Joanna Shapland
Biographic Data
| ID | 292995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Shapland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapland |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPLAND J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0335-4931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mitigating risk in restorative justice
Mitigating risk in restorative justice Assessing and mitigating risks is essential for safe restorative justice practice, and yet very little has been written on this topic. In this study, we addressed this issue by interviewing 30 experienced restorative justice practitioners from eleven jurisdictions across Europe to explore how they assessed and mitigated risks. Our findings show that assessment and mitigation practices focused on risks relati…
Creating a people-centred view of risk and restorative justice
We live in a risky and risk-centred world, in which we are concerned about the potential negative impact of interaction with other people. This has promoted actuarial, group-based ideas of risk assessment in relation to criminal justice. Different paradigms for justice, such as restorative justice, offer different ideas and possibilities about risk and how risk may be mitigated and managed, which may be used to reflect back on current criminal ju…
Crime, Justice, and Social Order: Essays in Honour of A. E. Bottoms
Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms is unique in British criminology. He has achieved mastery of all the disciplines which rightly require attention if criminological questions are to be adequately addressed, including law, social science, social theory, moral philosophy, and matters of ‘administrative criminology’: from uses of the fine, to the origins and functions of the probation service. He was, of course, once a probation officer. This is one of …
Leslie Sebba – An appreciation
The exclusion of serious and organised offenders and their victims from the offer of restorative justice: Should this be so and what happens when the offer is put on the table
There is scarce research evidence of restorative justice being used in the context of serious and organised crime offending. This study sought to explore the feasibility of using restorative justice by canvassing the views of experts, serious and organised crime offenders and serious and organised crime victims in England. Offenders and victims were given the opportunity to engage in a restorative justice initiative and individual cases were purs…
From victimisation to restorative justice: Developing the offer of restorative justice
From victimisation to restorative justice: developing the offer of restorative justice Restorative justice services have expanded in England and Wales since the Victim’s Code 2015. Yet evidence from the Crime Survey for England and Wales shows that in 2016-2017 only 4.1 per cent of victims recall being offered such a service. This article presents the evidence from an action research project set in three police forces in England and Wales, which …
Fragile alliances: Culture, funding and sustainability in police–academic partnerships
Background Police–academic partnerships have developed significantly over the past decade or so, spurred on by the expansion of the evidence-based policing movement, the increasing value attached to impactful research in the academy, the ascendance of the professionalisation agenda in the police, and the growing necessity of cross-sectoral collaborations under conditions of post-financial crisis austerity. This trend has given rise to a burgeonin…
How close are formal and informal work
Purpose Recent changes in the UK to the regulation and modes of work in the formal and informal economies are considered. Research in this field has tended to remain in silos (treating formal economy working conditions separately from research on the informal economy). The question is whether the means of work and benefits to the worker for formal and informal work are now as different as the former images of formal and informal economy work impl…
Forgiveness and Restorative Justice: Is It Necessary? Is It Helpful?
The article draws on the results of two empirical studies to develop new theoretical views on apology and forgiveness in relation to crime: research on mitigation and sentencing in the criminal courts; and an evaluation of three English restorative justice schemes undertaking conferencing and mediation primarily in relation to serious offences and adult offenders. Though forgiveness does not require apology (nor even knowing who the offender is),…
Using compliance with probation supervision as an interim outcome measure in evaluating a probation initiative
This article addresses the issues involved in using compliance with probation supervision as an interim outcome measure in evaluation research. We address the complex nature of compliance and what it implies. Like much research on probation and criminal justice more generally, it was not possible to use random assignment to treatment and comparison groups in the case study we address, which evaluated the SEED training programme. We therefore comp…
Global Perspectives on Desistance: Reviewing What We Know and Looking to the Future
Understanding ‘quality’ in probation practice: Frontline perspectives in England & Wales
In the context of ‘ordinary’ probation practice, quality is a contested concept, as well as an under-researched one. In this article we present the findings of a study which sought to capture, via interviews inspired by Appreciative Inquiry, the views of probation staff about the meaning(s) of ‘quality’ in probation practice. The interviews revealed a ‘frontline’ perspective on quality which has not previously been exposed or articulated as such.…
Implications of growth: Challenges for restorative justice
Restorative justice has been growing around the world in terms of its implementation, often allied to criminal justice. Its growth and increasing mainstreaming, however, reignite theoretical and practical debates current some 20 years ago but none the less valid now. They include the effects of increasing closeness to the state and to justice definitions of crime, as well as tensions for mediators and facilitators. Particularly, there is a need t…
Twenty volumes of victimology: The special issue
‘Another milestone has been reached in the development of victimology.’ This is how the first edition of the International Review of Victimology began in 1989, edited by John Freeman and Leslie Sebba. Twenty-four years later, another milestone has been reached in the form of the 20th volume of the journal. In that time, much has changed in the world of victimology, yet other issues have remained. Freeman and Sebba raised key questions in their fi…
Doing ‘strengths-based’ research: Appreciative Inquiry in a probation setting
This article considers the application of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a research methodology in the field of probation research. Although AI has previously been used in prisons research it has not to date been applied to research on probation. In this article we describe why and how AI was applied in an exploratory study of ‘quality’ in probation practice. The article includes some reflections from us as researchers and from the participants in …
Reflections on social values, offending and desistance among young adult recidivists
Within the human life-span, the decade of the 20s (age 20—29) is known to manifest the fastest deceleration of offending. This article reports findings concerning the social and moral values of a sample of recidivist offenders at the start of this age-range. Most reported surprisingly conformist values, for example with regard to future aspirations (employment, housing, etc.) and to the importance of staying within legal boundaries. Nevertheless,…
Social structures and desistance from crime
Desistance studies have routinely focused on issues such as family links, employment prospects and moving away from criminal friends, but they have said less about the meso- and macro-level structural issues that might facilitate or impede the transition of ex-offenders to the status of more mainstream members of civil society.Yet, in view of the necessary interaction between agency and structure in producing processes of desistance, a considerat…
Staging restorative justice encounters against a criminal justice backdrop: A dramaturgical analysis
Drawing from an ongoing evaluation of three major restorative justice schemes in England and Wales, the article employs a dramaturgical perspective to examine a number of process issues that arise when restorative justice processes are deployed within a criminal justice context. They include the rôle and identity of restorative justice facilitators, the locations for restorative justice encounters and associated matters relating to the values of …
What Do We Know About the Effects of Crime on Victims
In order to create an economic measure of the direct and indirect effects of crime, it is necessary to consider the effects of crime on victims. The article reviews the state of research into the effects of crime on individuals, in respect of personal and household victimisation, and the effects of crime on businesses. General population surveys have concentrated upon the common property offences and minor violence and have tended to ignore the d…
Towards a Preference-Based Measure of the Impact on Well-Being Due to Victimisation and the Fear of Crime
If the resources devoted to dealing with crime are to be used in ways that bring about the most benefits, it will be important to know something about how much better or worse one crime is compared to another. Ideally, one would like to describe the effects of all crimes — and possibly even the fear of crime as well — in terms of their effect on key elements of a person's life, such as her mental health and the degree to which she feels vulnerabl…
Brian Williams — An Appreciation
Reducing Recidivism: A Task for Restorative Justice
In this paper, we draw on our experience as evaluators of three restorative justice schemes in England and Wales which were funded under the auspices of the Home Office's ‘Crime Reduction Programme’ to reflect upon the theoretical and empirical potential of restorative justice (in particular, conferencing) to bring about reductions in reoffending on the part of participating offenders. We propose that there is a case to be made for a subtle shift…
Restorative Justice In Practice: The Second Report From The Evaluation Of Three Schemes
This book analyses the practicalities of setting up and running restorative justice schemes, the costs€involved and the key professional and ethical issues involved such as€victims' and offenders' needs and expectations, community and desistance
Situating restorative justice within criminal justice
Drawing from the evaluation of three major restorative justice schemes in England and Wales, the article considers the theoretical implications for process and outcomes of situating restorative justice for adults within criminal justice, including the allocation of roles, the balance of power, the importance of procedural justice, and the tasks of restorative justice (such as apology, rehabilitation, reparation, healing, restoration, and reintegr…
Constructing Victims' Rights: The Home Office, New Labour and Victims
Reflections on social values, offending and desistance among young adult recidivists
Within the human life-span, the decade of the 20s (age 20—29) is known to manifest the fastest deceleration of offending. This article reports findings concerning the social and moral values of a sample of recidivist offenders at the start of this age-range. Most reported surprisingly conformist values, for example with regard to future aspirations (employment, housing, etc.) and to the importance of staying within legal boundaries. Nevertheless,…
What Do We Know About the Effects of Crime on Victims
In order to create an economic measure of the direct and indirect effects of crime, it is necessary to consider the effects of crime on victims. The article reviews the state of research into the effects of crime on individuals, in respect of personal and household victimisation, and the effects of crime on businesses. General population surveys have concentrated upon the common property offences and minor violence and have tended to ignore the d…
Policing by the Public
Shapland and Vagg look at the nature of informal social control. Their conclusions challenge existing myths about rural and urban areas and offer a new approach to thinking about how policing should be conducted
Situating restorative justice within criminal justice
Drawing from the evaluation of three major restorative justice schemes in England and Wales, the article considers the theoretical implications for process and outcomes of situating restorative justice for adults within criminal justice, including the allocation of roles, the balance of power, the importance of procedural justice, and the tasks of restorative justice (such as apology, rehabilitation, reparation, healing, restoration, and reintegr…
Understanding ‘quality’ in probation practice: Frontline perspectives in England & Wales
In the context of ‘ordinary’ probation practice, quality is a contested concept, as well as an under-researched one. In this article we present the findings of a study which sought to capture, via interviews inspired by Appreciative Inquiry, the views of probation staff about the meaning(s) of ‘quality’ in probation practice. The interviews revealed a ‘frontline’ perspective on quality which has not previously been exposed or articulated as such.…
Doing ‘strengths-based’ research: Appreciative Inquiry in a probation setting
This article considers the application of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a research methodology in the field of probation research. Although AI has previously been used in prisons research it has not to date been applied to research on probation. In this article we describe why and how AI was applied in an exploratory study of ‘quality’ in probation practice. The article includes some reflections from us as researchers and from the participants in …
Reducing Recidivism: A Task for Restorative Justice
In this paper, we draw on our experience as evaluators of three restorative justice schemes in England and Wales which were funded under the auspices of the Home Office's ‘Crime Reduction Programme’ to reflect upon the theoretical and empirical potential of restorative justice (in particular, conferencing) to bring about reductions in reoffending on the part of participating offenders. We propose that there is a case to be made for a subtle shift…
Self-Reported Delinquency in Boys Aged 11 to 14
Journal Article SELF-REPORTED DELINQUENCY IN BOYS AGED 11 to 14 Get access JOANNA M. SHAPLAND JOANNA M. SHAPLAND *King's College, University of London, formerly at Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 18, Issue 3, July 1978, Pages 255–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046911 Published: 01 July 1…
Fragile alliances: Culture, funding and sustainability in police–academic partnerships
Background Police–academic partnerships have developed significantly over the past decade or so, spurred on by the expansion of the evidence-based policing movement, the increasing value attached to impactful research in the academy, the ascendance of the professionalisation agenda in the police, and the growing necessity of cross-sectoral collaborations under conditions of post-financial crisis austerity. This trend has given rise to a burgeonin…
How close are formal and informal work
Purpose Recent changes in the UK to the regulation and modes of work in the formal and informal economies are considered. Research in this field has tended to remain in silos (treating formal economy working conditions separately from research on the informal economy). The question is whether the means of work and benefits to the worker for formal and informal work are now as different as the former images of formal and informal economy work impl…
Who is in control
The Netherlands have recently created a number of new agents of social control. These include the stadswachten (city wardens) and the politiesurveillanten (police patrollers). Both primarily patrol in city centres, with the police patrollers being a more junior rank in the regular police, but the city wardens a separate uniformed presence. Both have, primarily, an order maintenance and preventive/regulatory function. Summarising research on their…
Using the Police
Journal Article USING THE POLICE Get access JOANNA SHAPLAND, JOANNA SHAPLAND Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JON VAGG JON VAGG Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 54–63, https://doi.o…
Victims, the Criminal Justice System and Compensation
Journal Article VICTIMS, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND COMPENSATION Get access JOANNA SHAPLAND JOANNA SHAPLAND * Research Fellow, Centre for Criminological Research, Oxford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 24, Issue 2, April 1984, Pages 131–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047436 Published: 01 April 1984
Implications of growth: Challenges for restorative justice
Restorative justice has been growing around the world in terms of its implementation, often allied to criminal justice. Its growth and increasing mainstreaming, however, reignite theoretical and practical debates current some 20 years ago but none the less valid now. They include the effects of increasing closeness to the state and to justice definitions of crime, as well as tensions for mediators and facilitators. Particularly, there is a need t…
Staging restorative justice encounters against a criminal justice backdrop: A dramaturgical analysis
Drawing from an ongoing evaluation of three major restorative justice schemes in England and Wales, the article employs a dramaturgical perspective to examine a number of process issues that arise when restorative justice processes are deployed within a criminal justice context. They include the rôle and identity of restorative justice facilitators, the locations for restorative justice encounters and associated matters relating to the values of …
Preventing Retail-Sector Crimes
The prevalence of crime in the retail sector is higher than for residents, and multiple victimization is common. Shops and stores have major exposure to external crime such as theft, burglary, robbery and threats, and violence to staff. Internal crime, such as fraud and theft by employees, is less of a problem. The location, siting, and design of a store significantly affects its crime risk, as does the type of neighborhood in which it is situate…
Criminal Justice and the Production of Order and Control: Criminological Research in the UK in the 1980s
There was an enormous volume of criminological research during the 1980s in the UK. This paper offers our particular refections on that work. It structures the discussion of this research output thematically, drawing on the double-sided nature of Thatcherism and the resulting bifurcated responses within the field of law and order. The discussion is divided into six sections, within each of which key approaches and findings are summarized, example…
Towards a Preference-Based Measure of the Impact on Well-Being Due to Victimisation and the Fear of Crime
If the resources devoted to dealing with crime are to be used in ways that bring about the most benefits, it will be important to know something about how much better or worse one crime is compared to another. Ideally, one would like to describe the effects of all crimes — and possibly even the fear of crime as well — in terms of their effect on key elements of a person's life, such as her mental health and the degree to which she feels vulnerabl…
Justice pénale, criminologie et production de l'ordre: Les tendances de la recherche et de la politique criminelle depuis 1980 en Grande-Bretagne
Jefferson Tony, Shapland Joanna. Justice pénale, criminologie et production de l'ordre: les tendances de la recherche et de la politique criminelle depuis 1980 en Grande-Bretagne. In: Déviance et société. 1991 - Vol. 15 - N°2. pp. 187-221
Self-Reported Delinquency in Boys Aged 11 to 14
Journal Article SELF-REPORTED DELINQUENCY IN BOYS AGED 11 to 14 Get access JOANNA M. SHAPLAND JOANNA M. SHAPLAND *King's College, University of London, formerly at Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 18, Issue 3, July 1978, Pages 255–266, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046911 Published: 01 July 1…
Victims, the Criminal Justice System and Compensation
Journal Article VICTIMS, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND COMPENSATION Get access JOANNA SHAPLAND JOANNA SHAPLAND * Research Fellow, Centre for Criminological Research, Oxford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 24, Issue 2, April 1984, Pages 131–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047436 Published: 01 April 1984
Introduction: Why Police
ROBERT REINER, JOANNA SHAPLAND; INTRODUCTION: WHY POLICE?, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 27, Issue 1, 1 January 1987, Pages 1–3, https://doi.o
Using the Police
Journal Article USING THE POLICE Get access JOANNA SHAPLAND, JOANNA SHAPLAND Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JON VAGG JON VAGG Centre for Criminological Research, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 54–63, https://doi.o…
Policing by the Public
Shapland and Vagg look at the nature of informal social control. Their conclusions challenge existing myths about rural and urban areas and offer a new approach to thinking about how policing should be conducted
Justice pénale, criminologie et production de l'ordre: Les tendances de la recherche et de la politique criminelle depuis 1980 en Grande-Bretagne
Jefferson Tony, Shapland Joanna. Justice pénale, criminologie et production de l'ordre: les tendances de la recherche et de la politique criminelle depuis 1980 en Grande-Bretagne. In: Déviance et société. 1991 - Vol. 15 - N°2. pp. 187-221
Criminal Justice and the Production of Order and Control: Criminological Research in the UK in the 1980s
There was an enormous volume of criminological research during the 1980s in the UK. This paper offers our particular refections on that work. It structures the discussion of this research output thematically, drawing on the double-sided nature of Thatcherism and the resulting bifurcated responses within the field of law and order. The discussion is divided into six sections, within each of which key approaches and findings are summarized, example…
John Freeman: An Appreciation
Preventing Retail-Sector Crimes
The prevalence of crime in the retail sector is higher than for residents, and multiple victimization is common. Shops and stores have major exposure to external crime such as theft, burglary, robbery and threats, and violence to staff. Internal crime, such as fraud and theft by employees, is less of a problem. The location, siting, and design of a store significantly affects its crime risk, as does the type of neighborhood in which it is situate…
Who is in control
The Netherlands have recently created a number of new agents of social control. These include the stadswachten (city wardens) and the politiesurveillanten (police patrollers). Both primarily patrol in city centres, with the police patrollers being a more junior rank in the regular police, but the city wardens a separate uniformed presence. Both have, primarily, an order maintenance and preventive/regulatory function. Summarising research on their…
Towards Desistance: Theoretical Underpinnings for an Empirical Study
This article presents the initial theoretical underpinnings for a fresh prospective study of desistance, focused on 20‐year‐old recidivists. It is argued that significant crime‐free gaps appropriately form part of the subject matter of desistance. An interactive theoretical framework is presented, involving ‘programmed potential’, ‘social context’ (structures, culture, situations) and ‘agency’. It is argued that agency, while rightly attracting i…
Restorative Justice In Practice: The Second Report From The Evaluation Of Three Schemes
This book analyses the practicalities of setting up and running restorative justice schemes, the costs€involved and the key professional and ethical issues involved such as€victims' and offenders' needs and expectations, community and desistance
Situating restorative justice within criminal justice
Drawing from the evaluation of three major restorative justice schemes in England and Wales, the article considers the theoretical implications for process and outcomes of situating restorative justice for adults within criminal justice, including the allocation of roles, the balance of power, the importance of procedural justice, and the tasks of restorative justice (such as apology, rehabilitation, reparation, healing, restoration, and reintegr…
Constructing Victims' Rights: The Home Office, New Labour and Victims
Staging restorative justice encounters against a criminal justice backdrop: A dramaturgical analysis
Drawing from an ongoing evaluation of three major restorative justice schemes in England and Wales, the article employs a dramaturgical perspective to examine a number of process issues that arise when restorative justice processes are deployed within a criminal justice context. They include the rôle and identity of restorative justice facilitators, the locations for restorative justice encounters and associated matters relating to the values of …
What Do We Know About the Effects of Crime on Victims
In order to create an economic measure of the direct and indirect effects of crime, it is necessary to consider the effects of crime on victims. The article reviews the state of research into the effects of crime on individuals, in respect of personal and household victimisation, and the effects of crime on businesses. General population surveys have concentrated upon the common property offences and minor violence and have tended to ignore the d…
Towards a Preference-Based Measure of the Impact on Well-Being Due to Victimisation and the Fear of Crime
If the resources devoted to dealing with crime are to be used in ways that bring about the most benefits, it will be important to know something about how much better or worse one crime is compared to another. Ideally, one would like to describe the effects of all crimes — and possibly even the fear of crime as well — in terms of their effect on key elements of a person's life, such as her mental health and the degree to which she feels vulnerabl…
Brian Williams — An Appreciation
Reducing Recidivism: A Task for Restorative Justice
In this paper, we draw on our experience as evaluators of three restorative justice schemes in England and Wales which were funded under the auspices of the Home Office's ‘Crime Reduction Programme’ to reflect upon the theoretical and empirical potential of restorative justice (in particular, conferencing) to bring about reductions in reoffending on the part of participating offenders. We propose that there is a case to be made for a subtle shift…
Social structures and desistance from crime
Desistance studies have routinely focused on issues such as family links, employment prospects and moving away from criminal friends, but they have said less about the meso- and macro-level structural issues that might facilitate or impede the transition of ex-offenders to the status of more mainstream members of civil society.Yet, in view of the necessary interaction between agency and structure in producing processes of desistance, a considerat…
Reflections on social values, offending and desistance among young adult recidivists
Within the human life-span, the decade of the 20s (age 20—29) is known to manifest the fastest deceleration of offending. This article reports findings concerning the social and moral values of a sample of recidivist offenders at the start of this age-range. Most reported surprisingly conformist values, for example with regard to future aspirations (employment, housing, etc.) and to the importance of staying within legal boundaries. Nevertheless,…
Doing ‘strengths-based’ research: Appreciative Inquiry in a probation setting
This article considers the application of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a research methodology in the field of probation research. Although AI has previously been used in prisons research it has not to date been applied to research on probation. In this article we describe why and how AI was applied in an exploratory study of ‘quality’ in probation practice. The article includes some reflections from us as researchers and from the participants in …
Understanding ‘quality’ in probation practice: Frontline perspectives in England & Wales
In the context of ‘ordinary’ probation practice, quality is a contested concept, as well as an under-researched one. In this article we present the findings of a study which sought to capture, via interviews inspired by Appreciative Inquiry, the views of probation staff about the meaning(s) of ‘quality’ in probation practice. The interviews revealed a ‘frontline’ perspective on quality which has not previously been exposed or articulated as such.…
Implications of growth: Challenges for restorative justice
Restorative justice has been growing around the world in terms of its implementation, often allied to criminal justice. Its growth and increasing mainstreaming, however, reignite theoretical and practical debates current some 20 years ago but none the less valid now. They include the effects of increasing closeness to the state and to justice definitions of crime, as well as tensions for mediators and facilitators. Particularly, there is a need t…
Twenty volumes of victimology: The special issue
‘Another milestone has been reached in the development of victimology.’ This is how the first edition of the International Review of Victimology began in 1989, edited by John Freeman and Leslie Sebba. Twenty-four years later, another milestone has been reached in the form of the 20th volume of the journal. In that time, much has changed in the world of victimology, yet other issues have remained. Freeman and Sebba raised key questions in their fi…
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