Dr Tochukwu Onwuegbusi and Prof Todd Hogue, along with other Lincoln and ex-Lincoln colleagues, were listed among the authors and organisations that contributed to published review (April 2023) on ‘High Stakes: Gambling Reform for the Digital Age by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.’ This is a Government White Paper and is set to change regulation.
The review can accessed below:
FCRG deputy – Dr Lauren Smith – along with Karen Harrison and Chloe Wilson (from School of Law) have been awarded £4253.59 from the University’s Pump Priming Scheme for their project Protecting EDI in His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
Congratulations to Lauren and team!
FCRG deputy – Dr Lauren Smith – chaired a panel at The British Academy Early Career Researcher ‘Working with Industry’ event held at UoL. The panel was titled Working with Public Sector Organisations and Niko Kargas was on the panel, alongside colleagues from Law, Health and Social Care, and Social and Political Sciences.
FCRG deputy, Dr Lauren Smith, delivered a webinar on Gambling and Crime: Implications for Probation Practice to probation staff across Wales. Lauren was invited to deliver the webinar following a recent publication: Smith, L. (2022). The role of probation in supporting people who have experienced gambling and crime-related harms. Probation Quarterly, 26, 60-65. https://doi.org/10.54006/QPRS9599.
The webinar was attended by 120 probation staff!
Ross has had a new paper published (with colleagues from other institutions) entitled “Exploring the stigmatisation of offending and non-offending paedophiles: A terror management approach” in the Journal of Criminal Psychology.
The study examined whether the stigma towards paedophilic individuals is related to negative associations regarding severe mental illness and extreme violence, and used a Terror Management Theory (TMT) approach to provide insights into why paedophilia is so highly stigmatised. The results showed that judgements were harsher in the offending conditions than the non-offending conditions, and also indicated that the stigmatisation of paedophilic individuals may be mediated by terror management processes.