Malcolm Cowburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 92157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malcolm Cowburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malcolm |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowburn |
| SIGNATURE | COWBURN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5878-7465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Research Ethics in Criminology
Sex Offenders
Values in Criminology and Community Justice
The way we think about crime and the way that society responds to it are imbued with values that can determine what is considered important and what gets attention. Sometimes values that are claimed may not be the values expressed in practice, as we see in the multiple and confusing discourses about victims and offenders, punishment and protection, rights and responsibilities. This collection of writings considers values in crime theory, criminal…
Values in criminology and community justice
A brief introduction ~ Malcolm Cowburn Section One: Values of criminological theories Judging offenders: the moral implications of criminological theories ~ Simon Cottee Post-modernism and criminological thought: 'Whose science? Whose knowlege?' ~ Liz Austen with Malcolm Cowburn Marxist criminologies: whose side, which values? ~ David Moxon A contemporary reflection on feminist criminology: whose side are we on? ~Victoria Lavis and Tammi Walker B…
Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services
London : Jessica Kingsley ( 2008 ) 200pp. £19.99pb ISBN 978-1-84310-486-5 This book explores moral and ethical issues related to the design and delivery of what the authors call ‘the Human Services’. It is divided into three parts: ‘Exploring the Territory’, ‘Navigating Rights and Practice’ and ‘Integrating Rights-based Ideas’. The first part establishes a conceptual baseline for readers, exploring ‘Human Rights’, ‘Human Rights and Culture’ and ‘…
Invisible men
This paper considers three social reactions to the sexual violence of men, moral panics, risk assessments and denial. The first of these responses occurs primarily in the media, risk assessments are primarily the preserve of forensic professionals. Both of these areas construct male sexual violence in such a way that ignores issues related to the gendered nature of sexual violence. This paper reviews dominant forms of knowledge in relation to sex…
Social Work Admissions
The decision to admit an ex-offender to social work training may play a part in combating the social exclusion of people who have committed criminal offences, but it may also knowingly place social work service users and carers in positions of increased vulnerability. This paper brings together critical perspectives on both the nature of risk and ethical decision making in the context of social work admissions of applicants with criminal convicti…
Professional Boundaries
This article explores the professional boundaries guidance for social workers. It presents research findings from the formal literature, from agency codes of practice, from telephone interviews with regulatory and professional bodies and from an exercise using 'snowballing techniques' in which informants responded to brief scenarios illustrating boundary dilemmas. The findings suggest that formal research plays little part in the guidance that in…
Men Researching Men in Prison
This article addresses epistemological and practical issues in conducting research in male prisons from a profeminist standpoint. It considers the role of the male researcher in engaging with prison masculinities and a sexist prison culture. It gives examples of difficulties in managing the profeminist research role in the wider prison and it highlights difficulties that may occur within in interviews. Adapting Goffman's (1970) strategies for inm…
Disciplining, chastisement and physical child abuse
There are a number of cross-cultural differences in people's perspectives of what constitutes physical abuse of children. The focus of the present study was to explore the British Pakistani community's perception about physical child abuse and to understand more about the values held by them in relation to child protection. The study aimed to discover issues that are important to protect the children from harm, and to describe the possibilities t…
Masking Hegemonic Masculinity
This paper reviews the social constructions of the paedophile as these are embodied in clinical and journalistic discourses. It considers how these discourses have influenced community perceptions of risk and professional responses to the concerns they portray. It then locates these professional constructions within a context of hegemonic masculinity and unsafe families. It concludes that community safety is not adequately addressed by profession…
Consultancy to groupwork programmes for adult male sex offenders
Journal Article Consultancy to groupwork programmes for adult male sex offenders: some reflections on knowledge and processes Get access M Cowburn M Cowburn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 5, October 2000, Pages 635–648, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.5.635 Published: 01 October 2000
A Man's World
The aims of this paper are to describe how prison culture affects male and female workers differently, and to consider the implications of this for work with male sex offenders in prison. This paper sets the context of work within prisons both by describing the gender make up of the staff group of the Prison Service of England and Wales and by considering the presence and influence of dominant masculinities within Prison Service establishments. I…
Moving beyond Litigation and Positivism
The Current polarized debated about false memory and reclaimed memory with regard to child sexual abuse have trivialized the significance of experimental knowledge and contributed to the silencing of the voice of the victim-survivor. They have also enabled the alleged abuser to avoid confronting those elements of his behaviour which are problematic for others and discouraged preventative approaches by locking the protagonists into adversarial pos…
Masking Hegemonic Masculinity
This paper reviews the social constructions of the paedophile as these are embodied in clinical and journalistic discourses. It considers how these discourses have influenced community perceptions of risk and professional responses to the concerns they portray. It then locates these professional constructions within a context of hegemonic masculinity and unsafe families. It concludes that community safety is not adequately addressed by profession…
Professional Boundaries
This article explores the professional boundaries guidance for social workers. It presents research findings from the formal literature, from agency codes of practice, from telephone interviews with regulatory and professional bodies and from an exercise using 'snowballing techniques' in which informants responded to brief scenarios illustrating boundary dilemmas. The findings suggest that formal research plays little part in the guidance that in…
Disciplining, chastisement and physical child abuse
There are a number of cross-cultural differences in people's perspectives of what constitutes physical abuse of children. The focus of the present study was to explore the British Pakistani community's perception about physical child abuse and to understand more about the values held by them in relation to child protection. The study aimed to discover issues that are important to protect the children from harm, and to describe the possibilities t…
Invisible men
This paper considers three social reactions to the sexual violence of men, moral panics, risk assessments and denial. The first of these responses occurs primarily in the media, risk assessments are primarily the preserve of forensic professionals. Both of these areas construct male sexual violence in such a way that ignores issues related to the gendered nature of sexual violence. This paper reviews dominant forms of knowledge in relation to sex…
Social Work Admissions
The decision to admit an ex-offender to social work training may play a part in combating the social exclusion of people who have committed criminal offences, but it may also knowingly place social work service users and carers in positions of increased vulnerability. This paper brings together critical perspectives on both the nature of risk and ethical decision making in the context of social work admissions of applicants with criminal convicti…
A Man's World
The aims of this paper are to describe how prison culture affects male and female workers differently, and to consider the implications of this for work with male sex offenders in prison. This paper sets the context of work within prisons both by describing the gender make up of the staff group of the Prison Service of England and Wales and by considering the presence and influence of dominant masculinities within Prison Service establishments. I…
Moving beyond Litigation and Positivism
The Current polarized debated about false memory and reclaimed memory with regard to child sexual abuse have trivialized the significance of experimental knowledge and contributed to the silencing of the voice of the victim-survivor. They have also enabled the alleged abuser to avoid confronting those elements of his behaviour which are problematic for others and discouraged preventative approaches by locking the protagonists into adversarial pos…
Consultancy to groupwork programmes for adult male sex offenders
Journal Article Consultancy to groupwork programmes for adult male sex offenders: some reflections on knowledge and processes Get access M Cowburn M Cowburn Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 30, Issue 5, October 2000, Pages 635–648, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/30.5.635 Published: 01 October 2000
Masking Hegemonic Masculinity
This paper reviews the social constructions of the paedophile as these are embodied in clinical and journalistic discourses. It considers how these discourses have influenced community perceptions of risk and professional responses to the concerns they portray. It then locates these professional constructions within a context of hegemonic masculinity and unsafe families. It concludes that community safety is not adequately addressed by profession…
Disciplining, chastisement and physical child abuse
There are a number of cross-cultural differences in people's perspectives of what constitutes physical abuse of children. The focus of the present study was to explore the British Pakistani community's perception about physical child abuse and to understand more about the values held by them in relation to child protection. The study aimed to discover issues that are important to protect the children from harm, and to describe the possibilities t…
Men Researching Men in Prison
This article addresses epistemological and practical issues in conducting research in male prisons from a profeminist standpoint. It considers the role of the male researcher in engaging with prison masculinities and a sexist prison culture. It gives examples of difficulties in managing the profeminist research role in the wider prison and it highlights difficulties that may occur within in interviews. Adapting Goffman's (1970) strategies for inm…
Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services
London : Jessica Kingsley ( 2008 ) 200pp. £19.99pb ISBN 978-1-84310-486-5 This book explores moral and ethical issues related to the design and delivery of what the authors call ‘the Human Services’. It is divided into three parts: ‘Exploring the Territory’, ‘Navigating Rights and Practice’ and ‘Integrating Rights-based Ideas’. The first part establishes a conceptual baseline for readers, exploring ‘Human Rights’, ‘Human Rights and Culture’ and ‘…
Invisible men
This paper considers three social reactions to the sexual violence of men, moral panics, risk assessments and denial. The first of these responses occurs primarily in the media, risk assessments are primarily the preserve of forensic professionals. Both of these areas construct male sexual violence in such a way that ignores issues related to the gendered nature of sexual violence. This paper reviews dominant forms of knowledge in relation to sex…
Social Work Admissions
The decision to admit an ex-offender to social work training may play a part in combating the social exclusion of people who have committed criminal offences, but it may also knowingly place social work service users and carers in positions of increased vulnerability. This paper brings together critical perspectives on both the nature of risk and ethical decision making in the context of social work admissions of applicants with criminal convicti…
Professional Boundaries
This article explores the professional boundaries guidance for social workers. It presents research findings from the formal literature, from agency codes of practice, from telephone interviews with regulatory and professional bodies and from an exercise using 'snowballing techniques' in which informants responded to brief scenarios illustrating boundary dilemmas. The findings suggest that formal research plays little part in the guidance that in…
Values in Criminology and Community Justice
The way we think about crime and the way that society responds to it are imbued with values that can determine what is considered important and what gets attention. Sometimes values that are claimed may not be the values expressed in practice, as we see in the multiple and confusing discourses about victims and offenders, punishment and protection, rights and responsibilities. This collection of writings considers values in crime theory, criminal…
Values in criminology and community justice
A brief introduction ~ Malcolm Cowburn Section One: Values of criminological theories Judging offenders: the moral implications of criminological theories ~ Simon Cottee Post-modernism and criminological thought: 'Whose science? Whose knowlege?' ~ Liz Austen with Malcolm Cowburn Marxist criminologies: whose side, which values? ~ David Moxon A contemporary reflection on feminist criminology: whose side are we on? ~Victoria Lavis and Tammi Walker B…
Sex Offenders
Research Ethics in Criminology
Sociology (12 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Criminal justice (3 works)