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A Review Of Modern Slavery In Britain Understanding The Unique Experience Of British Victims And Why It Matters (2022)
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Kidd, A., Barlow, C., Murphy, C., & McKee, A. (2022). A Review Of Modern Slavery In Britain Understanding The Unique Experience Of British Victims And Why It Matters. Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice, 5(1), 54–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/25166069221117190

This article offers an original contribution to the field of victimization studies by investigating the current context of, and responses to, British nationals who are victims of modern slavery in the UK (BVs). Through the examination of National Ref... Read More about A Review Of Modern Slavery In Britain Understanding The Unique Experience Of British Victims And Why It Matters.

Immigration Raids and State Violence (2022)
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Bhatia, M., & Burnett, J. (2022). Immigration Raids and State Violence. State Crime Journal, 11(1), 33-51. https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.11.1.0033

This article develops an analysis of contemporary immigration raids in Britain, arguing that they operate ideologically as well as institutionally to sustain the material and political conditions of what is a vastly unequal form of social... Read More about Immigration Raids and State Violence.

Antimafia cross-border: conceptual and procedural asymmetries in the fight against Italian mafias in Europe (2022)
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Sergi, A., & Rizzuti, A. (in press). Antimafia cross-border: conceptual and procedural asymmetries in the fight against Italian mafias in Europe. Policing, Article paac047. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac047

This article explores some of the challenges to fighting against Italian mafias and mafia-type organized crime in Europe, specifically in eight countries—Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Romania, the UK, and Italy. Data have bee... Read More about Antimafia cross-border: conceptual and procedural asymmetries in the fight against Italian mafias in Europe.

Unmarried Adolescents’ Experiences of Using Reproductive and Maternal Health Services in Nigeria and Uganda: A Qualitative Study (2022)
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Onukwugha, F., Agaba, P., Hayter, M., & Orton, B. (2022). Unmarried Adolescents’ Experiences of Using Reproductive and Maternal Health Services in Nigeria and Uganda: A Qualitative Study. Social Sciences, 11(5), Article 203. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11050203

Adolescents’ access and use of reproductive and maternal health (RMH) services is a critical part of the global strategy for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, previous studies have shown that a complex range of factors, inc... Read More about Unmarried Adolescents’ Experiences of Using Reproductive and Maternal Health Services in Nigeria and Uganda: A Qualitative Study.

Perspectives of Adolescents, Parents, Service Providers, and Teachers on Mobile Phone Use for Sexual Reproductive Health Education (2022)
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Ochieng, B. M., Smith, L., Orton, B., Hayter, M., Kaseje, M., Wafula, C. O., …Kaseje, D. C. O. (2022). Perspectives of Adolescents, Parents, Service Providers, and Teachers on Mobile Phone Use for Sexual Reproductive Health Education. Social Sciences, 11(5), Article 196. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11050196

Mobile health (mHealth) programs offer opportunities to improve the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescents by providing information. This paper reports the findings of a study carried out in Homabay County, Kenya, to assess stakeholders’... Read More about Perspectives of Adolescents, Parents, Service Providers, and Teachers on Mobile Phone Use for Sexual Reproductive Health Education.

Probation and COVID-19: Lessons learned to improve health-related practice (2022)
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Sirdfield, C., Nichols, H., & Mullen, P. (2022). Probation and COVID-19: Lessons learned to improve health-related practice. Probation Journal, 69(2), 216-234. https://doi.org/10.1177/02645505221087980

Probation staff perform a health-related role involving identifying health-related drivers of offending behaviour; facilitating access to support for these, including continuity of care for people leaving prison; and advising the courts on appropriat... Read More about Probation and COVID-19: Lessons learned to improve health-related practice.

Predictors of health facility childbirth among unmarried and married youth in Uganda (2022)
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Agaba, P., Magadi, M., & Orton, B. (2022). Predictors of health facility childbirth among unmarried and married youth in Uganda. PLoS ONE, 17(4), Article e0266657. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266657

Background Uganda has a high maternal mortality rate combined with poor use of health facilities at childbirth among youth. Improved use of maternal health services by the youth would help reduce maternal deaths in the country. Predictors of use of h... Read More about Predictors of health facility childbirth among unmarried and married youth in Uganda.

The effectiveness and characteristics of mHealth interventions to increase adolescent's use of Sexual and Reproductive Health services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review (2022)
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Onukwugha, F. I., Smith, L., Kaseje, D., Wafula, C., Kaseje, M., Orton, B., …Magadi, M. (2022). The effectiveness and characteristics of mHealth interventions to increase adolescent's use of Sexual and Reproductive Health services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review. PLoS ONE, 17(1), Article e0261973. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261973

Background mHealth innovations have been proposed as an effective solution to improving adolescent access to and use of Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services; particularly in regions with deeply entrenched traditional social norms. However, r... Read More about The effectiveness and characteristics of mHealth interventions to increase adolescent's use of Sexual and Reproductive Health services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review.

Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–64 (2022)
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Chaya, D. P. (2022). Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–64. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 45(4), 621-636. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2022.2044695

Scholars of Intelligence Studies have extensively debated the contours of an ideal relationship between intelligence services and policy making, in which agencies can maintain analytical objectivity while having a policy impact. However, this debate... Read More about Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–64.

Understanding forced marriage protection orders in the UK (2021)
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Noack-Lundberg, K., Gill, A. K., & Anitha, S. (2021). Understanding forced marriage protection orders in the UK. The Journal of social welfare & family law, 43(4), 371-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2021.1996083

This article examines the use of Forced Marriage Protection Orders (FMPOs) in England and Wales to determine which framing narratives affect the outcomes of FMPO cases. Forced marriage is marriage without the consent of one or both parties and is leg... Read More about Understanding forced marriage protection orders in the UK.

Violence, worry and trust in the emergence of weapon-carrying (2021)
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Brennan, I. R. (2021). Violence, worry and trust in the emergence of weapon-carrying. European Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708211046193

This paper identifies longitudinal predictors of weapon-carrying in a sample of 10–25 year olds in England and Wales. It conceptualises weapon-carrying as anticipation of an adverse event and proposes hypotheses about the origins of weapon-carrying d... Read More about Violence, worry and trust in the emergence of weapon-carrying.

Circles of analysis: a systemic model of child criminal exploitation (2021)
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Barlow, C., Kidd, A., Green, S. T., & Darby, B. (in press). Circles of analysis: a systemic model of child criminal exploitation. Journal of Children's Services, https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-04-2021-0016

Purpose: Child criminal exploitation (CCE) emerges from the complex interplay between potential targets, motivated perpetrators and conducive environments. Drawing on contextual safeguarding and rational choice theory. The purpose of this paper is to... Read More about Circles of analysis: a systemic model of child criminal exploitation.

Corrupting and saving: Moral contamination, prison education and prison history (2021)
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Johnston, H. (2021). Corrupting and saving: Moral contamination, prison education and prison history. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 60(S1), 109-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12434

This article examines the ways in which prison has been seen as both a ‘school of crime’ and a school of reform; a place for potential further corruption, or through education in prison, a route away from criminality. It explores the methods used, si... Read More about Corrupting and saving: Moral contamination, prison education and prison history.

Coercive control: Patterns in crimes, arrests and outcomes for a new domestic abuse offence (2021)
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Brennan, I., & Myhill, A. (2022). Coercive control: Patterns in crimes, arrests and outcomes for a new domestic abuse offence. The British journal of criminology, 62(2), 468-483. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab072

Critics of the criminalization of coercive control warned that the criminal justice system was ill-prepared for a conceptualization of domestic abuse that relies on victim accounts of fear and manipulation rather than on evidence of violence. Using d... Read More about Coercive control: Patterns in crimes, arrests and outcomes for a new domestic abuse offence.

Sexual and reproductive health knowledge and behaviour of adolescent boys and girls aged 10-19 years in western Kenya: Evidence from a cross-sectional pilot survey (2021)
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Magadi, M., Kaseje, D., Kaseje, M., Ochola-Odhiambo, P., Ogutu-Owii, S., Wafula, C., …Smith, L. (2021). Sexual and reproductive health knowledge and behaviour of adolescent boys and girls aged 10-19 years in western Kenya: Evidence from a cross-sectional pilot survey. Journal of biosocial science, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932021000353

This paper reports findings of a pilot survey of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) knowledge and behaviour in Homabay County of western Kenya. The study was based on a cross-sectional survey of 523 male and female adolescents aged 10-1... Read More about Sexual and reproductive health knowledge and behaviour of adolescent boys and girls aged 10-19 years in western Kenya: Evidence from a cross-sectional pilot survey.

Organised food crime: an analysis of the involvements of organised crime groups in the food sector in England and Italy (2021)
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Rizzuti, A. (in press). Organised food crime: an analysis of the involvements of organised crime groups in the food sector in England and Italy. Crime, Law and Social Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-021-09975-w

The food sector is subject to illegal practices of various types such as adulteration or exploitation of labour. In the media and public discourse, this phenomenon is often associated to activities by organised crime groups. Drawing on a socio-legal... Read More about Organised food crime: an analysis of the involvements of organised crime groups in the food sector in England and Italy.

Exploring the impact of body-worn video on the everyday behaviours of police officers (2021)
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Harrison, K., L’Hoiry, X., & Santorso, S. (2022). Exploring the impact of body-worn video on the everyday behaviours of police officers. Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 95(2), 363-377. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X211000834

The use of body-worn video in Police Forces in England and Wales is not new. On the whole, evaluations have been positive, although, there is little evidence regarding how beneficial the cameras can be in terms of how they impact on the everyday beha... Read More about Exploring the impact of body-worn video on the everyday behaviours of police officers.

Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses (2021)
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Wondemaghen, M. (2021). Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses. Medicine, Science and the Law, 61(4), 266-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/0025802421993363

Ideological shifts in mental health-care policy such as deinstitutionalisation have meant police have had to make decisions about the care of persons with a mental-health crisis. This study examines how police in five English counties respond to cris... Read More about Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses.

A New Approach for Researching Victims: The 'Strength-Growth-Resilience' Framework (2021)
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Green, S., Calverley, A., & O'leary, N. (2021). A New Approach for Researching Victims: The 'Strength-Growth-Resilience' Framework. The British journal of criminology, 61(3), 852-871. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa093

This paper proposes a new framework for researching victims that blends appreciative inquiry methods used by prison researchers with narrative interview methods used by desistance researchers to investigate victim 'strength-growth-resilience'. Alongs... Read More about A New Approach for Researching Victims: The 'Strength-Growth-Resilience' Framework.