Kevin J Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin J Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin J |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4540-4941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Improving access to justice for older victims of crime by reimagining conceptions of vulnerability
This article investigates the implications of recent research findings that establish that older victims of crime are less likely to obtain procedural justice than other age groups. It explores original empirical data from the United Kingdom that finds evidence of a systemic failure amongst agencies to identify vulnerability in the older population and to put in place appropriate support mechanisms to allow older victims to participate fully in t…
The Social Construction of a Rape Victim: Stories of African-American Males about the Rape of Desirée Washington
Strangers in the Neighborhood: Violence and Neighborhood Boundaries
New Orleans experienced elevated rates of violent crime throughout the thirty years between 1985 and 2015. Violence was disproportionately represented in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. This study explores the lived experiences of residents from one such neighborhood, using individual interviews, focus groups, and participant observation. The data indicate that neighborhood boundaries vacillated between rigidly defensive and porous, …
Punitive reform and the cultural life of punishment: Moving from the Asbo to its successors
This paper explores the process of punitive reform through a cultural theory lens. The existing literature focuses on high-end punishments of historical pedigree e.g. imprisonment or the death penalty. This paper instead takes as its focus low-end, contemporary punishments. In doing so, it provides original insights into the utility a cultural methodology can bring to understanding punitive reform in the digital age. It tests the applicability of…
The Banishment of the Poor From Public Space: Promoting and Contesting Neo-Liberalisation at the Municipal Level
With growing levels of homelessness, many municipalities in western jurisdictions are increasing social control of public displays of poverty through criminalisation, marginalisation and banishment. This has recently been apparent in England with the introduction of public spaces protection orders. Based on notions of localism, these grant local government significantly enhanced powers to regulate public space. This article uses the English examp…
Older victims of crime: Vulnerability, resilience and access to procedural justice
This article provides the first comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of unequal access to procedural justice for older victims of crime. It analyses quantitative and qualitative data exploring the interactions of older people with the criminal justice system of Northern Ireland. It identifies that older victims of crime are less likely to have a successful crime outcome (known as ‘detection’ or ‘clear-up’ in other jurisdictions) to their c…
Oceanic Geographies: The fluid dramaturgy of Caridad Svich
Caridad Svich describes The Orphan Sea as ‘a waterscape play’. She wrote the piece and I directed its world premiere at the University of Missouri during the autumn of 2014. Then, during the summer of 2015, I directed and performed in a staged, telematic reading of the play as part of the North Atlantic cluster of the Performance Studies international (PSi) ‘Fluid States’ conference. The theme of the meeting was ‘telematic presence’. Events were …
Viewing Mount Laurel from Mount Zion: Theological Reflections on Social Integration
Racial segregation continues to be a staple of us social arrangements. However, the absence of a normative dimension to this phenomenon has allowed the value of segregation, or its conceptual opposite, integration to be determined by market forces. The result is that segregation is understood as an economic problem whose adverse effects can be ameliorated through efforts to integrate. We identify two primary problems with this approach. First, th…
A Neo-Rawlsian Approach to Residential Integration
Over the past 40 years, the United States has engaged in various policies to integrate otherwise segregated black and white households within a shared space. However, little work has been done to fully articulate a moral argument for residential integration among black and white households. This paper offers what I refer to as the normative argument, which possesses two morally-impelled arguments for residential integration. Since the ethical app…
The Developing Habitus of the Anti‐Social Behaviour Practitioner: From Expansion in Years of Plenty to Surviving the Age of Austerity
Specialist anti‐social behaviour units are common within social housing providers, with many established in response to the policies of the New Labour governments of 1997–2010. These units now find themselves operating in a different political and financial environment. Following the English riots of 2011, the Coalition government, whilst imposing budgetary cuts across the public sector, called on social housing providers to intensify their role …
Counterblast: Freedom of Information as a Research Tool: Realising its Potential
The Reintegration of Sex Offenders: Barriers and Opportunities for Employment
The process of reintegration of offenders after release from prison, or during a community sentence, is a key aim of criminal justice policy. This article provides details from recent research that investigated the barriers and opportunities to employment for sex offenders. The authors describe the barriers that are faced by sex offenders and the anxieties that employers experience when employing sex offenders. The authors conclude that the appro…
Strangers in the Neighborhood: Violence and Neighborhood Boundaries
New Orleans experienced elevated rates of violent crime throughout the thirty years between 1985 and 2015. Violence was disproportionately represented in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. This study explores the lived experiences of residents from one such neighborhood, using individual interviews, focus groups, and participant observation. The data indicate that neighborhood boundaries vacillated between rigidly defensive and porous, …
The Banishment of the Poor From Public Space: Promoting and Contesting Neo-Liberalisation at the Municipal Level
With growing levels of homelessness, many municipalities in western jurisdictions are increasing social control of public displays of poverty through criminalisation, marginalisation and banishment. This has recently been apparent in England with the introduction of public spaces protection orders. Based on notions of localism, these grant local government significantly enhanced powers to regulate public space. This article uses the English examp…
Punitive reform and the cultural life of punishment: Moving from the Asbo to its successors
This paper explores the process of punitive reform through a cultural theory lens. The existing literature focuses on high-end punishments of historical pedigree e.g. imprisonment or the death penalty. This paper instead takes as its focus low-end, contemporary punishments. In doing so, it provides original insights into the utility a cultural methodology can bring to understanding punitive reform in the digital age. It tests the applicability of…
Older victims of crime: Vulnerability, resilience and access to procedural justice
This article provides the first comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of unequal access to procedural justice for older victims of crime. It analyses quantitative and qualitative data exploring the interactions of older people with the criminal justice system of Northern Ireland. It identifies that older victims of crime are less likely to have a successful crime outcome (known as ‘detection’ or ‘clear-up’ in other jurisdictions) to their c…
Oceanic Geographies: The fluid dramaturgy of Caridad Svich
Caridad Svich describes The Orphan Sea as ‘a waterscape play’. She wrote the piece and I directed its world premiere at the University of Missouri during the autumn of 2014. Then, during the summer of 2015, I directed and performed in a staged, telematic reading of the play as part of the North Atlantic cluster of the Performance Studies international (PSi) ‘Fluid States’ conference. The theme of the meeting was ‘telematic presence’. Events were …
A Neo-Rawlsian Approach to Residential Integration
Over the past 40 years, the United States has engaged in various policies to integrate otherwise segregated black and white households within a shared space. However, little work has been done to fully articulate a moral argument for residential integration among black and white households. This paper offers what I refer to as the normative argument, which possesses two morally-impelled arguments for residential integration. Since the ethical app…
The Developing Habitus of the Anti‐Social Behaviour Practitioner: From Expansion in Years of Plenty to Surviving the Age of Austerity
Specialist anti‐social behaviour units are common within social housing providers, with many established in response to the policies of the New Labour governments of 1997–2010. These units now find themselves operating in a different political and financial environment. Following the English riots of 2011, the Coalition government, whilst imposing budgetary cuts across the public sector, called on social housing providers to intensify their role …
The Reintegration of Sex Offenders: Barriers and Opportunities for Employment
The process of reintegration of offenders after release from prison, or during a community sentence, is a key aim of criminal justice policy. This article provides details from recent research that investigated the barriers and opportunities to employment for sex offenders. The authors describe the barriers that are faced by sex offenders and the anxieties that employers experience when employing sex offenders. The authors conclude that the appro…
Counterblast: Freedom of Information as a Research Tool: Realising its Potential
A Neo-Rawlsian Approach to Residential Integration
Over the past 40 years, the United States has engaged in various policies to integrate otherwise segregated black and white households within a shared space. However, little work has been done to fully articulate a moral argument for residential integration among black and white households. This paper offers what I refer to as the normative argument, which possesses two morally-impelled arguments for residential integration. Since the ethical app…
The Developing Habitus of the Anti‐Social Behaviour Practitioner: From Expansion in Years of Plenty to Surviving the Age of Austerity
Specialist anti‐social behaviour units are common within social housing providers, with many established in response to the policies of the New Labour governments of 1997–2010. These units now find themselves operating in a different political and financial environment. Following the English riots of 2011, the Coalition government, whilst imposing budgetary cuts across the public sector, called on social housing providers to intensify their role …
Viewing Mount Laurel from Mount Zion: Theological Reflections on Social Integration
Racial segregation continues to be a staple of us social arrangements. However, the absence of a normative dimension to this phenomenon has allowed the value of segregation, or its conceptual opposite, integration to be determined by market forces. The result is that segregation is understood as an economic problem whose adverse effects can be ameliorated through efforts to integrate. We identify two primary problems with this approach. First, th…
Oceanic Geographies: The fluid dramaturgy of Caridad Svich
Caridad Svich describes The Orphan Sea as ‘a waterscape play’. She wrote the piece and I directed its world premiere at the University of Missouri during the autumn of 2014. Then, during the summer of 2015, I directed and performed in a staged, telematic reading of the play as part of the North Atlantic cluster of the Performance Studies international (PSi) ‘Fluid States’ conference. The theme of the meeting was ‘telematic presence’. Events were …
Older victims of crime: Vulnerability, resilience and access to procedural justice
This article provides the first comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of unequal access to procedural justice for older victims of crime. It analyses quantitative and qualitative data exploring the interactions of older people with the criminal justice system of Northern Ireland. It identifies that older victims of crime are less likely to have a successful crime outcome (known as ‘detection’ or ‘clear-up’ in other jurisdictions) to their c…
Punitive reform and the cultural life of punishment: Moving from the Asbo to its successors
This paper explores the process of punitive reform through a cultural theory lens. The existing literature focuses on high-end punishments of historical pedigree e.g. imprisonment or the death penalty. This paper instead takes as its focus low-end, contemporary punishments. In doing so, it provides original insights into the utility a cultural methodology can bring to understanding punitive reform in the digital age. It tests the applicability of…
The Banishment of the Poor From Public Space: Promoting and Contesting Neo-Liberalisation at the Municipal Level
With growing levels of homelessness, many municipalities in western jurisdictions are increasing social control of public displays of poverty through criminalisation, marginalisation and banishment. This has recently been apparent in England with the introduction of public spaces protection orders. Based on notions of localism, these grant local government significantly enhanced powers to regulate public space. This article uses the English examp…
The Social Construction of a Rape Victim: Stories of African-American Males about the Rape of Desirée Washington
Strangers in the Neighborhood: Violence and Neighborhood Boundaries
New Orleans experienced elevated rates of violent crime throughout the thirty years between 1985 and 2015. Violence was disproportionately represented in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities. This study explores the lived experiences of residents from one such neighborhood, using individual interviews, focus groups, and participant observation. The data indicate that neighborhood boundaries vacillated between rigidly defensive and porous, …
Improving access to justice for older victims of crime by reimagining conceptions of vulnerability
This article investigates the implications of recent research findings that establish that older victims of crime are less likely to obtain procedural justice than other age groups. It explores original empirical data from the United Kingdom that finds evidence of a systemic failure amongst agencies to identify vulnerability in the older population and to put in place appropriate support mechanisms to allow older victims to participate fully in t…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works)