Hazel Kemshall
Biographic Data
| ID | 5688929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hazel Kemshall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hazel |
| FAMILY NAME | Kemshall |
| SIGNATURE | KEMSHALL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5128-327X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Incorporating Quaternary Prevention: Understanding the Full Scope of Public Health Practices in Sexual Abuse Prevention
This discussion piece argues for a refinement in our understanding of prevention in sexual abuse, suggesting that we include quaternary prevention on the grounds that this concept from medical literature has potential and helpful application to criminal justice and particularly to work with those who cause sexual harm. Located within the paradigm of Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim), quaternary prevention extends the prevention spectrum to en…
Making desistance real: Implementing a desistance focused approach in a community rehabilitation company (CRC)
Desistance is now a key focus for probation practice in the United Kingdom. However, how to implement desistance in the workplace has remained challenging, particularly in the absence of practice guidance. This article presents the experience of ‘making desistance real’ in the context of Community Rehabilitation Companies. ‘Identity shift’ is presented as a core component of the desistance approach adopted, and practice designed to support servic…
Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Mental Health Policy and Practice edited by SoniaStanford, ElaineSharland, NinaRovinelli Heller and JoanneWarner. 2017: London, Palgrave. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐44135‐5
Conflicting rationalities of risk: Disputing risk in social policy – reflecting on 35 years of researching risk
This article considers how the concept of risk has been variously defined and deployed within research and UK social policy since the 1980s. The article does not present an in-depth historical narrative, but rather presents key trends over this period. The article begins with a short review of policy and risk rationalities from the 1980s onwards with a specific focus on the research ‘discovery’ of the ‘rationality mistake’ by the early 1990s. A s…
The sex offender public disclosure pilots in England and Scotland: Lessons for ‘marketing strategies’ and risk communication with the public
In 2009 a sex offender public disclosure scheme was piloted in England and Scotland based upon political and policy assumptions about the public’s likely take-up of such a scheme. However, the pilots found lower than anticipated public use of the scheme. By drawing on the notions of instrumental and symbolic efficacy this article explores the potential implications of the current rate of take-up. Is the instrumental efficacy of the scheme, that i…
Decentralizing risk: The role of the voluntary and community sector in the management of offenders
This paper considers the rise of third sector agencies as key criminal justice providers within the context of the marketization of probation and other crime management responses. We posit that the ‘rehabilitation revolution’ has significant implications for the voluntary and community sector in particular and criminal justice provision in general. Pointing towards incremental colonization of the third sector by criminal justice concerns, we trac…
Building Stakeholder Support for a Sex Offender Public Disclosure Scheme: Learning from the English Pilots
A national scheme to allow the public to have access to information about convicted sex offenders living locally has recently been introduced. This roll‐out follows an evaluation of pilot schemes that operated in four areas. The campaign for the introduction of such a scheme in the UK has had wide media backing but children's charities had previously been reluctant to offer support. This article explores how the views of the children's charities,…
Crime and risk: Contested territory for risk theorising
Risk Rationalities in Contemporary Social Work Policy and Practice
Risk and Public Protection: Responding to Involuntary and ‘Taboo’ Risk
Growing media, political and public concern with high‐risk offenders in the community has focused policy attention on the concept of ‘public protection’. A notion that the public has the right to be protected, particularly from ‘monstrous’ offenders such as predatory paedophiles, has infiltrated much recent legislation and penal policy. This article will explore the critical factors in the ‘public protection’ trend and the framing of risk and ris…
Beyond public protection: An examination of community protection and public health approaches to high-risk offenders
Public protection has become a key theme of much recent criminal justice legislation and policy aimed at the effective management of high-risk offenders. In this article we draw on two recent research projects to examine the two main approaches to public protection: the community protection model, and the public health approach. Drawing on the recent work of Pat O'Malley we examine the underpinning assumptions of each `risk technology' and how ea…
Understanding risk in criminal justice
This is a single authored work in a key Open University series for crime and criminal justice. The book has been extremely well reviewed and is a key text on a number of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is routinely cited in other works, including leading journal articles. It draws on extensive literature, a wide research base, and the author’s own research. At time of publication it was the first to thoroughly explore the rol…
Effective Practice in Probation: An Example of ‘Advanced Liberal’ Responsibilisation
This article argues that the dominant emphasis upon effective practice in probation work, particularly the emergence of effective programmes can be understood as an example of a key mechanism of social control in advanced liberal societies. Utilising Rose’s concept of ‘responsibilisation’ the article examines the role of effective programmes in the emerging social policy agenda of citizen re‐moralisation, responsibilisation and inclusion exemplif…
Public Protection, Partnership and Risk Penality: The Multi-Agency Risk Management of Sexual and Violent Offenders
This article uses empirical research on the implementation of risk assessment and risk management procedures by public protection panels in England and Wales, to assess how far the evidence supports claims of a broad shift in modes of crime control from penal modernism towards a new `risk penality' characteristic of the late (or post-) modern period. The result is a mixed and contradictory picture, in which the dominant discourse around measures …
Conflicting knowledges on risk: The case of risk knowledge in the probation service
Risk is a key feature of contemporary life, within both the professional and private spheres. This paper begins with a contextualisation of current risk concerns in the Probation Service within the broader concerns of the 'risk society', and presents the differing knowledge constructions of risk utilised by frontline workers and by central policy-makers. The article concludes by examining the impact of competing epistemologies of risk on the prof…
Partners in Evaluation: Modelling Quality in Partnership Projects
The concept of partnership as a way of describing relationships between public, private and voluntary agencies can take many forms. The evaluation of quality in the delivery of services by these partnerships is recognized as complex given the differing perspectives not only of the two partners but of the various other stakeholders, including service users, and the potential for added value arising from the partnership itself. This paper focuses o…
Researching Risk in the Probation Service
This paper will draw upon research and consultancy experience across a number of projects on risk assessment and management in the Probation Service between 1993 and 1999. The projects reflect a range of sponsors and funders, from central government bodies such as the Home Office and the Scottish Office, to professional, managerial and employment bodies such as the Association of Chief Officers of Probation and the Central Council of Probation Co…
Concepts of Risk in Relation to Organizational Structure and Functioning within the Personal Social Services and Probation
The main argument of this paper is that personal social services, including probation, at both a policy and practice level are increasingly focused on issues of risk. We postulate that risk assessment, risk management, the monitoring of risk and risk‐taking itself are rapidly becoming the dominant raison d'être of such agencies, thus supplanting ideologies of meeting need or welfare provision. In turn they have become key to priority setting and …
Sleep Safely: Crime Risks May Be Smaller than you Think
Recent events of extreme violence against members of the public such as the Dunblane killings have heightened both media and public perceptions of crime risks. This paper draws upon existing and ongoing research to review how risks are perceived, and the possible role such perceptions may play in the crime risks debate. In particular, are the processes by which we perceive risk and danger prone to exaggeration, and if so, what effect might such e…
Assessing competence: Scientific process or subjective inference? Do we really see it
This paper explores the role of direct evidence in the competency approach to assessment. In particular the paper explores the effects of subjective inference and interpretation in the use of observational data with particular reference to the issues of gender and race. The paper offers a critique of competency based assessment as a value free process independent of the social context within which it occurs. The competency approach aims to promot…
Public Protection, Partnership and Risk Penality: The Multi-Agency Risk Management of Sexual and Violent Offenders
This article uses empirical research on the implementation of risk assessment and risk management procedures by public protection panels in England and Wales, to assess how far the evidence supports claims of a broad shift in modes of crime control from penal modernism towards a new `risk penality' characteristic of the late (or post-) modern period. The result is a mixed and contradictory picture, in which the dominant discourse around measures …
Risk Rationalities in Contemporary Social Work Policy and Practice
Concepts of Risk in Relation to Organizational Structure and Functioning within the Personal Social Services and Probation
The main argument of this paper is that personal social services, including probation, at both a policy and practice level are increasingly focused on issues of risk. We postulate that risk assessment, risk management, the monitoring of risk and risk‐taking itself are rapidly becoming the dominant raison d'être of such agencies, thus supplanting ideologies of meeting need or welfare provision. In turn they have become key to priority setting and …
Decentralizing risk: The role of the voluntary and community sector in the management of offenders
This paper considers the rise of third sector agencies as key criminal justice providers within the context of the marketization of probation and other crime management responses. We posit that the ‘rehabilitation revolution’ has significant implications for the voluntary and community sector in particular and criminal justice provision in general. Pointing towards incremental colonization of the third sector by criminal justice concerns, we trac…
Beyond public protection: An examination of community protection and public health approaches to high-risk offenders
Public protection has become a key theme of much recent criminal justice legislation and policy aimed at the effective management of high-risk offenders. In this article we draw on two recent research projects to examine the two main approaches to public protection: the community protection model, and the public health approach. Drawing on the recent work of Pat O'Malley we examine the underpinning assumptions of each `risk technology' and how ea…
Sleep Safely: Crime Risks May Be Smaller than you Think
Recent events of extreme violence against members of the public such as the Dunblane killings have heightened both media and public perceptions of crime risks. This paper draws upon existing and ongoing research to review how risks are perceived, and the possible role such perceptions may play in the crime risks debate. In particular, are the processes by which we perceive risk and danger prone to exaggeration, and if so, what effect might such e…
Crime and risk: Contested territory for risk theorising
Researching Risk in the Probation Service
This paper will draw upon research and consultancy experience across a number of projects on risk assessment and management in the Probation Service between 1993 and 1999. The projects reflect a range of sponsors and funders, from central government bodies such as the Home Office and the Scottish Office, to professional, managerial and employment bodies such as the Association of Chief Officers of Probation and the Central Council of Probation Co…
The sex offender public disclosure pilots in England and Scotland: Lessons for ‘marketing strategies’ and risk communication with the public
In 2009 a sex offender public disclosure scheme was piloted in England and Scotland based upon political and policy assumptions about the public’s likely take-up of such a scheme. However, the pilots found lower than anticipated public use of the scheme. By drawing on the notions of instrumental and symbolic efficacy this article explores the potential implications of the current rate of take-up. Is the instrumental efficacy of the scheme, that i…
Risk and Public Protection: Responding to Involuntary and ‘Taboo’ Risk
Growing media, political and public concern with high‐risk offenders in the community has focused policy attention on the concept of ‘public protection’. A notion that the public has the right to be protected, particularly from ‘monstrous’ offenders such as predatory paedophiles, has infiltrated much recent legislation and penal policy. This article will explore the critical factors in the ‘public protection’ trend and the framing of risk and ris…
Assessing competence: Scientific process or subjective inference? Do we really see it
This paper explores the role of direct evidence in the competency approach to assessment. In particular the paper explores the effects of subjective inference and interpretation in the use of observational data with particular reference to the issues of gender and race. The paper offers a critique of competency based assessment as a value free process independent of the social context within which it occurs. The competency approach aims to promot…
Concepts of Risk in Relation to Organizational Structure and Functioning within the Personal Social Services and Probation
The main argument of this paper is that personal social services, including probation, at both a policy and practice level are increasingly focused on issues of risk. We postulate that risk assessment, risk management, the monitoring of risk and risk‐taking itself are rapidly becoming the dominant raison d'être of such agencies, thus supplanting ideologies of meeting need or welfare provision. In turn they have become key to priority setting and …
Sleep Safely: Crime Risks May Be Smaller than you Think
Recent events of extreme violence against members of the public such as the Dunblane killings have heightened both media and public perceptions of crime risks. This paper draws upon existing and ongoing research to review how risks are perceived, and the possible role such perceptions may play in the crime risks debate. In particular, are the processes by which we perceive risk and danger prone to exaggeration, and if so, what effect might such e…
Conflicting knowledges on risk: The case of risk knowledge in the probation service
Risk is a key feature of contemporary life, within both the professional and private spheres. This paper begins with a contextualisation of current risk concerns in the Probation Service within the broader concerns of the 'risk society', and presents the differing knowledge constructions of risk utilised by frontline workers and by central policy-makers. The article concludes by examining the impact of competing epistemologies of risk on the prof…
Partners in Evaluation: Modelling Quality in Partnership Projects
The concept of partnership as a way of describing relationships between public, private and voluntary agencies can take many forms. The evaluation of quality in the delivery of services by these partnerships is recognized as complex given the differing perspectives not only of the two partners but of the various other stakeholders, including service users, and the potential for added value arising from the partnership itself. This paper focuses o…
Researching Risk in the Probation Service
This paper will draw upon research and consultancy experience across a number of projects on risk assessment and management in the Probation Service between 1993 and 1999. The projects reflect a range of sponsors and funders, from central government bodies such as the Home Office and the Scottish Office, to professional, managerial and employment bodies such as the Association of Chief Officers of Probation and the Central Council of Probation Co…
Public Protection, Partnership and Risk Penality: The Multi-Agency Risk Management of Sexual and Violent Offenders
This article uses empirical research on the implementation of risk assessment and risk management procedures by public protection panels in England and Wales, to assess how far the evidence supports claims of a broad shift in modes of crime control from penal modernism towards a new `risk penality' characteristic of the late (or post-) modern period. The result is a mixed and contradictory picture, in which the dominant discourse around measures …
Effective Practice in Probation: An Example of ‘Advanced Liberal’ Responsibilisation
This article argues that the dominant emphasis upon effective practice in probation work, particularly the emergence of effective programmes can be understood as an example of a key mechanism of social control in advanced liberal societies. Utilising Rose’s concept of ‘responsibilisation’ the article examines the role of effective programmes in the emerging social policy agenda of citizen re‐moralisation, responsibilisation and inclusion exemplif…
Understanding risk in criminal justice
This is a single authored work in a key Open University series for crime and criminal justice. The book has been extremely well reviewed and is a key text on a number of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is routinely cited in other works, including leading journal articles. It draws on extensive literature, a wide research base, and the author’s own research. At time of publication it was the first to thoroughly explore the rol…
Beyond public protection: An examination of community protection and public health approaches to high-risk offenders
Public protection has become a key theme of much recent criminal justice legislation and policy aimed at the effective management of high-risk offenders. In this article we draw on two recent research projects to examine the two main approaches to public protection: the community protection model, and the public health approach. Drawing on the recent work of Pat O'Malley we examine the underpinning assumptions of each `risk technology' and how ea…
Risk and Public Protection: Responding to Involuntary and ‘Taboo’ Risk
Growing media, political and public concern with high‐risk offenders in the community has focused policy attention on the concept of ‘public protection’. A notion that the public has the right to be protected, particularly from ‘monstrous’ offenders such as predatory paedophiles, has infiltrated much recent legislation and penal policy. This article will explore the critical factors in the ‘public protection’ trend and the framing of risk and ris…
Risk Rationalities in Contemporary Social Work Policy and Practice
Building Stakeholder Support for a Sex Offender Public Disclosure Scheme: Learning from the English Pilots
A national scheme to allow the public to have access to information about convicted sex offenders living locally has recently been introduced. This roll‐out follows an evaluation of pilot schemes that operated in four areas. The campaign for the introduction of such a scheme in the UK has had wide media backing but children's charities had previously been reluctant to offer support. This article explores how the views of the children's charities,…
Crime and risk: Contested territory for risk theorising
The sex offender public disclosure pilots in England and Scotland: Lessons for ‘marketing strategies’ and risk communication with the public
In 2009 a sex offender public disclosure scheme was piloted in England and Scotland based upon political and policy assumptions about the public’s likely take-up of such a scheme. However, the pilots found lower than anticipated public use of the scheme. By drawing on the notions of instrumental and symbolic efficacy this article explores the potential implications of the current rate of take-up. Is the instrumental efficacy of the scheme, that i…
Decentralizing risk: The role of the voluntary and community sector in the management of offenders
This paper considers the rise of third sector agencies as key criminal justice providers within the context of the marketization of probation and other crime management responses. We posit that the ‘rehabilitation revolution’ has significant implications for the voluntary and community sector in particular and criminal justice provision in general. Pointing towards incremental colonization of the third sector by criminal justice concerns, we trac…
Conflicting rationalities of risk: Disputing risk in social policy – reflecting on 35 years of researching risk
This article considers how the concept of risk has been variously defined and deployed within research and UK social policy since the 1980s. The article does not present an in-depth historical narrative, but rather presents key trends over this period. The article begins with a short review of policy and risk rationalities from the 1980s onwards with a specific focus on the research ‘discovery’ of the ‘rationality mistake’ by the early 1990s. A s…
Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Mental Health Policy and Practice edited by SoniaStanford, ElaineSharland, NinaRovinelli Heller and JoanneWarner. 2017: London, Palgrave. ISBN 978‐1‐137‐44135‐5
Making desistance real: Implementing a desistance focused approach in a community rehabilitation company (CRC)
Desistance is now a key focus for probation practice in the United Kingdom. However, how to implement desistance in the workplace has remained challenging, particularly in the absence of practice guidance. This article presents the experience of ‘making desistance real’ in the context of Community Rehabilitation Companies. ‘Identity shift’ is presented as a core component of the desistance approach adopted, and practice designed to support servic…
Incorporating Quaternary Prevention: Understanding the Full Scope of Public Health Practices in Sexual Abuse Prevention
This discussion piece argues for a refinement in our understanding of prevention in sexual abuse, suggesting that we include quaternary prevention on the grounds that this concept from medical literature has potential and helpful application to criminal justice and particularly to work with those who cause sexual harm. Located within the paradigm of Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim), quaternary prevention extends the prevention spectrum to en…
Political science (16 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Public relations (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Business (8 works)