Terry Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4245416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terry Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terry |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonizing Counselling
This paper discusses the need to decolonize mainstream counseling practices, predominantly influenced by Eurocentric perspectives, by incorporating non-Western views and experiences. It highlights the importance of recognizing the fluidity of self and identity within diverse social and ecological contexts, particularly in countries like India, where mental health issues are on the rise. The paper critiques the limitations of Western therapeutic a…
Cost’ calculations as a barrier to gaining information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 from the police in England and Wales
Previous research has identified the methodological value of using the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) to gain access to information held by the police, as well as its limitations. Very little attention, however, has been paid to the ways in which the police calculate the cost of FOI compliance and utilise cost exemptions to deny access to information. In this article, we present our empirical findings from our FOI requests made to the pol…
The policing of sexual activity
This essay starts by discussing the initial police involvement with newly reported sexual offences, covering local policing, problems with reporting to the police, police attitudes to complainants, and the role of sexual assault referral centres. The next section reviews police investigations of sexual offences, evidence gathering, and the role of forensic science and preparation for prosecution decisions. The author then explores the new role gi…
The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody
Circles of Support and Accountability is a voluntary initiative that assists people with convictions for sexual offences to resettle in the community. People leaving prison with such convictions often have difficulties in resettling. They carry the burden of the conviction itself, which may be both stigmatising and isolating, and they are the subject of sex offender register requirements, parole and other supervisory conditions. Circles of Suppor…
The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014
The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced new powers to deal with behaviour deemed to be 'anti-social'. In this paper we consider how the new law could be used against sex workers and their clients and the impact this may have. Although the new powers were not intentionally designed to respond to prostitution, we suggest that they will be utilised to tackle it. We argue that the law will be used inconsistently in a way whi…
The Police, Sex Work, and Section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009
This article considers the origins and aims of Section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 and the offence of paying for the sexual services of a prostitute who has been subject to exploitative conduct; this offence is one of ‘strict liability’. Section 14 was implemented on 1 A pril 2010 and using the Freedom of Information Act 2000 the authors have attempted to show the number of times Section 14 has been used by the police in E ngland and W …
Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice
This book aims to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the subject of domestic violence and its interaction with the criminal justice system- including agencies such as the police, the Crown Prosecution Service, the probation service and Children's Services, the courts and the prison service, as well as voluntary agencies such as Women's Aid. The book also looks at how these various agencies work together at a local level and t…
The Registration and Monitoring of Sex Offenders
This book seeks to track the origins of sex offender registers, their purpose and the law and policy that underpins them in various parts of the world. Sex offender registers are not really registers at all but a set of ‘legal requirements’ that fall automatically on a person convicted or cautioned for a designated sexual offence; the term ‘register’ is a form of shorthand for these requirements, designed to be a contribution to greater public pr…
Applications to Come off the UK Sex Offender Register
The sex offender register for purposes of monitoring and supervising those living in the community who have been convicted of sexual offences is a policy developed in the USA and followed by only a few E uropean countries – the UK , the R epublic of I reland, J ersey and F rance; A ustralia, C anada and a few other countries have adopted registers. The UK register started in 1997 and has recently been the subject of legal challenge concerning its…
James Bulger – a matter of public interest
The British press continues to be fascinated by the 1993 murder of two year old James Bulger by two ten year old children. This article attempts to clarify the issues the case brought up and to examine why it has such resonance with the general public. The article does this by asking six framing questions that it then seeks to answer
The Registration and Monitoring of Sex Offenders
1. Introduction 2. Registers - a source of 'Tyranny and Intimidation'? 3. Twentieth Century Registration of the Deviant, the Dangerous and the Offender 4. Sex offender registers in the United States of America 5. The UK sex offender register 6. Registers around the World 7. Sex Offender Registers in Progress and Cross Border Monitoring 8. Community Notification and Residence Restrictions 9. Making Sense of Sex Offender Registers 10. Conclusions
International travel for purposes of child sexual exploitation
Making Offenders Visible
The UK Home Office has announced (December 2009) a new policy to publicise the criminal court judgments on individual offenders to the local communities in which those offenders live. The Home Office believes that this is public information obtained fairly from the public forum of the criminal court and that such publicising is merely boosting the job previously carried out by local reporters and newspapers covering the local criminal court. The …
European Developments in Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring
brill.nl/eccl © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/157181710X12816005399276 European Developments in Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring Terry Thomas Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Introduction The use of sex offender registers to monitor the location and circumstances of people convicted and sentenced for designated sexual offences has become a recognised feat…
The Sex Offender Register
The sex offender register requires offenders to notify the police every time their circumstances change. This notification requirement continues for time periods dependent on the severity of sentence received; some offenders are subject to a lifetime's registration. This article considers the basis of these time periods and the necessity of introducing a form of appeal to allow revision or suspension of the registration requirement for people unl…
Children and Young People on the UK Sex Offender Register
A number of countries now use sex offender registers as a policy to improve levels of public protection by ensuring that law enforcement agencies are better informed on the whereabouts of sex offenders in their communities. These policies are designed in part to improve child protection. The paradox is that some people on the register are themselves children and young people who have committed sexual offences. This article examines the developmen…
The Sex Offender ‘Register’
We now have ten years' experience of the sex offender ‘register’ and its requirements that offenders having committed designated offences notify the police every time their address and other details change. In those years the ‘register’ has been strengthened and added to in various ways to make notification an increasingly onerous business. The police have been given new powers to enable them to enter premises. Those on the ‘register’ have been d…
Hard Cop, Soft Cop
Sex Offender Community Notification
The UK sex offender register is at present ‘closed’ to any general public right of access despite the demands of various constituencies to grant such access. In the USA, registers are open to the public. This article explores the US experiences of disseminating information on sex offenders that started in the mid‐1990s and seeks to draw lessons for the UK, on the practicalities that might ensue given a general right of access
Child protection and covert video surveillance
Covert video surveillance has been in use in UK hospitals since the mid-1980s as a technique for investigating suspected child abuse by parents against their children. Although its use is not widespread, it nonetheless raises a number of significant issues concerning patient confidentiality, human rights and deception by agents of the state. This paper considers such issues in the context of new central government guidance on the subject and in r…
Support to Business in Underdeveloped Regions Makes Economic Sense
Evaluating Policy Outcomes
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) was established in 1987 as the federal government agent for economic development in Atlantic Canada. This article describes the Agency’s “corporate” approach to provide credible, quantitative estimates of the long-term policy outcomes of total Agency activity. The focus of evaluation activity has been to determine the contribution of ACOA as a whole to its legislated mandate to enhance the growth of…
Capacity Building Against Transnational Crime
No Abstract
Tracking’ Sex Offenders
This paper considers what legal and practice arrangements exist in England and Wales to monitor sex offenders following release from prison and comments on the limitations and implications of such ‘tracking’ in the community. Recent developments in the USA are also reviewed. The authors argue that ‘tracking’ should be seen in the wider context of the political economy of risk, which emphasises both the proactive ‘management’ of knowledge about of…
Sexual Offenders in the Community
Cost’ calculations as a barrier to gaining information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 from the police in England and Wales
Previous research has identified the methodological value of using the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) to gain access to information held by the police, as well as its limitations. Very little attention, however, has been paid to the ways in which the police calculate the cost of FOI compliance and utilise cost exemptions to deny access to information. In this article, we present our empirical findings from our FOI requests made to the pol…
The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014
The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced new powers to deal with behaviour deemed to be 'anti-social'. In this paper we consider how the new law could be used against sex workers and their clients and the impact this may have. Although the new powers were not intentionally designed to respond to prostitution, we suggest that they will be utilised to tackle it. We argue that the law will be used inconsistently in a way whi…
Capacity Building Against Transnational Crime
No Abstract
James Bulger – a matter of public interest
The British press continues to be fascinated by the 1993 murder of two year old James Bulger by two ten year old children. This article attempts to clarify the issues the case brought up and to examine why it has such resonance with the general public. The article does this by asking six framing questions that it then seeks to answer
European Developments in Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring
brill.nl/eccl © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/157181710X12816005399276 European Developments in Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring Terry Thomas Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Introduction The use of sex offender registers to monitor the location and circumstances of people convicted and sentenced for designated sexual offences has become a recognised feat…
Hard Cop, Soft Cop
Sexual Offenders in the Community
Approved Households
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
This article examines the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and its implications for Local Authority social workers and the roles they are now asked to take on. In particular the article focusses on the police detention and questioning of ‘vulnerable’ suspects like juveniles and mentally disordered people and the role of the social worker as ‘appropriate adult’. The importance of the social work role in this part of the criminal justice syste…
The police and social workers
A theoretical and 'historical' overview of the potential for friction between police officers and social workers as they have to work together on a daily basis. Where the root causes of that tension may be located. Indications that in recent years there is a coming together of the police and social workers and a growing degree of accord in their daily practice. Speculation as to why this should be, is followed by a consideration of some implicati…
Confidentiality
The article is an examination of the shifting point of balance at which social workers are prepared to make private information available to other agencies—an availability more easily made today than it was 10 years ago. The paper looks particularly at the Cleveland Report, DHSS child abuse procedures, and the 1988 Department of Health circular Personal Social Services: Confidentiality of Personal Information, and tries to draw conclusions that o…
Choice, consent and social work practice
This paper argues that both client choice and consent have long been central concepts to social work practice. There have always been limits to that choice and consent and social workers may always have been liable to ‘misuse’ their power and authority. In recent years there appears to be more deliberate movement away from choice and consent for clients toward a more controlling authoritarian social work. Political, organisational and other socia…
Approved Households
To minimise future risk–Home Office Circular 88(102) and the Politics of Protection”
(1991). “To minimise future risk–Home Office Circular 88(102) and the Politics of Protection”. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 128-141
The Disqualification of Childminders
Amongst the many new statutory Regulations introduced with the Children Act 1989 are the “Disqualification for Caring for Children Regulations 1991‘. The Regulations outline, for the first time, exactly which previous criminal convictions may lead to a person being disqualified as a childminder, day care worker or private foster parent. The paper describes the background and implications of the Regulations and suggests some possible implications
Police Attendance at Child Protection Conferences
We now have over 16 years experience of child protection arrangements that include the attendance of police officers at child protection conferences. This article attempts to review that experience and critically assess the police role at conferences in the light of the Department of Health's Working Together, Particular attention is paid to the nature of information made available by the police to child protection conferences
The police and social services departments in england and wales
The purpose of this paper1 is to make an audit of all those points of interaction between the police and social services departments, through which the exchange of personal information takes place on a daily basis. An attempt is made to highlight the sub-cultural nature of these exchanges as well as the civil liberty implications, but it is suggested that, in future, we might usefully examine such exchanges in the light of a framework that draws …
The closed World of Warner
The Warner Report at the end of 1992 proposed new means of recruiting and selecting people to work in residential child care. The aim was to minimise the risk of abuse to children looked after by local authorities following a series of high profile court cases. In attempting to identify more accurately the “right” sort of person to work in residential care the Warner Report lay heavy emphasis on pre-employment screening by means of a criminal rec…
The Continuing Story of the ‘Appropriate Adult’
Examines the evolution and present role of the ‘appropriate adult’ attending police interviews with ‘vulnerable’ suspects as defined in the Codes of Practice to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. In particular it explores the role as played by local authority social workers, the training and experience that prepares them for this role and whether changes are needed in the light of the 1993 Royal Commission on Criminal Justice findings
Child protection, privacy and covert video surveillance
The secret filming of parents visiting their children in hospital in order to ‘capture’ possible child abuse has aroused some controversy. The development of covert video surveillance (CVS) over the last ten years is outlined, together with its link to the Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. An attempt is made to illustrate the difficulties of fitting CVS into established child protection procedures and into the ethos of the Children Act 1989
Tracking’ Sex Offenders
This paper considers what legal and practice arrangements exist in England and Wales to monitor sex offenders following release from prison and comments on the limitations and implications of such ‘tracking’ in the community. Recent developments in the USA are also reviewed. The authors argue that ‘tracking’ should be seen in the wider context of the political economy of risk, which emphasises both the proactive ‘management’ of knowledge about of…
Sexual Offenders in the Community
Capacity Building Against Transnational Crime
No Abstract
Support to Business in Underdeveloped Regions Makes Economic Sense
Evaluating Policy Outcomes
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) was established in 1987 as the federal government agent for economic development in Atlantic Canada. This article describes the Agency’s “corporate” approach to provide credible, quantitative estimates of the long-term policy outcomes of total Agency activity. The focus of evaluation activity has been to determine the contribution of ACOA as a whole to its legislated mandate to enhance the growth of…
Sex Offender Community Notification
The UK sex offender register is at present ‘closed’ to any general public right of access despite the demands of various constituencies to grant such access. In the USA, registers are open to the public. This article explores the US experiences of disseminating information on sex offenders that started in the mid‐1990s and seeks to draw lessons for the UK, on the practicalities that might ensue given a general right of access
Child protection and covert video surveillance
Covert video surveillance has been in use in UK hospitals since the mid-1980s as a technique for investigating suspected child abuse by parents against their children. Although its use is not widespread, it nonetheless raises a number of significant issues concerning patient confidentiality, human rights and deception by agents of the state. This paper considers such issues in the context of new central government guidance on the subject and in r…
Hard Cop, Soft Cop
The Sex Offender ‘Register’
We now have ten years' experience of the sex offender ‘register’ and its requirements that offenders having committed designated offences notify the police every time their address and other details change. In those years the ‘register’ has been strengthened and added to in various ways to make notification an increasingly onerous business. The police have been given new powers to enable them to enter premises. Those on the ‘register’ have been d…
The Sex Offender Register
The sex offender register requires offenders to notify the police every time their circumstances change. This notification requirement continues for time periods dependent on the severity of sentence received; some offenders are subject to a lifetime's registration. This article considers the basis of these time periods and the necessity of introducing a form of appeal to allow revision or suspension of the registration requirement for people unl…
Children and Young People on the UK Sex Offender Register
A number of countries now use sex offender registers as a policy to improve levels of public protection by ensuring that law enforcement agencies are better informed on the whereabouts of sex offenders in their communities. These policies are designed in part to improve child protection. The paradox is that some people on the register are themselves children and young people who have committed sexual offences. This article examines the developmen…
Making Offenders Visible
The UK Home Office has announced (December 2009) a new policy to publicise the criminal court judgments on individual offenders to the local communities in which those offenders live. The Home Office believes that this is public information obtained fairly from the public forum of the criminal court and that such publicising is merely boosting the job previously carried out by local reporters and newspapers covering the local criminal court. The …
European Developments in Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring
brill.nl/eccl © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/157181710X12816005399276 European Developments in Sex Offender Registration and Monitoring Terry Thomas Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Introduction The use of sex offender registers to monitor the location and circumstances of people convicted and sentenced for designated sexual offences has become a recognised feat…
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