All Outputs (17)

Parental Rights in Prison Project (2023)
Report
O'Brien, K., & King, H. (2023). Parental Rights in Prison Project. Durham University: NEPACS/Durham University

The aim of the Parental Rights in Prison Project (PRiP) was to support incarcerated parents who wished to sustain their relationship with their children who are in the care of the local authority, care of family and significant others or adopted and... Read More about Parental Rights in Prison Project.

Early Days in Custody (2023)
Report
O'Brien, K., & Straub, C. (2023). Early Days in Custody. Charity

The Early Days in Custody (EDiC) project is a prison-based crisis intervention delivered by NEPACS providing targeted support to prisoners and family members during the critical first two weeks of custody. The aim is to prevent (or soften) the shock... Read More about Early Days in Custody.

The Believed Project: Supporting women in prison who have experienced sexual violence and abuse (2022)
Report
O'Brien, K., & King, H. (2022). The Believed Project: Supporting women in prison who have experienced sexual violence and abuse. [No known commissioning body]

Criminal Women: Gender Matters (2022)
Book
Grace, S., O'Neill, M., Walker, T., King, H., Baldwin, L., Jobe, A., Lynch, O., Measham, F., O'Brien, K., & Seaman, V. (2024). Criminal Women: Gender Matters. (1). Bristol University Press

Accounts of female offenders’ journeys into the criminal justice system are often silenced or marginalized.

Featuring a Foreword from Pat Carlen and inspired by her seminal book ‘Criminal Women’, this collection uses participatory, inclusive and n... Read More about Criminal Women: Gender Matters.

“The World Split Open”: Writing, Teaching and Learning with Women in Prison” (2022)
Book Chapter
King, H., O’Brien, K., & Measham, F. (2022). “The World Split Open”: Writing, Teaching and Learning with Women in Prison”. In Criminal Women: Gender Matters. Bristol University Press

Women’s biographies through Prison (2022)
Book Chapter
Verity Fee, P., Iris, A., King, H., O’Brien, K., & Measham, F. (2022). Women’s biographies through Prison. In Criminal Women: Gender Matters. Bristol University Press

‘Education as the practice of freedom?’ – prison education and the pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
O'Brien, K., King, H., Phillips, J., & Dalton, P. A. K. (. O. T. D. U. I.-O. C. (2022). ‘Education as the practice of freedom?’ – prison education and the pandemic. Educational Review, 74(3), 685-703. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1996335

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a corner of society where the spotlight has not fallen. As in ‘ordinary’ times, this is the black hole of prisons, whose population consists of predominantly poor, minoritised and often younger adults.... Read More about ‘Education as the practice of freedom?’ – prison education and the pandemic.

Building Bridges Across Diversity: Utilising the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme to promote an egalitarian higher education community within three UK prisons (2018)
Journal Article
King, H., Measham, F., & O’Brien, K. (2019). Building Bridges Across Diversity: Utilising the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme to promote an egalitarian higher education community within three UK prisons. International journal of bias, identity and diversities in education, 4(1), 66-81. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijbide.2019010105

The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme is a unique prison education programme that brings together ‘Inside' (prison) students and ‘Outside' (university) students to learn collaboratively through dialogue and community-building exercises within the... Read More about Building Bridges Across Diversity: Utilising the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Programme to promote an egalitarian higher education community within three UK prisons.

Intersections in (New) Drugs Research (2018)
Journal Article
Chatwin, C., Blackman, S., & O’Brien, K. (2018). Intersections in (New) Drugs Research. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 25(4), 297-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2018.1466867

University students and prisoners learning collaboratively (2017)
Book Chapter
O’Brien, K., Meahsam, F., & King, H. (2017). University students and prisoners learning collaboratively. In P. Crane (Ed.), ife Beyond Crime. Lemos Crane

New drugs, new directions? Research priorities for new psychoactive substances and human enhancement drugs (2017)
Journal Article
Chatwin, C., Measham, F., O’Brien, K., & Sumnall, H. (2017). New drugs, new directions? Research priorities for new psychoactive substances and human enhancement drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy, 40, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.01.016

“Skittles & Red Bull is my favourite flavour”: E-cigarettes, smoking, vaping and the changing landscape of nicotine consumption amongst British teenagers – implications for the normalisation debate (2016)
Journal Article
Measham, F., O'Brien, K., & Turnbull, G. (2016). “Skittles & Red Bull is my favourite flavour”: E-cigarettes, smoking, vaping and the changing landscape of nicotine consumption amongst British teenagers – implications for the normalisation debate. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 23(3), 224-237. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2016.1178708

Aims: From an academic discourse explaining trends in drug-related attitudes and behaviours, “normalisation” now also encompasses public health policy advocating “denormalisation” of smoking. This study explored young people’s attitudes and behaviour... Read More about “Skittles & Red Bull is my favourite flavour”: E-cigarettes, smoking, vaping and the changing landscape of nicotine consumption amongst British teenagers – implications for the normalisation debate.

New psychoactive substances and British drug policy: A view from the cyber-psychonauts (2014)
Journal Article
O'Brien, K., Chatwin, C., Jenkins, C., & Measham, F. (2015). New psychoactive substances and British drug policy: A view from the cyber-psychonauts. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 22(3), 217-223. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2014.989959

Aims: (i) To collect data on the consumption patterns, purchase patterns and motivations of the online NPS community, and (ii) engage this specific group of NPS users in an exploration of recent policy developments in the UK focusing on their experie... Read More about New psychoactive substances and British drug policy: A view from the cyber-psychonauts.

RisKit: The participatory development and observational evaluation of a multi-component programme for adolescent risk behaviour reduction (2014)
Journal Article
Stevens, A., Coulton, S., O'Brien, K., Butler, S., Gladstone, B., & Tonkin, J. (2014). RisKit: The participatory development and observational evaluation of a multi-component programme for adolescent risk behaviour reduction. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 21(1), 24-34. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2013.787526

Aims: to develop and observationally evaluate a multi-component programme for the reduction of risk behaviours in vulnerable adolescents. Methods: the programme was theoretically informed by Catalano and Hawkins’ social development model. It was de... Read More about RisKit: The participatory development and observational evaluation of a multi-component programme for adolescent risk behaviour reduction.

Inside 'Doorwork': Gendering the Security Gaze (2009)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, K. (2009). Inside 'Doorwork': Gendering the Security Gaze. In R. Ryan-Flood, & R. Gill (Eds.), Secrecy and silence in the research process : feminist reflections (117-132). Routledge

Negotiating Violence and Gender: Security and the Night Time Economy in the UK. (2008)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, K., Hobbs, D., & Westmarland, L. (2008). Negotiating Violence and Gender: Security and the Night Time Economy in the UK. In S. Body-Gendrot, & P. Spierenburg (Eds.), Violence in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (161-176). Springer Verlag

Connecting the Gendered Door: Women, Violence and Doorwork (2007)
Journal Article
Hobbs, D., O'Brien, K., & Westmarland, L. (2007). Connecting the Gendered Door: Women, Violence and Doorwork. British Journal of Sociology, 58(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2007.00137.x

This paper explores the emerging role of women who work as ‘bouncers’, or doorstaff, in the night-time economy and examines how the cultural capital of the female bouncer is connected to the methods utilized to control licensed premises. It is drawn... Read More about Connecting the Gendered Door: Women, Violence and Doorwork.