Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies in Criminology and Social Work
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Projects in Applied Social Science
Overview of the worldwide best practices for rape prevention & assisting women victims of rape
01/11/2012 →
Sylvia Walby, Brian Francis, Corinne May-Chahal, David Sugarman
... Read more»A Review of Cases of Contested Adoption
01/05/2012 → 30/09/2012
Karen Broadhurst
This is the first detailed study of cases contested by birth parents, where an Adoption Order has been made. The study will report to the Department for Education in September 2012. ... Read more»Criminal careers within organised crime
01/02/2012 →
Brian Francis, Stuart Kirby
... Read more»Pilot Audit for Alcohol Related Death 2008-2009
01/04/2011 → 31/07/2012
Cheryl Simmill-Binning, Alison Clifton
This retrospective pilot inquiry has been commissioned by NHS North into the circumstances surrounding local alcohol related deaths across Lancashire County between 2008 and 2010 as reported by the Pr ... Read more»Domestication of Death
01/10/2010 →
Sue Wise
Summary: Prof Sue Wise, Applied Social Science, Lancaster University Prof Liz Stanley, Sociology, University of Edinburgh. Do most deaths now take place in hospitals and nursing homes? What impact doe ... Read more»Criminal Damage in the North West
01/02/2007 → 31/05/2007
ASSURE (Applied Social Science Unit for Research and Evaluation) were commissioned in February 2007 to conduct a short piece of research on young people and criminal damage by Lancashire Crime and Dis ... Read more»Social Work Practice Learning
01/01/2007 →
Georgina Aylward
The search for new opportunities for practice learning requires strategic thinking and much preparation. The MAPLE (Multi Agency Practice Learning) Project was set up to provide opportunities for soci ... Read more»Researching clubbing and polydrug use
01/11/2005 →
Karenza Moore, Fiona Measham
This is an ongoing research project looking at electronic dance music communities, clubbing as a leisure practice, and related polydrug use. Using a variety of methods including large scale quantitat ... Read more»Impact of developing criminal justice interventions relative to a cohort of substance misuse related offenders
01/01/2005 → 31/12/2008
Ian Paylor, Fiona Measham
ESRC CASE (MPhil/PhD) Studentship. Grant Holders: Dr Ian Paylor and Dr Fiona Measham Research staff: Vicky Album ... Read more»Young People and Gambling in Britain:
01/01/2004 → 31/12/2004
Corinne May-Chahal, Fiona Measham
This report critically reviews the state of current research knowledge and systematically reviews the literature on children and young people under 18 and gambling. Although incorporating data and dis ... Read more»LPSA 6, Action research into increasing the employment rate of people with disabilities in west Cumbria
01/11/2003 → 31/03/2004
Bob Sapey, Linda Piggott
In October 2003, Cumbria County Council's Community, Economy and Environment department commissioned Lancaster University and the Disability association Carlisle and Eden (DaCE) to undertake an action ... Read more»Irish experience of the criminal justice system. With Sam Lewis and Peter Raynor.
01/06/2003 → 31/07/2005
David Smith
The study involved interviews with men who identified themselves as Irish and were under probation supervision about their experiences of probation and criminal justice. The results were compared with ... Read more»Evaluation of the Ribbleton Sure Start Scheme
01/01/2003 → 31/12/2006
Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Multi-method evaluation of the Sure Start scheme in the Preston area. ... Read more»Children missing from education in Blackpool
01/01/2002 → 31/12/2004
Corinne May-Chahal, Karen Broadhurst
The first two stages of the study involved desk top research to review policies and practices in tracking missing children within the authority and interviews with children and their carers. The fin ... Read more»Cumbria Direct Payments Scheme Evaluation
01/09/2001 → 31/03/2002
Bob Sapey
The Cumbria Direct Payments Project (DPP) was established in 2000 with the aims, To promote and increase greater independent along with greater choice for those people who are eligible to recei ... Read more»Social Implications of the Increase in Wheelchair Use
01/04/2001 → 30/09/2004
Bob Sapey, Carol Thomas
In 2001, we were funded by the NHS Executive North West R & D Directorate to undertake a study into the social implications of the increases in wheelchair use in the north west of England. Between 198 ... Read more»Is it working for you? An independent evaluation of St Helens Children's Fund
01/01/2001 → 31/12/2003
Corinne May-Chahal
As independent evaluators we suggested that the following key questions should be addressed: Are Children's Fund services reaching the right children and families? What effect are the services h ... Read more»Evaluation of the Lancashire Bail Support Scheme
01/01/1999 → 31/12/2002
Ian Paylor, Cheryl Simmill-Binning
Multi-method evaluation of the bail support scheme run by Lancashire YOTs Publications/Outputs Final Report Article: Paylor I and Simmill-Binning C (2004) 'Evaluating Youth Justice in the UK' ... Read more»Evaluation of pilot schemes of electronic monitoring of offenders
01/01/1998 → 31/12/2000
David Smith
An evaluation of pilot schemes of electronic monitoring of offenders ... Read more»Understanding Temporal Changes in Offending Behaviour
01/01/1997 → 31/12/1999
Brian Francis
The overall aim of this research was to address issues in two important classic debates in criminology which have not yet been fully resolved. These are known as The 'delinquent generations' debate: D ... Read more»Wheelchair Housing and the Estimation of Need
01/01/1996 → 31/12/1996
Bob Sapey
Our objectives were to examine and update the reported information on the provision of housing for wheelchair users and to analyse the methodology of these reports in order that we could evaluate the ... Read more»
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