The Role of Alcohol in Intimate Partner Violence: Causal Behaviour or Excusing Behaviour?

This article sets out to explore the relationship between alcohol and intimate partner violence.

Ending drug prohibition with a hangover?

After three decades of working in the drugs field (as a probation officer, researcher and academic) and seeing little change in a drug policy largely driven by prohibition, it is encouraging to finally see the emergence of a paradigm shift, towards drug decriminalisation and regulation.

Theorising the Radical Moral Communitarian Agenda

An earlier paper in this journal discussed the strengths and limitations of the influential political philosophy communitarianism that came to the fore both in the USA and the UK during the 1990s and outlined the case for a more radical variation based on the work of Emile Durkheim (Hopkins Burke, 2014b).

Circles of Support and Accountability: Criminal Justice volunteers as the ‘Deliberative Public’

This paper provides a review of the role played by volunteers within one particular offender management and reintegration scheme in the United Kingdom.

From Celebrity Criminal to Criminal Celebrity: Concerning the ‘Celebrification’ of Sex Crime in the UK

Following the death of Jimmy Savile in 2011, a number of high profile British celebrities have been questioned about or arrested and charged with sexual offences.

I thought I am Modern Slavery: Giving a Voice to Trafficked Women

This article addresses the lack of women’s voices in the trafficking discourse by presenting women’s perspectives on policy support. Undertaken as part of doctoral study at the University of Hull, the research asked formerly trafficked women about their experiences of trafficking and anti-trafficking professionals about their work with victims.

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