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University of Liverpool
Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
CrimRxiv Consortium, Member
The University of Liverpool’s Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology has a rich history spanning over 100 years. Housed in the School of Law and Social Justice, the department is renowned for its commitment to research-based knowledge that supports social justice, making it a distinctive voice in the academic community. Their critical research addresses crime and social harm, contemporary political arrangements and their implications, and the production and consumption of culture. Their research clusters include the Criminal Justice Unit (CJU) and International Criminological Research Unit (ICRU). The department is also known for its public engagement initiatives, such as the Eleanor Rathbone Social Justice Public Lecture Series, which features prominent figures discussing advancements in social justice. Students and researchers have access to state-of-the-art facilities and interdisciplinary initiatives, promoting methodological innovation and excellence. Follow them on Twitter @LivUniSoc.
Published: Nov 26, 2024
The CrimRxiv Consortium, a network of leading institutions in open criminology, has announced its newest member: the University of Liverpool’s Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. Housed in the School of Law and Social Justice, the department is renowned ...
Published: Sep 27, 2024
This paper explores the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics, self-reported alkyl nitrite (‘poppers’) use and sexual behaviours against a backdrop of UK policy change and ambiguity surrounding legal status. In 2024, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of ...
Published: Sep 19, 2024
Investigation of the nature of digitally enabled coercive control, what policing responses exist and what improvements are needed, and what training and tools police officers need.
Published: Sep 11, 2024
Research was conducted in partnership with the Revenge Porn Helpline (RPH) to examine the location and removal of non-consensual intimate image (NCII) abuse. By examining reports to the helpline, data were collected to uncover where intimate images were being non-consensually ...
Published: Aug 02, 2024
Although addressing the lives, perceptions, and practices of others, sociological research has an ambivalent association with the category of lived experience. Despite its use not always being accompanied by a precise definition, lived experience appears prominently in much ...
Published: Jul 31, 2024
This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows. The proposed systematic review is an update to, and extension of, Lipsey et al. (2007). As such we build on their previous aims to: (i) Assess and synthesise the overall impact of cognitive ...
Published: Jun 21, 2024
This article develops both a critique of the Southern criminology project but also argues that a continued focus on the global organization of the economy should sit central in anti-imperialist social science. Southern criminology, reflective of other trends in ...
Published: Jun 06, 2024
Background: In 2018, the UK Government published its Serious Violence Strategy setting out the Government's commitment to adopting a public health approach to ‘serious violence’ in England and Wales and encouraging a multi-agency, whole system public health approach to ...
Published: May 31, 2024
This article contends that there has been a recent shift in focus towards the most serious perpetrators of domestic abuse in England. Police forces employ different ways of both identifying and managing high-harm high-frequency domestic abuse perpetrators. However, there is ...
Published: May 05, 2024
Despite the relatively high level of attention that this approach has received in Australia and elsewhere, there is currently limited evidence on the impact of domestic violence disclosure schemes (DVDS) and, to date, there has been minimal engagement with victim-survivors to ...
Published: Apr 06, 2024
Minority ethnic groups are more likely to experience poor mental health but less likely to seek formal support. Mental health problems and alcohol use (including non-drinking) co-occur, the reasons for this among minority ethnic groups are not well understood. This study ...
Published: Apr 05, 2024
In April 2021 an Australian Government Inquiry recommended the Australian government commission research to explore the benefits and risks of the introduction of a publicly accessible register of convicted domestic, family and sexual violence perpetrators. At the time of the ...
Published: Apr 05, 2024
In April 2021 an Australian Government Inquiry recommended the Australian government commission research to explore the benefits and risks of the introduction of a publicly accessible register of convicted domestic, family and sexual violence perpetrators. At the time of the ...
Published: Jan 25, 2024
This article discusses findings from a qualitative study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) awareness-raising programme targeted at young people. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with practitioners involved in a multi-agency ...
Published: Dec 16, 2023
Deaths caused by alcohol are increasing in England and 80 % of people with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are not in treatment. The Blue Light approach (Alcohol Change UK) is an initiative to support people with AUDs who are not in treatment. This study aimed to tailor the Blue ...
Published: Dec 14, 2023
Drug checking services (DCS) enable individuals to voluntarily submit a small amount of a substance for analysis, providing information about the content of the substance along with tailored harm reduction support and advice. There is some evidence suggesting that DCS may ...
Published: Dec 09, 2023
This article argues that imprisonment creates time that does not matter. It is based on longitudinal interviews conducted with 35 men and women sentenced to typical prison sentences in England. It argues that some responded to this situation by trying to treat the institution ...
Published: Oct 27, 2023
Drug checking services (DCS) provide harm reduction support and advice to individuals based on chemical analysis of submitted substances of concern. Whilst there are currently no DCS in Scotland, community-based services are being planned in three cities. ...
Published: Oct 04, 2023
This article reports data from interviews with 66 professionals working across safeguarding, health, criminal justice and specialist domestic abuse services exploring their views about older victims’ experiences of domestic abuse. The findings reveal that older victims, ...
Published: Jul 13, 2023
Trauma-informed (T-I) approaches to working with vulnerable people have gained popularity in practice but are rarely used in academic research and little is known about the challenges of conducting a T-I approach to participatory research. This paper reflects on our ...
Published: Mar 01, 2023
Crime history was a pioneer in the digital arena, democratising access to the past by engaging large public and academic audiences with primary datasets online. This article traces the evolution of digital crime history from 2003 to 2021 in the United Kingdom and Australia. ...
Published: Jan 24, 2023
Recent decades have seen a widespread effort to imprison more people for sexual violence. The Stains of Imprisonment offers an ethnographic account of one of the worlds that this push has created: an English prison for men convicted of sex offenses. This book examines the ...
Published: Apr 29, 2022
This article sheds a new light on the impact of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) on women. Drawing on findings from 17 in-depth interviews, it details the emotional, physical and social impact of this online victimisation, and how the impact of IBSA manifests in women’s ...
