All Outputs (23)

Embedding implicit bias education into curricular interventions: Insights for criminology programs (2025)
Journal Article

This study examines the integration of implicit bias education within an undergraduate criminology program to enhance students’ understanding and self-awareness. Using a structured 12-week module, the study measured students’ confidence in identifyin... Read More about Embedding implicit bias education into curricular interventions: Insights for criminology programs.

‘Constant pressures from all angles’: Understanding the mental health of UK police officers (2024)
Journal Article

Policing in the United Kingdom can be challenging. The organisational (i.e., within the police force) and operational (i.e., when working in the field) stressors that police officers encounter can negatively impact their mental health. To investigate... Read More about ‘Constant pressures from all angles’: Understanding the mental health of UK police officers.

Understanding, defining, engaging and evaluating secondary child sexual abuse prevention interventions (2024)
Report

The first 2PS (Prevent & protect through support) Knowledge Transfer Workshop (KTW) was held with stakeholders on 22nd January 2024 at UWE in Bristol bringing together professionals, practitioners, academics, and policy makers from acro... Read More about Understanding, defining, engaging and evaluating secondary child sexual abuse prevention interventions.

Understanding the impact of organisational and operational stressors on the mental health of police officers in Ireland (2024)
Journal Article

The mental health of police officers is a critical yet under-researched area. They face unique operational and organisational stressors, including exposure to violence and trauma, as well as bullying, managerial conflict, and a lack of support in the... Read More about Understanding the impact of organisational and operational stressors on the mental health of police officers in Ireland.

Understating the epidemiological criminology approach and how it relates to preventing sexual abuse (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter will discuss the current literature on Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim) and why it is important in shaping the way that professionals frame preventing and responding to sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. An EpiCrim approach combi... Read More about Understating the epidemiological criminology approach and how it relates to preventing sexual abuse.

Where next for EpiCrim approaches to understanding, responding to and preventing sexual abuse (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter concludes the book, by drawing the different chapters together to help the reader understand the overall picture of EpiCrim approaches to sexual abuse. The chapter argues that EpiCrim offers a clear and concise approach in responding to... Read More about Where next for EpiCrim approaches to understanding, responding to and preventing sexual abuse.

Developing and Implementing a Public Health and Criminological Approach to Tackling Sexual Abuse: Prevention, Treatment and Integration (2023)
Book

This edited collection draws together and contextualises research on the Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim) approaches to sexual abuse carried out by the University of West England (UWE), Bristol. EpiCrim sees crime and offending behaviour, includ... Read More about Developing and Implementing a Public Health and Criminological Approach to Tackling Sexual Abuse: Prevention, Treatment and Integration.

Resettlement needs for foreign national prisoners returning to their home country (2023)
Journal Article

While a wide range of literature exists on the topic of prisoner resettlement, little is known about the struggles faced by foreign national prisoners who return to their home country after serving a prison sentence aboard. This paper aims to address... Read More about Resettlement needs for foreign national prisoners returning to their home country.

Restorative justice in cases of sexual violence: Current and future directions in the UK (2023)
Journal Article

Restorative justice seeks to repair the harm caused by crime by bringing together victims, offenders, and affected parties in a facilitated dialogue. Restorative justice is often viewed negatively in relation to cases of sexual violence, due to fears... Read More about Restorative justice in cases of sexual violence: Current and future directions in the UK.

Complications and consistency: Investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements (2023)
Journal Article

The Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique encourages truth tellers to adopt a forthcoming verbal strategy and liars a withholding strategy. We investigated the effectiveness of this technique using a follow-up statement. We predicted that... Read More about Complications and consistency: Investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements.

Introduction/Preface (2023)
Book Chapter

This edited collected is based on a body of work spanning 15 years at the University of the West of England, Bristol, that brings together multi-disciplinary approaches to understanding and responding to sexual abuse. The preface will lay out the res... Read More about Introduction/Preface.

The policing culture: An exploration into the mental health of former British police officers (2023)
Journal Article

Effective policing is essential for reducing crime and ensuring public safety. As part of their role police officers are regularly exposed to traumatic incidents. Without adequate support, prolonged exposure to such events can lead to a deterioration... Read More about The policing culture: An exploration into the mental health of former British police officers.

Applying the asymmetric information management (AIM) technique to virtual interviewing (2023)
Journal Article

The Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique enhances verbal lie-detection by encouraging truth tellers (but not liars) to be forthcoming with information. We examined the AIM technique's utility for correctly distinguishing genuine and fabr... Read More about Applying the asymmetric information management (AIM) technique to virtual interviewing.

Restorative justice in cases of sexual offending  (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

On August 2022 the Department of Social Sciences at the University of the West of England ‘UWE’ Bristol held an in person one-day conference to consider the role that restorative justice can play in cases of sexual offending. The event was a part of... Read More about Restorative justice in cases of sexual offending .

Sexual offending and barriers to employability: Public perceptions of who to hire (2022)
Journal Article

Employment can reduce reoffending, yet many employers refrain from hiring candidates with prior convictions, particularly for sexual offences. This study explored employability ratings before and after a disclosure and barring service (DBS) check for... Read More about Sexual offending and barriers to employability: Public perceptions of who to hire.

Implementing converged security risk management: Drivers, barriers, and facilitators (2022)
Journal Article

Converged security risk management is an approach that addresses interdependencies between security-related business functions that have traditionally been managed by separate departments within organizations. It is a more effective means of addressi... Read More about Implementing converged security risk management: Drivers, barriers, and facilitators.

Applying the asymmetric information management technique to insurance claims (2022)
Journal Article

This study investigates the Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique's ability to detect fraudulent insurance claims submitted online. The AIM instructions inform claimants that, inter alia, more detailed statements are easier to accurately... Read More about Applying the asymmetric information management technique to insurance claims.

Book review - Overwhelming injustice and posttraumatic blame theory: Psychological wellbeing in frontline services (2021)
Journal Article

Social media reactions of nurses to the documentary Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward (2021)
Journal Article

Abstract
Background/Aims
Mental health nursing is becoming a more transparent discipline. Increasingly, documentaries have provided the general public with insights regarding these therapeutic ward environments. The opinions of staff working in suc... Read More about Social media reactions of nurses to the documentary Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward.

A critical analysis of the Model Statement literature: Should this tool be used in practice? (2020)
Journal Article

Investigators need to elicit detailed statements from interviewees to find potential leads, whilst simultaneously judging if a statement is genuine or fabricated. Researchers have proposed that the Model Statement (MS) can both (a) increase informati... Read More about A critical analysis of the Model Statement literature: Should this tool be used in practice?.