Criminalising ‘Conversion Therapy’
An increasing number of jurisdictions have introduced legal bans on so‐called ‘conversion therapy’ practices. Yet significant uncertainty and disagreement persist among legal scholars, policymakers and advocates about whether criminal law is an appropriate tool in this area and, if so, how it should be used.
Ilias Trispiotis, Stuart Goosey
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"The good days are amazing", an evaluation of the Writer's in Prison Network [PDF]
The Writers in Prison Network (WIPN) was established and appointed by the Arts Council in April 1998 to administer the Writers in Residence in Prison Scheme.
Albertson, Katherine, O'Keeffe, Caroline
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Positive Criminology for Environmental Crimes?
ABSTRACT Environmental crimes pose harms and risks to socioecological systems, driving biodiversity loss. A 2024 resolution at the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime prompted stakeholders to discuss a new international framework for addressing crimes that affect the environment.
Meredith L. Gore +3 more
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Measuring public perceptions of sex offenders: reimagining the Community Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders (CATSO) scale [PDF]
The Community Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders (CATSO) scale is an 18-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure respondents’ attitudes toward sex offenders.
Craig A. Harper +8 more
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How Hard Does It Have to Be? Reconsidering European Integration and Hard Euroscepticism
Abstract Recent research on party‐based Euroscepticism increasingly ascribes ‘hard Euroscepticism’ only to parties pursuing exit from the EU. I argue that such interpretation, besides deviating from Taggart and Szczerbiak's original work, conceals the actual extent of ‘principled opposition’ to European integration.
Andrea Pareschi
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ABSTRACT Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have stimulated considerable excitement and discussion regarding the potential impacts on people's lives and work. In particular, proposed and realized applications of generative AI have appeared across multiple industries and domains, including at the intersection of behavioral science and ...
Neil R. Hogan, Gabriela Corăbian
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Youth offending and youth transitions : the power of capital in influencing change [PDF]
Neither the literature on offending nor that on desistance adequately explains the short-term nature of youth offending, young people's propensity to desist from offending as they reach early adulthood and the importance of youth transitions in helping ...
Barry, Monica
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Psychosocial functioning of drug treatment court clients : a study of the prosecutor's files in Ghent [PDF]
Purpose – Problem solving courts are a result of the therapeutic jurisprudence movement. Drug treatment courts (DTCs), for instance, aim to divert substance using offenders away from the criminal justice system (CJS) to ...
Dekkers, Anne +3 more
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Shaping the criminal justice system: the role of those supported by Criminal Justice Service [PDF]
In Scotland, the development and delivery ofpersonalised social work services has been part of a wider public service reform agenda, building on Changing lives: report of the 21st century review of social work (Scottish Executive, 2006).
Lightowler, C., Weaver, Beth
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Listening and learning : the reciprocal relationship between worker and client [PDF]
The relationship between worker and client has for the best part of 100 years been the mainstay of probation, and yet has recently been eroded by an increased emphasis on punishment, blame and managerialism.
Allatt, P. +17 more
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