Culture(s) of control: Political dynamics in cannabis policy in England & Wales and the Netherlands (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This paper draws upon an empirical comparative study of policy-making in England & Wales and the Netherlands. Recent changes in cannabis policy prima facie indicate some convergence towards a toughening of approaches, th... Read More about Culture(s) of control: Political dynamics in cannabis policy in England & Wales and the Netherlands.

How low can you go? Bioenactivism, cognitive biology and Umwelt ontology (2016)
Journal Article

The viability of enactivist philosophy in providing descriptions of biological phenomena (bioenactivism) across the phylogenetic spectrum relies in large part on the scalability of its central concepts, i.e. whether they remain operative at varying l... Read More about How low can you go? Bioenactivism, cognitive biology and Umwelt ontology.

Understandings, implications and alternative approaches to the use of the sex offenders register in the UK (2016)
Journal Article

This paper reviews the current position in relation to sex offender registration and community notification in England and Wales. It reports on data collected as part of a wider research project evaluating law enforcement perspectives
related to sex... Read More about Understandings, implications and alternative approaches to the use of the sex offenders register in the UK.

The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man (2016)
Book

Frequently referred to as the 'French Kant', Maine de Biran was dubbed the greatest French metaphysician since Descartes by Henri Bergson.

His philosophical vocabulary and key concepts still play an undeniably central role in contemporary continen... Read More about The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man.

Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics (2016)
Book

Jan Patočka, perhaps more so than any other philosopher in the twentieth century, managed to combine intense philosophical insight with a farsighted analysis of the idea and challenges facing Europe as a historical, cultural and political signifier.... Read More about Thinking after Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics.

European institutions? (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The British Society for Phenomenology. The aim of this article is to sketch a phenomenological theory of political institutions and to apply it to some objections and questions raised by Pierre Manent about the project of the European Union an... Read More about European institutions?.

Deconstructing “real” women: Young women's readings of advertising images of “plus-size” models in the UK (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Critical feminist researchers and others have amply elucidated the perniciousness of contemporary Western beauty ideals and, particularly, the near-ubiquitous idealisations of slenderness. In this context, the advent of... Read More about Deconstructing “real” women: Young women's readings of advertising images of “plus-size” models in the UK.

Glocalization and Protestant and Catholic contestations in the Brazilian religious economy (2016)
Book Chapter

Bridging the gap - An evaluation of the Lighthouse integrated victim witness care program (2016)
Report

The final project report for the Lighthouse integrated victim witness care program evaluation.

Biologism and supercivilisation (2016)
Book Chapter

Towards the end of one of his last texts, “The Schema of History” (Das Geschichtsschema, written in German between 1975 and 1976), Patočka poses a question that orients much of his late thought on the concepts of “post-Europe,” the “solidarity of the... Read More about Biologism and supercivilisation.

Sexual harm in virtual worlds (2016)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog.

An overview of the context of sexual harm in virtual worlds and developments in criminal justice responses.

Handbook of Contemporary Christianity: Movements, Institutions and Allegiance (2016)
Book

An sole edited volume which considers various dimensions of contemporary Christianity from a global perspective, calling on international experts in various specialisms and disciplines.