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Professor Hannah Bows' Outputs (12)

“It's Like a Drive by Misogyny”: Sexual Violence at UK Music Festivals (2022)
Journal Article
Bows, H., Day, A., & Dhir, A. (2024). “It's Like a Drive by Misogyny”: Sexual Violence at UK Music Festivals. Violence Against Women, 30(2), 372-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012221120443

Despite increasing scholarly and media attention on sexual violence in public spaces, including those associated with the night-time economy and licensed venues, music festivals have been largely absent from research and policy. This paper presents t... Read More about “It's Like a Drive by Misogyny”: Sexual Violence at UK Music Festivals.

Perceptions of safety and experiences of gender-based violence at UK music festivals (2022)
Journal Article
Bows, H., King, H., & Measham, F. (2023). Perceptions of safety and experiences of gender-based violence at UK music festivals. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 7(1), 74-92. https://doi.org/10.1332/239868021x16439111624553

Crime and safety at UK music festivals is a subject of growing concern for festival management, police and festival-goers, bolstered by increasing media coverage of incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault. To date, however, there has been l... Read More about Perceptions of safety and experiences of gender-based violence at UK music festivals.

Sexual abuse of parents (2020)
Book Chapter
Bows, H., & Hackett, S. (2020). Sexual abuse of parents. In T. Shackelford (Ed.), The SAGE handbook of domestic violence. SAGE Publications

"I just don't think it's that natural": Adolescent mothers' constructions of breastfeeding as deviant (2020)
Journal Article
Jamie, K., Hackshaw-McGeagh, L., Bows, H., & O'Neill, R. (2020). "I just don't think it's that natural": Adolescent mothers' constructions of breastfeeding as deviant. Sociology of Health & Illness, 42(7), 1689-1708. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13157

Breastfeeding is recognised globally as the optimal method of infant feeding. For Murphy (1999) Sociology of Health & Illness, 21, 187–208 its nutritional superiority positions breastfeeding as a moral imperative where mothers who formula‐feed are op... Read More about "I just don't think it's that natural": Adolescent mothers' constructions of breastfeeding as deviant.

Healthcare Practitioner Relationships, Cultural Health Capital and Breastfeeding Support for Adolescent Mothers (2020)
Journal Article
Jamie, K., O'Neill, R., Bows, H., & Hackshaw-McGeagh, L. (2020). Healthcare Practitioner Relationships, Cultural Health Capital and Breastfeeding Support for Adolescent Mothers. Health Education Journal, 79(8), 901-913. https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896920915945

Objectives: Breastfeeding is the optimal method of infant nutrition. Despite this, rates of breastfeeding in high-income countries are low and mirror wider health inequalities with women from under-served populations being least likely to breastfeed.... Read More about Healthcare Practitioner Relationships, Cultural Health Capital and Breastfeeding Support for Adolescent Mothers.

Conceptualising safety and crime at UK music festivals (2020)
Book Chapter
Bows, H., King, H., & Measham, F. (2020). Conceptualising safety and crime at UK music festivals. In L. Platt, & R. Finkel (Eds.), Gendered violence at international festivals (86-104). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344893-7

There has been a global surge in music festivals over the last decade, especially in Europe. In the UK, it is estimated that more than 3.5 million people attended the 230 music festivals in 2015 (Time Out, 2015; UK Festival Awards, 2016). Despite a b... Read More about Conceptualising safety and crime at UK music festivals.

Integration of pharmacogenetic principles as a core thread in the undergraduate pharmacy curriculum (2016)
Journal Article
Jamie, K., Bows, H., & Gill, J. (2016). Integration of pharmacogenetic principles as a core thread in the undergraduate pharmacy curriculum. Pharmacy education, 16(1), 64-66

Introduction: Pharmacy education needs to focus on pharmacogenetics/pharmacogenomics as a key area in future pharmacy practice. Module Description: A series of science-focused lectures, including one on the ethical, legal and social implications (ELS... Read More about Integration of pharmacogenetic principles as a core thread in the undergraduate pharmacy curriculum.

Older sex offenders – managing risk in the community from a policing perspective (2016)
Journal Article
Bows, H., & Westmarland, N. (2018). Older sex offenders – managing risk in the community from a policing perspective. Policing and Society, 28(1), 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2016.1138476

Although there has been an increase in research and policy attention examining sex offenders, their motivations and how ‘risk’ should be managed in relation to registered sex offenders in the community, the majority of these efforts have concentrated... Read More about Older sex offenders – managing risk in the community from a policing perspective.

Rape of Older People In The United Kingdom: Challenging The ‘Real Rape’ Stereotype (2015)
Journal Article
Bows, H., & Westmarland, N. (2017). Rape of Older People In The United Kingdom: Challenging The ‘Real Rape’ Stereotype. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 57(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv116

Despite extensive research on rape and sexual violence, there exists an important gap in knowledge around older victims. This gap exists in relation to national statistics (the Crime Survey for England and Wales has an upper age limit of 59 for intim... Read More about Rape of Older People In The United Kingdom: Challenging The ‘Real Rape’ Stereotype.