Howard Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 247356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Wales |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5509-6781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The experiential continuum: A case for longitudinal narrative research on youth transitions
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the conceptual and methodological value of integrating narrative inquiry with qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) in order to better investigate and represent the complexity, dynamics and evolving nature of youth transitions. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a qualitative longitudinal design combined with narrative inquiry. It draws on empirical data from a Maltese doctoral study …
Wrongful Convictions and Erroneous Acquittals: Applying Packer’s Model to Examine Public Perceptions of Judicial Errors in Australia
The fallible nature of the criminal justice system continues to see judicial errors—that is, wrongful convictions and erroneous acquittals—undermine its integrity, efficacy, and legitimacy. Public perceptions of judicial errors are important contributors to criminal justice policy and reforms. The current study utilizes the 2016 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) dataset to examine public attitudes toward judicial errors. It applies He…
The Formal-Informal Control Nexus During Covid-19: What Drives Informal Social Control of Social Distancing Restrictions During Lockdown
The public rely on the police to enforce the law, and the police rely on the public to report crime and assist them with their enquiries. Police action or inaction can also impact on public willingness to informally intervene in community problems. In this paper we examine the formal-informal control nexus in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a survey sample of 1,595 Australians during COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, we examine the…
Domestic Violence and Alcohol and Other Drug Use: Australian Pilot Intervention Findings
Purpose: Problematic alcohol and drug use (AOD) is a contributing factor to escalate domestic violence (DV). Yet, combined DV and AOD interventions remain limited. This article examines a combined pilot intervention for men with comorbid AOD and DV use. Methods: Mixed methods with concurrent triangulation design. Data comprises victim-survivors' reports of abuse at intake and exit, interviews with men and victim-survivors at exit and 6-month foll…
Youth in the Global South, Southern Theory and Global Youth Studies: Howard Williamson in Conversation with the Editors of The Oxford Handbook of Global South Youth Studies
The negative implications of relative deprivation: An experiment of vicarious police contact and Muslims' perceptions of police bias
For decades, Muslims living in Western countries have experienced disproportionate scrutiny from police. Such scrutiny can result in relative deprivation; the feeling that they or their group is unfairly disenfranchised compared to others. Scholars have theorised that relatively deprived individuals may assess police-citizen interactions as more biased than non-relatively deprived individuals. Yet, limited research tests this relationship. The cu…
Examining the relationship between conspiracy theories and Covid‐19 vaccine hesitancy: A mediating role for perceived health threats, trust, and anomie
The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to an upswing in conspiracy theory beliefs, which creates challenges for effectively countering the pandemic, with higher rates of COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy found among conspiracy theorists. Research suggests health risk perceptions, trust in government and anomie may mediate the relationship between COVID‐19 conspiracy theory beliefs and vaccine hesitancy. However, the mediating role of trust in government and anom…
Youth participation: Adultism, human rights and professional youth work
This article argues that the right of young people to participate in decisions being made about them forms the basis for professional youth work practice. The authors consider the nature of ‘participation’ and its relation to human rights, and introduces the concept of ‘adultism’ and the challenges for youth workers combatting ‘adultist’ beliefs and practices in the work of participation. The paper considers the benefits and limitations of youth …
Empowering the police during Covid-19: How do normative and instrumental factors impact public willingness to support expanded police powers
This article seeks to test the police ‘empowerment hypothesis’ to better understand public support for police powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. To do so, we draw on Australian survey data to compare the efficacy of the instrumental and normative models of police empowerment to enforce social distancing regulations. We find that instrumental concerns about risk dominate participants’ willingness to empower the police during the COVID-19 pandemi…
The Milltown Boys at Sixty: The Origins and Destinations of Young Men from a Poor Neighbourhood
The Milltown Boys at Sixty is a story like no other, giving both an insider and an outsider view of the ‘Milltown Boys’, exploring the nature of an ethnographic relationship based on research about their experiences of the criminal justice system. A group classically labelled as delinquents, drug-takers and drop-outs, the Boys were also, in many different ways, fathers, friends and family men, differentially immersed in the labour market, in very…
Perceived injustice, perceived group threat and self-reported right-wing violence: An integrated approach
The present study seeks to explain individual differences in self-reported politically motivated violence and vandalism, and participation within an extreme right-wing group. While violent extremism is highly debated, few criminological studies explicitly test factors that can trigger violent extremism. The present study addresses this gap by integrating two different frameworks: a perceived injustice and group threat-initiated model and an impul…
Policing Covid-19 physical distancing measures: Managing defiance and fostering compliance among individuals least likely to comply
Physical distancing measures have become the first line of defence for slowing COVID-19 virus transmission. However, studies have demonstrated that compliance with physical distancing restrictions has not been uniform. Police have also encountered widespread resentment of the restrictions, defiance, and people purposefully flouting restrictions. In this study, we examined factors associated with compliance with COVID-19 restrictions among those w…
Theorizing and Doing Youth Policies: An Interview with Howard Williamson
Tom Chevalier & Patricia Loncle(tc&pl): In (Williamson 2011), you asserted in an article that each country has a youth policy by will, default, or neglect, would you affirm the same thing today?Howard Williamson(hw): Of course. My point was that, unless you have no young people living in a country (!), they will be affected by what the public authorities do, or do not do. I think I actually said ‘by intent, default or neglect’. By that trilogy, I…
General and specific perceptions of procedural justice: Factors associated with perceptions of police and court responses to domestic and family violence
Improving criminal justice responses to domestic and family violence is a key focus within many policy and practice reforms. The efficacy of police and court responses to domestic and family violence is central because of the role of police as first responders and courts in issuing protection orders, imposing sanctions and ensuring perpetrator cooperation and accountability. To promote compliance and satisfaction with criminal justice outcomes, a…
Why people comply with Covid-19 social distancing restrictions: Self-interest or duty
On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) a global pandemic. At the time of writing, over 16 million cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed worldwide, and more than 650,000 people had died from the virus. A priority amongst governments globally is limiting the spread of the virus. In Australia, this response included mandatory ‘lockdown’ restrictions which limited citizens’ freedom of movement…
Johanna Wyn, Helen Cahill, Dan Woodman, Hernán Cuervo, Carmen Leccardi and Jenny Chesters: Youth and the New Adulthood: Generations of Change
Children, autonomy and the courts: Beyond the right to be heard
Children, autonomy and the courts: beyond the right to be heard." European Journal of Social Work, 23(5), pp. 896–897
Youth and Policy: Contexts and Consequences
First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified young men on the margins. These young men, whose cultures of machismo, manualism and anti-mentalism previously served to prepare them for the manual labour market, are increasingly the careerless, the jobless and the folk-devils of the modern, post-industrial society. In research, they have received considerable a…
Fear of terrorism: Media exposure and subjective fear of attack
In many Western countries, citizen knowledge of terrorist events is intrinsically shaped by the style of broadcasted messages published by the media. Media discourses regarding terrorist acts raise questions about how such rhetoric elicits fear in people who typically experience such events through news reports. However, we do not fully understand the impact of the media on perceptions of terrorism as clearly as we understand the relationship bet…
Empowering young people in disempowering times: Fighting inequality through capability oriented policy
Empowering young people in disempowering times: fighting inequality through capability oriented policy." European Journal of Social Work, 22(3), pp. 545–546
Effective interventions for unemployed young people: Social innovation or paradigm shift?/Facing trajectories from school to work: towards a capability-friendly youth policy in Europe
Effective interventions for unemployed young people: social innovation or paradigm shift?/Facing trajectories from school to work: towards a capability-friendly youth policy in Europe." European Journal of Social Work, 21(4), pp. 628–629
Group work research
Radicalisation to retreat: Responses of the young to austerity Europe
The prospects for young people in Europe look bleak.The 'social condition' of young people is characterised by experiences of exclusion, and a sense of betrayal and anger at having been 'sacrificed' by the older generation.Many more young people, from more diverse backgrounds and perspectives, are now exposed to precarious social circumstances.Spontaneous and planned 'riots' and urban protest have displayed the anger and the anxieties of youth in…
Lost youth in the global city: Class, culture and the urban imaginary
Existe-t-il une politique européenne de la jeunesse
Cet article traite de l’idée, de l’évolution et de la mise en œuvre éventuelle de la « politique de la jeunesse ». Il s’appuie sur le contexte européen en la matière, en particulier les analyses internationales des politiques nationales de la jeunesse du Conseil de l’Europe. Trois modèles d’élaboration des politiques de la jeunesse et d’action sur le terrain auprès des jeunes sont proposés
Self, Space and Place: Youth identities and citizenship
This paper is concerned with questions of identity, citizenship and social change as these are experienced by young people in the UK today. In the course of recent changes to the context and content of youth transitions the notion of citizenship has come to the fore as a means of discussing young people's move into independent membership of society. Debates about citizenship in the UK currently encompass a range of complex themes - competency, re…
Young People, Citizenship and the Third Way: A Role for the Youth Service
Citizenship is best understood as signifying a field of struggle: an arena in which relations linking individuals to their wider community, social and political contexts are continually discussed, reworked and contested. This paper explores the current preoccupation with citizenship in Britain, and relates this specifically to the challenges this presents for the youth service. The idea of active citizenship, first promulgated by the Conservative…
Policing Covid-19 physical distancing measures: Managing defiance and fostering compliance among individuals least likely to comply
Physical distancing measures have become the first line of defence for slowing COVID-19 virus transmission. However, studies have demonstrated that compliance with physical distancing restrictions has not been uniform. Police have also encountered widespread resentment of the restrictions, defiance, and people purposefully flouting restrictions. In this study, we examined factors associated with compliance with COVID-19 restrictions among those w…
Fear of terrorism: Media exposure and subjective fear of attack
In many Western countries, citizen knowledge of terrorist events is intrinsically shaped by the style of broadcasted messages published by the media. Media discourses regarding terrorist acts raise questions about how such rhetoric elicits fear in people who typically experience such events through news reports. However, we do not fully understand the impact of the media on perceptions of terrorism as clearly as we understand the relationship bet…
Conceptualizing citizenship: Young people and the transition to adulthood
This paper examines the relationship between citizenship and young peoples’ social identities. The concept of social citizenship is explored in the context of contemporary debates about the transition to adult status. In the light of recent calls for an education for citizenship, at both compulsory and post‐compulsory levels, the paper makes a timely contribution to the ongoing discussion of what constitutes social citizenship, by whom and to wha…
Status Zero’: A study of jobless school‐leavers in South Wales
Considerable concern has been expressed over the plight of those young people who, on leaving school, fail to enter a training programme or a job. However, very little systematic research has been carried out on these jobless — or, as we put it, ‘Status Zero’ — school‐leavers. This paper begins to report the results of a study, carried out in a single TEC/LEA area in industrial South Wales, which aims to fill this gap. On the basis of extended in…
Estimating the Prevalence of Hard‐to‐Reach Populations: The Illustration of Mark‐Recapture Methods in the Study of Homelessness
This paper assesses the potential of mark‐recapture methods as a relatively powerful innovative research method for estimating the prevalence of “hard‐to‐reach”human populations in the social welfare field. We outline the development of mark‐recapture methods, illustrating some recent applications. The body of the paper reviews the main methodological and practical questions raised by the method. We suggest, by way of illustration, how it might b…
Évaluation internationale des politiques de jeunesse
À l’initiative du Conseil de l’Europe, des groupes d’experts internationaux ont procédé à l’évaluation des politiques de jeunesse de dix pays membres du Conseil de l’Europe. Les évaluations portant sur les sept premiers pays ont fait l’objet d’un rapport de synthèse réalisé par Howard Williamson qui a coordonné le travail des différentes équipes d’experts. Ce rapport concerne les résultats du Luxembourg, de Malte, des Pays-Bas, de la Finlande, de…
The negative implications of relative deprivation: An experiment of vicarious police contact and Muslims' perceptions of police bias
For decades, Muslims living in Western countries have experienced disproportionate scrutiny from police. Such scrutiny can result in relative deprivation; the feeling that they or their group is unfairly disenfranchised compared to others. Scholars have theorised that relatively deprived individuals may assess police-citizen interactions as more biased than non-relatively deprived individuals. Yet, limited research tests this relationship. The cu…
Existe-t-il une politique européenne de la jeunesse
Cet article traite de l’idée, de l’évolution et de la mise en œuvre éventuelle de la « politique de la jeunesse ». Il s’appuie sur le contexte européen en la matière, en particulier les analyses internationales des politiques nationales de la jeunesse du Conseil de l’Europe. Trois modèles d’élaboration des politiques de la jeunesse et d’action sur le terrain auprès des jeunes sont proposés
Developing Models for Day Services
This paper reports an evaluation of a rural activity project for people with learning difficulties. The project is situated in (but not a regular part of) an agriculture college. Both statutory and voluntary interests are represented in the management of the scheme, which is funded by the All Wales Strategy for the Mentally Handicapped through the local authority. Despite the widespread presence of ideas about normalization and carer participatio…
The Anatomy of Adolescence: Young People's Social Attitudes in Britain
Mugging as a Social Problem
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices
Extending the Welfare Tariff for Juvenile Offenders
The measures introduced in the 1982 Criminal Justice Act show signs of accelerating the trend towards the use of custodial penalties for persistent and/or serious juvenile male offenders. This situation places an unwelcome obligation on practitioners within social services or the probation service to develop programmes offering sufficient control and containment to appear to magistrates as credible alternatives to custody. At the same time strate…
Developing Models for Day Services
This paper reports an evaluation of a rural activity project for people with learning difficulties. The project is situated in (but not a regular part of) an agriculture college. Both statutory and voluntary interests are represented in the management of the scheme, which is funded by the All Wales Strategy for the Mentally Handicapped through the local authority. Despite the widespread presence of ideas about normalization and carer participatio…
The Anatomy of Adolescence: Young People's Social Attitudes in Britain
Status Zero’: A study of jobless school‐leavers in South Wales
Considerable concern has been expressed over the plight of those young people who, on leaving school, fail to enter a training programme or a job. However, very little systematic research has been carried out on these jobless — or, as we put it, ‘Status Zero’ — school‐leavers. This paper begins to report the results of a study, carried out in a single TEC/LEA area in industrial South Wales, which aims to fill this gap. On the basis of extended in…
Estimating the Prevalence of Hard‐to‐Reach Populations: The Illustration of Mark‐Recapture Methods in the Study of Homelessness
This paper assesses the potential of mark‐recapture methods as a relatively powerful innovative research method for estimating the prevalence of “hard‐to‐reach”human populations in the social welfare field. We outline the development of mark‐recapture methods, illustrating some recent applications. The body of the paper reviews the main methodological and practical questions raised by the method. We suggest, by way of illustration, how it might b…
Conceptualizing citizenship: Young people and the transition to adulthood
This paper examines the relationship between citizenship and young peoples’ social identities. The concept of social citizenship is explored in the context of contemporary debates about the transition to adult status. In the light of recent calls for an education for citizenship, at both compulsory and post‐compulsory levels, the paper makes a timely contribution to the ongoing discussion of what constitutes social citizenship, by whom and to wha…
Self, Space and Place: Youth identities and citizenship
This paper is concerned with questions of identity, citizenship and social change as these are experienced by young people in the UK today. In the course of recent changes to the context and content of youth transitions the notion of citizenship has come to the fore as a means of discussing young people's move into independent membership of society. Debates about citizenship in the UK currently encompass a range of complex themes - competency, re…
Young People, Citizenship and the Third Way: A Role for the Youth Service
Citizenship is best understood as signifying a field of struggle: an arena in which relations linking individuals to their wider community, social and political contexts are continually discussed, reworked and contested. This paper explores the current preoccupation with citizenship in Britain, and relates this specifically to the challenges this presents for the youth service. The idea of active citizenship, first promulgated by the Conservative…
Évaluation internationale des politiques de jeunesse
À l’initiative du Conseil de l’Europe, des groupes d’experts internationaux ont procédé à l’évaluation des politiques de jeunesse de dix pays membres du Conseil de l’Europe. Les évaluations portant sur les sept premiers pays ont fait l’objet d’un rapport de synthèse réalisé par Howard Williamson qui a coordonné le travail des différentes équipes d’experts. Ce rapport concerne les résultats du Luxembourg, de Malte, des Pays-Bas, de la Finlande, de…
Robert MacDonald and Jane Marsh (2005) Disconnected Youth: Growing Up in Britain's Poor Neighbourhoods . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. £16.99, 252pp, pbk
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Existe-t-il une politique européenne de la jeunesse
Cet article traite de l’idée, de l’évolution et de la mise en œuvre éventuelle de la « politique de la jeunesse ». Il s’appuie sur le contexte européen en la matière, en particulier les analyses internationales des politiques nationales de la jeunesse du Conseil de l’Europe. Trois modèles d’élaboration des politiques de la jeunesse et d’action sur le terrain auprès des jeunes sont proposés
Lost youth in the global city: Class, culture and the urban imaginary
Radicalisation to retreat: Responses of the young to austerity Europe
The prospects for young people in Europe look bleak.The 'social condition' of young people is characterised by experiences of exclusion, and a sense of betrayal and anger at having been 'sacrificed' by the older generation.Many more young people, from more diverse backgrounds and perspectives, are now exposed to precarious social circumstances.Spontaneous and planned 'riots' and urban protest have displayed the anger and the anxieties of youth in…
Empowering young people in disempowering times: Fighting inequality through capability oriented policy
Empowering young people in disempowering times: fighting inequality through capability oriented policy." European Journal of Social Work, 22(3), pp. 545–546
Effective interventions for unemployed young people: Social innovation or paradigm shift?/Facing trajectories from school to work: towards a capability-friendly youth policy in Europe
Effective interventions for unemployed young people: social innovation or paradigm shift?/Facing trajectories from school to work: towards a capability-friendly youth policy in Europe." European Journal of Social Work, 21(4), pp. 628–629
Group work research
Youth and Policy: Contexts and Consequences
First published in 1997, this volume is concerned primarily, though not exclusively, with one particular vulnerable group: unqualified young men on the margins. These young men, whose cultures of machismo, manualism and anti-mentalism previously served to prepare them for the manual labour market, are increasingly the careerless, the jobless and the folk-devils of the modern, post-industrial society. In research, they have received considerable a…
Fear of terrorism: Media exposure and subjective fear of attack
In many Western countries, citizen knowledge of terrorist events is intrinsically shaped by the style of broadcasted messages published by the media. Media discourses regarding terrorist acts raise questions about how such rhetoric elicits fear in people who typically experience such events through news reports. However, we do not fully understand the impact of the media on perceptions of terrorism as clearly as we understand the relationship bet…
General and specific perceptions of procedural justice: Factors associated with perceptions of police and court responses to domestic and family violence
Improving criminal justice responses to domestic and family violence is a key focus within many policy and practice reforms. The efficacy of police and court responses to domestic and family violence is central because of the role of police as first responders and courts in issuing protection orders, imposing sanctions and ensuring perpetrator cooperation and accountability. To promote compliance and satisfaction with criminal justice outcomes, a…
Why people comply with Covid-19 social distancing restrictions: Self-interest or duty
On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) a global pandemic. At the time of writing, over 16 million cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed worldwide, and more than 650,000 people had died from the virus. A priority amongst governments globally is limiting the spread of the virus. In Australia, this response included mandatory ‘lockdown’ restrictions which limited citizens’ freedom of movement…
Johanna Wyn, Helen Cahill, Dan Woodman, Hernán Cuervo, Carmen Leccardi and Jenny Chesters: Youth and the New Adulthood: Generations of Change
Children, autonomy and the courts: Beyond the right to be heard
Children, autonomy and the courts: beyond the right to be heard." European Journal of Social Work, 23(5), pp. 896–897
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