Professor Hannah Bows' Outputs (20)

Non-Fatal Strangulation: An Empirical Review of the New Offence in England and Wales (2024)
Journal Article
Bows, H., & Herring, J. (2024). Non-Fatal Strangulation: An Empirical Review of the New Offence in England and Wales. Journal of Criminal Law, 88(5-6), 332-346. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220183241277005

Following the introduction of specific non-fatal strangulation (NFS) offences into law in a number of other jurisdictions over the last 20 years, England and Wales introduced a new offence of Non-Fatal Strangulation as part of the Domestic Abuse Act... Read More about Non-Fatal Strangulation: An Empirical Review of the New Offence in England and Wales.

Practitioner Understandings of Older Victims of Abuse and Their Perpetrators: Not Ideal Enough? (2023)
Journal Article
Bows, H., Bromley, P., & Walklate, S. (2024). Practitioner Understandings of Older Victims of Abuse and Their Perpetrators: Not Ideal Enough?. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 64(3), 620 - 637. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azad057

This article reports data from interviews with 66 professionals working across safeguarding, health, criminal justice and specialist domestic abuse services exploring their views about older victims’ experiences of domestic abuse. The findings reveal... Read More about Practitioner Understandings of Older Victims of Abuse and Their Perpetrators: Not Ideal Enough?.

“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.

DNACPR decisions during Covid-19: An empirical and analytical study (2022)
Journal Article
Bows, H., & Herring, J. (2022). DNACPR decisions during Covid-19: An empirical and analytical study. Medical Law Review, 30(1), 60-80. https://doi.org/10.1093/medlaw/fwab047

Considerable concern has arisen during the Covid pandemic over the use of Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation decisions (DNACPRs) in England and Wales, particularly around the potential blanket application of them on older adults and those w... Read More about DNACPR decisions during Covid-19: An empirical and analytical study.

Regulating intimate violence: rough sex, consent and death (2021)
Journal Article
Herring, J., & Bows, H. (2021). Regulating intimate violence: rough sex, consent and death. Child and family law quarterly, 311,

In this paper we highlight the inadequacies of the current legal response to killings in the course of alleged rough sex. The issues we identify demonstrate the thinness of the legal conceptions of “consent” “violence” and “intent” that have led to t... Read More about Regulating intimate violence: rough sex, consent and death.

Violence and Abuse of Older People - A review of current proposals for criminalisation (2020)
Journal Article
Bows, H. (2020). Violence and Abuse of Older People - A review of current proposals for criminalisation. Criminal law review, 10, 877-894

An increase in research addressing violence and abuse of older people has been met with calls to formally recognise and respond to “elder abuse”, either through the introduction of specific criminal offences or by widening the hate crime framework to... Read More about Violence and Abuse of Older People - A review of current proposals for criminalisation.

"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.

Getting Away With Murder? A Review of the ‘Rough Sex Defence’ (2020)
Journal Article
Bows, H., & Herring, J. (2020). Getting Away With Murder? A Review of the ‘Rough Sex Defence’. Journal of Criminal Law, 84(6), 525-538. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018320936777

Several high-profile murders of women killed during alleged consensual sex ‘gone wrong’ have led to widespread calls for reform to prevent the use of what has been termed the ‘rough sex defence’. Concerns about the use of this ‘defence’ are located w... Read More about Getting Away With Murder? A Review of the ‘Rough Sex Defence’.

The other side of late‐life intimacy? Sexual violence in later life (2020)
Journal Article
Bows, H. (2020). The other side of late‐life intimacy? Sexual violence in later life. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 39(S1), 65-70. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajag.12728

Objectives: To explore the extent, nature and consequences of sexual violence in later life. Methods: Data were obtained from all police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on rape and sexual assault by penetration (Sexual Offences Act 2003... Read More about The other side of late‐life intimacy? Sexual violence in later life.

Healthcare Practitioner Relationships, Cultural Health Capital and Breastfeeding Support for Adolescent Mothers (2020)
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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.

Possessing Extreme Pornography: policing, prosecutions and the need for reform (2019)
Journal Article
McGlynn, C., & Bows, H. (2019). Possessing Extreme Pornography: policing, prosecutions and the need for reform. Journal of Criminal Law, 83(6), 473-488. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018319877783

The law criminalising the possession of extreme pornography, first enacted in 2008 and amended to include rape pornography in 2015, continues to generate considerable controversy and calls for reform. In order to inform these ongoing discussions, we... Read More about Possessing Extreme Pornography: policing, prosecutions and the need for reform.

Domestic Homicide of Older People (2010–15): A comparative analysis of intimate-partner homicide and parricide cases in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Bows, H. (2019). Domestic Homicide of Older People (2010–15): A comparative analysis of intimate-partner homicide and parricide cases in the UK. The British Journal of Social Work, 49(5), 1234-1253. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcy108

Despite half a century of research on both domestic violence and elder abuse, homicide of older people by a partner or family member (domestic homicide (DH)) remains largely unexplored. This article presents data drawn from a larger parent study exam... Read More about Domestic Homicide of Older People (2010–15): A comparative analysis of intimate-partner homicide and parricide cases in the UK.

Editorial: Elder Abuse and Social Work: Research, Theory and Practice (2018)
Journal Article
Bows, H., & Penhale, B. (2018). Editorial: Elder Abuse and Social Work: Research, Theory and Practice. The British Journal of Social Work, 48(4), 873-886. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcy062

This Special Issue of the British Journal of Social Work is dedicated to arguably one of the biggest challenges facing social work today: violence and abuse of older people. Despite increasing acceptance of elder abuse as a global public-health issue... Read More about Editorial: Elder Abuse and Social Work: Research, Theory and Practice.

Practitioner views on the impacts, challenges, and barriers in supporting older survivors of sexual violence (2017)
Journal Article
Bows, H. (2018). Practitioner views on the impacts, challenges, and barriers in supporting older survivors of sexual violence. Violence Against Women, 24(9), 1070-1090. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801217732348

Despite half a century of research on both sexual violence and elder abuse, the intersection between the two remains largely unexplored. Using theoretical lenses of feminist criminology and critical feminist gerontology, this article explores the int... Read More about Practitioner views on the impacts, challenges, and barriers in supporting older survivors of sexual violence.

Researching sexual violence against older people: reflecting on the use of Freedom of Information requests in a feminist study (2017)
Journal Article
Bows, H. (2017). Researching sexual violence against older people: reflecting on the use of Freedom of Information requests in a feminist study. Feminist Review, 115(1), 30-45. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-017-0029-z

Domestic and sexual violence research has traditionally been associated with feminist qualitative methodology. However, quantitative methods are increasingly used by feminists in research examining the prevalence and issues related to rape and sexual... Read More about Researching sexual violence against older people: reflecting on the use of Freedom of Information requests in a feminist study.

Sexual Violence Against Older People: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2017)
Journal Article
Bows, H. (2018). Sexual Violence Against Older People: A Review of the Empirical Literature. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 19(5), 567-583. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524838016683455

Aging and sexual violence are both established areas of research, but little attention has been paid to research into sexual violence against older people. This article presents a critical review of the literature reporting empirical research in thre... Read More about Sexual Violence Against Older People: A Review of the Empirical Literature.

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.