ECAN bulletin archive

ECAN Bulletin Issue 51, Summer 2022

• Youth justice practice and lived experience: Inclusion or exclusion?
  Kierra Myles (University of Suffolk)
• ‘If you were on your own it wouldn’t be a thing’: Accelerated social ageing in men who have a sexual conviction
  Kirsty Teague (Nottingham Trent University)
• Victorian juvenile institutions for girls, the ideology, pathways and licence
  Tahaney Alghrani (University of Liverpool)
• Victims’ experiences of Community Protection Notices: The need for an underpinning restorative approach to protecting victims of anti-social behaviour
  Zoe Rodgers (Sheffield Hallam University)
• The Post Office Horizon scandal
  Kisby Dickinson (University of Leeds)

ECAN Bulletin Issue 50, March 2022

• Professional legitimacy and the probation service: Opportunities and challenges after re-unification
  Matt Tidmarsh, University of Leeds
• Trapped in a cycle: The Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 and the rise in recall to custody
  Matt Cracknell, Middlesex University
• Learning lessons from and for Building Better Relationships: appreciating and imagining the possibilities
  Nicole Renehan, Durham University
• Reunified probation: An opportunity to finally progress a desistance paradigm of practice?
  Sam Ainslie, Sheffield Hallam University
• The community hub model of service delivery: An example of a ‘positive innovation’?
  Andrew Fowler, Jake Phillips, and Katherine Albertson, Sheffield Hallam University

ECAN Bulletin Issue 49, November 2021

In this issue you will find:

• How the criminal law has developed to reflect young adult immaturity in sentencing
  Molly Corlett, the Howard League for Penal Reform
• Young people and online harms: Expanding digital safety educational interventions
  Emily Setty, University of Surrey
• Sentencing explanations provided via judicial remarks made within the English magistrates’ youth court: Towards a better global understanding
  Max Lowenstein, University of Bournemouth
• Maternal imprisonment: An excessive price to pay?
  Sophie Mitchell, Northumbria University
• Collaboration in conducting research: reflections on a mixed methods online data collection study with sentencers pertaining to their knowledge and experiences of sentencing those with gambling problems committed crimes
  Sarah Page et al, the University of Staffordshire

ECAN Bulletin Issue 48, June 2021 

In this issue you will find:

• Empathy – What’s the Story?
  Eleanor Horwood, Edinburgh College of Art
• Race and Sentencing: A systematic review and exploration of discrimination in the courts
  Ana Veiga, University of Leeds
• Releasing babies from prison: the case for change
  Helen Crewe, independent researcher
• The experience and treatment of women in prison as victims of violence
  Rezia Begum, independent researcher
• Women, poverty, violence and justice: the need for a new research agenda
  Jo Phoenix, Open University

ECAN Bulletin Issue 47, March 2021

2020 – a year of crisis or Kairos? ECAN themed issue, part two

In this issue you will find:

• Lockdown Learning: Exploring prison learners’ experiences of prison education during the COVID-19 lockdown
  Erin Condirston, Royal Holloway University of London
• Experiencing prison and release during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Anonymous
• COVID-19 and the criminal justice system: Audio contributions
  Stan Gilmour, Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit
  Anne Reyersbach, Magistrate
  Laura Janes and Marie Franklin, the Howard League for Penal Reform
• Victims beyond reach: Evaluating the utility of online methods of qualitative research in studying hard to reach populations during the COVID-19 pandemic
  Joseph Patrick McAulay, The University of Oxford
• COVID-19 and the criminal justice system: Audio contribution
  Insa Koch, London School of Economics
• The COVID-19 pandemic and the abrupt end of ‘liquid modernity’
  Arta Jalili-Idrissi, Staffordshire University
• Crisis or Kairos?
  Harry Annison, University of Southampton

ECAN Bulletin Issue 46, March 2021

2020 – a year of crisis or kairos? ECAN themed issue, part one

In this issue you will find:

• Justice interrupted: Experiences of enduring punishment in a pandemic
  Ryan Casey, Betsy Barkas and Caitlin Gormley, University of Glasgow
• COVID-19 and the criminal justice system: Audio contributions
  Andrea Albutt, Prison Governors Association
  Jonathan Gilbert, University of Cardiff
  Kerry Ellis Devitt, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Community Rehabilitation Company
  Helen Trinder, Parole Board for England and Wales
• Power, control, and COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities in the midst of a global health crisis
  Kelly MacKenzie, Independent researcher
• The impact of COVID-19 for victims of hate crime and the implications for justice
  Amy Clarke, University of Leicester
• The impact of COVID-19 on Circles of Support and Accountability
  Rosie Kitson-Boyce, Nottingham Trent University; Robin J. Wilson, McMaster University; Kieran McCartan, University of the West of England; Mechtild Höing, Avans University; Riana Taylor, Circles-UK; Isotta Rossoni, CIPM
• Getting the right answers requires asking the right questions
  Gwen Prowse and Tracey L. Meares, Yale University

ECAN Bulletin Issue 45, October 2020

In this issue you will find:

• Prisoners’ access to secondary care and the impact of Covid-19
  Miranda Davies, Nuffield Trust
• Examining the barriers to community resettlement for foreign national women
  Sophia Benedict, Southwark and Lewisham Women’s Space
• Narratives of women’s community supervision: Problem gambling, shame, stigmatisation and a challenge to desistance
  Natalie Rutter, Leeds Trinity University
• Towards a Fulfilling Life – learning from a national programme supporting people affected by multiple disadvantage
  Rachel Moreton and Beth Collinson, University of Sheffield/CFE Research

ECAN Bulletin Issue 44, June 2020

In this issue you will find:

•  Introduction: our response to Covid-19
  Andrew Neilson and Laura Janes, the Howard League for Penal Reform
• Legal reactivity: correctional health care certifications and accreditations as responses to litigation
  Spencer Headworth and Callie Zaborenko, Purdue University
•  Verdict as a site of social (in)justice: more groundwork for a multivalent approach
  Louise Kennefick, Maynooth University
• ‘Their minds gave way’: mental disorder and nineteenth-century prison discipline
  Catherine Cox, University College Dublin and Hilary Marland, University of Warwick
• The historical interaction between criminal law and youth justice
  Katrijn Veeckmans, Catholic University of Leuven
• The chocolatier and the dame: Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury’s work in juvenile justice in Birmingham
  Jess Kebbell, University of Leicester

ECAN Bulletin Issue 43, January 2020

In this issue you will find:

• Challenging state-corporate harm: making an inch of difference?
  Steve Tombs, The Open University
• Transforming responses to hate crime
  Stevie-Jade Hardy, the University of Leicester
• Supporting strategies for survival in immigration systems
  Victoria Canning, the University of Bristol
• Exploring sensory experience and collapsing distance in prisons research
  Kate Herrity, the University of Leicester
• Increasing fairness in sentencing using quantitative research
  Jose Pina-Sanchez, the University of Leeds
• Making a difference in the area of sexual violence and the law: Theoretical underpinnings
  Anna Carline, the University of Liverpool

This ECAN bulletin was guest edited by Howard League Research Advisory Group members Dr Keir Irwin-Rogers and Professor Jo Phoenix.

ECAN Bulletin Issue 42, July 2019

In this issue you will find:

• Dying on probation: what do we know and what still needs to be done?
  Jake Phillips, Sheffield Hallam University
• Reintegrating Mexico’s prison population: some creative solutions
  Eva Bush
• Gendered working in Southwark YOT – reflections on facilitating a girls’ group
  Rebecca Shepherd, South Bank University
• What kind of leadership do prisons need?
  Lucie Benaiteau, Cambridge University

ECAN Bulletin Issue 41, April 2019

In this issue you will find:

• Rethinking adverse childhood experiences
  Sarah Anderson, University of West of Scotland
• Residential wings regime: An impediment to rehabilitation of prisoners?
  Jo Bailey-Noblett, University of Strathclyde
• Vulnerability and the protection of prisoners in Scotland and England
  Neil Cornish, Glasgow University
• Distant voices
  Phil Thomas, Glasgow University
• The prison experiences of people with learning disabilities
  Caitlin Gormley, Glasgow University
• Changing minds about ‘persistent offenders’ and the meaning of justice
  Marguerite Schinkel, Glasgow University
• Improving post-prison re/integration in Scotland through collaboration
  Alejandro Rubio Arnal, Glasgow University
• Is the relationship between imprisonment and deprivation in Scotland at its most pronounced in Glasgow?
  Ben Matthews, University of Edinburgh

Redesigning Justice conference special No.3 December 2018 – Issue 40

In this issue you will find:

• Boredom and the Buzz: ‘It’s all about killing time’
  Johanne Miller, University of the West of Scotland
• The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons in Florida: A Brief History
  Sarah A. Lewis, University of Florida, Levins College of Law
• Mere Anarchy? or, what Yeats might have told us about colonialism, storytelling and the narrative arc of the British Justice system
  Victoria Anderson
• Non-statutory experiences of gender-specific services in a post-Corston (2007) Women’s Centre
  Kirsty Greenwood, Liverpool John Moores University
• Social Justice in civil courts for whom? Women, domestic abuse and agency
  Kirstin Anderson, University of the West of Scotland
• The efficacy of punishment: How the doctrine of Hell has helped shaped our penal system and how that can be undone
  Christabel McCooey

ECAN Bulletin Issue 39, November 2018

In this issue you will find:

• Normalisation, wellbeing and the prison environment
  Dominique Moran, University of Birmingham
• What is the experience of being pregnant in prison?
  Laura Abbott, University of Hertfordshire
• Examining prisoners’ families: definitions, developments and difficulties
  Isla Masson, University of Leicester, and Natalie Booth, De Montfort University
• Exploring the impact of Council of Europe institutions through a cross-jurisdictional collaboration
  Elizabeth Abati, Ellie Brown, Elizabeth Campion, Sheriar Khan, Charles McCombe, Juliana da Cunha Mota and Nicola Padfield, University of Cambridge

Redesigning Justice conference special No.2 October 2018 – Issue 38

In this issue you will find:

• A “humanism of justice” through restorative justice: Improving criminal justice systems is not a utopia
  Grazia Mannozzi, University of Insubria, Como, Italy 3
• Restorative Justice: transforming the way we do justice
  Lucy Jaffé, Director of Why me? Victims for Restorative Justice
• Confined queers: An analysis of the essentialist legal framework of UK prisons
  Giuseppe Zago, Northumbria University
• Challenges around preventing torture
  Marie Steinbrecher, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Begging and freedom: The two (antithetical?) faces of common law
  Eleonora Innocenti
• Attitudes and identities of young male Muslim ex-prisoners: Prison as a source of respite from community conflict
  Tracey Devanna, University of Birmingham

Redesigning Justice conference special No.1 July 2018 – Issue 37

In this issue you will find:

• Restorative and retributive justice: Could they be parallel streams?
  Stephan Terblanche, University of South Africa
• Effective prisoner engagement through the promotion of sport motivation: Implications for policy and practice
  Hannah Baumer, Royal Holloway, University of London
• The Failure of Custody Visiting
  John Kendall, Birmingham Law School
• Customary law – A challenge to justice in Indian legal framework: A case study of Meghalaya, a state in northeast India
  Sanghamitra Sarker, University of Calcutta
• Learning from history by seeing it differently: frameworks for understanding the socio-historical development of youth justice
  Justin Brett, University of Loughborough

ECAN Bulletin Issue 36, July 2018

In this issue you will find:

• Rethinking justice: The clinical model of responsibility without blame
  Professor Hanna Pickard, University of Birmingham
• Measuring the social impact of Secure Training Centres in England and Wales
  Claire Paterson-Young, University of Northampton
• Understanding the disproportionate representation of minority youth in special education and the juvenile justice system: A fundamental discussion for the justice of minority youth
  Shameka Stanford, Howard University, Washington DC
• ‘Double deviancy’: The subjectivities of ‘motherhood’ and ‘criminality’ within the criminal justice system in England and Wales
  Olivia Tolaini, SOAS, University of London

Book Reviews

• Human Rights and Restorative Justice (edited Theo Gavrielides)
  reviewed by Reem Radhi             
• Madeleine Symons: Social and penal reformer (by Martin Ferguson Smith)
  reviewed by Lorraine Atkinson

ECAN Bulletin Issue 35, April 2018

In this issue you will find:

• Probationary: The Game of Life of Licence
  Anne Hayes, Will Jackson, Emma Murray and Steve Wakeman, Liverpool John Moores University
• Youth, the State and the Politics of Evidence
  Naomi Nichols, McGill University, Montreal
• Women’s Centres: Gender Responsive Services for Formerly Imprisoned Women Post Corston Report (2007)
  Helen Elfleet, Edgehill University
• Toward an understanding of the interactions between the Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) scheme and staff-prisoner relationships: HMP Wandsworth
  Zarek Khan, Oxford University

ECAN Bulletin Issue 34, November 2017

In this issue you will find:

• Do youth justice responses to young people’s poorly equipped passage through complex local spaces contravene Article 37 or the UNCRC?
  Dr Sarah Brooks-Wilson, University of Birmingham
• ‘Doing’ time – Young people’s experiences of the imprisonment of a family member
  Kirsty Deacon, University of Glasgow
• Telling stories about HIV and AIDS in Irish prisons in the 1980s
  Dr Janet Weston, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Still not hearing us: d/Deafness in prison part two
  Dr Laura Kelly,  UCLan
• Opinion: Wealth, justice and culpability
  Dr Meron Wondemaghen,University of the West of England

ECAN Bulletin Issue 33, July 2017

In this issue you will find:

• The potential and pitfalls of ‘problem-solving courts’ for women
  Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge
• Preventing suicide in prisons: prisoners’ lives matter
  Professor Graham Towl, Durham University
• ‘In humanity’s machine’: Prison health and History 
  Dr Fiachra Byrne, University College Dublin
• ‘Spicing up the subject’
  Anna Norton, one for last year’s Sunley Prize winners
• Human rights and desistance: Converging approaches to community justice
  David Cross’, another highly commended Sunley Prize entry

ECAN Bulletin Issue 32, March 2017

In this issue you will find:

• Systembusters Unite: Doing Prison Reform
  Dr Sarah Lewis
• Campsfield 29.11.2014: questioning the legitimacy of immigration detention – views from the voluntary sector
  Isotta Rossoni
• A corporate offender and the pains of open imprisonment: ancillary findings from a study of older male prisoners in an English prison
  Victor Chu

Issue 31, November 2016

In this issue you will find:

• The Free Prisoner – from removal to inclusion
  Claire Shepherd and Karl A Lenton, Safe Innovations
• Rage to reason – creating a restorative prison culture
  Lisa Rowles and Simon Fulford, Khulisa
• Holding the baby: Responsibility for addressing the needs of offending pregnant women and new mothers should be shared across the system
  Naomi Delap, Director, Birth Companions
• Intensive fostering for young offenders: Practitioners’ attitudes towards aftercare
  Katie Le Billion

Issue 30, September 2016

This is the second of two special ECAN bulletins published this summer. They contain papers based on contributions to our Justice and Penal Reform conference earlier this year.

In this bulletin you will find:

• Ontological theory and women’s desistance: Is it simply a case of ‘growing up’?
  Una Barr, University of Central Lancashire

• Protection of sex workers in a mal-adaptive legislation:  Need for India to step up her game
  Abhinav Surollia and Prashasti Singh, Hiyatullah National Law University, India

• Politics of survival: Co-production of order and the organic nature of governance
  Oriana Hadler, University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

• Desistance, culture, and the delivery of justice
  Dana Segev, University of Sheffield

Issue 29, July 2016

This is the first of two special ECAN bulletins published this summer. They contain papers based on contributions to our Justice and Penal Reform conference which was held earlier this year.

In this bulletin you will find:

• Never Waste a good crisis’ An analysis of the current penal policy window in Ireland
  Jane Mulcahy, University College Cork

• Citizens in Policing – A new paradigm of direct citizen involvement
  Ed Barnard, College of Policing  and Dr Iain Britton, Institute for Public Safety, Crime and Justice

• Piercing the religious veil: Human rights of Devadasis in India
  Prashasti Singh, Hidayatullah National Law University, India

• The youth centre as a ‘sanctuary’ in aiding safer communities for young people
  Dr Sarah Tickle, Liverpool John Moores University

Issue 28, February 2016

Features include:

• Predatory others: Child sexual exploitation, ethnicity and faith
  Laura Zahra McDonald and Zubeda Limbada, ConnectJustice