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Journal of Social Work Practice, 2015
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Probation quarterly, Dec 6, 2023
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Journal of Social Work Practice, Apr 24, 2015
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Social Work and Social Sciences Review
Freedom of information (FoI) legislation has been represented as a valuable but underused means o... more Freedom of information (FoI) legislation has been represented as a valuable but underused means of generating otherwise unavailable data from public authorities in health and social care research. This article complements extant literature on the use of FoI requests for research intended to inform health and social care policy and improve the quality of practice. Reflections are provided on challenges and ethical considerations, drawing on relevant literature and the authors’ experience undertaking studies addressing different topics in mental health and child welfare using FoI requests as the primary source of data collection. The recommendations are practically orientated and aimed primarily at social work and health and social care researchers who may have limited knowledge of how FoI requests might be utilised in their work but be curious about this method’s application.
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Claims are made at international and at the national level in the UK that policies to tackle huma... more Claims are made at international and at the national level in the UK that policies to tackle human trafficking are based on a human rights approach. Multiple claims are embedded within this claim about the nature and scale of human trafficking, presenting an idealised view of the victim of trafficking as clearly defined. This perspective is contested in front-line encounters as street-level bureaucrats (Lipsky, 1980) are required to evaluate the claims made by concrete individuals to the victim of trafficking status against these idealised images of the victim of trafficking. Foucault’s (2011) discussion of parresia in his 1983 lecture on the government of the self is relevant in both meanings provided. First, claimants of the victim of trafficking status necessarily make their claim without the freedom to speak and be recognised by the state, which Foucault describes as a political structure. They are strangers amongst the demos of the nation-state against which they make their claim. Second, claimants of the victim of trafficking status must demonstrate they are speaking the truth, in the more social sense described by Foucault, by demonstrating the risks they have taken in their journey, usually with their own body as the warrant of evidence supporting their claim. This paper considers the impact of street-level bureaucrats exercising their judgement when assessing the credibility of the accounts they receive from putative victims of human trafficking. Utilise a theoretical model for evaluating the credibility of non-governmental organisations (Gourevitch & Lake, 2012), I develop a conceptualisation of ‘victim of trafficking’ as a fluid status that is dependent on individuals required to enact a familiar image of vulnerability and victimhood for street-level bureaucrats
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Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2020
Human trafficking is presented as a multidimensional problem, constituted by a complex matrix of ... more Human trafficking is presented as a multidimensional problem, constituted by a complex matrix of borders, vertices and spaces. In spite of the agreement of an international definition of traffickin...
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Mental Health Practice
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The process of desistance is underpinned by criminal justice practitioners building positive rela... more The process of desistance is underpinned by criminal justice practitioners building positive relationships with offenders as well as recognising their individual skills, strengths and agency (McNeill & Weaver, 2010; McNeill et al. 2012). Recent reorganisations within probation services in England and Wales, as well as a broader austerity agenda have reduced the capacity for delivering group-based rehabilitation interventions depleted. Digital technologies have been suggested as possible way of developing new interventions to achieve the goals of desistance, though their use is currently limited and uneven across the sector (Knight, 2015). Other sectors, such as healthcare, have been more proactive in developing their use of digital technologies to support the delivery of services and treatment. This paper examines the potential of two approaches to utilising digital technologies currently in use by mental health services: personal digital assistants and self-guided therapies. The ai...
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Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
Guided tours of memorial museums have sought to have an impact on visitors through an affective l... more Guided tours of memorial museums have sought to have an impact on visitors through an affective learning environment and critical reflection leading to ‘action’. However, there is limited work investigating the pedagogical underpinnings of such guided tours in order to understand whether they can facilitate action. This paper presents reflections of 21 students’ experiences of educational visits to the former Nazi extermination and concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland between 2017 and 2018. Students identified the guided tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau as having an affective dimension that enhanced understanding and brought about a perspective transformation but action was ill-defined. In considering ill-defined action, this paper attempts to frame understanding of the guided tour of the memorial museum within the context of Transformative Learning. It concludes that guiding practices should incorporate space for reflection and provide examples of potential ‘action’ so that visi...
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The advent of the world-wide web in 1989 captured public imagination through the possibility of c... more The advent of the world-wide web in 1989 captured public imagination through the possibility of communicating with ever-wider audiences. Initially, this process involved the dissemination of information in public domains, but the later development of Web 2.0 emerged in services that are always available, to which we are always connected, and through which we are able to produce as well as consume knowledge. The initial period following the emergence of the digital society saw law enforcement practitioners, and academic criminologists, respond reactively to digital crime and criminality. Both have adopted a dominant approach to digital media that is a one-way flow of information: either providing information to a passive audience or taking information from an identified target. It is much more recent that either group have begun to utilise digital media to construct dialogues with the publics they serve. The true value of digital technologies remains unrealised, particularly when considering the emphasis within democratic policing on the key principles of transparency and accountability to the public. The exploratory discussion in this chapter is underpinned by a critical literature review, adding to the developing scholarly discussion about digital criminology by examining the value of new media as a tool of public accountability. The chapter seeks to examine how the process of truth-telling in post-transitional states can be augmented by the use of social media and how this might impact on the democratic priority that policing agencies are transparent and held accountable for past and present abuses of power. Digital media, and the counterpublics who emerge from such spaces, have the potential to deliver citizen journalism that recognises the position of individuals within narratives of oppression and identifies opportunities for public, participatory accountability without the need to mediate their message through formal, legal mechanisms or mainstream media outlets. Hashtag activism, such as #BlackLivesMatter, #nuncamais, and #ditaduranão, has the potential to mobilise new participants in the act of public accountability. Each act of public truth-telling reaffirms the credentials of politically engaged users as digital activists, which non-engaged users can witness and distribute across their own social network
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The ‘applied nature’ of criminology, criminal justice and law courses lends itself to the use of ... more The ‘applied nature’ of criminology, criminal justice and law courses lends itself to the use of experiential learning within programme delivery (George et al, 2015; Higgins et al, 2012). What is clear from the limited literature is that the use of experiential learning within criminal justice education has been focused on knowledge, skills, roles and identity of ‘the practitioner’. There is very little discussion of the value of experiential learning as transformative of the individual in terms of being able to critically reflect on the experience as a means to understand self and non-conformity to perceived hegemony (such as in the resistance to Nazis during the Second World War). Drawing on Bakhtin’s (1968) ‘Carnival’ and Mezirow’s (1991) Transformative Learning Theory this paper asks the question ‘Can experiential learning be truly transformative?’ It presents findings from narrative interviews with 20 undergraduate students studying Criminology, Psychology, Policing or Criminal Investigation who participated in a field trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau Camps. Interviews were undertaken pre and post field trip to examine students’ expectations of and reflections on the ‘experience’
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Delivered within the Sociology of Rights theme of the BSA National Conference; coordinated by the... more Delivered within the Sociology of Rights theme of the BSA National Conference; coordinated by the BSA Sociology of Rights Study Group
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A national thematic report, prepared on the behalf of Tell MAMA, examining the patterns of online... more A national thematic report, prepared on the behalf of Tell MAMA, examining the patterns of online and offline anti-Muslim hate incidents following 'trigger' events.
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Mental Health Review Journal, 2018
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report an analysis of arrangements in English mental heal... more Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report an analysis of arrangements in English mental health trusts to meet the needs of adult service users who are homeless. Homelessness is associated with various forms of mental ill-health, yet homeless people are not always well-served by statutory mental health services. In recent years, practice guidance seeking to improve health outcomes for the homeless has emphasised the need for NHS services to improve care pathways and professional provision for this service user group, in part by collaborating more closely with homelessness organisations. Design/methodology/approach Responses to freedom of information requests sent to trusts were analysed. The requests asked trusts for information concerning partnerships with external agencies, particular projects/staff, training available to trust professionals, referral pathways, and intervention models/approaches informing work with homeless service users. Findings In total, 49 trusts provided ...
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Probation Journal, 2018
Reform of probation services in England and Wales has been a frequent feature of its history, tho... more Reform of probation services in England and Wales has been a frequent feature of its history, though the pace of review, restructuring and modification has increased exponentially in the last 30 years. This paper provides a brief history of changes to the National Probation Service since its inception in the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 to the recent announcements of the merger of prison and probation services into a new agency, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. Commonalities are identified between the various programmes of reform instigated throughout the last 17 years, drawing on insights from Pollitt. The paper addresses the implications for the future of a public probation service in England and Wales after the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) ceased to exist in April 2017 and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service was inaugurated.
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Work, Employment and Society, 2016
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