Outputs (936)

Desistence from sexual offending (2015)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Review of a research symposium in March 2015 at Queens University, Belfast, organised by Shadd Maruna, Anne-Marie McAlinden and Mark Farmer. The seminar focused on desistence fr... Read More about Desistence from sexual offending.

Get it, got it, good? Media interpretation and sexual harm (2015)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan reflects on the importance of the media in changing social perceptions and attitudes towards sexual harm and examines the changing approach of the media to this... Read More about Get it, got it, good? Media interpretation and sexual harm.

NOTA annual conference, Dublin 2015 (2015)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. A review of the NOTA annual conference 2015, which had a theme of "Sexual Offending Research and Practice: sharing our knowledge to make a difference".

Preventing sexual violence and abuse in the UK (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper looking at current thinking and practices around the engagement of communities in preventing sexual harm – especially public health and innovative approaches

Public engagement with ATSA & NOTA (2015)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. The blog has previously discussed the importance of engaging with the public on sexual harm and the potential outcomes (Public Engagement and Changing Attitudes about Sexual Abu... Read More about Public engagement with ATSA & NOTA.

Public health approaches to sexual harm (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper discussing current approaches to public health interventions in the sexual abuse field

We are not that different after all........ (2015)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan discusses the ways in which perpetrators of sexual harm are similar to each other as well as to other offender groups at a baseline level.

The more things change, the more they stay the same….... or do they? (2015)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. Kieran McCartan looks at sexual harm education and safeguarding issues from a a policy and public engagement perspective.

Sex offender (re)integration into the community: realities and challenges (2015)
Journal Article

Introduction to special journal edition, edited by the authors, on community reintegration of sexual offenders.

The construction of community understandings of sexual violence: rethinking public, practitioner and policy discourses (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers. Abstract: This article explores current societal framings and understandings of sexual violence, particularly child sexual abuse. The article starts by explaining how societal perceptions of... Read More about The construction of community understandings of sexual violence: rethinking public, practitioner and policy discourses.

The "I" in "collaboration" (2015)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. The authors outline the importance of collaborative working and consider some of its challenges.

Journal spotlights for 2014 (2015)
Journal Article

Blog post for Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment blog. The authors review three stand-out journal articles of 2014.

Qualitative analysis of the impact of Circles of Support and Accountability in the UK (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A research paper based on recent research funded by the Cabinet Office/MoJ on CoSA in the UK

Adapting and retesting evidence-based child maltreatment prevention programs: A case study in Canada (2015)
Journal Article

Commentary

Atomised Mothers: A film about isolation, 'austerity' and the politics of parenthood (2015)
Digital Artefact

In December 2014 Charlotte Bevan, a new mother in Bristol took her own life and that of her newborn baby. NICE responded by altering its guidelines to the NHS, stating it must do more to support new mums. The work of parenting can be the most challen... Read More about Atomised Mothers: A film about isolation, 'austerity' and the politics of parenthood.

Why social work and sociology need psychosocial theory (2015)
Journal Article

Sociology and social work as disciplines have, over the last decades, had an, at best, ambivalent relationship. Whereas branches of sociology, such as symbolic interactionism, have produce theory of immense use to social work, for example the concept... Read More about Why social work and sociology need psychosocial theory.

Everything (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Hegeler Institute. All rights reserved. To picture reality either as not involving its being pictured or as reducible to its being pictured yields inconsistent pictures, since i... Read More about Everything.

Everything is primal germ or nothing is: The deep field logic of nature (2015)
Journal Article

In Schelling’s ‘On the Relation between the Real and the Ideal in Nature’ (1806), not only does the titular copula bond real and ideal, but is itself bonded in and by nature. If the copula doesn’t merely bond nature and judgment, but bonds the latter... Read More about Everything is primal germ or nothing is: The deep field logic of nature.

Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem (2015)
Book Chapter

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field consists of an image, published in 2006 but shot between September 2003 and January 2004, of a tiny part of the Galaxy: the constellation of Fornax, which lies just below Orion in the night sky. The image was constructed b... Read More about Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem.

Talking ties: Reflecting on network visualisation and qualitative interviewing (2014)
Journal Article

This paper uses a reflexive approach to consider the opportunities and challenges of using a visualisation tool in qualitative research on social networks. Although widely used to map social networks over many decades, particularly in health studies... Read More about Talking ties: Reflecting on network visualisation and qualitative interviewing.