Jo Staines
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Staines |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Staines |
| SIGNATURE | STAINES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7285-496X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Childhood violence across distinct, overlapping, and concurrent contexts: Polyvictimization, polyperpetration, and missed interventions points among child knife crime fatalities in England
Introduction: This study examines casefiles of children in England who were fatally stabbed between 2019 and 2024, focusing on their prior experiences of violence and adversity, aiming to identify missed opportunities for earlier intervention. Methods: We conducted a quantitative analysis using descriptive statistics and qualitative casefile analysis of 58 casefiles from the National Childhood Mortality Database, encompassing child fatalities by …
Desistance and Children: Critical Reflections from Theory, Research and Practice
Discharging Care Orders in England and Wales: A New Typology of Applications and Outcomes
A care order represents one of the most significant state interventions in England and Wales. The end of a care order is equally important, often meaning a withdrawal of statutory support and monitoring, and children returning home to birth parent(s), living with kinship carers or living independently. Despite its importance, little is known about the discharge of care orders. This article reports on the findings of the first study of the dischar…
Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement
Prior research highlights how criminalized mothers may be particularly at risk of negative judgements, but little work to date explores how criminalisation, care experience and motherhood may intersect to produce multi-faceted structural disadvantage within both systems of care and punishment. This paper attends to this knowledge gap, drawing on interviews with imprisoned women who have been in care (e.g. foster care or children’s homes), care-ex…
Painful lives: Understanding self-harm amongst care-experienced women in prison
Self-harm incidents in custody in England and Wales recently reached a record high, increasing particularly in women’s establishments. This article explores experiences of self-harm by drawing on interviews with care-experienced women in prison in England. Using prior care experience as the underlying thread enables us to explore this topic through a different lens. Considering the functions of self-harm that women described, including the commun…
Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence
This article explores how the concepts of strucutral violence and cultural violence can explain the institutionalization and normalization of violence in children’s lives in Iran, including the use of the death penalty, thereby providing a mechanism through which such violence can be challenged. The paper reflects on how an alternative to execution, the payment of blood money, diyah , mitigates but does not eradicate harms caused to child offende…
I wish someone would explain why I am in care”: The impact of children and young people's lack of understanding of why they are in out‐of‐home care on their well‐being and felt security
Having a good understanding of one's origins and history is known to be significant in identity development. Drawing on a large‐scale online survey of looked after children's subjective well‐being, this paper demonstrates that a significant number of children and young people (age 4–18 years) did not fully understand the reasons for their entry to care. The paper explores the effect of this lack of knowledge on children's well‐being and on their …
Youth Justice
Implementing a Therapeutic Team Parenting Approach to Fostering: The Experiences of One Independent Foster-Care Agency
Journal Article Implementing a Therapeutic Team Parenting Approach to Fostering: The Experiences of One Independent Foster-Care Agency Get access Jo Staines, Jo Staines * Dr Jo Staines is a Teaching Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice, in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Her research and publications focus on foster-care for adolescents, including remand foster-care and the interface between the c…
I wish someone would explain why I am in care”: The impact of children and young people's lack of understanding of why they are in out‐of‐home care on their well‐being and felt security
Having a good understanding of one's origins and history is known to be significant in identity development. Drawing on a large‐scale online survey of looked after children's subjective well‐being, this paper demonstrates that a significant number of children and young people (age 4–18 years) did not fully understand the reasons for their entry to care. The paper explores the effect of this lack of knowledge on children's well‐being and on their …
Implementing a Therapeutic Team Parenting Approach to Fostering: The Experiences of One Independent Foster-Care Agency
Journal Article Implementing a Therapeutic Team Parenting Approach to Fostering: The Experiences of One Independent Foster-Care Agency Get access Jo Staines, Jo Staines * Dr Jo Staines is a Teaching Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice, in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Her research and publications focus on foster-care for adolescents, including remand foster-care and the interface between the c…
Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement
Prior research highlights how criminalized mothers may be particularly at risk of negative judgements, but little work to date explores how criminalisation, care experience and motherhood may intersect to produce multi-faceted structural disadvantage within both systems of care and punishment. This paper attends to this knowledge gap, drawing on interviews with imprisoned women who have been in care (e.g. foster care or children’s homes), care-ex…
Implementing a Therapeutic Team Parenting Approach to Fostering: The Experiences of One Independent Foster-Care Agency
Journal Article Implementing a Therapeutic Team Parenting Approach to Fostering: The Experiences of One Independent Foster-Care Agency Get access Jo Staines, Jo Staines * Dr Jo Staines is a Teaching Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice, in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. Her research and publications focus on foster-care for adolescents, including remand foster-care and the interface between the c…
Youth Justice
I wish someone would explain why I am in care”: The impact of children and young people's lack of understanding of why they are in out‐of‐home care on their well‐being and felt security
Having a good understanding of one's origins and history is known to be significant in identity development. Drawing on a large‐scale online survey of looked after children's subjective well‐being, this paper demonstrates that a significant number of children and young people (age 4–18 years) did not fully understand the reasons for their entry to care. The paper explores the effect of this lack of knowledge on children's well‐being and on their …
Painful lives: Understanding self-harm amongst care-experienced women in prison
Self-harm incidents in custody in England and Wales recently reached a record high, increasing particularly in women’s establishments. This article explores experiences of self-harm by drawing on interviews with care-experienced women in prison in England. Using prior care experience as the underlying thread enables us to explore this topic through a different lens. Considering the functions of self-harm that women described, including the commun…
Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence
This article explores how the concepts of strucutral violence and cultural violence can explain the institutionalization and normalization of violence in children’s lives in Iran, including the use of the death penalty, thereby providing a mechanism through which such violence can be challenged. The paper reflects on how an alternative to execution, the payment of blood money, diyah , mitigates but does not eradicate harms caused to child offende…
Desistance and Children: Critical Reflections from Theory, Research and Practice
Discharging Care Orders in England and Wales: A New Typology of Applications and Outcomes
A care order represents one of the most significant state interventions in England and Wales. The end of a care order is equally important, often meaning a withdrawal of statutory support and monitoring, and children returning home to birth parent(s), living with kinship carers or living independently. Despite its importance, little is known about the discharge of care orders. This article reports on the findings of the first study of the dischar…
Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement
Prior research highlights how criminalized mothers may be particularly at risk of negative judgements, but little work to date explores how criminalisation, care experience and motherhood may intersect to produce multi-faceted structural disadvantage within both systems of care and punishment. This paper attends to this knowledge gap, drawing on interviews with imprisoned women who have been in care (e.g. foster care or children’s homes), care-ex…
Childhood violence across distinct, overlapping, and concurrent contexts: Polyvictimization, polyperpetration, and missed interventions points among child knife crime fatalities in England
Introduction: This study examines casefiles of children in England who were fatally stabbed between 2019 and 2024, focusing on their prior experiences of violence and adversity, aiming to identify missed opportunities for earlier intervention. Methods: We conducted a quantitative analysis using descriptive statistics and qualitative casefile analysis of 58 casefiles from the National Childhood Mortality Database, encompassing child fatalities by …
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works)