Sarah Pemberton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Pemberton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Pemberton |
| SIGNATURE | PEMBERTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7894-4402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From learning to earning? Analysing participation in job-related education and training and its impact on wages in the UK
The UK labour market is subject to ongoing pressures, from large-scale economic and industry shifts to changing labour force demographics, generating enduring skills gaps and emphasising the need for individuals to reskill or upskill to remain competitive. Job-related training is one way to close the skills gap – but are those most in need of training able to participate? And, if they do, does the market recognise and value such training? Using U…
Mastering uncertainty: Subject choice, employment outcomes, and perceived necessity of degrees during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruptions to higher education and labour markets. This study examines full-time master’s students in the UK during 2020/21, the first cohort to both begin and complete their degrees amid the pandemic. Using administrative data and the Graduate Outcomes survey from the UK’s Higher Education Statistics Agency, this article examines whether the 2020/21 cohort exhibited different behaviours around the choi…
Understanding Europe’s skills shortage: Patterns of participation in formal and non-formal education and training
Technological advancements, environmental commitments and demographic shifts are rapidly reshaping Europe’s labour markets, and thus the skills needed to succeed within them. These changes are driving growth in some industries while leading to contractions in others. Adult learning, both in formal and non-formal contexts, provides pathways for reskilling and upskilling, which are critical for adapting to these shifts. Recognising the importance o…
A desistance practice framework to support police professionals working with people with sexual convictions
Under Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) in England and Wales, statutory agencies (police, probation, and prison services) are responsible for assessing and managing the risk of over 70,000 people subject to sexual notification requirements. With the majority (approximately three-quarters) of this population being managed in the community by specialist police professionals, control and containment approaches dominate policy and p…
Pathways to employment: Subject choice, job requirements, and early employment outcomes for UK undergraduates
Higher education in the United Kingdom has dramatically expanded in recent decades, along with questions about its effectiveness in preparing graduates for the labour market. With rising tuition fees and increasing competition for graduate jobs, many students opt to study ‘professional’ subjects—fields closely tied to specific professions. This paper examines the characteristics of students who study professional subjects at the undergraduate lev…
Preventing Sexual Harm: Positive Criminology and Sexual Abuse
Preventing Sexual Harm provides an overview of current criminal justice strategies for tackling sexual violence, and highlights existing positive criminological approaches that could help prevent sexual abuse and harm. Sexual violence is a complex, multi-faceted crime. Its causes and consequences are both multiple and enduring and our understanding of sexual violence is embedded within our social, cultural, and political constructs. As such, a re…
The ‘Dunblane massacre’ as a ‘photosensitive plate’
This article seeks to understand the mass murders that took place at Dunblane in 1996 and to consider if we might see aspects of this mass shooting as prophetic of other mass murders, such as those that took place at Columbine, Sandy Hook and on Utoya Island. It does this by using what we describe as a ‘criminological autopsy’ about the shootings and, in doing so, considers why this mass murder – still the worst in British history – has rarely be…
Crilllinal Justice as State Racislll: Race-Making, State Violence, and Illlprisonlllent in the USA, and England and Wales
This article uses Michel Foucault’s account of state racism from “Society Must Be Defended” to understand racialized violence in the criminal justice systems of the USA and England and Wales. Foucault argues that modern states make race in order to exercise the sovereign power to kill, by both directly killing racially defined groups and through “indirect murder . .. or, quite simply, political death.”1 I argue that both the US and English crimin…
Enforcing Gender: The Constitution of Sex and Gender in Prison Regimes
This article examines how gender identities are constituted through contemporary practices of imprisonment in the United States and in England and Wales, with particular attention to transgender prisoners. I draw on recent queer theory, transgender studies, and Michel Foucault’s work, including what he refers to in the 1977–78 Collège de France lectures as “a triangle: sovereignty, discipline, and governmental management.” All three of these tech…
The Challenge in Conducting Qualitative Research With Convicted Sex Offenders
There is a paucity of literature focusing on the challenges involved in undertaking qualitative research with convicted sexual offenders. This article will address the challenges faced by the researchers whilst conducting fieldwork with convicted sexual offenders in the prison environment and how they overcame them. Such obstacles included the recruitment of participants, informed consent, establishing researcher‐participant rapport, avoiding col…
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The Challenge in Conducting Qualitative Research With Convicted Sex Offenders
There is a paucity of literature focusing on the challenges involved in undertaking qualitative research with convicted sexual offenders. This article will address the challenges faced by the researchers whilst conducting fieldwork with convicted sexual offenders in the prison environment and how they overcame them. Such obstacles included the recruitment of participants, informed consent, establishing researcher‐participant rapport, avoiding col…
Enforcing Gender: The Constitution of Sex and Gender in Prison Regimes
This article examines how gender identities are constituted through contemporary practices of imprisonment in the United States and in England and Wales, with particular attention to transgender prisoners. I draw on recent queer theory, transgender studies, and Michel Foucault’s work, including what he refers to in the 1977–78 Collège de France lectures as “a triangle: sovereignty, discipline, and governmental management.” All three of these tech…
Crilllinal Justice as State Racislll: Race-Making, State Violence, and Illlprisonlllent in the USA, and England and Wales
This article uses Michel Foucault’s account of state racism from “Society Must Be Defended” to understand racialized violence in the criminal justice systems of the USA and England and Wales. Foucault argues that modern states make race in order to exercise the sovereign power to kill, by both directly killing racially defined groups and through “indirect murder . .. or, quite simply, political death.”1 I argue that both the US and English crimin…
The ‘Dunblane massacre’ as a ‘photosensitive plate’
This article seeks to understand the mass murders that took place at Dunblane in 1996 and to consider if we might see aspects of this mass shooting as prophetic of other mass murders, such as those that took place at Columbine, Sandy Hook and on Utoya Island. It does this by using what we describe as a ‘criminological autopsy’ about the shootings and, in doing so, considers why this mass murder – still the worst in British history – has rarely be…
Preventing Sexual Harm: Positive Criminology and Sexual Abuse
Preventing Sexual Harm provides an overview of current criminal justice strategies for tackling sexual violence, and highlights existing positive criminological approaches that could help prevent sexual abuse and harm. Sexual violence is a complex, multi-faceted crime. Its causes and consequences are both multiple and enduring and our understanding of sexual violence is embedded within our social, cultural, and political constructs. As such, a re…
From learning to earning? Analysing participation in job-related education and training and its impact on wages in the UK
The UK labour market is subject to ongoing pressures, from large-scale economic and industry shifts to changing labour force demographics, generating enduring skills gaps and emphasising the need for individuals to reskill or upskill to remain competitive. Job-related training is one way to close the skills gap – but are those most in need of training able to participate? And, if they do, does the market recognise and value such training? Using U…
Mastering uncertainty: Subject choice, employment outcomes, and perceived necessity of degrees during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruptions to higher education and labour markets. This study examines full-time master’s students in the UK during 2020/21, the first cohort to both begin and complete their degrees amid the pandemic. Using administrative data and the Graduate Outcomes survey from the UK’s Higher Education Statistics Agency, this article examines whether the 2020/21 cohort exhibited different behaviours around the choi…
Understanding Europe’s skills shortage: Patterns of participation in formal and non-formal education and training
Technological advancements, environmental commitments and demographic shifts are rapidly reshaping Europe’s labour markets, and thus the skills needed to succeed within them. These changes are driving growth in some industries while leading to contractions in others. Adult learning, both in formal and non-formal contexts, provides pathways for reskilling and upskilling, which are critical for adapting to these shifts. Recognising the importance o…
A desistance practice framework to support police professionals working with people with sexual convictions
Under Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) in England and Wales, statutory agencies (police, probation, and prison services) are responsible for assessing and managing the risk of over 70,000 people subject to sexual notification requirements. With the majority (approximately three-quarters) of this population being managed in the community by specialist police professionals, control and containment approaches dominate policy and p…
Pathways to employment: Subject choice, job requirements, and early employment outcomes for UK undergraduates
Higher education in the United Kingdom has dramatically expanded in recent decades, along with questions about its effectiveness in preparing graduates for the labour market. With rising tuition fees and increasing competition for graduate jobs, many students opt to study ‘professional’ subjects—fields closely tied to specific professions. This paper examines the characteristics of students who study professional subjects at the undergraduate lev…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Higher Education and Employability (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminal justice (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (3 works) · Law (3 works)