by craigharper | Oct 8, 2013 | Forensic
FCRG past and present have recently presented their research at two international conferences.
Danielle Kettleborough (past MSc and future PhD student) presented along with past MSc students, Rebecca Crookes and Charlotte Hassett at the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA) conference in Cardiff (25-27 September 2013). All three were presenting findings from their MSc theses. Their slides can be accessed here:
D Kettleborough NOTA presentation / B Crookes NOTA presentation / C Hassett NOTA presentation
Additionally, Craig Harper (first year PhD student) presented a poster on findings from his MSc research at the “What is Justice?” international conference organised by the Howard League for Penal Reform and Keble College, Oxford University (1-2 October 2013). His poster can be found here:
C Harper HL poster
Congratulations to all four students!!
by craigharper | Sep 23, 2013 | Forensic
Dr Hannah Merdian has been invited to give a keynote presentation and workshop at an upcoming conference. She will be presenting her model of the assessment and classification of offenders who use child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) and her workshop will address some of the more practical elements of the model. The event, hosted by the North West Branch of the National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA) on 21st November 2013, will be held at the Red Bank Community Home in St Helens, Merseyside.
More on Dr Median’s research can be found here.
For more information about the NOTA conference, or to book your place, please click here.
by craigharper | Sep 9, 2013 | Forensic
Given the recent high-profile allegations of historic sexual abuse by celebrities from years-gone-by, it is important to look at the language used to describe these potential offenders within public discourse. Is it right that anybody who abuses a child can be automatically labelled a ‘paedophile’? Are the tabloid press right to use such emotive terms? In this blog post, Craig Harper considers some of the evidence about what paedophilia is, and suggests that, as a society, we need to exercise caution in labelling people in potentially incorrect and damaging ways.
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by craigharper | Sep 9, 2013 | Forensic
Can prisons ever be a place of rehabilitation, or should they be there to dish out just deserts? In this post, Craig Harper looks at the various purposes of prison and argues that we should view them as places of incapacitation in their current form. Over time, there should be a movement to produce prisons that can truly be places of rehabilitation, but political support for this will be required.
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by craigharper | Sep 9, 2013 | Forensic
How is it that some people become attracted to religious fundamentalism or political extremism? Is there a difference in the mindsets of those who engage in religion-derived suicide bombings and nationalist campaigns against ‘non-natives’? In this blog post, Craig Harper starts to set out how some people may be drawn into extremism.
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FCRG member Lorraine Bowman-Grieve researches various forms of extremism. Check out her page and research for more details.
by craigharper | Sep 9, 2013 | Forensic
Is the death penalty ever justified? Does it act as an effective deterrent, or is it the essence of an overly-retributive criminal justice system? Here, Craig Harper tries to unpack some of the issues surrounding the death penalty debate, and puts forward the argument that support for the reintroduction may be deep-rooted within the individual psyche of the ‘common man’.
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by craigharper | Sep 9, 2013 | Forensic
What are the key drivers of mental illness? Is mental distress a medical problem, treatable by medication by a prescribing doctor? Is it a normal reaction to troubling economic times? Should we try to treat people, or the society within which they live? Craig Harper tries to unpack some of these issues, arguing that the social darwinist environment that has been bought about by neoliberal capitalism contributes to the development and maintenance of mental ill health. He also argues that Western governments can, and should, do more to address this issue.
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by craigharper | Sep 9, 2013 | Forensic
The notion of moral panics, as described initially by Stanley Cohen (1972/2002), refers to how phenomena that threaten social norms are exaggerated and promoted as a problem that threatens the very nature of a society. According to Goode and Ben-Yehuda (1994), there are five key aspects to a moral panic. In this post, Craig Harper (PhD Researcher in Forensic Psychology) investigates whether all five of these aspects are satisfied in relation to sexual crime.
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by Ben | Aug 9, 2013 | Forensic, Videos
In this video Todd Hogue talks about the different programmes incorporated within Forensic Research at the University of Lincoln.
