David Denney
Biographic Data
| ID | 256685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Denney |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Denney |
| SIGNATURE | DENNEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-3988-8823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The feasibility and challenge of using administrative data: A case study of historical prisoner surveys
The benefits of government administrative data are well-established, but research has not examined processes by which these data can be identified, organised and governed in line with ethical considerations. This is an important undertaking given the potential benefits of robust administrative data, especially at a time when the collection of primary data has been made more challenging due to COVID-19 restrictions. We use principles of Big Data t…
NHS commissioning in probation in England - Still on a wing and a prayer
Policy reforms in England and Wales mean that all individuals released from prison will have some contact with probation services, either serving a community sentence, or being on licence post-release. Despite often having complex health needs, including a higher prevalence of mental health problems, substance misuse problems and physical health problems than the general population, this socially excluded group of people often do not access healt…
Blurred lines: Intimacy, Mobility, and the Social Military
This paper, whilst drawing on a wide-scale exploration of social media use within the UK Armed Forces, narrates the visit of two academic researchers to a very particular military space: a Royal Navy warship. It does so in order to experience, question, and understand the extent to which social media cuts through the private, domestic or public, personal and familial, work and home in an intimate clinch of relations. We do so by exploring how the…
NHS commissioning in probation in England - on a wing and a prayer
National guidance in England exhorts Clinical Commissioning Groups [groups of general practices established to organise delivery of National Health Service (NHS) care in their local area (CCGs)] to commission healthcare for those living in the community who are serving non-custodial sentences called 'community orders'. This includes 'approved premises' - accommodation providing enhanced supervision for offenders and individuals on bail who may pr…
The Politics of Risk Taking: Welfare State Reform in Advanced Democracies – By Barbara Vis; Risk, Safety and Clinical Practice – Health care through the lens of risk – By Bob Heyman, Monica Shaw, Andy…
Risk and the Blair legacy
This chapter examines risk scenarios that have been structured into New Labour policy discourses since 1997. It argues that the approach taken to risk by New Labour, although complex and sometimes contradictory, can be understood as a feature of late modernity. New Labour, like all governments in advanced capitalist societies, is experiencing and responding to processes of ‘reflexive modernisation’. The work of 6 and Peck will be utilised to iden…
Fear, Human Rights and New Labour Policy Post‐9/11
New Labour's domestic and foreign policy have been driven by a complex and contradictory precautionary logic. Fear management appears to have replaced coherent principles in the development of some areas of policy. The preoccupation with fear and anxiety has provided a rationale for the suspension of liberty and the adoption of measures that Western democracies have only usually seen in times of war. Fear‐based policy has also created a more excl…
Anglican Clergy as Victims of Routinized Violent Activities in Urban and Rural Localities
Few studies have considered the nature of violence and its implications for Anglican clergy. A conventional victimological approach would go no further than to identify the social correlates of victims and perpetrators. While this enables us to establish patterns of violence we also need to draw on lifestyle and routine activity theory to understand violence. In addition, a more critical victimology suggests that we consider the role of socio-cul…
Risk and Society
Introduction PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING RISK The Nature of Risk Theoretical Positions PART TWO: LIVING IN THE RISK SOCIETY Risk and Everyday Experience Health and Risk Professional Practices and Risk Communicating Risk Through the Media Risk and Social Welfare Risk Management and Crime PART THREE: INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL RISK Risk and the New Terrorism The Management and Regulation of Risk Risk and the Environment Risk and Global Governance Risk an…
Violence to Probation Staff: Patterns and Managerial Responses
This article examines the impact of violence perpetrated against probation officers. It presents empirical evidence based upon work carried out under the ESRC Violence Research Programme. It is argued that the managerial response to violence has been largely defensive and piecemeal. Professional responses to violence are context‐bound, while risk assessment is largely confined to the potential harm to the general public posed by offenders. The ar…
Violence against doctors: A medical(ised) problem? The case of National Health Service general practitioners
Violence against doctors provides an illuminating context for studying medicalisation and its limits in the management of deviance. The paper examines the emergence of such violence as a policy issue in England, with particular reference to general practitioners (GPs) in the National Health Service. Recent guidance exhorts doctors to exercise 'zero tolerance' with respect to acts of violence. The emphasis is on risk management and protecting vict…
Community Penalties Warrants: A Gap in the Criminal Justice System
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that specialist systems of warrant enforcement are more likely to ensure effective enforcement of community penalties warrants than non‐specialist systems. The study looked at the way these two contrasting approaches affect the priority given to the execution of community penalties warrants, along with the extent to which enquiries are pursued. This is followed by an examination of the adequacy of mon…
Anti‐racism and the Limits of Equal Opportunities Policy in the Criminal Justice System
In this paper some of the evidence relating to the incidence of racial discrimination in the criminal justice system will be critically examined. It will be argued that equal opportunities policies have been adopted in the British case with the stated aim of tackling the exclusionary effects of racial discrimination. The notion of equal opportunities has been contested not least by those who have advocated anti‐racist approaches towards discrimin…
Class, Status and Party in the Analysis of Nationalism: Lessons from Max Weber
Little attention has been paid by those seeking to understand nationalism to Weber's writing on class, status and party. These concepts can be used to analyse the groups which carry the nationalist idea outside the narrow circle of intellectuals and we use the example of Welsh nationalism to illustrate how this can be done. In our example the group in question is a status group which has a basis in class. The character of Welsh nationalism reflec…
Users' Rights and the Probation Service: Some Opportunities and Obstacles
This article examines the opportunities and obstacles facing the possible extension of legal and social rights for users of probation services. It is argued that the notion of users' rights in the community punishment context promotes a view of users as citizens with responsibilities rather than feckless offenders. It is further argued that extended user rights should act as a check against forms of new managerialism which now permeate the probat…
Nationalism and Community in North West Wales
This paper develops an explanation for the simultaneous surge in support of both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary nationalism in North West Wales. Close analysis of the way in which the concept ‘community’ is used within the process of political mobilisation provides the key to this understanding. By demonstrating that a number of social constructions of community co-exist within the same social space (in this instance, North West Wales), th…
The effectiveness of training in the writing of social inquiry reports
This paper examines methods of measuring the effect of training on the practice of writing social inquiry reports in the Cheshire Probation Service. An independent researcher compared a sample of reports prepared before the teaching with a sample prepared afterwards. The training considered a framework for information and discrimination in report writing. The research found the reports written following training were more focused, contained more …
Race Relations in Prisons
Violence against doctors: A medical(ised) problem? The case of National Health Service general practitioners
Violence against doctors provides an illuminating context for studying medicalisation and its limits in the management of deviance. The paper examines the emergence of such violence as a policy issue in England, with particular reference to general practitioners (GPs) in the National Health Service. Recent guidance exhorts doctors to exercise 'zero tolerance' with respect to acts of violence. The emphasis is on risk management and protecting vict…
Nationalism and Community in North West Wales
This paper develops an explanation for the simultaneous surge in support of both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary nationalism in North West Wales. Close analysis of the way in which the concept ‘community’ is used within the process of political mobilisation provides the key to this understanding. By demonstrating that a number of social constructions of community co-exist within the same social space (in this instance, North West Wales), th…
Blurred lines: Intimacy, Mobility, and the Social Military
This paper, whilst drawing on a wide-scale exploration of social media use within the UK Armed Forces, narrates the visit of two academic researchers to a very particular military space: a Royal Navy warship. It does so in order to experience, question, and understand the extent to which social media cuts through the private, domestic or public, personal and familial, work and home in an intimate clinch of relations. We do so by exploring how the…
Anglican Clergy as Victims of Routinized Violent Activities in Urban and Rural Localities
Few studies have considered the nature of violence and its implications for Anglican clergy. A conventional victimological approach would go no further than to identify the social correlates of victims and perpetrators. While this enables us to establish patterns of violence we also need to draw on lifestyle and routine activity theory to understand violence. In addition, a more critical victimology suggests that we consider the role of socio-cul…
Class, Status and Party in the Analysis of Nationalism: Lessons from Max Weber
Little attention has been paid by those seeking to understand nationalism to Weber's writing on class, status and party. These concepts can be used to analyse the groups which carry the nationalist idea outside the narrow circle of intellectuals and we use the example of Welsh nationalism to illustrate how this can be done. In our example the group in question is a status group which has a basis in class. The character of Welsh nationalism reflec…
Violence to Probation Staff: Patterns and Managerial Responses
This article examines the impact of violence perpetrated against probation officers. It presents empirical evidence based upon work carried out under the ESRC Violence Research Programme. It is argued that the managerial response to violence has been largely defensive and piecemeal. Professional responses to violence are context‐bound, while risk assessment is largely confined to the potential harm to the general public posed by offenders. The ar…
NHS commissioning in probation in England - on a wing and a prayer
National guidance in England exhorts Clinical Commissioning Groups [groups of general practices established to organise delivery of National Health Service (NHS) care in their local area (CCGs)] to commission healthcare for those living in the community who are serving non-custodial sentences called 'community orders'. This includes 'approved premises' - accommodation providing enhanced supervision for offenders and individuals on bail who may pr…
Race Relations in Prisons
The effectiveness of training in the writing of social inquiry reports
This paper examines methods of measuring the effect of training on the practice of writing social inquiry reports in the Cheshire Probation Service. An independent researcher compared a sample of reports prepared before the teaching with a sample prepared afterwards. The training considered a framework for information and discrimination in report writing. The research found the reports written following training were more focused, contained more …
Nationalism and Community in North West Wales
This paper develops an explanation for the simultaneous surge in support of both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary nationalism in North West Wales. Close analysis of the way in which the concept ‘community’ is used within the process of political mobilisation provides the key to this understanding. By demonstrating that a number of social constructions of community co-exist within the same social space (in this instance, North West Wales), th…
Users' Rights and the Probation Service: Some Opportunities and Obstacles
This article examines the opportunities and obstacles facing the possible extension of legal and social rights for users of probation services. It is argued that the notion of users' rights in the community punishment context promotes a view of users as citizens with responsibilities rather than feckless offenders. It is further argued that extended user rights should act as a check against forms of new managerialism which now permeate the probat…
Anti‐racism and the Limits of Equal Opportunities Policy in the Criminal Justice System
In this paper some of the evidence relating to the incidence of racial discrimination in the criminal justice system will be critically examined. It will be argued that equal opportunities policies have been adopted in the British case with the stated aim of tackling the exclusionary effects of racial discrimination. The notion of equal opportunities has been contested not least by those who have advocated anti‐racist approaches towards discrimin…
Class, Status and Party in the Analysis of Nationalism: Lessons from Max Weber
Little attention has been paid by those seeking to understand nationalism to Weber's writing on class, status and party. These concepts can be used to analyse the groups which carry the nationalist idea outside the narrow circle of intellectuals and we use the example of Welsh nationalism to illustrate how this can be done. In our example the group in question is a status group which has a basis in class. The character of Welsh nationalism reflec…
Community Penalties Warrants: A Gap in the Criminal Justice System
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that specialist systems of warrant enforcement are more likely to ensure effective enforcement of community penalties warrants than non‐specialist systems. The study looked at the way these two contrasting approaches affect the priority given to the execution of community penalties warrants, along with the extent to which enquiries are pursued. This is followed by an examination of the adequacy of mon…
Violence against doctors: A medical(ised) problem? The case of National Health Service general practitioners
Violence against doctors provides an illuminating context for studying medicalisation and its limits in the management of deviance. The paper examines the emergence of such violence as a policy issue in England, with particular reference to general practitioners (GPs) in the National Health Service. Recent guidance exhorts doctors to exercise 'zero tolerance' with respect to acts of violence. The emphasis is on risk management and protecting vict…
Violence to Probation Staff: Patterns and Managerial Responses
This article examines the impact of violence perpetrated against probation officers. It presents empirical evidence based upon work carried out under the ESRC Violence Research Programme. It is argued that the managerial response to violence has been largely defensive and piecemeal. Professional responses to violence are context‐bound, while risk assessment is largely confined to the potential harm to the general public posed by offenders. The ar…
Risk and Society
Introduction PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING RISK The Nature of Risk Theoretical Positions PART TWO: LIVING IN THE RISK SOCIETY Risk and Everyday Experience Health and Risk Professional Practices and Risk Communicating Risk Through the Media Risk and Social Welfare Risk Management and Crime PART THREE: INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL RISK Risk and the New Terrorism The Management and Regulation of Risk Risk and the Environment Risk and Global Governance Risk an…
Risk and the Blair legacy
This chapter examines risk scenarios that have been structured into New Labour policy discourses since 1997. It argues that the approach taken to risk by New Labour, although complex and sometimes contradictory, can be understood as a feature of late modernity. New Labour, like all governments in advanced capitalist societies, is experiencing and responding to processes of ‘reflexive modernisation’. The work of 6 and Peck will be utilised to iden…
Fear, Human Rights and New Labour Policy Post‐9/11
New Labour's domestic and foreign policy have been driven by a complex and contradictory precautionary logic. Fear management appears to have replaced coherent principles in the development of some areas of policy. The preoccupation with fear and anxiety has provided a rationale for the suspension of liberty and the adoption of measures that Western democracies have only usually seen in times of war. Fear‐based policy has also created a more excl…
Anglican Clergy as Victims of Routinized Violent Activities in Urban and Rural Localities
Few studies have considered the nature of violence and its implications for Anglican clergy. A conventional victimological approach would go no further than to identify the social correlates of victims and perpetrators. While this enables us to establish patterns of violence we also need to draw on lifestyle and routine activity theory to understand violence. In addition, a more critical victimology suggests that we consider the role of socio-cul…
The Politics of Risk Taking: Welfare State Reform in Advanced Democracies – By Barbara Vis; Risk, Safety and Clinical Practice – Health care through the lens of risk – By Bob Heyman, Monica Shaw, Andy…
NHS commissioning in probation in England - on a wing and a prayer
National guidance in England exhorts Clinical Commissioning Groups [groups of general practices established to organise delivery of National Health Service (NHS) care in their local area (CCGs)] to commission healthcare for those living in the community who are serving non-custodial sentences called 'community orders'. This includes 'approved premises' - accommodation providing enhanced supervision for offenders and individuals on bail who may pr…
Blurred lines: Intimacy, Mobility, and the Social Military
This paper, whilst drawing on a wide-scale exploration of social media use within the UK Armed Forces, narrates the visit of two academic researchers to a very particular military space: a Royal Navy warship. It does so in order to experience, question, and understand the extent to which social media cuts through the private, domestic or public, personal and familial, work and home in an intimate clinch of relations. We do so by exploring how the…
NHS commissioning in probation in England - Still on a wing and a prayer
Policy reforms in England and Wales mean that all individuals released from prison will have some contact with probation services, either serving a community sentence, or being on licence post-release. Despite often having complex health needs, including a higher prevalence of mental health problems, substance misuse problems and physical health problems than the general population, this socially excluded group of people often do not access healt…
The feasibility and challenge of using administrative data: A case study of historical prisoner surveys
The benefits of government administrative data are well-established, but research has not examined processes by which these data can be identified, organised and governed in line with ethical considerations. This is an important undertaking given the potential benefits of robust administrative data, especially at a time when the collection of primary data has been made more challenging due to COVID-19 restrictions. We use principles of Big Data t…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works)