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Life course outcomes and developmental pathways for children and young people with harmful sexual behaviour (2022)
Journal Article
Hackett, S., Darling, A. J., Balfe, M., Masson, H., & Phillips, J. (2022). Life course outcomes and developmental pathways for children and young people with harmful sexual behaviour. Journal of Sexual Aggression, https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2022.2124323

Most outcome studies for children and young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour have focused on sexual recidivism as their primary outcome measure. Relatively little is known about broader life outcomes for children displaying such beh... Read More about Life course outcomes and developmental pathways for children and young people with harmful sexual behaviour.

‘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. 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.

Looking back on the long-term fostering and adoption of children with harmful sexual behaviours: carers’ reflections on their experiences (2013)
Journal Article
Masson, H., Hackett, S., Phillips, J., & Balfe, M. (2014). Looking back on the long-term fostering and adoption of children with harmful sexual behaviours: carers’ reflections on their experiences. The British Journal of Social Work, 44(8), 2200-2217. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bct073

The experiences of carers of children and young people with harmful sexual behaviours have been the subject of little research to date. Consequently, and as part of a larger follow-up study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine adoptiv... Read More about Looking back on the long-term fostering and adoption of children with harmful sexual behaviours: carers’ reflections on their experiences.