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Algorithmic Policing: An exploratory study of the algorithmically mediated construction of individual risk in a UK police force (2022)
Journal Article
Marciniak, D. (2022). Algorithmic Policing: An exploratory study of the algorithmically mediated construction of individual risk in a UK police force. Policing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2022.2144305

Predictive policing has captured the imagination of both enthusiasts hoping to improve public safety and opponents raising concerns around algorithmic bias and opacity. Based on seven in-depth interviews with officers in a UK police force, this artic... Read More about Algorithmic Policing: An exploratory study of the algorithmically mediated construction of individual risk in a UK police force.

Balancing Sympathy and Empathy in an Emotive Discipline (2022)
Book Chapter
Nichols, H., & Humphrey, V. (2022). Balancing Sympathy and Empathy in an Emotive Discipline. In S. Young, & K. Strudwick (Eds.), Teaching Criminology and Criminal Justice : Challenges for Higher Education (179-198). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14899-6_9

This chapter considers the challenge of balancing sympathy and empathy in the emotive discipline of criminology grounded in an introductory discussion of pedagogies of empathy. With a focus on the study of prisons, the chapter considers some of the o... Read More about Balancing Sympathy and Empathy in an Emotive Discipline.

“Short Film Is Where Innovative Storytelling Is Born” Using the Science Fiction Short Film in the Religious Studies and Sociology Classroom (2022)
Journal Article
Ornella, A. D. (2022). “Short Film Is Where Innovative Storytelling Is Born” Using the Science Fiction Short Film in the Religious Studies and Sociology Classroom. Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 8(2), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.25364/05.8%3A2022.2.4

“Short film is where innovative storytelling is born”, the website shortoftheweek.com, a curated short film website, boldly and proudly declares. Short films often lead a Cinderella existence but engaging with them can be immensely rewarding and, due... Read More about “Short Film Is Where Innovative Storytelling Is Born” Using the Science Fiction Short Film in the Religious Studies and Sociology Classroom.

The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts (2022)
Book Chapter
Dover, R. (2022). The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts. In R. Dover, H. Dylan, & M. S. Goodman (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government (155-165). London: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378803.00020

The term deep state has been used to describe the military-intelligence-industrial complex in some notable contexts such as the US, UK, India, Egypt and Turkey. More recently it has been appropriated by populists and conspiracy theorists to describe... Read More about The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts.

Hacker, Influencer, Faker, Spy. Intelligence Agencies in the Digital Age (2022)
Book
Dover, R. (2022). Hacker, Influencer, Faker, Spy. Intelligence Agencies in the Digital Age. London: Hurst Publishers

Intelligence agencies are reflections of the societies they serve. No surprise, then, that modern spies and the agencies they work for are fixated on the internet and electronic communications. These same officials also struggle with notions of priva... Read More about Hacker, Influencer, Faker, Spy. Intelligence Agencies in the Digital Age.

The potential for linking cohort participants to official criminal records: a pilot study using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) (2022)
Journal Article
Boyd, A., Teyhan, A., Cornish, R. P., Croft, J., Thomas, R., Brennan, I., & Macleod, J. (2022). The potential for linking cohort participants to official criminal records: a pilot study using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Wellcome Open Research, 5, Article 271. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16328.2

Introduction: Linking longitudinal cohort resources with police-recorded records of criminal activity has the potential to inform public health style approaches to policing, and may reduce potential sources of bias from self-reported criminal data co... Read More about The potential for linking cohort participants to official criminal records: a pilot study using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).

The Food Industry (2022)
Book Chapter
Rizzuti, A. (in press). The Food Industry. In Y. Zabyelina, & K. L. Thachuk (Eds.), The Private Sector and Organized Crime : Criminal Entrepreneurship, Illicit Profits, and Private Sector Security Governance. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003198635

The food sector is highly attractive to criminals. First, it is lucrative, and notwithstanding its fragility, hardly suffers from economic turndowns. Second, it is strongly yet fragmentarily regulated, often poorly investigated, and the penalties app... Read More about The Food Industry.

Immigration Raids and State Violence (2022)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948 (2022)
Book
Johnston, H., Godfrey, B., & Cox, D. J. (2022). Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948. Montreal; London: McGill-Queen's University Press

Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study to examine the convict prison system that housed all those sentenced to penal servitude during this time. The research details the administration and evolution of the system, from its creation in the 1... Read More about Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948.

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)
Journal Article
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.