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The surveillance of 'prolific' offenders : beyond 'docile bodies'
Journal Article
McCahill, M., & Finn, R. The surveillance of 'prolific' offenders : beyond 'docile bodies'. Punishment and Society, 15(1), 23-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474512466198

This article uses ethnographic research to explore how a sample of state-defined ‘prolific’ offenders living in Northern City (a small city in the North of England) experience and respond to a surveillance regime which includes ‘appointments’, ‘track... Read More about The surveillance of 'prolific' offenders : beyond 'docile bodies'.

The Food Industry
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. 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.

Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground
Book Chapter
Couto, L. (in press). Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground. In L. Huey, & D. Buil-Gil (Eds.), The Crime Data Handbook (304-315). Bristol University Press

Owing to domestic abuse’s complexity, wherein a wide spectrum of behaviours can be subsumed, the subject has been studied in multiple fields (from health sciences to policing), and through different prisms (such as prevention, detection, and response... Read More about Surveying Domestic Abuse Victims: The Inimical Lack of Common Ground.

Learning from the Covid-19 Pandemic: Probation’s Role in Providing Health-Related Support
Book Chapter
Sirdifield, C., Nichols, H., & Mullen, P. (in press). Learning from the Covid-19 Pandemic: Probation’s Role in Providing Health-Related Support. In E. Johnston (Ed.), Covid-19 and Criminal Justice : Impact and Legacy in England and Wales (201-216). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003281481

This chapter examines the issues Covid-19 caused for the probation service. The chapter suggests that health, health inequalities, and the social determinants of health have been in the spotlight like never before throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Pe... Read More about Learning from the Covid-19 Pandemic: Probation’s Role in Providing Health-Related Support.

Surveillance & Crime
Book
McCahill, M., & Coleman, R. Surveillance & Crime. The University of Hull

Surveillance has a long-standing relationship with crime and its identification, prevention, detection and punishment. With information on each citizen spanning up to 700 databases, and over 4 million CCTV cameras in the United Kingdom alone, this bo... Read More about Surveillance & Crime.

In the name of the victim manipulation and meaning within the restorative paradigm
Book Chapter
Green, S. In the name of the victim manipulation and meaning within the restorative paradigm. In Victims and Mediation. The University of Hull

Restorative justice has claimed to place the victim at the heart of the penal process. Yet the evidence (e.g. Daly 2001, 2003) suggests that this is not always the case and that many victims find the process of mediation superfluous to their recovery... Read More about In the name of the victim manipulation and meaning within the restorative paradigm.