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Testing Equality: Insanity, Treatment Refusal and the CRPD (2017)
Journal Article
Wondemaghen, M. (2018). Testing Equality: Insanity, Treatment Refusal and the CRPD. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 25(2), 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2017.1371575

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is considered to be a radical international treaty that affords persons with disability recognition and protection of equal rights in socio-cultural, political, medical and legal arenas. Drawi... Read More about Testing Equality: Insanity, Treatment Refusal and the CRPD.

Encouragement, Discouragement and Connection: The Role of Relationships in Prison Education Experiences (2017)
Journal Article
Nichols, H. (2017). Encouragement, Discouragement and Connection: The Role of Relationships in Prison Education Experiences. Prison service journal, 4-10

Existing literature in the field of prison education often focuses on rates of reoffending, conceptions and understandings of personal change and the correlation between increased educational attainment and employability. More recently, with the publ... Read More about Encouragement, Discouragement and Connection: The Role of Relationships in Prison Education Experiences.

Social media and the cordon sanitaire: Populist politics, the online space, and a relationship that just isn’t there (2017)
Journal Article
Littler, M., & Feldman, M. (2017). Social media and the cordon sanitaire: Populist politics, the online space, and a relationship that just isn’t there. Journal of Language and Politics, 16(4), 510-522. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17029.lit

© John Benjamins Publishing Company. Much research has sought to map the spread of extreme and populist political ideologies across Western Europe. Despite this, it often fails to explain how these ideologies move from the political fringes to positi... Read More about Social media and the cordon sanitaire: Populist politics, the online space, and a relationship that just isn’t there.

‘Jesus saves’ and ‘Clothed in Christ’: athletic religious apparel in the Christian CrossFit community (2017)
Journal Article
Ornella, A. D. (in press). ‘Jesus saves’ and ‘Clothed in Christ’: athletic religious apparel in the Christian CrossFit community. Sport in Society, 22(2), 266-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2017.1360580

The popular sport of CrossFit has attracted a number of Christians who simultaneously celebrate their passion for their faith and their passion for their sport. In this interplay of sport and religion, fashion becomes an important means for the profe... Read More about ‘Jesus saves’ and ‘Clothed in Christ’: athletic religious apparel in the Christian CrossFit community.

The impact of crime: victimisation, harm and resilience (2017)
Book Chapter
Green, S., & Pemberton, A. (2017). The impact of crime: victimisation, harm and resilience. In S. Walklate (Ed.), Handbook of Victims and Victimology (77-101). (2nd). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315712871-6

This chapter explores the impact of crime upon people’s lives. The specifics of criminal victimisation concern the importance of intent, and the moral and ethical corollaries of the experience of injustice. The impact of crime is a balance between th... Read More about The impact of crime: victimisation, harm and resilience.

Restorative justice in the Basque peace process: some experiments and their lessons (2017)
Journal Article
Zernova, M. (2017). Restorative justice in the Basque peace process: some experiments and their lessons. Contemporary Justice Review, 20(3), 363-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2017.1348899

This paper contributes to the literature that analyses application of restorative justice in transitional societies. It examines recent attempts to employ restorative justice in the Basque peace process following ETA’s ceasefire. Using the Basque exp... Read More about Restorative justice in the Basque peace process: some experiments and their lessons.

'Convict Prisons', 'Local Prisons' and 'Prison Reform' (2017)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H. (2017). 'Convict Prisons', 'Local Prisons' and 'Prison Reform'. In J. Turner, P. Taylor, S. Morley, & K. Corteen (Eds.), A Companion to the History of Crime and Criminal Justice. Policy Press

High stakes: The role of weapons in offender decision making (2017)
Book Chapter
Brennan, I. R. (2017). High stakes: The role of weapons in offender decision making. In W. Bernasco, J.-L. van Gelder, & H. Elffers (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of offender decision making (421-444). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199338801.013.17

This chapter describes the contradictory roles that weapons play in offender decision making as mechanisms that can both increase the physical harm to a victim of violence and also reduce the need for physical harm in victims of robbery. Because weap... Read More about High stakes: The role of weapons in offender decision making.

Austerity and the Production of Hate (2017)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J. (2017). Austerity and the Production of Hate. In V. Cooper, & D. Whyte (Eds.), The Violence of Austerity (217-223). London: Pluto Press

The Violence of Austerity collects the voices of campaigners and academics to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies dismantled the social systems that operated as a buffer against economic hardship, exposing austerity... Read More about Austerity and the Production of Hate.

The Violence of Workfare (2017)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J., & Whyte, D. (2017). The Violence of Workfare. In V. Cooper, & D. Whyte (Eds.), The Violence of Austerity (59-66). London: Pluto Press

This chapter analyses the testimonies of 97 people who have participated in ‘workfare’ schemes in the UK and have raised concerns about the health and safety risks experienced on these placements. Overall, these placements, which were carried out bet... Read More about The Violence of Workfare.

Multilevel determinants of teenage childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of HIV/AIDS (2017)
Journal Article
Magadi, M. A. (2017). Multilevel determinants of teenage childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of HIV/AIDS. Health and Place, 46, 37-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.04.006

This paper examined national variations and multilevel determinants of teenage childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in the context of HIV/AIDS using data from recent Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 29 countries of SSA. Results showed... Read More about Multilevel determinants of teenage childbearing in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of HIV/AIDS.

Racial violence and the Brexit state (2017)
Journal Article
Burnett, J. (2017). Racial violence and the Brexit state. Race & class, 58(4), 85-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396816686283

Research by the Institute of Race Relations into over one hundred incidents of racial violence reported in the mass media in the month after the EU referendum indicates that the ‘spike’ in such attacks has to be understood in terms of the racist clim... Read More about Racial violence and the Brexit state.

The long-term impacts of probation supervision (2017)
Book Chapter
Hunter, B., Farrall, S., Sharpe, G., & Calverley, A. (2017). The long-term impacts of probation supervision. In A. Blokland, & V. van der Geest (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course Criminology (436-449). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315747996

This chapter draws upon data from a longitudinal study of desistance from crime to investigate the impacts of criminal justice interventions specifically, probation supervision on probationers' behaviour over a period of fifteen years. It demonstrate... Read More about The long-term impacts of probation supervision.

A multilevel analysis of the determinants of HIV testing in Zimbabwe: evidence from the demographic and health surveys (2017)
Journal Article
Magadi, M. A., & Gazimbi, M. M. (2017). A multilevel analysis of the determinants of HIV testing in Zimbabwe: evidence from the demographic and health surveys. HIV/AIDS Research and Treatment: Open Journal, 4(1), 14-31. https://doi.org/10.17140/HARTOJ-4-124

Introduction Zimbabwe is still burdened with HIV epidemic and the government has an ambitious aim in the post-2015 era to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. To achieve this, the government has set up the 90-90-90 strategic milestones to be achieved by 20... Read More about A multilevel analysis of the determinants of HIV testing in Zimbabwe: evidence from the demographic and health surveys.

Book review of How Corrupt is Britain? Edited by Whyte, David (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 208 pp. (2017)
Journal Article
Burnett, J. (2017). Book review of How Corrupt is Britain? Edited by Whyte, David (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 208 pp. Race & class, 58(3), 103-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396816667022

Book review of How Corrupt is Britain? Edited by Whyte, David (London: Pluto Press, 2015), 208 pp.

Uncanny intimacies: Humans and machines in film (2016)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. D. (2016). Uncanny intimacies: Humans and machines in film. In M. Hauskeller, T. D. Philbeck, & C. D. Carbonell (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television (330-338). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137430328_33

In its Riley v. California ruling requiring the police to get a search warrant to access mobile phone content, the US Supreme Court argued that: ‘modern cell phones, (…) are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial vi... Read More about Uncanny intimacies: Humans and machines in film.

‘‘I am afraid she is perfectly responsible for her actions and is simply wicked’: Reconstructing the criminal career of Julia Hyland (2016)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H., Godfrey, B., & Turner, J. (2016). ‘‘I am afraid she is perfectly responsible for her actions and is simply wicked’: Reconstructing the criminal career of Julia Hyland. In D. Nash, & A.-M. Kilday (Eds.), Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700: Micro Studies in the History of Crime (209-225). Bloomsbury Publishing

Losers, food, and sex: clerical masculinity in the BBC sitcom Rev (2016)
Journal Article
Ornella, A. (2016). Losers, food, and sex: clerical masculinity in the BBC sitcom Rev. Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 99-122. https://doi.org/10.25364/05.2%3A2016.2.6

Clerical masculinities, much like their lay/secular counterparts, often appear unchanging because they are the products of naturalization processes. Clerical masculinities, however, are far from being stable but the live and breathe the dynamics of b... Read More about Losers, food, and sex: clerical masculinity in the BBC sitcom Rev.

HIV/AIDS and contraceptive use: Factors associated with contraceptive use among sexually-active HIV-positive women in Kenya (2016)
Journal Article
Magadi, M. A., & Magadi, W. A. (2017). HIV/AIDS and contraceptive use: Factors associated with contraceptive use among sexually-active HIV-positive women in Kenya. Contraception, 95(3), 312-321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2016.10.013

Objectives: With increased availability of anti-retroviral therapy and improved survival for people living with HIV, more HIV-positive women are leading full reproductive lives. However, HIV-positive women have special contraceptive needs/concerns. T... Read More about HIV/AIDS and contraceptive use: Factors associated with contraceptive use among sexually-active HIV-positive women in Kenya.

Rethinking democracy and terrorism: a quantitative analysis of attitudes to democratic politics and support for terrorism in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Littler, M. (2017). Rethinking democracy and terrorism: a quantitative analysis of attitudes to democratic politics and support for terrorism in the UK. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, 9(1), 52-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/19434472.2016.1245211

© 2016 Society for Terrorism Research. The relationship between democracy and terrorism remains a source of significant debate, with academic evidence suggesting that democracy both inhibits and encourages acts of terrorism and political violence. Ac... Read More about Rethinking democracy and terrorism: a quantitative analysis of attitudes to democratic politics and support for terrorism in the UK.