Responding to sexual offending: Perceptions, risk management and public protection
(2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Outputs (1120)
Psychosocial interventions for adults with visible differences: A systematic review (2014)
Report
Background: Some individuals with visible differences have been found to experience psychosocial adjustment problems that can lead to social anxiety and isolation. Various models of psychosocial intervention have been used to reduce social anxiety an... Read More about Psychosocial interventions for adults with visible differences: A systematic review.
Managing sex offenders in the UK: Challenges for policy and practice (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A fig leaf for action: Critical perspectives on youth policy in the UK (2014)
Journal Article
This paper discusses the changing approaches that governments in the Uk have adopted in response to youth issues and the extent to which these are reflected in dominant social constructions of youth. Our discussion offers a perspective on youth polic... Read More about A fig leaf for action: Critical perspectives on youth policy in the UK.
Is the empire coming home? Liberalism, exclusion and the punitiveness of the British state (2014)
Journal Article
The rapid expansion in the use of incarceration and the criminal justice system’s penetration of new areas of private and public life have been linked to the emergence of neoliberalism. This expansion of punitiveness has been portrayed as a reactiona... Read More about Is the empire coming home? Liberalism, exclusion and the punitiveness of the British state.
'Oh my god, we're not doing nothing': Young people's experiences of spatial regulation (2014)
Journal Article
© 2013 The British Psychological Society. Social psychologists have become increasingly concerned with examining the ways in which social practices are interrelated with their location. Critical perspectives have highlighted the traditional lack of a... Read More about 'Oh my god, we're not doing nothing': Young people's experiences of spatial regulation.
Reactions & Debate II: The Ethics of Immigration - Carens and the problem of method (2014)
Journal Article
This article is part of a special issue looking at Joseph Carens The Ethics of Immigration and includes his replies.
Things fall apart: From law, order and justice to lawlessness, disorder and injustice (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Criminology, legal studies, political science and other disciplines all operates with assumptions about the benefits of the rule of law, the legitimacy of the state’s role in establishing and maintaining order and the centrality of justice within pen... Read More about Things fall apart: From law, order and justice to lawlessness, disorder and injustice.
Foreword: The three dogmas of transcendentalism (2014)
Book Chapter
The importance of political parties in county government (2015)
Book Chapter
The chapter examines the organisation, activities and impact of party politics on the role of the county councillor as an elected representative. It will examine the way county councillors respond to party group demands for their loyalty and the way... Read More about The importance of political parties in county government.
ATSA-2015, Montreal – Conference highlights (2015)
Journal Article
Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. The authors discuss the highlights of the 2015 Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers conference.
Universalising politics and process naturalism (2015)
Book Chapter
Irigaray, Kant and Kierkegaard (2015)
Book Chapter
At the borders of political theory: Carens and the ethics of immigration 1 (2015)
Journal Article
© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Carens’ book covers a wide range of issues concerning the ethics of immigration, and although he is best known as a theorist of open borders that argument takes up a relatively small part of the book, and is indeed a sma... Read More about At the borders of political theory: Carens and the ethics of immigration 1.
Grenada: Revolution and Invasion (2015)
Book
Grenada: Revolution and Invasion is a wide-ranging collection of essays by academics in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States, each with a unique perspective on the revolution and its effects. The Grenada events of 1979–1983, especi... Read More about Grenada: Revolution and Invasion.
What difference do directly elected mayors make? A panel discussion (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thinking Futures festival discussion (part of ESRC Festival of Social Science), convened by the University of Bristol exploring the success of the Directly Elected Mayor model. Panel Abstract: Strengthening city leadership by introducing directly... Read More about What difference do directly elected mayors make? A panel discussion.
A psychosocial exploration of the lifelong impact of being in care as a child and resilience over a life span (2015)
Thesis
Background Care experienced adults (adults who were in foster care, kinship care, residential care or were adopted) are assumed to be more vulnerable than the general population across numerous domains: educational underachievement, unemployment, po... Read More about A psychosocial exploration of the lifelong impact of being in care as a child and resilience over a life span.
The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology, and Politics in Jan Patočka (2015)
Book
he Risk of Freedom presents an in-depth analysis of the philosophy of Jan Patočka, one of the most influential Central European thinkers of the twentieth century, examining both the phenomenological and ethical-political aspects of his work. In parti... Read More about The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology, and Politics in Jan Patočka.
Reflections on a revolution: In conversation with Selwyn Strachan (2015)
Journal Article
Reflections on a Revolution: In Conversation with Selwyn Strachan was organised by the University of the West of England’s Social Science in the City strand, and took place in Bristol, UK on 22nd May 2014. What follows is an edited transcript of the... Read More about Reflections on a revolution: In conversation with Selwyn Strachan.
Understanding sex offenders (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
A research update on current sex offender research, treatment and policy