North East Crime Research Network Conference, Thursday 7th April

2016
Business School, Northumbria University
8.45 9.15am Registration (Tea and Coffee provided)
9.15 9.30am Welcome
9.30 10.15am Keynote Speaker: Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Professor of
Alcohol and Public Health Research, Health and Social Care Institute, Teesside
University
Climbing down the steps from the ivory tower: how academics and practitioners need
to work together to get the best from research studies in the criminal justice system
10.20 11.35am Session 1
11.40 12.55pm Session 2
12.55 1.40pm Lunch (provided)
1.40 2.55pm Session 3
2.55 3.30pm Break (Tea/Coffee provided)
3.30pm 4.50pm Session 4
4.50 5.15pm Conference Close and PGR Paper Prize Announcement
5.30pm Drinks followed by informal conference dinner at 6.30pm at the
Tyneside Cinema, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle City Centre
https://www.tynesidecinema.co.uk/food-drink/tyneside-bar-cafe
(Please indicate if you would like to join us for dinner (full menus are available
via the link pay for your own drinks and food) so that we can reserve enough
tables)

Session 1
Panel 1 Rights and Legislation
Sumeet Jalgaonkar, University of Dundee.

Criminal incitement and permissible freedom of speech: a critical analysis of racial and religious
hate crimes in the UK.

Yewa S. Holiday, Queen Mary, University of London

Refugees and the misuse of the criminal law

Faris Al-Anaibi, Durham University

The right to protection in the Iraqi legal system

Panel 2 Youth Justice

Roger Smith, Durham University & Patricia Gray
Plymouth University

The changing shape of youth justice: a typology?

Anne-Marie Day, University of Salford

Hannah Wishart, University of Manchester

Pathways into offending for children in care: early findings

Neuroscience in youth justice: my brain made me do it, its not my fault, so what?

Panel 3 Sexual offences, domestic abuse, and gendered violence

Stephen Burrell, Durham University

Domestic violence policy discourses and the invisibility of men's practices

Hye-In Chung, University of Leeds

Emergence of sexual offence issues in South Korea and its impacts on sexual offence legislation

Aliraza Javaid, Leeds Beckett University

The dark side of men: the nature of masculinity and its uneasy relationship with male rape

Panel 4 Organised Crime Groups

Xavier LHoiry, University of Sheffield & Nikki
DSouza, Durham Constabulary
Tony Lock

Restorative justice and organised crime groups

What do we do when mafias succeed? How the spread of business model crime from London to
the north east can be prevented.

Rob Hornsby, Northumbria University

The criminal entrepreneur: a case study of an organised criminal family

Session 2
Panel 1 Violence, trauma, loss, and offending behaviour
Alexandria Bradley, Northumbria University
Felicity Shenton, Strategic Director Investing in
Children CIC

Trauma-informed practice in prisons: achievable or unrealistic?

Vicky Meaby, Durham University

Nothing to lose? Using ethno-mimesis to explore issues of loss with young people who offend.

A rights based approach to researching the use of physical restraint in childrens custody

Panel 2 Alcohol
Dorothy Newbury-Birch and Jennifer Birch, Teesside
University
Michael Urwin, Durham Constabulary
Iheoma Amaeshi, Durham University

What do we know about alcohol use disorders and brief interventions in the criminal justice
system?: a rapid systematic review
Tackling underage drinking a partnership approach
Exploring the UK Alcohol industrys framing on Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) an analysis of
consultation submissions

Panel 3 Researching Criminological Issues

Frank Simpson, University of Cumbria
David Honeywell, University of York
Jill Clark and Karen Laing, Research Centre for
Learning and Teaching, Newcastle University

Research in the police: being native; informed researcher or jobbing ethnographer?

Ex-prisoners in higher education: a study of the self; identity and negotiation through higher
education.
Working with young people around crime and anti-social behaviour: exploring the capacity for
change in their communities

Session 3
Panel 1 Desisting from Crime
Una Barr, University of Central Lancashire
Marianne Doherty, Durham University
Rebecca Woolford, Research and Analysis Officer,
WYCRC & Natalie Watson, Durham University

Voicing desistance: female experiences of the road from conviction

'The inside-out prison exchange programme an introduction to 'inside-out': defining the
parameters of the programme and a possible nexus with desistance theory'
Investigating the impact of group inductions on personalisation and desistance: a comparative study
based in West Yorkshire community rehabilitation company

Panel 2 Victims and witnesses in the Criminal justice System

Jayne Edwards, Newcastle Law Centre

The role of civil law advice in supporting victims of crime

Rob Ewin, University of Cumbria

What should we do with these vulnerable and intimidated witnesses?

An exploration of the experiences of domestic abuse survivors working in the field of domestic
abuse support work: reinforcement of recovery or re-victimisation revisited?

Beverley Gilbert, NCSPVA University of Worcester

Panel 3 Responses to sexual abuse and exploitation

Nina Hyowon Kang, Queen's University Belfast
Chijioke J Nwalozie, De Montfort University
Leicester

Review of sex offender legislation development in South Korea from a comparative perspective

Terry Murphy, Teesside University

Rotherham and the organised abuse of children challenges to liberal criminology?

People trafficking the Nigerian experience

Panel 4 Practical issues for criminal justice

Helen Williamson, University of Brighton
Elvin Balajanov, University of Leeds
Praveen Jhalani & Sudeep Khanna, Hidayatullah
National Law University, Raipur, India

Developing an understanding of illegal firearm supply in England and Wales

Age of criminal responsibility for cybercrimes: an insight into approaches adopted in Azerbaijan with
comparison with UK
Combating Contraband Cell Phone use in Prison

Session 4
Panel 1 Safeguarding and Risk
Rhona O'Brien & Julie Taylor, University of Cumbria
Joanna Murphy, Durham University
Joanna Kemplay Adhikari, Leeds Trinity University

Sexual abjection: social class, gender violence and systemic safeguarding failures in Rotherham.
Perceptions of risk with regard to problematic parental drug use: contested perceptions of risk
between childrens safeguarding social workers, adult drug misuse workers and their agencies.
Partner experiences of risk, aggression and impulsivity in domestic abuse: an interpretative
phenomenological analysis

Panel 2 Interventions in Criminal Justice Settings

Verity Wainwright, University of Manchester
Kara Danks, Northumbria University
Michelle Addison, Lisa Crowe and Eileen Kaner,
Newcastle University

Offending characteristics of male ex-armed forces personnel in prison

Developing a prison based health-related peer role informed by evidence, theory and practical
considerations: an exploration of the complexities.
A pilot feasibility trial of alcohol screening and brief intervention in the police custody suite setting

Panel 3 Crime across borders

Ruth E. McKie, Northumbria University

Scoping a criminological analysis of climate counter movement organisations

Chu Van Dung, University of Leeds

Dainis Ignatans, University of Huddersfield
Eleftherios Nomikos, University of Huddersfield
Greg Los, University of Kent

Combating transnational crime: can police forces from different jurisdictions work together?
The before, after and in between of immigration: criminal interactions of foreign born in England
and Wales.

Panel 4 Gender & Sexuality

Donna Peacock & Alistair Irons, University of
Sunderland

Women in cybersecurity: closed doors, sticky floors and glass ceilings

Paul Biddle, Northumbria University

Transgender offenders in the criminal justice system: disadvantage, dilemmas and what can be done?

James Pickles, Northumbria University

Is there a need for a queer criminology?