Matt Bowden
Biographic Data
| ID | 5141868 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Bowden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowden |
| SIGNATURE | BOWDEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technological University Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7840-2542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Criminal exploitation and vulnerability in drug markets
In the UK, the recent ‘turn to vulnerability’ in safeguarding and the criminal justice system has meant an increasing recognition that many children and vulnerable adults committing crimes, such as drug dealing, are in fact victims of criminal exploitation involving manipulation and coercion. This recognition is fairly recent, and the visibility of exploited children and adults is impacting how they are dealt with and safeguarded. In other parts …
Building societal resilience against child grooming
Child grooming is a pervasive yet often hidden issue, with children frequently delaying disclosure until abuse or exploitation has occurred. This study presents the first empirical phase of GroSafe, a National Challenge Fund project led by TU Dublin in partnership with the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) and funded by Research Ireland. Aligning with the Empathise and Define stages of Design Thinking, this concept p…
Farm crime and trust in the Police in Ireland
Rural Transformations and Rural Crime
This book explicates the many ways that rural societies experience change: whether that be social change wrought by new economic ordering of the globe centring on technology; or institutional change resulting in the way in which the state and market penetrate civil society in rural areas. These changes themselves pose conceptual and empirical challenges to criminology, to capture the rural experience of crime, victimisation and harm. This book is…
Rural Transformations and Rural Crime
The security field
Recent scholarly contributions have sought to integrate Bourdieusian sociology with criminology, centring for example, on the ‘street’ field as a symbolic and narrative space occupied by players within criminal justice. This article complements this broad objective by focusing on the changes in contemporary police and security governance that are pointing towards an emerging security field. Such a change can be read from the literature on plural …
Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy
Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence
This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden explores concep
Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy
The security field
Recent scholarly contributions have sought to integrate Bourdieusian sociology with criminology, centring for example, on the ‘street’ field as a symbolic and narrative space occupied by players within criminal justice. This article complements this broad objective by focusing on the changes in contemporary police and security governance that are pointing towards an emerging security field. Such a change can be read from the literature on plural …
Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence
This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden explores concep
Community safety, social cohesion and embedded autonomy
The security field
Recent scholarly contributions have sought to integrate Bourdieusian sociology with criminology, centring for example, on the ‘street’ field as a symbolic and narrative space occupied by players within criminal justice. This article complements this broad objective by focusing on the changes in contemporary police and security governance that are pointing towards an emerging security field. Such a change can be read from the literature on plural …
Rural Transformations and Rural Crime
This book explicates the many ways that rural societies experience change: whether that be social change wrought by new economic ordering of the globe centring on technology; or institutional change resulting in the way in which the state and market penetrate civil society in rural areas. These changes themselves pose conceptual and empirical challenges to criminology, to capture the rural experience of crime, victimisation and harm. This book is…
Rural Transformations and Rural Crime
Farm crime and trust in the Police in Ireland
Criminal exploitation and vulnerability in drug markets
In the UK, the recent ‘turn to vulnerability’ in safeguarding and the criminal justice system has meant an increasing recognition that many children and vulnerable adults committing crimes, such as drug dealing, are in fact victims of criminal exploitation involving manipulation and coercion. This recognition is fairly recent, and the visibility of exploited children and adults is impacting how they are dealt with and safeguarded. In other parts …
Building societal resilience against child grooming
Child grooming is a pervasive yet often hidden issue, with children frequently delaying disclosure until abuse or exploitation has occurred. This study presents the first empirical phase of GroSafe, a National Challenge Fund project led by TU Dublin in partnership with the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) and funded by Research Ireland. Aligning with the Empathise and Define stages of Design Thinking, this concept p…
Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Poison control (3 works) · Civil disorder (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works)