Caroline Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7504-3422 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘Hiding in plain sight’: Organised crime, financial crime and property
This special issue of Trends in Organised Crime brings together recent empirical research on organised crime, financial crime and property. The collection comprises six original contributions, which collectively reveal the multiple ways property intersects with organised and financial crime – from organised violence against property, predatory landlordism, and domestic cannabis cultivation, to mortgage and real estate fraud, and money laundering
Shaping the ‘studenthood: Purpose-Built Student Accommodation and Planning Law
Imprisonment for breach of injunctions: What is happening in the civil courts
Drawing on a dataset of 263 contempt of court decisions, this paper examines a widespread but under-interrogated phenomenon: imprisonment for breach of injunctions. Across a wide range of contexts – from cases involving anti-social behaviour, protest, Gypsy and Traveller communities – courts across the country are using their civil contempt of court powers to imprison individuals for breaching injunctions. As the first research to date that expli…
The face of Property Guardianship: Online property advertisements, categorical identity and googling your next home
This paper examines the phenomenon of "property guardianship" in England, focusing on property guardians' entry into this precarious sector and the reality of their occupation. Drawing on data from a survey of 217 London-based property guardians and an analysis of 512 online property guardian advertisements, we examine: (i) how property guardian advertisements construct this form of accommodation as a destination for young people unable to afford…
Legal Compliance in Street‐Level Bureaucracy: A Study of UK Housing Officers
Street‐level bureaucratic theory is now at a fairly mature stage. The focus on street‐level bureaucrats as ultimate policymakers is now as familiar as it is important. Likewise, the parallel sociolegal study of the implementation of public law in public organizations has demonstrated the inevitable gap between law‐in‐the‐books and law‐in‐action. Yet, the success of these advances comes at the potential cost of us losing sight of the importance of…
Community involvement for sustainable heritage tourism: A conceptual model
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore why and how to involve community stakeholders to achieve sustainability in heritage tourism operations. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual model and three propositions are created based on stakeholder theory and the social capital perspective. Findings – The study highlights the challenges facing heritage tourism operators and recommends that these organizations focus on inter-stakeholder …
Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain. Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives
Review of Anti-social Behaviour in Britain. Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Sarah Pickard
The Right to Buy: Examination of an exercise in allocating, shifting and re-branding risks
This paper examines the development of the Right to Buy, introduced by the Housing Act 1980, from the standpoint of governmentality, risk and responsibilization. Our focus is on the risks not only to the purchasers but also to local authorities and to those tenants who have not purchased their homes. We trace how these risks have been assessed, allocated and rebranded, by central government, by local authorities as landlords with wider responsibi…
Some Useful Sources
The following list provides a brief overview of relevant publications on parent abuse, together with links to some useful websites. Given the nature of parent abuse the publications come from a varied disciplinary background ranging from the therapeutic to social policy and criminological. Some look at the nature and incidence of parent abuse, some examine the experience and causes of it, while others suggest therapeutic interventions. See furthe…
Parent Abuse: Can Law Be the Answer
This article reviews the different forms of legal interventions which may be available to address parent abuse. It seeks to examine the evidence as to which are actually used currently and the problems which are inherent in them. We do this both by examining the statutory basis of the existing potential legal remedies and reported cases relating to those provisions, and by drawing on evidence from a small-scale study of relevant professional work…
Introduction: Exploring Parent Abuse – Building Knowledge across Disciplines
There is an extensive body of literature on the ways in which the family home is often a site of conflict and discord rather than security and safety. Much of this work has focussed on the problem of domestic violence perpetrated by adults and how the state should respond to it (Home Office, 2009). Another form of family violence however, that of the abuse of parents (or those occupying a parental role) by their adolescent children, has not recei…
Unravelling Law’s Kinning Practices: Feminism, Fictive Families and the Albert Kennedy Trust
Are Judicial Approaches to Adult Social Care at a Dead-End
This article examines the limits of law to resolve or transform the contemporary dilemmas provoked by the provision of social care to adults in the UK. It juxtaposes the judgments in two cases, each of which interrogates the legal consequences of the mixed economy of care: the majority and minority opinions of the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham City Council (2007) and the Care Standards Tribunal decision in Alternative Futures v National Care …
Jurisdiction and Scale: Rent Arrears, Social Housing, and Human Rights
This article draws on the recent work of Mariana Valverde on jurisdiction and scale to frame a study of the interaction between mandatory possession proceedings brought by one particular type of social housing provider – housing associations – and national as well as human rights law. It was the explicit political choice to focus social housing provision on housing associations, as opposed to local authorities, which opened up the mandatory posse…
Yeah but, no but’ – P innock and P owell in the S upreme C ourt
This note considers the S upreme C ourt decisions in M anchester CC v P innock and H ounslow LBC v P owell . It is argued that there are a number of remaining outstanding questions around proportionality, including: deference; section 89, H ousing A ct 1980; procedural issues; ‘publicness’; and the future landscape
Mother Abuse: A Matter of Youth Justice, Child Welfare or Domestic Violence
International evidence suggests that in advanced welfare states the abuse of parents, most particularly mothers, by their (most frequently male) adolescent children is increasingly prevalent. In the United Kingdom, however, child‐to‐mother abuse remains one of the most under‐acknowledged and under‐researched forms of family violence. Although it is an issue shrouded in silence, stigma, and shame, the authors' work in the youth justice sphere, foc…
Managing vulnerability: Homelessness law and the interplay of the social, the political and the technical
Martin Partington was at the forefront of a new generation of legal scholars who, in the 1970s, sought to democratise the discipline through the introduction of new subject areas more relevant to t
Researching the Judiciary: Exploring the Invisible in Judicial Decision Making
From introduction: This paper concerns the the processes involved in developing a study method appropriate to exploring the way in which judicial discretion is exercised in the County Court. The specific context is possession cases brought against the tenant of social landlords on the grounds of rent arrears. The work is based on an empirical project commissioned by the Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) in the spring of 2004
Policing the housing crisis
In this paper, we argue that the ‘crime control housing crisis’ which has engulfed social housing is qualitatively different from most previous and current understandings of housing crisis (which have been of a quantita tive nature, or been resolved to that). By contrast, the crime control housing crisis is a crisis precisely because it appears insoluble. All hous ing problems and policies now have to be legitimated by reference to this crime con…
Adjudicating the Implementation of Homelessness Law: The Promise of Socio-Legal Studies
This paper offers a re-consideration of the contexts within which discretionary homelessness decision making takes place. Drawing on socio-legal studies, it is argued that one such context (which has regularly been ignored within the housing studies literature) is compliance with the law. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data of internal reviews of homelessness decision making, the paper considers how far (and under what conditions) initia…
Taking the blame and losing the home: Women and anti-social behaviour
Since the early 1990s, anti-social behaviour by households living in the UK social rented sector has been highlighted as a key area of policy concern. Abandoning the usual stereotyped images, this paper reveals there to be significant differences in the nature of the problem according to the gender of perpetrators. We focus attention on the experiences of women-headed households involved in anti-social behaviour and the way in which landlords and…
Social Landlords' Responses to Neighbour Nuisance and Anti-Social Behaviour: From the Negligible to the Holistic
Since the early 1990s, reports on topics ranging from neighbourhood renewal and low demand to social exclusion have highlighted the damaging effects of anti-social behaviour. Local authorities are urged to develop a 'holistic' response to anti-social behaviour. Recent research into the effectiveness of legal remedies reveals a tension between attempts to address the underlying causes of anti-social behaviour and the government's emphasis on legal…
The Discourse of Housing Debt: The Social Construction of Landlords, Lenders, Borrowers and Tenants
The critical role of discourse and the social construction of the UK housing system have been highlighted in a number of recent studies. This article is concerned with the construction of tenure within housing policy discourse, with a focus on the tenure-specific conceptualisation of housing debt, particularly arrears of rents and mortgages and how landlords and lenders respond to them. By scrutinising politicians' housing debt discourse and comp…
Tenure Preference, Discourse and Housing Debt
The unsettling of settled law on 'settled accommodation: The house of lords and the homelessness legislation old and new
The Housing Act 1996 Part VII makes significant changes to homelessness law in England and Wales. In Scotland, however, the law remains the same. Prior to the 1996 Act the decision in R. v. London Borough of Brent ex p. Awua, seemed to have achieved more than the Government sought for England and Wales. This article seeks to examine how that occurred through the dismantling of the concept of 'settled accommodation', a concept which did not appear…
Taking the blame and losing the home: Women and anti-social behaviour
Since the early 1990s, anti-social behaviour by households living in the UK social rented sector has been highlighted as a key area of policy concern. Abandoning the usual stereotyped images, this paper reveals there to be significant differences in the nature of the problem according to the gender of perpetrators. We focus attention on the experiences of women-headed households involved in anti-social behaviour and the way in which landlords and…
Legal Compliance in Street‐Level Bureaucracy: A Study of UK Housing Officers
Street‐level bureaucratic theory is now at a fairly mature stage. The focus on street‐level bureaucrats as ultimate policymakers is now as familiar as it is important. Likewise, the parallel sociolegal study of the implementation of public law in public organizations has demonstrated the inevitable gap between law‐in‐the‐books and law‐in‐action. Yet, the success of these advances comes at the potential cost of us losing sight of the importance of…
Managing vulnerability: Homelessness law and the interplay of the social, the political and the technical
Martin Partington was at the forefront of a new generation of legal scholars who, in the 1970s, sought to democratise the discipline through the introduction of new subject areas more relevant to t
The Discourse of Housing Debt: The Social Construction of Landlords, Lenders, Borrowers and Tenants
The critical role of discourse and the social construction of the UK housing system have been highlighted in a number of recent studies. This article is concerned with the construction of tenure within housing policy discourse, with a focus on the tenure-specific conceptualisation of housing debt, particularly arrears of rents and mortgages and how landlords and lenders respond to them. By scrutinising politicians' housing debt discourse and comp…
Social Landlords' Responses to Neighbour Nuisance and Anti-Social Behaviour: From the Negligible to the Holistic
Since the early 1990s, reports on topics ranging from neighbourhood renewal and low demand to social exclusion have highlighted the damaging effects of anti-social behaviour. Local authorities are urged to develop a 'holistic' response to anti-social behaviour. Recent research into the effectiveness of legal remedies reveals a tension between attempts to address the underlying causes of anti-social behaviour and the government's emphasis on legal…
Policing the housing crisis
In this paper, we argue that the ‘crime control housing crisis’ which has engulfed social housing is qualitatively different from most previous and current understandings of housing crisis (which have been of a quantita tive nature, or been resolved to that). By contrast, the crime control housing crisis is a crisis precisely because it appears insoluble. All hous ing problems and policies now have to be legitimated by reference to this crime con…
The Right to Buy: Examination of an exercise in allocating, shifting and re-branding risks
This paper examines the development of the Right to Buy, introduced by the Housing Act 1980, from the standpoint of governmentality, risk and responsibilization. Our focus is on the risks not only to the purchasers but also to local authorities and to those tenants who have not purchased their homes. We trace how these risks have been assessed, allocated and rebranded, by central government, by local authorities as landlords with wider responsibi…
Mother Abuse: A Matter of Youth Justice, Child Welfare or Domestic Violence
International evidence suggests that in advanced welfare states the abuse of parents, most particularly mothers, by their (most frequently male) adolescent children is increasingly prevalent. In the United Kingdom, however, child‐to‐mother abuse remains one of the most under‐acknowledged and under‐researched forms of family violence. Although it is an issue shrouded in silence, stigma, and shame, the authors' work in the youth justice sphere, foc…
Adjudicating the Implementation of Homelessness Law: The Promise of Socio-Legal Studies
This paper offers a re-consideration of the contexts within which discretionary homelessness decision making takes place. Drawing on socio-legal studies, it is argued that one such context (which has regularly been ignored within the housing studies literature) is compliance with the law. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data of internal reviews of homelessness decision making, the paper considers how far (and under what conditions) initia…
Parent Abuse: Can Law Be the Answer
This article reviews the different forms of legal interventions which may be available to address parent abuse. It seeks to examine the evidence as to which are actually used currently and the problems which are inherent in them. We do this both by examining the statutory basis of the existing potential legal remedies and reported cases relating to those provisions, and by drawing on evidence from a small-scale study of relevant professional work…
Unravelling Law’s Kinning Practices: Feminism, Fictive Families and the Albert Kennedy Trust
Researching the Judiciary: Exploring the Invisible in Judicial Decision Making
From introduction: This paper concerns the the processes involved in developing a study method appropriate to exploring the way in which judicial discretion is exercised in the County Court. The specific context is possession cases brought against the tenant of social landlords on the grounds of rent arrears. The work is based on an empirical project commissioned by the Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) in the spring of 2004
Shaping the ‘studenthood: Purpose-Built Student Accommodation and Planning Law
Tenure Preference, Discourse and Housing Debt
The unsettling of settled law on 'settled accommodation: The house of lords and the homelessness legislation old and new
The Housing Act 1996 Part VII makes significant changes to homelessness law in England and Wales. In Scotland, however, the law remains the same. Prior to the 1996 Act the decision in R. v. London Borough of Brent ex p. Awua, seemed to have achieved more than the Government sought for England and Wales. This article seeks to examine how that occurred through the dismantling of the concept of 'settled accommodation', a concept which did not appear…
The Discourse of Housing Debt: The Social Construction of Landlords, Lenders, Borrowers and Tenants
The critical role of discourse and the social construction of the UK housing system have been highlighted in a number of recent studies. This article is concerned with the construction of tenure within housing policy discourse, with a focus on the tenure-specific conceptualisation of housing debt, particularly arrears of rents and mortgages and how landlords and lenders respond to them. By scrutinising politicians' housing debt discourse and comp…
Tenure Preference, Discourse and Housing Debt
Taking the blame and losing the home: Women and anti-social behaviour
Since the early 1990s, anti-social behaviour by households living in the UK social rented sector has been highlighted as a key area of policy concern. Abandoning the usual stereotyped images, this paper reveals there to be significant differences in the nature of the problem according to the gender of perpetrators. We focus attention on the experiences of women-headed households involved in anti-social behaviour and the way in which landlords and…
Social Landlords' Responses to Neighbour Nuisance and Anti-Social Behaviour: From the Negligible to the Holistic
Since the early 1990s, reports on topics ranging from neighbourhood renewal and low demand to social exclusion have highlighted the damaging effects of anti-social behaviour. Local authorities are urged to develop a 'holistic' response to anti-social behaviour. Recent research into the effectiveness of legal remedies reveals a tension between attempts to address the underlying causes of anti-social behaviour and the government's emphasis on legal…
Adjudicating the Implementation of Homelessness Law: The Promise of Socio-Legal Studies
This paper offers a re-consideration of the contexts within which discretionary homelessness decision making takes place. Drawing on socio-legal studies, it is argued that one such context (which has regularly been ignored within the housing studies literature) is compliance with the law. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data of internal reviews of homelessness decision making, the paper considers how far (and under what conditions) initia…
Policing the housing crisis
In this paper, we argue that the ‘crime control housing crisis’ which has engulfed social housing is qualitatively different from most previous and current understandings of housing crisis (which have been of a quantita tive nature, or been resolved to that). By contrast, the crime control housing crisis is a crisis precisely because it appears insoluble. All hous ing problems and policies now have to be legitimated by reference to this crime con…
Managing vulnerability: Homelessness law and the interplay of the social, the political and the technical
Martin Partington was at the forefront of a new generation of legal scholars who, in the 1970s, sought to democratise the discipline through the introduction of new subject areas more relevant to t
Researching the Judiciary: Exploring the Invisible in Judicial Decision Making
From introduction: This paper concerns the the processes involved in developing a study method appropriate to exploring the way in which judicial discretion is exercised in the County Court. The specific context is possession cases brought against the tenant of social landlords on the grounds of rent arrears. The work is based on an empirical project commissioned by the Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) in the spring of 2004
Mother Abuse: A Matter of Youth Justice, Child Welfare or Domestic Violence
International evidence suggests that in advanced welfare states the abuse of parents, most particularly mothers, by their (most frequently male) adolescent children is increasingly prevalent. In the United Kingdom, however, child‐to‐mother abuse remains one of the most under‐acknowledged and under‐researched forms of family violence. Although it is an issue shrouded in silence, stigma, and shame, the authors' work in the youth justice sphere, foc…
Some Useful Sources
The following list provides a brief overview of relevant publications on parent abuse, together with links to some useful websites. Given the nature of parent abuse the publications come from a varied disciplinary background ranging from the therapeutic to social policy and criminological. Some look at the nature and incidence of parent abuse, some examine the experience and causes of it, while others suggest therapeutic interventions. See furthe…
Parent Abuse: Can Law Be the Answer
This article reviews the different forms of legal interventions which may be available to address parent abuse. It seeks to examine the evidence as to which are actually used currently and the problems which are inherent in them. We do this both by examining the statutory basis of the existing potential legal remedies and reported cases relating to those provisions, and by drawing on evidence from a small-scale study of relevant professional work…
Introduction: Exploring Parent Abuse – Building Knowledge across Disciplines
There is an extensive body of literature on the ways in which the family home is often a site of conflict and discord rather than security and safety. Much of this work has focussed on the problem of domestic violence perpetrated by adults and how the state should respond to it (Home Office, 2009). Another form of family violence however, that of the abuse of parents (or those occupying a parental role) by their adolescent children, has not recei…
Unravelling Law’s Kinning Practices: Feminism, Fictive Families and the Albert Kennedy Trust
Are Judicial Approaches to Adult Social Care at a Dead-End
This article examines the limits of law to resolve or transform the contemporary dilemmas provoked by the provision of social care to adults in the UK. It juxtaposes the judgments in two cases, each of which interrogates the legal consequences of the mixed economy of care: the majority and minority opinions of the House of Lords in YL v Birmingham City Council (2007) and the Care Standards Tribunal decision in Alternative Futures v National Care …
Jurisdiction and Scale: Rent Arrears, Social Housing, and Human Rights
This article draws on the recent work of Mariana Valverde on jurisdiction and scale to frame a study of the interaction between mandatory possession proceedings brought by one particular type of social housing provider – housing associations – and national as well as human rights law. It was the explicit political choice to focus social housing provision on housing associations, as opposed to local authorities, which opened up the mandatory posse…
Yeah but, no but’ – P innock and P owell in the S upreme C ourt
This note considers the S upreme C ourt decisions in M anchester CC v P innock and H ounslow LBC v P owell . It is argued that there are a number of remaining outstanding questions around proportionality, including: deference; section 89, H ousing A ct 1980; procedural issues; ‘publicness’; and the future landscape
The Right to Buy: Examination of an exercise in allocating, shifting and re-branding risks
This paper examines the development of the Right to Buy, introduced by the Housing Act 1980, from the standpoint of governmentality, risk and responsibilization. Our focus is on the risks not only to the purchasers but also to local authorities and to those tenants who have not purchased their homes. We trace how these risks have been assessed, allocated and rebranded, by central government, by local authorities as landlords with wider responsibi…
Community involvement for sustainable heritage tourism: A conceptual model
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore why and how to involve community stakeholders to achieve sustainability in heritage tourism operations. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual model and three propositions are created based on stakeholder theory and the social capital perspective. Findings – The study highlights the challenges facing heritage tourism operators and recommends that these organizations focus on inter-stakeholder …
Anti-Social Behaviour in Britain. Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives
Review of Anti-social Behaviour in Britain. Victorian and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Sarah Pickard
Legal Compliance in Street‐Level Bureaucracy: A Study of UK Housing Officers
Street‐level bureaucratic theory is now at a fairly mature stage. The focus on street‐level bureaucrats as ultimate policymakers is now as familiar as it is important. Likewise, the parallel sociolegal study of the implementation of public law in public organizations has demonstrated the inevitable gap between law‐in‐the‐books and law‐in‐action. Yet, the success of these advances comes at the potential cost of us losing sight of the importance of…
The face of Property Guardianship: Online property advertisements, categorical identity and googling your next home
This paper examines the phenomenon of "property guardianship" in England, focusing on property guardians' entry into this precarious sector and the reality of their occupation. Drawing on data from a survey of 217 London-based property guardians and an analysis of 512 online property guardian advertisements, we examine: (i) how property guardian advertisements construct this form of accommodation as a destination for young people unable to afford…
Imprisonment for breach of injunctions: What is happening in the civil courts
Drawing on a dataset of 263 contempt of court decisions, this paper examines a widespread but under-interrogated phenomenon: imprisonment for breach of injunctions. Across a wide range of contexts – from cases involving anti-social behaviour, protest, Gypsy and Traveller communities – courts across the country are using their civil contempt of court powers to imprison individuals for breaching injunctions. As the first research to date that expli…
‘Hiding in plain sight’: Organised crime, financial crime and property
This special issue of Trends in Organised Crime brings together recent empirical research on organised crime, financial crime and property. The collection comprises six original contributions, which collectively reveal the multiple ways property intersects with organised and financial crime – from organised violence against property, predatory landlordism, and domestic cannabis cultivation, to mortgage and real estate fraud, and money laundering
Shaping the ‘studenthood: Purpose-Built Student Accommodation and Planning Law
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (9 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works)