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Professor Roger Smith's Outputs (64)

Youth justice and social harm: Towards a ‘theory of the good’ (2024)
Journal Article
Gray, P., & Smith, R. (2024). Youth justice and social harm: Towards a ‘theory of the good’. Criminology & Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958241254446

This article seeks to develop a distinctive conceptual framework for the purpose of (re)imagining progressive youth justice. We begin by utilising zemiological insights to relate the widely recognised impacts of neoliberalism to the social harms asso... Read More about Youth justice and social harm: Towards a ‘theory of the good’.

Evaluating Fast Track Social Work-Qualifying Programmes: Have We Learnt Anything? (2023)
Journal Article
Smith, R. (2024). Evaluating Fast Track Social Work-Qualifying Programmes: Have We Learnt Anything?. The British Journal of Social Work, 54(3), 939-957. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad254

This article reflects on the cumulative outputs of evaluations of the various fast track qualifying programmes introduced into social work education in England over the past decade or so, in order to draw out some of the wider lessons available to us... Read More about Evaluating Fast Track Social Work-Qualifying Programmes: Have We Learnt Anything?.

Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programs (2023)
Journal Article
Scourfield, J., Carpenter, J., Warner, N., Maxwell, N., Venn, L., Stepanova, E., O’Donnell, C., Jones, R., Elliott, M., & Smith, R. (2023). Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programs. Journal of Social Work, 23(6), 1022-1042. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173231194432

Summary: Two fast-track child and family social work training programs have been established in England — Step Up to Social Work and Frontline. Trainees’ financial support is far higher than for mainstream social work degrees. One of the reasons clai... Read More about Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programs.

Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power (2021)
Journal Article
King, H., Crossley, S., & Smith, R. (2021). Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power. Sociological Review, 69(5), 920-936. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026120986108

The reciprocal nature of the relationship between the concepts of responsibilisation and resilience appears, in policy and political circles at least, almost natural. Whilst both concepts have been subjected to sustained academic critique for their p... Read More about Responsibility, resilience and symbolic power.

The life course of delinquency: reflections on the meaning of trajectories, transitions and turning points in youth justice (2020)
Journal Article
Case, S., & Smith, R. (2021). The life course of delinquency: reflections on the meaning of trajectories, transitions and turning points in youth justice. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 45(4), 391-404. https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.2020.1821728

This article challenges contemporary analyses of the nature of youth justice in England and Wales as partial and restricted in theoretical and conceptual terms. A life course perspective is adopted to examine the trajectory of youth justice as a dyna... Read More about The life course of delinquency: reflections on the meaning of trajectories, transitions and turning points in youth justice.

Behaviour Management or Institutionalised Repression? Children’s Experiences of Physical Restraint in Custody (2020)
Journal Article
Shenton, F., & Smith, R. (2021). Behaviour Management or Institutionalised Repression? Children’s Experiences of Physical Restraint in Custody. Children & Society, 35(1), 159-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12410

This article reports on a study of children's experiences of being physically restrained by staff in a range of custodial settings. The research was carried out in collaboration with a team of young researchers, and generated rich and insightful acco... Read More about Behaviour Management or Institutionalised Repression? Children’s Experiences of Physical Restraint in Custody.

Children and Crime: In the Moment (2020)
Journal Article
Haines, K., Case, S., Smith, R., Joe Laidler, K., Hughes, N., Webster, C., Goddard, T., Deakin, J., Johns, D., Richards, K., & Gray, P. (2021). Children and Crime: In the Moment. Youth Justice, 21(3), 275-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225420923762

Traditional approaches to understanding and responding to children and crime are fundamentally based on ‘miniaturised’ adult models. The assumption appears to be that children are adults in the making, essentially just smaller, developing versions of... Read More about Children and Crime: In the Moment.

Governance Through Diversion in Neoliberal Times and the Possibilities for Transformative Social Justice (2019)
Journal Article
Gray, P., & Smith, R. (2019). Governance Through Diversion in Neoliberal Times and the Possibilities for Transformative Social Justice. Critical Criminology, 27, 575-590. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-019-09475-3

Over the last decade, the dramatic increase in the number of young people diverted from formal processing through the youth justice system in England and Wales, and the equally sharp drop in the rate of youth custody suggest that the neoliberal formu... Read More about Governance Through Diversion in Neoliberal Times and the Possibilities for Transformative Social Justice.

Shifting Sands: The reconfiguration of neoliberal youth penality (2019)
Journal Article
Gray, P., & Smith, R. (2021). Shifting Sands: The reconfiguration of neoliberal youth penality. Theoretical Criminology, 25(2), 304-324. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480619872262

This article begins by tracing the emergence of ‘therapeutic surveillance’ as a new formula for neoliberal disciplinary power. It maps and interrogates the reconfiguration of a hybrid array of neoliberal rationalities and technologies for the penal g... Read More about Shifting Sands: The reconfiguration of neoliberal youth penality.

'Strivers', 'doers' and 'seekers': social workers and their commitment to the job (2018)
Journal Article
Smith, R., Venn, L., Carpenter, J., Stepanova, E., & Patsios, D. (2019). 'Strivers', 'doers' and 'seekers': social workers and their commitment to the job. Child & Family Social Work, 24(4), 441-448. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12623

Amid considerable interest in the experiences of early career professionals in social work in England and internationally, and the relationship between these and retention and progression, this article reports on the findings of one element of a larg... Read More about 'Strivers', 'doers' and 'seekers': social workers and their commitment to the job.

The Changing Shape of Youth Justice: Models of Practice (2018)
Journal Article
Smith, R., & Gray, P. (2019). The Changing Shape of Youth Justice: Models of Practice. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 19(5), 554-571. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818781199

This article reports on a two-year investigation, which maps out contemporary approaches to the delivery of youth justice in England, in light of substantial recent changes in this area of practice. The findings are derived from a detailed examinatio... Read More about The Changing Shape of Youth Justice: Models of Practice.

Criminology (2017)
Book
Case, S., Johnson, P., Manlow, D., Smith, R., & Williams, K. (2017). Criminology. (1). OUP

Reconsidering value perspectives in child welfare (2017)
Journal Article
Smith, R. (2018). Reconsidering value perspectives in child welfare. The British Journal of Social Work, 48(3), 616-632. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx067

This article offers a conceptually informed review of current trends in child welfare policy, drawing on the ‘value perspectives’ typology originally formulated by Fox Harding. The article introduces the typology and provides examples of its previous... Read More about Reconsidering value perspectives in child welfare.