – of domestic abuse were largely absent from both research and policy, leaving a lacuna of empirical and theoretical understandings of abuse in later life. This article presents the findings from the f... Read More about Domestic abuse in later life: A secondary analysis of the crime survey for England and Wales.

‘Bowling Alone or Blogging Together’ How the Neighbourhood Facebook is Reshaping Community Participation (2025)
Thesis
Joseph, M. (2025). ‘Bowling Alone or Blogging Together’ How the Neighbourhood Facebook is Reshaping Community Participation. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5126363

'Bowling Alone or Blogging Together' is an empirical account of community, based in geographic reality but played out in the social media realm of neighbourhood Facebook groups. It is an account of how, in the face of decline of traditional forms of... Read More about ‘Bowling Alone or Blogging Together’ How the Neighbourhood Facebook is Reshaping Community Participation.

The police have acted as 'moral guardians' since the early 19th century (2025)
Book Chapter
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2025). The police have acted as 'moral guardians' since the early 19th century. In J. Lamb, M. Hart, J. Treadwell, A. Lynes, & C. Kelly (Eds.), 50 Facts Everyone Should Know About the Police. Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447370499

Book Details:
Have you ever wondered whether crime dramas reflect the reality of police work? Or what the future of policing could look like in the context of recent controversies?

Offering thought-provoking insights into understanding, addressin... Read More about The police have acted as 'moral guardians' since the early 19th century.

Marxism and the Political Economy of Abolition (2025)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J. (2025). Marxism and the Political Economy of Abolition. In D. G. Scott (Ed.), Abolitionist Voices (121–137). Bristol University Press

This chapter examines the ways Marxist and neo-Marxist thought has contributed to abolitionist praxis. In doing so, it first explores Marx’s early writings in the 1840s, demonstrating how these were foundational to his later critique of political eco... Read More about Marxism and the Political Economy of Abolition.

Exclusion from School and Risk of Serious Violence: A Target Trial Emulation Study (2025)
Journal Article
Cornish, R., & Brennan, I. (in press). Exclusion from School and Risk of Serious Violence: A Target Trial Emulation Study. The British journal of criminology, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaf015

Evidence for or against a causal effect of school exclusion on offending is inhibited by random allocation not being available on ethical grounds. To advance understanding of the connection between school exclusion and offending—specifically, serious... Read More about Exclusion from School and Risk of Serious Violence: A Target Trial Emulation Study.

Editorial: The Violence of Law (2025)
Journal Article
Burnett, J., & Nafstad, I. (2025). Editorial: The Violence of Law. Justice, power and resistance, 8(1), 2-4. https://doi.org/10.1332/26352338y2025d000000035

This editorial introduces a special issue of Justice, Power and Resistance interrogating the violence of law. The special issue draws and expands on discussions in the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control’s 51st annual conferen... Read More about Editorial: The Violence of Law.

‘Hammering on the pressure’: Prison governor well‐being and the need for a more humanised approach (2025)
Journal Article
Smith, L., Harrison, K., Mason, R., Nichols, H., Hall, L., & Saunders, G. (online). ‘Hammering on the pressure’: Prison governor well‐being and the need for a more humanised approach. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12595

The challenges of prison work and the impact on the well-being of prison officers is widely publicised. However, less is known about the well-being of prison governors, and what may impact this: the focus of this research. Semi-structured interviews... Read More about ‘Hammering on the pressure’: Prison governor well‐being and the need for a more humanised approach.

‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing (2025)
Journal Article
Nichols, H., Metcalf, J., Earle, F., & Fréour, L. (2025). ‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing. Incarceration, 6, https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663241310334

Prison staff experience multiple stressors in the course of their working lives and existing literature consistently emphasises the negative wellbeing implications of prison work. There is a gap in existing research regarding the types of wellbeing s... Read More about ‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing.

Measuring serious violence perpetration: comparison of police-recorded and self-reported data in a UK cohort (2025)
Journal Article
Cornish, R., Teyhan, A., Tilling, K., Macleod, J., & Brennan, I. (2025). Measuring serious violence perpetration: comparison of police-recorded and self-reported data in a UK cohort. International Journal of Population Data Science, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v10i1.2391

Introduction
Determining risk factors and consequences of serious violence requires accurate measures of violence. Self-reported and police-recorded offending are subject to different sources of bias.
Objectives
To compare risk of self-reported an... Read More about Measuring serious violence perpetration: comparison of police-recorded and self-reported data in a UK cohort.

Reading Isolation, Writing Loneliness; Book Groups and Creative Practice in Prison (2025)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J., & Burkinshaw, L. (in press). Reading Isolation, Writing Loneliness; Book Groups and Creative Practice in Prison. Critical Survey,

This article discusses the need for discursive reading and creative writing practices aimed towards capable readers in prisons. It contends that prison book groups, particularly those with an embedded creative writing component and themed in consider... Read More about Reading Isolation, Writing Loneliness; Book Groups and Creative Practice in Prison.