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Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review (2013)
Journal Article
Daykin, N., De Viggiani, N., Pilkington, P., & Moriarty, Y. (2013). Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review. Health Promotion International, 28(2), 197-210. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/das005

Youth justice is an important public health issue. There is growing recognition of the need to adopt effective, evidence-based strategies for working with young offenders. Music interventions may be particularly well suited to addressing risk factors... Read More about Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review.

A clean bill of health? The efficacy of an NHS commissioned outsourced police custody healthcare service (2013)
Journal Article
De Viggiani, N. (2013). A clean bill of health? The efficacy of an NHS commissioned outsourced police custody healthcare service. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 20(6), 610-617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2013.03.014

Police custody healthcare services for detainees in the UK are most commonly outsourced to independent healthcare providers who employ custody nurses and forensic physicians to deliver forensic healthcare services. A pilot was introduced in 2008 by t... Read More about A clean bill of health? The efficacy of an NHS commissioned outsourced police custody healthcare service.

Adapting needs assessment methodologies to build integrated health pathways for people in the criminal justice system (2012)
Journal Article
De Viggiani, N., & De Viggiani, N. (2012). Adapting needs assessment methodologies to build integrated health pathways for people in the criminal justice system. Public Health, 126(9), 763-769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2012.05.030

Criminal justice health services should be underpinned with good public health evidence about the population's health needs. Health needs assessment methodologies can provide valuable intelligence for commissioners to evaluate the quality of services... Read More about Adapting needs assessment methodologies to build integrated health pathways for people in the criminal justice system.

Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting (2012)
Journal Article
de Viggiani, N. (2012). Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting. Men and Masculinities, 15(3), 271-291. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X12448464

Prisons are social communities where people commonly conform to normative institutional and cultural values and ideologies. Conforming as a man in prison may involve performing or projecting prison masculinities to ensure emotional, psychological, an... Read More about Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting.

Music in time: An evaluation of a participatory creative music programme for older prisoners (2010)
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De Viggiani, N., Macintosh, S., & Lang, P. (2010). Music in time: An evaluation of a participatory creative music programme for older prisoners

This evaluation was developed as a research collaboration between the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol and a Community Interest Company, Superact, which is affiliated with the south west regional branch of an arts charity, Live Music... Read More about Music in time: An evaluation of a participatory creative music programme for older prisoners.

Police Custody Healthcare: An evaluation of an NHS commissioned pilot to deliver a police custody health service in a partnership between Dorset Primary Care Trust and Dorset Police (2010)
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De Viggiani, N., Kushner, S., Last, K., Powell, J., & Davies, J. D. (2010). Police Custody Healthcare: An evaluation of an NHS commissioned pilot to deliver a police custody health service in a partnership between Dorset Primary Care Trust and Dorset Police

This evaluation was sponsored by Dorset Primary Care Trust and the South West Strategic Health Authority to examine the local commissioning relationship established to provide police custody healthcare across Dorset's three 24/7 custody suites, loca... Read More about Police Custody Healthcare: An evaluation of an NHS commissioned pilot to deliver a police custody health service in a partnership between Dorset Primary Care Trust and Dorset Police.

Unhealthy prisons: Exploring structural determinants of prison health (2007)
Journal Article
De Viggiani, N. (2007). Unhealthy prisons: Exploring structural determinants of prison health. Sociology of Health and Illness, 29(1), 115-135. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00474.x

Prisoner health is influenced as much by structural determinants (institutional, environmental, political, economic and social) as it is by physical and mental constitutions of prisoners themselves. Prison health may therefore be better understood wi... Read More about Unhealthy prisons: Exploring structural determinants of prison health.

A new approach to prison public health? Challenging and advancing the agenda for prison health (2006)
Journal Article
De Viggiani, N. (2006). A new approach to prison public health? Challenging and advancing the agenda for prison health. Critical Public Health, 16(4), 307-316. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581590601045212

This paper explores recent developments in prison public health, recommending that future prison health policies and practices become more 'upstream' in their outlook and approach. It is argued that this will require much firmer acknowledgement of th... Read More about A new approach to prison public health? Challenging and advancing the agenda for prison health.