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A COMPANION TO CRIME, HARM AND
VICTIMISATION

Edited by Karen Corteen, Sharon Morley,
Paul Taylor and Jo Turner

First published in Great Britain in 2016 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 1-9 Old Park Hill Bristol BS2 8BB UK Tel +44 (0)117 954 5940 e-mail

North American office: Policy Press c/o The University of Chicago Press 1427 East 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637, USA t: +1 773 702 7700 f: +1 773-702-9756 e:

Policy Press 2016

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ISBN 978-1-4473-2572-7 paperback
ISBN 978-1-4473-2571-0 hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4473-2573-4 ePub
ISBN 978-1-4473-2575-8 Mobi

The right of Karen Corteen, Sharon Morley, Paul Taylor and Jo Turner to be identified as editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.

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The statements and opinions contained within this publication are solely those of the authors and not of the University of Bristol or Policy Press. The University of Bristol and Policy Press disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any material published in this publication.

Policy Press works to counter discrimination on grounds of gender, race, disability, age and sexuality.

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Contributors

David Balsamo is professor of social science and dean of faculty at the University of Chester, UK. He has worked as a painter and decorator, operating theatre technician, probation officer, and, latterly, as an academic. His varied career has provided the impetus for a sustained interest and commitment to the sociology and political economy of work. Davids doctorate examined the management of teaching and research in the neo-corporate university and was informed by the perspectives and cognitive dissonances of being an academic manager.

Hannah Bows is a doctoral researcher and research assistant in the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA) at Durham University, UK. Her research interests include gender, violence against women, sex offenders and womens involvement in crime. Her current research examines rape against older people in the UK.

Iain Brennan is a chartered research psychologist and senior lecturer in criminology and psychology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Hull, UK. His research interests include weapon use, alcohol-related violence and victim responses to crime.

Samantha Bricknell is research manager of the Violence and Exploitation Research Program at the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC), Australia. She has had extensive experience leading and undertaking research relevant to both violent and transnational organised crime, with a particular interest in male victimisation, human trafficking and slavery, and environmental crime. Samanthas research at the AIC has covered a diverse range of topics, including forced marriage, the attrition of human trafficking matters through the criminal justice system, homicide, missing persons classification, the support needs of male victims of violence, environmental crime in Australia, corruption in Australian sport and the illicit firearms market. She holds a PhD from the Australian National University.

Rob Canton is professor in community and criminal justice at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. He worked in the Probation Service for many years in a variety of different practice, management and training roles before joining De Montfort. In recent years, Rob has been extensively involved in work to help other countries to develop their practices in supervising offenders, mostly in Eastern Europe. He was appointed by the Council of Europe to contribute to framing the recommendation that was subsequently adopted (in 2010) by the Council of Europe as the European Probation Rules. He has a career-long interest in the challenges involved in working with mentally disordered offenders.

Sheila Coleman is a former senior lecturer and researcher in higher education. She has been involved in researching the aftermath of the Hillsborough Disaster since 1989 and initially monitored the legal proceedings, with a particular emphasis on the inquests. She gave up full-time employment to work voluntarily with the Hillsborough Justice Campaign for many years and continues to work alongside families and survivors. Her main focus of interest is on miscarriages of justice and challenging state power. She currently works as the north-west region community coordinator for the union Unite.

Nancy Contreras is a graduate teaching assistant and masters candidate in criminal justice at the University of Colorado Denver, USA. Her current research explores social media, protests and policecommunity relations. She has work experience in the juvenile justice system, homeless services and mental health care.

Vickie Cooper is a lecturer in social policy and criminology and co-director of the Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC), at the Open University, UK. Vickies research focuses on homelessness in relation to: housing, hostels, the criminal justice system, community punishment and geographical displacement. She is interested in how society contains and manages homeless groups through these various institutions. Currently, she is looking at the relationship between welfare reforms, evictions and homelessness.

Karen Corteen is a senior lecturer in criminal justice at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Areas that Karen has researched and published in include victimology, critical criminology and sexuality. Her research interests comprise: zemiology; victims and harm; harm and sports entertainment; hate crime; and sexual violence. She is a member of networks concerned with crime, harm and victimisation within and beyond academia.

Pamela Davies is principal lecturer in criminology and teaching fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Pam has research interests connected to gender, crime and victimisation. She has published on topics related to experiences of victimisation and support for those affected, invisible crimes and social harms, and criminological research methodologies. She is chair of the British Society of Criminology Victims Network.

Mary Dodge is a professor at the University of Colorado, Denver, USA, in the School of Public Affairs. She earned her PhD in 1997 in criminology, law and society from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. She received her BA and MA in psychology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Her research and writing interests include gender and crime, white-collar crime, policing, prostitution, and courts.

Marian Duggan is a lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent, UK. Her research focuses on sexuality and gender-based victimisation, in particular, the factors informing and sustaining homophobic and misogynistic violence and the possibilities for preventing such harm. Marians published work addresses hate crime in Northern Ireland, culturally specific analyses of homophobic victimisation, the efficacy of domestic violence prevention strategies and criminal justice responses to victimisation. Marian is the author of

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