Publications

Selected recent publications from the CJR research team.

• Birkett, G. (2025). Written Evidence to the Justice Select Committee Inquiry on Rehabilitation and Resettlement
• Wiener, C. (2025).  Domestic Abuse (Aggravated Offences) Bill: Briefing Note for Josh Babarinde MP
• Wiener, C. (2024). Reframing domestic abuse: Policing coercive control. In: Aplin, R. (Ed.), Policing Public Protection: A Companion Guide. . London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Wiener, C.  (2024). Defining Coercive Control in Law: Problems and Possibilities. In: Bettinson, V. & Burton, M. J. (Eds.), The Edward Elgar Handbook of Domestic Abuse. (pp. 9-28). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Rosbrook-Thompson, J., Greer, C., McLaughlin, E. (2024). Integrated Through Risk?: How Actuarial and Epidemiological Approaches to Urban Violence Reduction Interact within a Multi-Agency Gangs Team. British Journal of Criminology.
• Greer, C., Rosbrook-Thompson, J. & Sleet, A. (2024). The Disproportionality Leadership and Mentoring Project: Capturing the Lived Experience of Disproportionality among Children and Young People from Black, Mixed-Heritage and Minoritised Backgrounds across Four London Boroughs.
• Birkett, G.  (2023). Gendering the Carceral Web: Public Sector Reform, Technology and Digital (In)Justice. Theoretical Criminology: an international journal, 27(3), pp. 439-456
• Collard-Osman, M. (2023). Hate in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: dehumanisation as a side effect; re-humanisation as a remedy. Crime, Law and Social Change, 80(2), pp. 153-171.
• Collard-Osman, M. (2023). ‘Nothing is Lost, Everything is . . . Transferred’: Transnational Institutionalization and Ideological Legitimation of Torture as a Neocolonial State Crime. In: Aliverti, A., Carvalho, H., Chamberlen, A.  (Eds.), Decolonizing the Criminal Question: Colonial Legacies, Contemporary Problems. (pp. 241-256). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Tuck, R. H., Damsa, D. & Kullman, E. (2022). All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions. Theoretical Criminology, 26(4), pp. 557-579. doi: 10.1177/13624806221116092
• Wiener, C. (2022). The Serious Crime Act 2015, S 76. In: Coercive Control and the Criminal Law. (pp. 121-162). Taylor & Francis.
• Wiener, C. (2022). Sexual Assault R v Abdulahi Case Comment. Criminal Law Review, pp. 931-935.
• Wiener, C. & Hargreaves, D. (2022). Sexual Assault R v Abdulahi (City Law School Research Paper 2022/12). London, UK: City Law School.
• Armstrong, G.  & Rosbrook-Thompson, J. (2022). Interrogating the Public Health Approach: Lessons from the Field of Urban Violence. Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography, 12(6), pp. 85-91.
• Rosbrook-Thompson, J. & Armstrong, G.  (2022). Respectability and boundary making on a superdiverse housing estate: The cross-racial deployment of intra-ethnic stereotypes. British Journal of Sociology, 73(2), pp. 259-272.
• Goldsmith, A. & McLaughlin, E. (2022). Policing’s New Vulnerability Re-Envisioning Local Accountability in an Era of Global Outrage. The British Journal of Criminology, 62(3), pp. 716-733.
• Birkett, Gemma (2021). Solving her problems? Beyond the seductive appeal of specialist problem-solving courts for women offenders in England and Wales. Journal of Social Policy, 50(1), pp. 104-121.
• Palmer, T. & Wiener, C. (2021). Telling the Wrong Stories: Rough Sex Coercive Control and the Criminal Law. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 2021, pp. 331-347.
• Wiener, C. & Stark, E. (2020). Coercive Control, the Offense and Men: A Response to Bates and Taylor. Domestic Violence Report, 25(2), pp. 31-43.
• Greer, C.  & McLaughlin, E. (2020). « Ça n’est pas la justice  »Ian Tomlinson, échec institutionnel et politique médiatique d’indignation. Semen(46)
• Goulandris, A. & McLaughlin, E. (2019). ‘A victim, and that’s all’: the construction of Meredith Kercher in the British national newspapers. Feminist Media Studies, 20(7), pp. 1043-1058. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2019.1690018
• Birkett, G. (2018). Sentencing Women in the Transformed Probation Landscape. In: South, N., Brennan, K., Milne, E.  (Eds.), Women and the Criminal Justice System: Failing Victims and Offenders? (pp. 143-166). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Birkett, G. (2018). Influencing the Penal Agenda? The Justice Select Committee and ‘Transforming Justice’, 2010–15. The Political Quarterly, 89(2), pp. 217-226.
• Birkett, G. (2018). Introduction: The Penal Question. The Political Quarterly, 89(2), pp. 172-176.
• Birkett, G. (2017). Transforming Women’s Rehabilitation? An Early Assessment of Gender-Specific Provision in Three Community Rehabilitation Companies. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 19(1), pp. 98-114.
• Wiener, C. (2017). Seeing What is ‘Invisible in Plain Sight’: Policing Coercive Control. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 56(4), pp. 500-515.
• Birkett, G. (2016). 'We have no awareness of what they actually do': Magistrates' knowledge of and confidence in community sentences for women offenders in England and Wales. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 16(4), pp. 497-512.
• Birkett, G. (2013). ‘Transforming rehabilitation’ for women? A view from the courts. British Journal of Community Justice, 11(2-3), pp. 149-152.