Sandra Walklate
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 157441 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sandra Walklate |
| NOMBRES | Sandra |
| APELLIDO | Walklate |
| FIRMA | WALKLATE S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1628-9713 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 102 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 606 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 98 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Experiences of Post-Separation Coercive Control
Contributing to a growing body of research, this article examines the lived experiences of post-separation coercive control, including litigation abuse and financial abuse, among female victim-survivors involved in family law proceedings in Australia. Drawing on qualitative data provided by 14 female victim-survivors, this article explores how perpetrators exploit legal systems to perpetuate abuse and how system-level structures and processes may…
Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
This fourth edition of the essential volume Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice interrogates the relationship between sex, gender, crime and criminal justice as seen through the eyes of feminist perspectives and masculinity studies. Centring critical concerns about the dominance of Northern theorising in criminology and victimology, this edition examines implications for both men and women in criminal justice within a global context. Bringing toge…
Victim-survivor experiences of police responses to coercive control
Coercive and controlling behaviour (CCB) was criminalised in England and Wales in 2015. This article, drawing on data from two victim-survivor centred research projects conducted over an eight-year period since the criminalisation of CCB, documents the continuities and discontinuities in their experiences of policing responses to CCB. It points to victim-survivor changing expectations of policing and considers the import of these changes for not …
Victim-Survivor Stories of Restorative Justice
Restorative justice has been embraced in criminal justice policies and discourses in a wide range of jurisdictions as the centring of victims’ voices in policy and practice. This is often articulated as listening to the lived experience of victim-survivors. The purpose of this article is to subject such centring to critical scrutiny and consider the extent to which restorative justice can overcome the challenges of whose voice is listened to and …
Male victim-survivor views on the criminalisation of coercive control in Australia
Life is complicated
Drawing on the work of Avery Gordon and Susan Miller, this article considers the relevance of the notions of ghosts and journeys as a way of making sense of the ongoing policy challenges facing the violence against women field. When placed within the wider structural context of the cunning of the neo-liberal state, these concepts afford one way of rendering visible the ongoing liminality and marginalization of women’s lives as they are actually l…
Who is the victim? Exploring the complexities of misidentification
This article presents findings from an N8 Policing Research Partnership–funded project concerned to explore the nature and extent of (mis)identification of the victim and perpetrator in policing responses to coercive and controlling behaviour. The phenomenon of (mis)identification of victim and perpetrators in cases of intimate partner violence is not new and the purpose of this article is to consider the extent to which the presence of misidenti…
The Fact That He Was a Police Officer Was Probably My Number 1 Challenge”
Officer-involved domestic violence (OIDV) is an underexplored phenomena in Australia and internationally. While in recent years some Australian states have adopted OIDV-specific policies, there remains little research which examines the experiences of victim-survivors of OIDV. This article addresses that gap through an examination of the experiences of 17 OIDV victim-survivors. The findings contribute new insights into how OIDV impacts risk; barr…
Practitioner Understandings of Older Victims of Abuse and Their Perpetrators
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 that older victims, despite embodying many of the criteria of Christie’s ideal victim, are not ideal enough as they fail to conform to the stereotype of the young, female victim of intimate-partner a…
Rendering them responsible
This article presents empirical findings from a British Academy funded project concerned to explore victim-survivor experiences of domestic violence disclosure schemes (DVDS) in the UK. In so doing it draws on the concept of responsibilisation as one way of making sense of the experiences reported. It goes on to suggest a note of caution for the development of these schemes in other jurisdictions, since the failure to take account of victim-survi…
Cause of death
Labelled ‘the shadow pandemic’ by UN Women, violence against women received considerable global public attention during 2020–21. Underpinning this moment of public concern, there lies a substantial history of efforts to document the nature of, and campaign against, the extent of violence against women globally. This is also the case in relation to femicide. Whilst we recognise that this is a contested term, for the purposes of this paper we use f…
Self-blame and (becoming) the crazy ex
The 2021 Domestic Abuse Act puts the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (Clare’s Law) on a statutory footing which allows police forces to share someone’s criminal history to prevent domestic abuse. In this article, we draw on the findings from a wider study on women’s experiences of accessing such schemes and instead highlight the informal ways in which women shared and received information about domestic abuse experiences among each other to p…
Incredible Women
Research has long demonstrated that victim-survivors of intimate partner violence face barriers to being believed when they seek help via the legal system and are simultaneously at risk of their abuser weaponizing the legal system against them. This article draws on the experiences of 54 women victim-survivors of coercive control in Australia who had experienced legal systems abuse within criminal and civil protection order systems. Drawing on fe…
Re-imagining what counts as femicide
This Special Subsection on Re-imagining what counts as femicide brings together five original articles which, from different perspectives, seek to push, challenge, and redefine what counts as femicide. The contributions offered here excavate the conceptual issues of what, who, and where femicide 'counts'. In order to do so, the articles engage with epistemological and methodological questions regarding how different bodies of evidence on femicide…
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide
The term femicide, while contested, focuses attention on women killed by men's violence. This focus has generated work on its nature and extent much of which examines the lethal act and the lethal actor in which the death is counted. These counts are themselves incomplete. Despite their shortcomings, these 'thin' counts have contributed to the increasing impetus for a wide range of global and local prevention and response initiatives designed to …
Victims’ Access to Justice
Body-worn cameras
Drawing together the literature on police body-worn cameras and video-recorded evidence in domestic and family violence matters, this article explores whether technology can ‘fix’ criminal justice responses to domestic and family violence. We argue that the use of police body-worn cameras and digitally recorded audio-visual evidence in domestic and family violence matters is not a cure-all for deficiencies in criminal justice responses to domesti…
The Crisis in the Courts
One year after the first COVID lockdown the backlog at the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts together totalled approximately half a million cases. This article reports on the impact of court delays on domestic abuse victims using data from the ESRC-funded ‘Shadow Pandemic’ project. Using this data as illustrative, the paper goes on to discuss the causes of delays in all criminal cases, challenging the assertion that COVID caused the backlog. Instead,…
Victims Access to Justice
Gendered objects and gendered spaces
The knife is a relatively mundane, domestic and easily accessible household item. At the same time, it is the most commonly used weapon in intimate partner homicide. Recently however the knife has become an object of fear and panic in England and Wales when used in public by mostly young men on other young men. This aim of this article is to offer some reflections on the conundrums posed by these two observations. Here the 'knife' is considered t…
Innovating during the pandemic? Policing, domestic abuse and multi-agency risk assessment conferencing (Maracs)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the challenges posed for the ongoing implementation of multi-agency risk assessment conferences (MARACs) for police forces in England and Wales during the 2020 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach This is rapid response research involving qualitative methods primarily online semi-structured interviewing with a sample of police domestic abuse leads in England and Wales. Findings The findings po…
Changes and continuities in police responses to domestic abuse in England and Wales during the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’
Covid-19 and the associated public health response directing people to stay at home and/or shelter in place generated acute awareness of, and concerns about, the likely impact on violence(s) against women across the globe. Initial reports from support services suggested that such violence increased, and that its impact was more complex. Early evidence of increased demands in relation to domestic abuse on policing was however less clear. This pape…
Gender, risk assessment and coercive control
In December 2015, the criminal offence of coercive control was introduced in England and Wales. Whilst, in this legislation, this concept is presumed to be gender-neutral, there is widespread agreement that coercive control is gendered. Using empirical data gathered in one police force area in the South of England, this paper offers an exploration of the feasibility of the extent to which existing risk assessment practices and understandings of r…
Improving justice responses for victims of intimate partner violence
Justice processes have long been criticised for their inability to meet the needs of intimate partner violence victims and provide remedies that facilitate recovery. Despite a bevy of victim-oriented reforms, victims continue to report dissatisfaction in their engagement with the legal process. Recognising the failures of policy responses to date, the Royal Commission into Family Violence (2016) in Victoria, Australia, sought to reimagine justice…
Beyond the Risk Society
I'm a Muslim, but I'm not a Terrorist
Since the events of 11 September 2001, Muslim minority groups have been subjected to pervasive scrutiny in the United Kingdom. The 7 July 2005 attacks have led to young Muslims’ being party to intensified modes of monitoring, surveillance and intervention by crime and security agencies. The introduction of multiple forms of counter-terrorism regulation by the state has been underpinned by discourses of (in)security, which have defined British Mus…
Terrorism, Risk and International Security
In this article, we explore the ways in which cross-disciplinary theories of risk can enable us to grasp salient issues that arise out of the construction, assessment and regulation of terrorism in contemporary society. First, we demonstrate how risk society theory can be utilized to unpack the changing nature of terrorism. Second, deploying Furedi's work on the culture of fear, we show how the discourse of terrorism nestles into a broader politi…
Reframing criminal victimization
The purpose of this article is to examine the ways in which studies of criminal victimization have contributed to this presumption of human vulnerability, and to examine the potential in understandings of resilience for overcoming this presumption. In order to do this the argument falls into three parts. In the first part I shall consider the different ways in which victimization and vulnerability have been linked together. In the second I shall …
What is to be Done About Violence Against Women
The title of this paper is borrowed from a book written by Elizabeth Wilson and published in 1983. It is now almost 25 years since its publication and the purpose of this paper is to consider what has changed and what has remained the same in the intervening years with respect to responding to and dealing with violence against women. In examining the recourse to law as a strategy for responding to violence against women, the paper will consider n…
Why Should We Have to Prove We're Alright
Under the auspices of the 'war against terrorism', New Labour's period of political governance in the UK was characterized by an activist, pre-emptive approach to (inter)national security. This approach was domestically embedded in specific counter-terrorism measures such as extensions to detention without charge, the expansion of stop and search measures and the deployment of control orders. Situated in this context, this article analyses the re…
Criminology and Terrorism
Since the events of 11 September 2001, terrorism has been the subject of intense media interest, political dialogue and public scrutiny. Through well publicized discussions about its constitution and consequences, the ‘new terrorism’ has been open to heavy institutional construction. Yet, criminological incursion into the debate about ‘new terrorism’ has so far been relatively limited. This article seeks to direc tly address this lacuna by employ…
Crime and Community
The fear of crime has been at the centre of political and policy debate for some time. The purpose of this paper is to examine critically the continued relevance of that debate in the light of findings from an in-depth two and a half year research project. The findings from that project suggest that the relation people have with crime, criminal victimization, and the fear of crime is mediated by the relevance of their relationship with their loca…
Rapid, remote and responsive research during Covid-19
In March 2020, the UK Research and Innovation announced an emergency call for research to inform policy and practice responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This call implicitly and explicitly required researchers to work rapidly, remotely and responsively. In this article, we briefly review how rapid response methods developed in health research can be used in other social science fields. After outlining the literature in this area, we use the early…
Communicating the terrorist risk
Following the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, Madrid and London, state agencies have been bound up with the problem of how to effectively communicate the risk of terrorism to the general public. This article charts the UK government's attempts to engage in this process and illustrates how the communication of the terrorist risk meshes into broader cultural formations of crime and (in)security. Our analytical framework utilizes the risk…
Agency, reflexivity and risk
The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the turn to risk within sociology and to survey the relationship between structure and agency as conceived by popular strands of risk theorizing. To this end, we appraise the risk society, culture of fear and governmentality perspectives and we consider the different imaginings of the citizen constructed by each of these approaches. The paper goes on to explore what each of these visions of citiz…
Risk and Criminal Victimization
Over the last 15 years or so the study of criminal victimization has proceeeded apace. That study has frequently drawn together an understanding of the nature and extent of criminal victimization with the question of risk from such victimization. Yet while what is actually meant by criminal victimization has been subject to considerable scrutiny, what is meant by risk in this context has been less closely examined. The purpose of this paper is to…
Whom Can You Trust? The Politics of 'Grassing' on an Inner City Housing Estate
This paper derives from an ongoing research project concerned to explore how people living in, going to work in, attending school in, high crime areas manage their routine daily lives. It focuses on one of our research areas in which we argue that the question of the 'fear of crime' is much better understood through an appreciation of how the question of trust manifests itself in that community. In other words, whom you trust, when, and by how mu…
Victim stories and victim policy
Since the 1980s, victims’ voices have been increasingly heard and have been influential in policy debates. Since that time, the nature and presence of those voices has changed shape and form from the influence and presence of victim centred organizations to the rise of the high profile individual victim. The purpose of this article is to explore the presence of one victim’s story, Rosie Batty, and to examine her influence on the rise of the polic…
Is more law the answer? Seeking justice for victims of intimate partner violence through the reform of legal categories
In 2015 in England and Wales a new offence of controlling or coercive behaviour was introduced with the aim of improving legal responses to intimate partner violence. Recognizing the historical limits of legal interventions in this area, this article examines the efficacy of coercive control as a conceptual device for improving access to law and justice outcomes for women victims. To do so, it considers the problems and possibilities of translati…
Beyond risk theory
The central purpose of this article is to trace the conflicting co-existence of three narratives in relation to the ‘risk society’ and the practices that it engenders. The first of these narratives is theoretical: the problems and possibilities of the risk society thesis. The second is practical: how the concept of risk has been translated into policy and practice in the form of risk assessment tools for both ‘at risk’ offenders and ‘at risk’ vic…
Assembling and deconstructing radicalisation in PREVENT
In the last 15 years the concept of radicalisation has come to prominence as a means of explaining the process by which individuals become attracted to extremist ideology and endorse the actions of terrorist groups. Post 9/11, radicalisation has gained traction in policy, political and media circles in Britain, being commonly connected to the threat of ‘home-grown’ terrorism. In this article, we critique the understanding of radicalisation outlin…
The Soldier as Victim
Despite a rising criminological interest in the numbers of British veterans in the criminal justice system and the criminogenic context of the Iraq conflict, a concern to understand the experiences of modern soldiers is largely hidden from the criminological and victimological gaze. This paper addresses this issue by presenting data from interviews with British military veterans and considers their ‘unknowable’ experiences of war in a framework o…
Incredible Women
Research has long demonstrated that victim-survivors of intimate partner violence face barriers to being believed when they seek help via the legal system and are simultaneously at risk of their abuser weaponizing the legal system against them. This article draws on the experiences of 54 women victim-survivors of coercive control in Australia who had experienced legal systems abuse within criminal and civil protection order systems. Drawing on fe…
Witnessing Wootton Bassett
The media reporting and visual witnessing of repatriations at Wootton Bassett have become an increasingly frequent occurrence since the first spontaneous saluting of what was then a lonely procession, by Royal British Legion members in 2007. UK military deaths from the war in Afghanistan have now reached over 300 and media sources have begun speculating as to which entry point is likely to replace Wootton Bassett when RAF Lyneham closes in August…
Fractured Lives, Splintered Knowledge
Cottee (Br J Criminol 54(6):981–1001, 2014) makes the case that criminology has much to contribute to an understanding of theistic violence. However the ‘hubris of positivism’ (Young in The criminological imagination, Polity, Cambridge, 2011) curtails the criminological imagination and this is particularly evident in the debates that permeate contemporary understandings of religious extremism and radicalisation. Using the terrorist attacks in Fra…
Criminology, gender and security in the Australian context
This article examines how it might be possible to make women’s lives matter in contemporary criminological understandings of security. In doing so it considers the conceptual complexity of security, and reflects on the criminological engagement with that complexity and the feminist contribution to it paying particular attention to current concerns with everyday security. The article deploys the contemporary Australian policy agenda on family viol…
Not knowing, emancipatory catastrophism and metamorphosis
Embracing the spirit of his observation that 'what was ruled out beforehand as inconceivable is taking place', this article urges a re-engagement with Ulrich Beck's work within security studies. In so doing, the article falls into three parts. First, we provide necessary contextual orientation, discussing the magnitude of Beck's contribution to understandings of risk and security in the social sciences. Second, we discuss the importance of compre…
A Sociological Analysis of Military Resilience
The term 'resilience' has grown in its usage across a range of disciplines and practices. The US military and the British armed forces have typified this increasing use of 'resilience' in recent years within such initiatives as Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) and throughout British Army Doctrine. However by unpacking what being 'resilient' for soldiers might mean we explore the interaction between their personal 'masculine' characteristics, t…
Lone Wolf Terrorism Through a Gendered Lens
The efficacy of Clare’s Law in domestic violence law reform in England and Wales
In 2011 the high profile murder of Clare Wood led to the introduction of the national domestic violence disclosure scheme (‘Clare’s Law’) in England and Wales. The scheme aims to prevent the perpetration of violence between intimate partners through the sharing of information about prior histories of violence. Despite already spreading to comparable jurisdictions in the UK and Australia, to date the merits of a domestic violence disclosure scheme…
Reparation
Journal Article REPARATION: A Merseyside View Get access SANDRA WALKLATE SANDRA WALKLATE *Department of Social Studies, Liverpool Polytechnic Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 1986, Pages 287–298, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047612 Published: 01 July 1986
Introducing Policework
Jack and Jill join up at sun hill; Public images of police officers
During the 1980's perceptions and evaluations of policing by members of the public have featured prominently in both academic and policy arenas. This paper suggests that the data available on these issues has largely been gathered as if ‘the public’ and their images of policing were gender neutral. Through an analysis of a relatively unique data set (references written for prospectives applicants to a Southern Police Force) suggestions are made c…
Critical Victimology
The authors outline and discuss the issues facing victims today and address the fundamental question: How can we best ensure justice for victims, while at the same time preserving the rights of defendants?
Can there be a Progressive Victimology
This paper is concerned to examine some of the domain assumptions of victimology. In examining these assumptions close attention will be paid to the influence of positivistic thinking on the development of victimology; in particular the notion of objectivity. Some consideration will be given to the recent attempts which have been made to develop the theoretical and empirical work of the discipline and the argument will be developed that only thro…
Debating the Future of the Public Sphere
Part 1: politics and the public sphere in free market societies. Part 2: from public service to private provision - redrawing the boundaries. Part 3: the experience of the public sphere. Part 4: postscript
Whom Can You Trust? The Politics of 'Grassing' on an Inner City Housing Estate
This paper derives from an ongoing research project concerned to explore how people living in, going to work in, attending school in, high crime areas manage their routine daily lives. It focuses on one of our research areas in which we argue that the question of the 'fear of crime' is much better understood through an appreciation of how the question of trust manifests itself in that community. In other words, whom you trust, when, and by how mu…
The Impact of Burglary
Victims' experiences of burglary in two contrasting English cities are compared, using data from a wider cross-national survey. Perceptions of the incident are assessed in terms of financial costs and the wider impact, including the effect of the crime on children in the household, and these are considered alongside the operation of victim support in the two areas. Finally victims' reactions are compared according to concern over future victimisa…
Risk and Criminal Victimization
Over the last 15 years or so the study of criminal victimization has proceeeded apace. That study has frequently drawn together an understanding of the nature and extent of criminal victimization with the question of risk from such victimization. Yet while what is actually meant by criminal victimization has been subject to considerable scrutiny, what is meant by risk in this context has been less closely examined. The purpose of this paper is to…
Excavating the Fear of Crime
The central purpose of this article is to offer a critical examination of the fear of crime debate and to suggest a different conceptual framework through which what might be called the fear of crime might be understood. A critical appreciation of fear as the other, fear as rational/irrational, fear as safety and fear as anxiety will be offered. It will be argued that none of these ways of exploring the concept of fear has resonance with the expe…
Ofiary włamań mieszkaniowych (wyniki międzynarodowych badań porównawczych)
Burglary is a serious offense which particularly affects the victim. It often has more one victim, and its effects react on ihe entire family and broader community. For the victim, its important element is not only the loss of and possibly damage to property, but also violation of privacy and of the related feeling of safety. The survey discussed in the paper was conducted in 6 cities in the following countries: Germany - Monchengladbach; Poland …
No more excuses!”
The title of this paper, borrowed from a government White Paper, is concerned to explore the viability of the proposed stance towards youth crime and disorder exemplified in the UK Crime and Disorder Act 1998. In that legislation, much is made of the notion of ‘making amends’ as a way of informing young people of both the nature and the impact of their offending behaviour, in the hope that this will prevent further re‐offending and repair some of…
Crime and Community
The fear of crime has been at the centre of political and policy debate for some time. The purpose of this paper is to examine critically the continued relevance of that debate in the light of findings from an in-depth two and a half year research project. The findings from that project suggest that the relation people have with crime, criminal victimization, and the fear of crime is mediated by the relevance of their relationship with their loca…
Zero Tolerance or Community Tolerance
Part 1 Crime and community: introduction - ways of thinking about community crime and community in Salford. Part 2 Crime and community dynamics: the frightened community Oldtown - the defended community?. Part 3 Crime, policy and community: crime, community and partnership - zero tolerance or community tolerance? conclusion - understanding and managing crime in high crime areas. Appendices: research methodology the questionnaire
Some Questions For and About Community Safety Partnerships and Crime
Zero Tolerance or Community Tolerance? Police and Community Talk about Crime in High-Crime Areas
Crime, Abuse and the Elderly
Fearful Communities
Gender and Policing
Understanding criminology
Researching Restorative Justice
Imagining the Victim of Crime
'...the clarity in which the wide range of relevant issues are presented throughout the book makes this must-reading for new entrants to this field and for students' - International Review of Victimology. This book situates the contemporary preoccupation with criminal victimisation within the broader socio-cultural changes of the last twenty five years. In so doing it addresses not only the policy possibilities that have been generated as a conse…
Beyond the Risk Society
In contemporary culture risk is ubiquitous, filtering through a range of activities, practices and experiences. In line with rising public concerns about the management of current threats - such as crime, terrorism and global warming - interest in risk has gathered momentum in the social sciences, galvanized by Ulrich Beck's risk society thesis. Bringing together cutting edge academics and researchers, Beyond the Risk Society provides an understa…
Criminology
Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime and criminality. This is an ideal textbook for undergraduate students coming to the subject for the first time. The book covers a wide range of topics: the historical and contemporary understandings of crime and criminal justice; different forms of crime - from street crime to state crime; who commits crime and who are the victims of crime; and how society and state ag…
Communicating the terrorist risk
Following the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, Madrid and London, state agencies have been bound up with the problem of how to effectively communicate the risk of terrorism to the general public. This article charts the UK government's attempts to engage in this process and illustrates how the communication of the terrorist risk meshes into broader cultural formations of crime and (in)security. Our analytical framework utilizes the risk…
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