Publications
Explore the latest publications from members of the Criminal Justice Research Centre.
Bartlett, P. (2023). Re-thinking the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Towards the Next Generation of Law. Modern Law Review, 86(3), 659-700.
Bekou, O. (2019). Dealing with Non-cooperation at the icc: Towards a More Holistic Approach. International Criminal Law Review, 19(6), 911-937.
BRADFORD-CLARKE, L., DAVIES, R.F. and HENLEY, A.J., 2022. When ‘ideal victim’ meets ‘criminalised other’: criminal records and the denial of victimisation Probation Journal. 69(3), 353-372
Buck, G, Harriott, P, Ryan,K, Ryan, N and Tomczak, Philippa, (forthcoming 2020) ‘All our justice: People with convictions and ‘participatory’ criminal justice’ in Duffy, J. and Beresford, P. (Eds.) Handbook of Service User Involvement in Human Services Research and Education. Oxon: Routledge.
Clamp, K. (2025). Unlocking the full potential of restorative justice: Lessons for a thicker peace in Colombia’s transitional justice framework
Clamp, K. (2024). Countering Sexual Harassment and Assault in Outer Space: Contributions from a Criminological Perspective. In Y. Eski, & J. Lampkin (Eds.), Crime, Criminal Justice and Ethics in Outer Space: International Perspectives. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Clamp, K. (2023). A Restorative Framework for Transforming Police Practice 2023
CHOU, S. and PRITZ, T. and 2025. External workplace violence towards police officers: a scoping review Aggression & Violent Behavior. 81, 102036
CHOU, S.,O'COLLINS, M., and DENING, T. 2025. Patient ethnicity and staff use of restraints and restrictive practice in inpatient psychiatric services: a systematic review Trauma, Violence & Abuse. (In Press.)
CHOU, S., SAWYERS, L., CIANCI, G., TYRRELL, E. and KENDRICK, D., 2025. Violence and Abuse towards General Practice Staff by Patients and the Public: A Scoping Review British Journal of General Practice.
DIXON, BILL, 2024. Using theory from the Global South: From social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu Theoretical Criminology. 28(3), 267-286
DIXON, BILL, 2024. Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa British Journal of Criminology. 64(5), 1063-1079
Clarke, N., Munro, N. and Hocking, C. (2019) Going to Pot: Nick’s journey through the criminal justice system in Flynn, E., Arstein-Kerslake, A., de Bhailís, C. & Serra, M.L. (2019) Global Perspectives on Legal Capacity Reform: Our Voices, Our Stories (Oxford: Routledge)
Farrall, S., Warr, J., Shaw, A., & Sharma, K. (2025). What do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
Farrall, S., Gray, E., & Tseloni, A. (in press). The Trajectories of Lethal Violence: Analysing Long-Term Homicide Trends in England and Wales. Annual Review of Criminology
Farrall, S, Phillips, J., Lewis, S., Stevens, K., Ali, A., & Dockley, A. (in press). Probation, Technical Compliance and the 'Drowning' of Hope. British Journal of Criminology
Annison, H., Carr, N., & Guiney, T. (2025). Editors Introduction: Does Parole have a Future?. In H. Annison, N. Carr, & T. Guiney (Eds.), . Hart Publishing
Annison, H., Carr, N., & Guiney, T. (Eds.). (2025). Parole Futures: Rationalities, Institutions and Practices. Hart Publishing
Guiney, T. (2025). Criminal Justice Since 1945: A Brief History. In P. Davies, P. Francis, J. Harding, & G. Mair (Eds.), An Introduction to Criminal Justice. (Second Edition). SAGE Publications
Guiney, T. & Annison, H., (in press). Crisis And Penal Policymaking in England And Wales: Concepts, Theories and Future Directions. In A. Corda (Ed.), Research Handbook on Penal Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing
Brownlow, R., Glentworth, J., Val Martin, M., Heydon, J., & Bryant, R. (2025). Detecting and measuring the impacts of upland prescribed burning on air quality. People, Place and Policy, 19(1), 59-79.
JAMES HEYDON, ROHIT CHAKRABORTY, VIBUTI PATEL, CHANTELLE WOOD, MATTHEW WOOD and CAITLIN BUNCE, 2024. Reconceiving Domestic Burning Controls: Air Quality Alerts, Behavioural Responsive Regulation, and Designing for Compliance Environmental Management.
HEYDON, J., 2023. Between Ordinary Harm and Deviance: Evaluating the UK’s Regulatory Regime For Controlling Air Pollution From Wood Burning Stoves British Journal of Criminology.
EMMA MILNE, DAVIES, P., HEYDON, J., PEGGS, K. and WYATT, T., eds., 2023. Gendering Green Criminology
Hocking, C. (2019). Facilitating Access to Justice: The Experiences of Autistic Individuals Detained in Police Custody, Doctoral, University of Nottingham
Holá, Barbara, Mulgrew, Róisín and van Wijk, Joris (eds), Special Issue of International Criminal Law Review (2019) 19 (1) ‘National Prosecutions of International Crimes: Sentencing Practices and (Negotiated) Punishments’: https://brill.com/view/journals/icla/19/1/icla.19.issue-1.xml
Holloway-George, C. A., Munro, N., Jackson, J., & Ropar, D. (2025). Experiences of Autistic People in Police Custody: The Need for Adjustments to Improve Participation in the Custody Process. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Holloway-George, C. & Ropar, D., (2024). Policy Brief: Autism and Policing. University of Nottingham
Hoskins, Z. (2025). Collateral Damage. In J. Ryberg (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment (541-554). Oxford University Press.
HOSKINS Z., 2023. Collateral Legal Consequences and Criminal Sentencing American Philosophical Quarterly. 60(2), 117-130
Hoskins, Z. (2023). Guilty Pleas, Sentence Reductions, and Non-punishment of the Innocent. In J. V. Roberts, & J. Ryberg (Eds.), Sentencing the Self-Convicted: The Ethics of Pleading Guilty (51-70). Hart Publishing
Jackson, John, Special Advocates in the Adversarial System (Routledge, 2019) 292.
Jackson, John, “The Use of Special Advocates in Countering Terrorism: Human Rights, Best Practice and Procedural Tradition” in G Lennon, C King and C McCartney (eds), Counter-terrorism, Constitutionalism and Miscarriages of Justice: A Festschrift for Clive Walker (Hart, 2019) 99-115.
Jackson, John, “Common Law Evidence and the Common Law of Human Rights: Towards a Harmonic Convergence?” (2019) 27 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 689-715.
Jackson, John and Roberts, P, “Beyond Common Law Evidence - Reimagining, and Reinvigorating, Evidence Law as Forensic Science” in D Brown and J Turner (eds), Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process (OUP, 2019) 787-820.
JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2025. Robert Cryer and the Jus Post Bellum. In: EMMA BREEZE, MARK DRUMBL, GERRY SIMPSON and MARIANNE WADE, eds., The Character of International Law: A Festschrift for Rob Cryer Bloomsbury. (In Press.)
JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2025. Review of Clare Frances Moran, The Authority of International Criminal Law - A Controversial Concept (Cambridge, CUP: 2023). Jurisprudence.
JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA, 2025. An Evaluation of the ‘Legacy Jurisdiction’ of the International Criminal Court: The Philippines Investigation Asian Journal of International Law. 1-28
GEMMA DAVIES, JAVIER S. ESKAURIATZA and ET AL, 2025. International Cooperation and Extradition Scoping Review Criminal Law Reform Now Network.
Kemp, V., & Gibson, C. (2024). Implications for legal education and training in a guilty plea environment. In M. Langer, M. McConville, & L. Marsh (Eds.), Research Handbook on Plea Bargaining and Criminal Justice. Edward Elgar Publishing
Kemp, V., & Carr, N. (2023). A Child's Journey Through Police Custody And Their Legal Rights. In E. Johnston (Ed.), Covid-19 and Criminal Justice: Impact and Legacy in England and Wales (62-89). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
KEMP, V., Carr, N., Kent, H., & Farrall, S. (2023). Examining the impact of PACE on the detention and questioning of child suspects: Executive summary, May 2023. London: University of Nottingham
OR BASSOK, 2025. Originalism as an Empty Signifier The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy - Per Curiam.
OR BASSOK, 2023. The World of Constitutionalism is Not Flat German Law Journal. 24(4), 686 - 704
OR BASSOK, 2023. Legitimacy without Legality St. Louis U. L.J.. 68(1), 47-101
QI CHEN, MATEJA VUK, CHAMU KUPPUSWAMY and DIANA KIRSCH, 2023. Equality and diversity in the work of the Sentencing Council Sentencing Council for England and Wales.
Q. CHEN, L. ALIU, R.K. HELM and M. MILLAR, 2023. Covid-19 and the jury trial. In: ED JOHNSTON, ed., Covid-19 and Criminal Justice Impact and Legacy in England and Wales 1st. Routledge.
QI CHEN, 2023. Building a Panopticon Through Nodal Governance: Mass Surveillance and Plural Policing in China’s COVID-19 Lockdown International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.
Quinn, K. and Tomczak, Philippa, (forthcoming 2020) ‘Emotional labour in the penal voluntary sector’ in Phillips, J. et al. (Ed.), Emotional Labour in Criminal Justice. Routledge.
Roberts, Paul and Stockdale, Michael (eds), Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony: Reliability Through Reform? (Edward Elgar, 2018), xxi + 431pp (including “Introduction: Forensic Science, Evidential Reliability and Institutional Reform” (with Michael Stockdale), 1-26; and “Making Sense of Forensic Science Evidence”, 27-70).
Roberts, Paul, “Five Foundational Fallacies of Common Law Evidence” (in Chinese, translated by Ping Yang and Baosheng Zhang) (2018) 26 Evidence Science 93-108.
Roberts, Paul, “The Forensic Challenge” (2018) 13 Frontiers of Law in China 1-24.
Roberts, Paul, “The Right of Silence, Socio-legal Research and Law Reform Politics (and Brexit)’ (2019) 23 E & P 330-38.
SARAH DOXAT-PRATT, CAROLINE LANSKEY and LORAINE GELSTHORPE, 2024. Inspiring Futures: An Evaluation of the Meaning and Impact of Arts Programmes in Criminal Justice Settings
SARAH DOXAT-PRATT, 2024. The Prison Service and the Arts: Impact and Emerging Debates Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 113(449), 40-48
Thomason, Matt, ‘The Criminal Bar Association Study and Section 41: Dousing or Stoking the Flames?’ (2019) 2 Archbold Review 4-6.
Thomason, Matt ‘Previous Sexual History Evidence: A Gloss on Relevance and Relationship Evidence’ (2018) 22(4) International Journal of Evidence and Proof 342-362.
Thomason, Matt, Case Comment in R v Moody [2019] EWCA Crim 1222, [2019] Criminal Law Review (Forthcoming, October 2019).
Tomczak, Philippa, (2018) Prison Suicide: What Happens Afterwards? Bristol: University of Bristol Press.
Tomczak, Philippa and Buck, G (2019) 'The Penal Voluntary Sector: A Hybrid Sociology’. British Journal of Criminology, 59(4), 898-918.
Tomczak, Philippa, (Special Issue Editor; Introduction) (forthcoming 2019) ‘The Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: In Comparative Perspective’. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.
Tomczak, Philippa and Buck, G (forthcoming 2019) 'The Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector: Concepts and an Agenda for an Emerging Field’. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.
Tomczak, Philippa, (2019, invited) ‘Associations socio-judiciaires et sorties de délinquance’, in Gaïa A. et al (dir.) Comment sortir de la délinquance? Genève: Médecine et Hygiène.
Van Zyl Smit, Dirk and Appleton, Catherine, Life Imprisonment: a Global Human Rights Analysis was formally accepted for publication by Harvard University.
Van Zyl Smit, Dirk and Appleton, Catherine, ‘The Ultimate Penalty’ (2018) 19 New Philosopher 88-93. (5)