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Professor Graham Towl's Outputs (77)

Understanding the Patterns of Hate Incidents and Reporting Attitudes at a UK University (2023)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N., Towl, G., Matthewson, J., & Earnshaw, M. (online). Understanding the Patterns of Hate Incidents and Reporting Attitudes at a UK University. Qeios, https://doi.org/10.32388/D3PO6I

Widening participation, through diversity and inclusion, has become a major goal to achieve in UK Higher Education, with the potential of the most able, rather than simply the socially advantaged, attending university. Addressing challenges of racism... Read More about Understanding the Patterns of Hate Incidents and Reporting Attitudes at a UK University.

‘This is hardcore’: a qualitative study exploring service users’ experiences of Heroin-Assisted Treatment (HAT) in Middlesbrough, England (2023)
Journal Article
Riley, F., Harris, M., Poulter, H., Moore, H., Ahmed, D., Towl, G., & Walker, T. (2023). ‘This is hardcore’: a qualitative study exploring service users’ experiences of Heroin-Assisted Treatment (HAT) in Middlesbrough, England. Harm Reduction Journal, 20, Article 66. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-023-00785-y

Background: Heroin Assisted Treatment (HAT) is well evidenced internationally to improve health and social outcomes for people dependent on opioids who have not been helped by traditional treatment options. Despite this evidence base, England has bee... Read More about ‘This is hardcore’: a qualitative study exploring service users’ experiences of Heroin-Assisted Treatment (HAT) in Middlesbrough, England.

More than just ‘free heroin’: Caring whilst navigating constraint in the delivery of diamorphine assisted treatment (2023)
Journal Article
Poulter, H., Walker, T., Ahmed, D., Moore, H., Riley, F., Towl, G., & Harris, M. (2023). More than just ‘free heroin’: Caring whilst navigating constraint in the delivery of diamorphine assisted treatment. International Journal of Drug Policy, 116, Article 104025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104025

Background. In 2020, Drug Related Deaths (DRD) in the United Kingdom (UK) reached the highest rate in over 25 years, with opioid related deaths doubling in the years from 2012 to 2015. Treatment systems are increasingly required to be innovative to e... Read More about More than just ‘free heroin’: Caring whilst navigating constraint in the delivery of diamorphine assisted treatment.

Responding to gender-based violence in higher education: changes as a function of Covid-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Franklin-Corben, P., & Towl, G. (2023). Responding to gender-based violence in higher education: changes as a function of Covid-19. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 15(3), https://doi.org/10.1108/jacpr-06-2022-0721

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to comment on how responses to gender-based violence (GBV) in higher education (HE) changed as a function of COVID-19. Since the original lockdown directive was issued by the UK Government in March 2020, there wa... Read More about Responding to gender-based violence in higher education: changes as a function of Covid-19.

Callous-Unemotional Traits are Associated With Child-to-Parent Aggression (2021)
Journal Article
Kuay, H., Boothroyd, L., Towl, G., Tiffin, P., & Munoz, L. (2022). Callous-Unemotional Traits are Associated With Child-to-Parent Aggression. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 66(15), 1603-1626. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624x211049190

This study examined the relations between callous-unemotional traits and perpetration of aggression toward parents in two separate studies, while also considering motivation for aggression and parenting styles experienced among young people. Study 1... Read More about Callous-Unemotional Traits are Associated With Child-to-Parent Aggression.

A New Trait-Based Model of Child-to-Parent Aggression (2017)
Journal Article
Kuay, H. S., Tiffin, P. A., Boothroyd, L. G., Towl, G. J., & Centifanti, L. C. (2017). A New Trait-Based Model of Child-to-Parent Aggression. Adolescent Research Review, 2(3), 199-211. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-017-0061-4

Incidents of child-to-parent aggression have been the most under-researched area of domestic violence. The risk factors for child-to-parent aggression are still unknown. This article reviews risk factors that might explain aggression among adolescent... Read More about A New Trait-Based Model of Child-to-Parent Aggression.

The habitual female offender inside: How psychopathic traits predict chronic prison violence (2016)
Journal Article
Thomson, N., Towl, G., & Centifanti, L. (2016). The habitual female offender inside: How psychopathic traits predict chronic prison violence. Law and Human Behavior, 40(3), 257-269. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000178

Psychopathy is considered one of the best predictors of violence and prison misconducts and is arguably an important clinical construct in the correctional setting. However, we tested whether psychopathy can be used to predict misconducts in prison e... Read More about The habitual female offender inside: How psychopathic traits predict chronic prison violence.

Prisoner suicide (2015)
Journal Article
Towl, G., & Walker, T. (2015). Prisoner suicide. The Psychologist, 28(11), 886-889

Too many citizens are imprisoned in England and Wales, expanding markets for the commodification of forensic services. Rather than being seen by prisoners as healthcare professionals, psychologists may increasingly be viewed as 'state psychologists'... Read More about Prisoner suicide.

The politics of mental health (2013)
Journal Article
Towl, G., & Crighton, D. (2013). The politics of mental health. Evidence-Based Mental Health, 16(3), 59-59

Policing and mental health (2012)
Journal Article
Towl, G., & Crighton, D. (2012). Policing and mental health. Evidence-Based Mental Health, 15(4), 85-85

Mental healthcare in prisons (2012)
Journal Article
Towl, G. (2012). Mental healthcare in prisons. Evidence-Based Mental Health, 15(3), 53-53

Ethics of evidence (2011)
Journal Article
Towl, G. J. (2011). Ethics of evidence. Evidence-Based Mental Health, 14(3), 62-62

Psychology in prisons, (vol 5, pg 226, 2008) (2009)
Journal Article
Crighton, D. A., & Towl, G. J. (2009). Psychology in prisons, (vol 5, pg 226, 2008). Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 6(1), 89-89