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Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff (2024)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J., & Westoby, C. (2024). Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff. Lapidus International Research and Innovation Community Journal, 4(1), 30-51

Research from the Institute of Criminology at Cambridge recognises that prison officers are productive role models for prisoners and that the pop-cultural stereotype of the officer beating the inmate into submission has diminished. Yet a report publi... Read More about Words Behind Walls: A Creative Writing Project with Prison Staff.

India-Israel Cooperation in Spy Satellites: Materialism to Idealism (2024)
Journal Article
Krishnan, V., & Paramesha, D. (2024). India-Israel Cooperation in Spy Satellites: Materialism to Idealism. Strategic Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2024.2357516

This article argues that India-Israel cooperation in space-based imagery originated under a realist logic but has been developing under an increasingly strong value-based commitment in countering terrorism. In this regard, the relationship is somewha... Read More about India-Israel Cooperation in Spy Satellites: Materialism to Idealism.

It’s not ok to not be ok . . . when you’re a prison governor:The impact of workplace culture on prison governors’ wellbeing in England, Scotland and Wales (2024)
Journal Article
Nichols, H., Saunders, G., Harrison, K., Mason, R., Smith, L., & Hall, L. (2024). It’s not ok to not be ok . . . when you’re a prison governor:The impact of workplace culture on prison governors’ wellbeing in England, Scotland and Wales. Incarceration, 5, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663241253698

The wellbeing of prison governors has received little attention in penological research to date. The findings of this research reveal that governors’ wellbeing is negatively impacted by a dominant Masculinity Contest Culture (MCC) permeating through... Read More about It’s not ok to not be ok . . . when you’re a prison governor:The impact of workplace culture on prison governors’ wellbeing in England, Scotland and Wales.

Focused deterrence: A protocol for a realist multisite randomised controlled trial for evaluating a violence prevention intervention in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Simanovic, T., McFarlane, P., Brennan, I., Sutherland, A., & Graham, W. (2024). Focused deterrence: A protocol for a realist multisite randomised controlled trial for evaluating a violence prevention intervention in the UK. PLoS ONE, 19(3), Article e0301023. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301023

Introduction Focused deterrence (FD) is a frequently cited intervention for preventing violence, particularly against violent urban gangs. The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) believes it could be effective in the UK, based primarily on research conducted... Read More about Focused deterrence: A protocol for a realist multisite randomised controlled trial for evaluating a violence prevention intervention in the UK.

Wage Theft and the Contours of Accumulation (2024)
Journal Article
Burnett, J., & Chebe, F. (2024). Wage Theft and the Contours of Accumulation. Justice, power and resistance, 7(1), 39-59. https://doi.org/10.1332/26352338Y2024D000000009

This article examines the theft of migrant workers’ wages in England by their employers, drawing from original accounts and testimonies of a sample of workers employed between 2018 and 2023. It builds on and establishes new conceptual understandings... Read More about Wage Theft and the Contours of Accumulation.

The Sino-Indian War and the Evolution of Wireless Monitoring Capabilities in the Indian Intelligence Bureau (1959-1968) (2024)
Journal Article
Paramesha, D. (online). The Sino-Indian War and the Evolution of Wireless Monitoring Capabilities in the Indian Intelligence Bureau (1959-1968). Journal of Intelligence History, https://doi.org/10.1080/16161262.2024.2311479

This article is the first academic work exploring the evolution of wireless monitoring capabilities (COMINT) in India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) between 1959 and 1968. Until 1968, the IB was India’s foreign intelligence agency and experienced its lar... Read More about The Sino-Indian War and the Evolution of Wireless Monitoring Capabilities in the Indian Intelligence Bureau (1959-1968).

Policing the pandemic: Exploring public perceptions of the enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions in the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article
Boulton, L., Simanovic, T., McManus, M., & Walker, D. (in press). Policing the pandemic: Exploring public perceptions of the enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions in the United Kingdom. Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X241228048

Traditional UK policing relies on Peelian principles of policing by consent in which public views of police legitimacy are crucial. This study used a mixed methods survey design to explore the impact of the Coronavirus Act 2020 on public perceptions... Read More about Policing the pandemic: Exploring public perceptions of the enforcement of COVID-19 restrictions in the United Kingdom.

Joseph Fouche, 'Continental Policing' and its Impact on British Policing (2023)
Journal Article
Joyce, P., & Laverick, W. (2023). Joseph Fouche, 'Continental Policing' and its Impact on British Policing. Journal of the Police History Society, 37, 109-114

This article examines the nature of policing associated with the French statesman and police reformer, Joseph Fouché, and seeks to explain how this influenced the style and character of professional policing as this developed across England and Wales... Read More about Joseph Fouche, 'Continental Policing' and its Impact on British Policing.

Contemporary protest and police operational independence (2023)
Journal Article
Joyce, P., & Laverick, W. (2023). Contemporary protest and police operational independence. Policing Insight,

The UK Government’s efforts to influence policing’s operational response to protests have reached new levels in recent months, and former Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s comments on the issue would appear to have prompted her sacking; but Wrexham U... Read More about Contemporary protest and police operational independence.

The print press and its politicization of public health: The case of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2023). The print press and its politicization of public health: The case of COVID-19. Journalism, 24(12), 2821-2840. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231200137

This article is interested in the ways in which a serious public health issue, the COVID-19 pandemic, was used to categorize and reconfigure sections of the British citizenry into conformists and deviants. In constructing these categories, the print... Read More about The print press and its politicization of public health: The case of COVID-19.

Deconstructing ‘Agromafie’: A Case Law Analysis of the Interplay of Organised and Corporate Crime in Food Frauds in Italy. (2023)
Journal Article
Rizzuti, A. (2023). Deconstructing ‘Agromafie’: A Case Law Analysis of the Interplay of Organised and Corporate Crime in Food Frauds in Italy. Studi sulla questione criminale, 103-120. https://doi.org/10.7383/109487

Food frauds regularly gain media and institutional attention worldwide due to associated health risks and the impact they have on trust in the food industry. In Italy, media, NGOs, and farmers’ associations tend to consider food fraud and, more broad... Read More about Deconstructing ‘Agromafie’: A Case Law Analysis of the Interplay of Organised and Corporate Crime in Food Frauds in Italy..

Improving Police training in spectrum management can increase trust and reduce harm. (2023)
Journal Article
McKue, M., & Wondemaghen, M. (2023). Improving Police training in spectrum management can increase trust and reduce harm. Policing Insight,

An arrest earlier this month of an autistic 16-year-old girl by officers in West Yorkshire for a suspected ‘homophobic public order offence’ received widespread attention after her mother posted a video of the incident; University of Hull Policing De... Read More about Improving Police training in spectrum management can increase trust and reduce harm..

Living in Misery: Child to Parent and Grandparent Violence and Abuse (2023)
Journal Article
Mills, T., Green, S., & O'Leary, N. (2023). Living in Misery: Child to Parent and Grandparent Violence and Abuse. Temida, 26(2), 163-188. https://doi.org/10.2298/TEM2302163M

This article investigates the hidden and under-researched phenomenon of child/adolescent-to-parent violence and abuse (CAPVA). Despite the attention given to spousal and child abuse, very little is known about why children abuse their parents or wha... Read More about Living in Misery: Child to Parent and Grandparent Violence and Abuse.

Advancements and challenges in gender equity in British policing (2023)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., Joyce, P., & Cunningham, E. (2023). Advancements and challenges in gender equity in British policing. Policing Insight,

A series of recent reviews and reports have highlighted issues around misogyny and gender inequality in UK policing; in this article, Laverick, Joyce and Cunningham explore the context of some of those issues, and consider the advances as well as the... Read More about Advancements and challenges in gender equity in British policing.

Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce (2023)
Journal Article
Brennan, I., Couto, L., & O’Leary, N. (2023). Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce. Policing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2023.2184817

Perhaps more than any other occupation, police witness the context and aftermath of domestic abuse but little is known about the police-victim overlap with regard to domestic abuse. This paper, based on survey responses from approximately one-quarter... Read More about Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce.

Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime (2023)
Journal Article
Bullock, K., Agar, I., Ashby, M., Brennan, I., Hales, G., Sidebottom, A., & Tilley, N. (2023). Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime. Crime Science, 12(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-022-00180-1

Knife crime remains a major concern in England and Wales. Problem-oriented and public health approaches to tackling knife crime have been widely advocated, but little is known about how these approaches are understood and implemented by police practi... Read More about Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime.