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Safeguarding Children in the Secure Estate, 1960-2016
(University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology, 2018-10-18)Background and aims of the research The research for this report was commissioned by the Historical Child Abuse Team of HM Prison & Probation Service (HMPPS), to inform its response to the Independent Inquiry into Child ... -
Turning points or dead ends? Identity, desistance and the experience of imprisonment
(2018-04-21)Desistance research has pushed criminologists to develop a nuanced conceptual account of criminal identity and human agency. However, these tools have mostly not been used to consider identity changes among long-sentenced ... -
The Role of Ethnic Minority Communities and Identities in Explaining Relationships with and Attitudes toward the Police in the London Borough of Hackney
(2018-11-24)This dissertation draws on criminology, social and developmental psychology and urban sociology in order to understand how contextual, situational and individual characteristics contribute to young people’s relationships ... -
Emotions in prison: an exploration of space, emotion regulation and expression
(2018-11-24)Emotions remain notably underexplored in both criminology and prisons research. This thesis sets out to address this problem by centralizing the importance of emotions in prison: especially the way prisoners express and ...
