Wendy Fitzgibbon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5120380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Fitzgibbon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzgibbon |
| SIGNATURE | FITZGIBBON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0688-6167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The UK sex offender register: Has the net been cast too wide
The UK sex offender register is integral to the public protection system, albeit an elusive tool to evaluate. This project analysed qualitative data from 64 professionals from criminal justice agencies and examined how the register effectively protects the public, and, more pertinently for the purposes of this article, how it could be made more productive. A recurring theme was its incremental growth – an inevitable trend given the length of regi…
The prevalence and experience of children on the sex offender register in England and Wales
In the UK, children who are convicted of sexual offences are subject, under certain circumstances, to the notification requirements of the 2003 Sexual Offences Act that is, they become registered sexual offenders. However, data on the number of children required to notify has not been available in the public domain, and equally there is little research on the particular issues that registration bring to bear on children. This project sought to ad…
Lives and spaces: Photovoice and offender supervision in Ireland and England
The lives and experiences of those on probation supervision are often invisible and dismissed as unimportant or worse as ‘an easy option’. This article reviews two different studies in England and Ireland which utilized an innovative technique, Photovoice, to foreground the experiences of probationers on their journey towards desistance. The difficulties they face such as stigma, social judgement and exclusion are explored as well as their need f…
Women's voices made visible: Photovoice in visual criminology
The voices of women subject to the criminal justice system are often ignored and unheard. This article considers the effectiveness of photovoice, a form of participatory photography research, as a visual method of enabling and communicating marginalised women’s experiences in criminological research. By utilising the potentially empowering technique of photovoice in two research projects, the narratives of women who inject drugs in Hungary and wo…
Privatization and coercion: The question of legitimacy
This article explores issues surrounding the legitimacy of private sector provision in criminal justice. It examines changes in ideas about legitimate coercion which have made private sector involvement possible. It then elaborates two models of the processes whereby private sector entities attempt to obtain and maintain the legitimacy of their activities in the eyes of the public
Supervising Rioters: The Role of Probation
This article aims to investigate the current response to the riots in the UK in A ugust 2011 by comparing and contrasting the political and institutional factors with the reaction to the riots that occurred in B rixton and T oxteth 1981 and those in B radford, B urnley and O ldham in 2001. The article focuses on the changes which have occurred within the probation service over that period and by interviewing twelve frontline practitioners, seeks …
Probation and Social Work on Trial: Violent Offenders and Child Abusers
The Baby Peter and Dano Sonnex incidents were high profile cases in which two key public services, namely child protection and probation, both failed in their tasks of protection of the victims and the public. In this book the author graphically describes media and political reactions and then proceeds to analyze the common problems both social work and probation practice face under conditions of economic recession and drastic reductions in fundi…
Police, Probation and the Bifurcation of Community
The police and probation services are agencies that have traditionally had close relations with the communities in which they work. Both agencies exhibit tensions in their relations with the community: in policing, in the relation between centralised targets and community needs, and in probation in the role of the community in the process of rehabilitation and desistance. We argue that these tensions mirror deeper contradictions within current ur…
Institutional Racism, Pre‐Emptive Criminalisation and Risk Analysis
In the context of ongoing debate about negative stereotyping and poor risk assessment practices with minority ethnic groups in British society, this article attempts to develop an account of the dynamics of discrimination against black people in the area of mental health policy and practice. It is argued that a framework for the analysis of discrimination can be usefully constructed in terms of the relationship between the processes of pre‐emptiv…
Risk analysis and the new practitioner: Myth or reality
This aim of this research is to contribute to an examination of the effects of the transition toward risk analysis on the work of practitioners within the criminal justice system, in particular the probation service of England and Wales. The intention here is to focus on the impact on practice and interventions in the shift from traditional casework methods to risk assessment and some of the contradictions and problems this raises. On the basis o…
Risk analysis and the new practitioner: Myth or reality
This aim of this research is to contribute to an examination of the effects of the transition toward risk analysis on the work of practitioners within the criminal justice system, in particular the probation service of England and Wales. The intention here is to focus on the impact on practice and interventions in the shift from traditional casework methods to risk assessment and some of the contradictions and problems this raises. On the basis o…
Women's voices made visible: Photovoice in visual criminology
The voices of women subject to the criminal justice system are often ignored and unheard. This article considers the effectiveness of photovoice, a form of participatory photography research, as a visual method of enabling and communicating marginalised women’s experiences in criminological research. By utilising the potentially empowering technique of photovoice in two research projects, the narratives of women who inject drugs in Hungary and wo…
Lives and spaces: Photovoice and offender supervision in Ireland and England
The lives and experiences of those on probation supervision are often invisible and dismissed as unimportant or worse as ‘an easy option’. This article reviews two different studies in England and Ireland which utilized an innovative technique, Photovoice, to foreground the experiences of probationers on their journey towards desistance. The difficulties they face such as stigma, social judgement and exclusion are explored as well as their need f…
Privatization and coercion: The question of legitimacy
This article explores issues surrounding the legitimacy of private sector provision in criminal justice. It examines changes in ideas about legitimate coercion which have made private sector involvement possible. It then elaborates two models of the processes whereby private sector entities attempt to obtain and maintain the legitimacy of their activities in the eyes of the public
Probation and Social Work on Trial: Violent Offenders and Child Abusers
The Baby Peter and Dano Sonnex incidents were high profile cases in which two key public services, namely child protection and probation, both failed in their tasks of protection of the victims and the public. In this book the author graphically describes media and political reactions and then proceeds to analyze the common problems both social work and probation practice face under conditions of economic recession and drastic reductions in fundi…
Risk analysis and the new practitioner: Myth or reality
This aim of this research is to contribute to an examination of the effects of the transition toward risk analysis on the work of practitioners within the criminal justice system, in particular the probation service of England and Wales. The intention here is to focus on the impact on practice and interventions in the shift from traditional casework methods to risk assessment and some of the contradictions and problems this raises. On the basis o…
Institutional Racism, Pre‐Emptive Criminalisation and Risk Analysis
In the context of ongoing debate about negative stereotyping and poor risk assessment practices with minority ethnic groups in British society, this article attempts to develop an account of the dynamics of discrimination against black people in the area of mental health policy and practice. It is argued that a framework for the analysis of discrimination can be usefully constructed in terms of the relationship between the processes of pre‐emptiv…
Police, Probation and the Bifurcation of Community
The police and probation services are agencies that have traditionally had close relations with the communities in which they work. Both agencies exhibit tensions in their relations with the community: in policing, in the relation between centralised targets and community needs, and in probation in the role of the community in the process of rehabilitation and desistance. We argue that these tensions mirror deeper contradictions within current ur…
Probation and Social Work on Trial: Violent Offenders and Child Abusers
The Baby Peter and Dano Sonnex incidents were high profile cases in which two key public services, namely child protection and probation, both failed in their tasks of protection of the victims and the public. In this book the author graphically describes media and political reactions and then proceeds to analyze the common problems both social work and probation practice face under conditions of economic recession and drastic reductions in fundi…
Supervising Rioters: The Role of Probation
This article aims to investigate the current response to the riots in the UK in A ugust 2011 by comparing and contrasting the political and institutional factors with the reaction to the riots that occurred in B rixton and T oxteth 1981 and those in B radford, B urnley and O ldham in 2001. The article focuses on the changes which have occurred within the probation service over that period and by interviewing twelve frontline practitioners, seeks …
Lives and spaces: Photovoice and offender supervision in Ireland and England
The lives and experiences of those on probation supervision are often invisible and dismissed as unimportant or worse as ‘an easy option’. This article reviews two different studies in England and Ireland which utilized an innovative technique, Photovoice, to foreground the experiences of probationers on their journey towards desistance. The difficulties they face such as stigma, social judgement and exclusion are explored as well as their need f…
Women's voices made visible: Photovoice in visual criminology
The voices of women subject to the criminal justice system are often ignored and unheard. This article considers the effectiveness of photovoice, a form of participatory photography research, as a visual method of enabling and communicating marginalised women’s experiences in criminological research. By utilising the potentially empowering technique of photovoice in two research projects, the narratives of women who inject drugs in Hungary and wo…
Privatization and coercion: The question of legitimacy
This article explores issues surrounding the legitimacy of private sector provision in criminal justice. It examines changes in ideas about legitimate coercion which have made private sector involvement possible. It then elaborates two models of the processes whereby private sector entities attempt to obtain and maintain the legitimacy of their activities in the eyes of the public
The UK sex offender register: Has the net been cast too wide
The UK sex offender register is integral to the public protection system, albeit an elusive tool to evaluate. This project analysed qualitative data from 64 professionals from criminal justice agencies and examined how the register effectively protects the public, and, more pertinently for the purposes of this article, how it could be made more productive. A recurring theme was its incremental growth – an inevitable trend given the length of regi…
The prevalence and experience of children on the sex offender register in England and Wales
In the UK, children who are convicted of sexual offences are subject, under certain circumstances, to the notification requirements of the 2003 Sexual Offences Act that is, they become registered sexual offenders. However, data on the number of children required to notify has not been available in the public domain, and equally there is little research on the particular issues that registration bring to bear on children. This project sought to ad…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (9 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)