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    The added value of the Pracademic Classroom in the social science discipline of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
    (2023-04-20) Turgoose, Di
    While HEIs have traditionally recruited research-focused academics in order to strengthen their position within the REF, both the introduction of the TEF and KEF alongside increased competition has led to HEIs marketing themselves as employability focussed in recent years. This has seen the spotlight emerge on the concept of pracademia; the nexus between pragmatic ‘real world’ practice and abstract academia. This session initially explores who and what ‘counts’ as a pracademic, before moving on to examine the benefits pracademics bring to HEIs in terms of enhancing teaching, learning and scholarship. To illustrate the added value of the pracademic classroom real world examples of disruptive pedagogical teaching practices which have been utilised on professional and traditional taught undergraduate campus-based programmes will be shared from the facilitator’s discipline - criminology and criminal justice - where there is a paucity of focus on pracademia, unlike other disciplines, such as business, health and education. The session concludes with an opportunity for participants to ask questions and share ideas. While participants will leave the session with some take away hints, tips and tricks to add to their personal teaching and learning toolkits, a key aim of the session is to develop pracademic networking opportunities.
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    Beyond Domestic Violence, Companion Animals and Independent Agency: Why as criminologists we need to converse beyond speciesism, towards an intersectional approach
    (De Montfort University, 2019-07) Turgoose, Di; McKie, Ruth E.
    This is Di Turgoose and Dr Ruth E. McKie’s 5th blog post in a series of 6 on pets and domestic abuse. This post focuses on the national reach of their work in the summer of 2019 at the ‘Hidden Victims’ panel of the British Society of Criminology (BSC) Annual conference where Di and Ruth were invited to present by the @victims BSC research group.
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    Change that Lasts is a Chance for Change
    (University of Porto, 2019-10-06) Turgoose, Di
    The adoption of the risk need and responsivity (RNR) model in offending behaviour work in the 1990’s in England and Wales in the UK saw risk assessment aligned with the allocation and intensity of the supervision and resources applied in the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and Allied Fields (Chapman and Hough 1998). As I have argued elsewhere (Turgoose 2016) although perhaps not known at the time the implications of this for the Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA) sector would be significant. The introduction and adoption of the ‘risk model’ into DVA ‘work’ with victims in the specialist support sector has been a matter of mixed fortune. On the one hand a stronger connection with the statutory sector via the development of multi-agency partnership working on high risk cases and mobilising resources promptly at identified points of crisis has been enabled. On the other, DVA victims have been poorly served by a system which allocates resources based on risk levels rather than need (Home Office 2013; Regan 2007; Women’s Aid 2013; 2016), and by an approach which fails to appreciate the fluid nature of DVA and the importance of early intervention for both perpetrators and victims (Robinson 2010). Although statistics are disputed it is broadly accepted that women are both more likely to become victims of DVA than men and most likely to be subject to repeat acts of victimisation (Walby 2009; Walby and Towers 2018; Hester 2013). As such this paper takes a gendered analysis of DVA with the papers primary focus the (adult) victim. The Change That Lasts programme is a specialist sector idea regarding intervention (Women’s Aid 2016). It is a strengths-based, needs-led model that supports victims to build resilience and independence and which purports to respond to needs and risk whilst advocating the importance of empowering victims by responding to their self-defined needs. Here some observational practice findings of the use of a strengths-based approach utilising the Change That Lasts initiative within a DVA academic undergraduate module on a social-science-based degree programme with criminal justice based early career practitioners are explored.
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    Change That Lasts: A Chance for Change?
    (2017-09-07) Turgoose, Di
    The adoption of the risk, need and responsivity (RNR) model in offending behaviour work in the 1990’s in the UK saw risk assessment aligned with the allocation and intensity of the supervision and resources applied in the Criminal Justice System and Allied Fields. Although perhaps not known at the time the implications of this for the Domestic Violence and Abuse sector would be significant. This paper takes a gendered analysis of Domestic Violence and Abuse. The introduction and adoption of the ‘risk model’ into Domestic Violence and Abuse ‘work’ with victims/survivors in the specialist support sector has been a matter of mixed fortune. On the one hand a stronger connection with the statutory sector via the development of multi-agency partnership working on high risk cases and mobilising resources promptly at identified points of crisis has been enabled. On the other, Domestic Violence and Abuse victims/survivors have been poorly served by a system which allocates resources based on risk levels rather than need, and by an approach which fails to appreciate the fluid nature of Domestic Violence and Abuse and the importance of early intervention. The Change that Lasts programme (Women’s Aid 2016) is a strengths-based, needs-led model that supports survivors and their children to build resilience, leading to independence, which purports to respond to needs and risk, whilst advocating the importance of empowering women by responding to their self-defined needs. The model is currently being piloted in the UK and some early observational practice findings are explored in this paper. The paper concludes by asking whether the ‘needs led’ model ‘Change that Lasts’ is the Chance for Change for a Change that Lasts in addressing victims/survivors of Domestic Violence and Abuse ‘needs’ in the UK?
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    Children and Pets: The Hidden Victims of Domestic Violence & Abuse (DVA): Where Action & Activism merge!
    (2019-03-01) Turgoose, Di; McKie, Ruth E.
    Children and Pets: The Hidden Victims of Domestic Violence & Abuse (DVA): Where Action & Activism merge! Researchers such as Harne (2011) and Radford et al (2011) have long championed the area of Children’s rights in the DVA field and the Government’s VAWG strategy has begun to recognise young people as victims of DVA as a distinct issue. Another gain thus far has been that the Home Office (2013) definition now recognises victims from age 17 years. Moreover, the Government’s draft Domestic Abuse Bill (2019) commits itself to better addressing young people’s needs alongside making improvements for children, though it does fall short of recognising children as victims of DVA independently. Nonetheless, there continues to be calls to progress the agenda to recognise that child victims be given independent agency, with research and practice strategically developed to address their needs specifically, as well as within the broader context of DVA prevention (e.g. NSPCC 2019). In a similar vein, we argue that the concept of denial of agency, is equally applicable to other types of hidden victims of DVA including that of companion animals/pets. While some research has explored the link between victims and their companion animals in DVA relationships (e.g. Flynn, 2000, 2011), the area of agency and its denial has been relatively underexplored as it relates to animals. Arguably, one reason for this, is the notion of a broader ontological debate on anthropocentrism and speciesism. More specifically, an anthropocentric perspective of companion animals has provided some developments towards their protection such as pet fostering services offered to victims experiencing DVA when seeking to escape/flee. This is aligned with a hierarchal concept of the species placing humans at the top of a policy agenda comparative to non-human species (e.g. Beirne, 2013). On the other hand, a speciesist perspective explores and emphasises the rights of animals, where animals are given independent agency in the same way as humans (e.g. Sollund, 2011). This perspective then translates into policy and criminal law regarding the treatment of animals as victims of animal cruelty. These services already exist in for instance animal organisations taking responsibility for prosecutions of animal cruelty. However, we contend that the treatment of companion animals/pets should – not unlike the developments regarding children as victims of DVA – be incorporated into the same approach to developing and tackling strategies to address DVA. This poster explores the steps taken to date to draw attention to and develop a research and policy agenda of DVA for Pets, how this interlinks with the rights of children and what may be the blocks, challenges and enabling forces to start a collaborative discussion as to how to best address/recognise animal agency. We propose a broader theoretical development to help understand these victims of DVA using ‘The Power and Control Wheel’ model. Raising awareness of the need for the intersection of agency and highlighting that children and pets are very different to adults in numerous ways has important implications for service delivery and community resources which may help professionals and advocates to develop the support mechanisms these victims really need to survive and best recover from the trauma of DVA.
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    ‘Co-creation’ The experiences of student researchers in a ‘co-creation assessment project’ with academic staff.
    (2017-09-13) Crisp, Annette; Hine, Jean; Quinlan, Christina; Turgoose, Di
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    Consultation Response: Transforming the Response to the Domestic Abuse Bill (HM Government, 2018) Launched by the Prime Minister, Home Secretary and Justice Secretary on 8th March 2018
    (De Montfort University, 2018-05-31) Turgoose, Di
    On 8th March 2018 the UK Government launched a consultation on the measures to be included in the draft 'Domestic Abuse Bill‘ entitled ‘Transforming the response to Domestic Abuse’. Di Turgoose Co-Convenor of the Sexual Violence Domestic Violence (SVDV) Research Network chaired a meeting on 25th April 2018 (under Chatham House Rule) to lead the network in producing a robust response for the consultation which is presented here in summary in this technical report. The reach of the response encompasses the views of those who support both domestic abuse survivors and perpetrators in the East Midlands region, with a number of professionals and academics from a range of sectors. All contributors either attended the event on the 25th April or submitted a response to Di Turgoose as lead to compile a response to the Government in writing from the SVDV Network. Both a legislative and non-legislative package for addressing Domestic Abuse was proposed in the consultation and four key themes represented across both packages addressed in the report are:- 1. Promoting awareness 2. Protecting and supporting victims 3. Pursuing and deterring perpetrators 4. Improving performance of the CJS and deterring perpetrators The specific proposals are explored, with the key Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) for women (it is largely accepted that Domestic Abuse is a genderded phenomenon), VAWG services and the Government.
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    Disruptive Pracademic Pedagogy Domestic Violence and Abuse and the feminist classroom
    (2023-11-02) Turgoose, Di
    The ‘Feminist Classroom’ is used to describe any learning zone committed to equality, social justice and inclusion, embracing diversity as central to the learning of all participants in a positive and impactful way. This disruptive workshop takes an intersectional approach to issues in the ‘classroom’ utilising feminist pedagogy which boundary spans across the theory/practice, academic/practice gap in relation to the real world problem of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) utilising the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs). After a brief introduction to core concepts being used in the session and a whistle stop tour of the UNSDG’s, we will first actively consider how social categories impact learners (students/colleagues/our) experience(s) of learning, engagement, and success per se. Exploring how learning is impacted by social categories and how we can respond to them in practical ways is a central component of this session. Participants will then move on to the main session of the workshop where we will undertake a number of activities (aided by both high and low tech) with participants being encouraged to actively reflect on their own scholarship/practice ’boundary spanning’ experience of learning and teaching, and in the facilitation of others learning. To do this participants will sample worked examples of feminist pedagogy at work to assist in creating and facilitating learning in a feminist classroom on how UNSDG’s can be incorporated to enhance learning in DVA to support change on a Micro, Meso and Macro level ‘glocally’ i.e. locally and globally. The workshop concludes by calling for a collaborative theory and practice i.e. ‘pracademic’ approach in addressing the social problem of DVA incorporating the UNSDG’s. This disruptive workshop is a must attend to those with a commitment to knowledge exchange in addressing inequality across practice, social activism and academic domains in the DVA arena.
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    Domestic & Sexual Violence Services and Service User Involvement: An Exploration
    (2018-01-25) Fish, Julie; Szabo, A.; Turgoose, Di
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    Domestic Abuse and Pets Research: Local Impact June 2019
    (De Montfort University, 2020-05-22) Turgoose, Di; McKie, Ruth E.
    This is Di Turgoose and Ruth E. McKie’s third blog in a series of six on pets and domestic abuse. This blog details the local reach, influence and impact of their work in the area of Companion Animals and Domestic Abuse in 2019, at a local event on June 21st 2019.
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    Domestic Violence and Abuse (DVA), Companion Animals and Independent Agency: Why as criminologists we need to start a conversation beyond speciesism and towards an intersectional approach.
    (2019-07-05) Turgoose, Di; McKie, Ruth E.
    Government strategies (such as VAWG) and the Domestic Abuse Consultation (2019) have begun to recognise the importance of supporting and developing strategies to address other ‘invisible’ and ‘vulnerable’ victims/survivors of DVA as distinct topics for empirical study and practical policy research. These developments have been achieved by an increasing awareness that previously ‘invisible’ and ‘vulnerable’ victims/survivors (such as children) should be given independent agency and research and practice strategically developed to address their needs specifically, as well as within the broader context of DVA prevention. Similarly, we argue that the concept of independent agency is equally applicable to companion animals who are victims/survivors of DVA. Non-human animal abuse and DVA are commonly perceived as separate issues and often handled independently (e.g. animal protection and human service agencies), and whilst professional experts in both fields are often not surprised to learn that they are often ‘working’ or ‘dealing’ with the same children, families and perpetrators, non-human animal abuse is largely considered as a risk indicator (‘red flag’) for human abuse. Through this presentation, we wish to start a conversation that companion animals should be recognised as victims/witnesses/experiencing DVA and therefore worthy of victimhood status in their own ‘right.’
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    Domestic Violence and Abuse, ‘Pets’ and Agency: A conversation we need to have and a call for action 2019
    (De Montfort University, 2019) Turgoose, Di; McKie, Ruth E.
    In this first blog in a series of six co-authors Di Turgoose and Dr Ruth E. McKie outline their recent (2019) work on pets/companion animals and domestic violence and abuse. In essence Ruth and Di have started a conversation about, and have called into question the idea of 'persons' specifically who and what counts as a victim/survivor in domestic violence and abuse ‘cases’.
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    Empowering children and young people affected by domestic abuse through involvement in service provision
    (2019-03-01) Szabo, Anamaria; Turgoose, Di; Walker, Clare; Maxwell, Rachelle; Shah, Tania
    In the past decade, there has been an increase in evidence showing the extent to which children and young people in the UK are affected by domestic abuse. It is now known that around 130,000 children and young people live in households with high-risk domestic abuse (CAADA, 2012). We also know that 1:5 children are ‘exposed’ to domestic abuse (Radford et al 2011), and that domestic abuse is a prevalent factor in more than half of serious case reviews (Sidebotham et al 2016). More so, approximately a quarter of young people (13-17 years) ‘exposed’ to domestic abuse throughout their life go on to manifest harmful behaviours themselves (SafeLives 2015-17). Last but not least, HM Government (2019, 7) has acknowledged that “the impact of domestic abuse on young people needs to be properly recognised”. It is thus imperative to identify and implement strategies that will support children and young people affected by domestic abuse, whether they are witnesses, victims/survivors or perpetrators. This raises a number of pertinent questions for investigation and discussion centred on what kind of journeys children and young people take within the different systems (civil, criminal, social care and allied fields) that become involved in their lives. Are these journeys in which their voices are heard? Are these journeys tailored to their physical and psychological/emotional needs? Will the services provided assist them on the road to long term recovery and/or to primary and secondary desistance? And how can user agency be utilised in different organisational settings so that they have a real chance to participate in meaningful way? These are some of the key questions that we need to ask ourselves, and that the panel will address, to understand whether the services we are currently providing are informed by the experiences, views, wishes and needs of children and young people affected by domestic abuse. Service user involvement has started to be recognised by local communities across the UK as a quality kite-mark of good service provision. For statutory services operating in the area of safeguarding children and young people in particular, including them in decisions that directly impact on their lives is enshrined in the Welfare Checklist at s1(3) of the Children Act 1989. However, there is no such legal provision in the area of specialist domestic abuse services, and the implementation of service user involvement approaches in the traditional agencies which make up the criminal justice system is limited or in its infancy. Thus, service user involvement in general, and involvement of children and young people in particular, remains an interpretable and debatable area of practice. Research from Leicestershire (see Fish, Szabo and Turgoose 2017) revealed that service user involvement is sometimes confused with client centred practice, or with complaints and appeals procedures. Further discussion is thus necessary in an attempt to achieve a more common understanding of the different/contested meanings given to service user involvement alongside how strategies can be implemented which are inclusive of children and young people. Panel discussion: Different definitions of service user involvement from both statutory and specialist services will be explored. Intersectionality and resultant issues of power, complex needs, organisational cultures and structural enablers and barriers created by institutional systems for young people and children will be discussed. Reflections from personal experiences and from observational practice will be undertaken alongside actively engaging with the panel audience. Panel members: Anamaria Szabo is a Lecturer in Social Work at DMU with a special interest in conducting research on participatory approaches, service user involvement, restorative approaches and children’s rights. Di Turgoose is a Senior Lecturer in Community and Criminal Justice at DMU with a practice background in Probation/Prisons and specialist sector provision; she researches DVA. Clare Walker is a Domestic Abuse Consultant with more than 25 years’ experience, giving her a fertile 360-degree view on the topic; she offers support and advocacy for victims, training and policy development for professionals and organisations, as well as being an Expert Witness in the Courts and Tribunals UK wide. Rachelle Maxwell is a member of the Patient Advisory Group at DMU; her interests lie in the lived experiences of children and young people affected by domestic abuse with a focus on mental health/emotional well- being and how this is impacted by DVA experiences. Tania Shah is a survivor of sexual and domestic violence with a lifelong mental health condition; she is currently working in several positions with a focus on building her client’s confidence, strength and courage to help them to reconnect with their sense of self and with others.
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    Engagement event SUI with Sexual Violence Domestic Violence Services
    (2018-06-15) Szabo, A.; Turgoose, Di; Fish, Julie
    This inter-disciplinary project’s aim was to build research capacity collaboratively with service providers in Sexual Violence Domestic Violence (SVDV) services in Leicestershire at a networking event. This event builds on a successfully completed SVDV Research Network funded project managed by the same project team which explored Service User Involvement (SUI) in SVDV services. In this event the SVDV Research group has teamed up with the re-launched Social Work & Social Justice Justice Participation Research Group. SUI is an area of expertise at DMU since the establishment of the Centre for Social Action, evidenced by contributions to the SWSJPRG seminar held 27/11/17, and the World Social Way Conference that SWSJPRG organises on 23/03/2018. There is also an established SVDV Research Network at DMU. At the event we brought together experts and key-stakeholders involved in SVDV (perpetrator and victim) services to exchange ideas on SUI in service design and delivery. SUI was recently incorporated as a quality standard in commissioning; yet nationally there are few examples of good practice. In order to achieve these aims, the team organised this one-day engagement event to: disseminate research findings; facilitate the exchange of good practice and networking among participants; and gather feedback on the findings from the SVDV Research Network project. The event included presentations and panel discussions and was intended to inform the development of a DMU-led grant application, an infographic on SUI in SVDV services and the production of a journal article. Potential participants include service providers (e.g. Women’s Aid, Living Without Abuse, Jenkins Centre, Sexual Assault Referral Centre), alongside Service Users (e.g. LCC SVDV Scrutiny Group), staff from LCC community safety team, representatives from the Police & Crime Commissioner and co-commissioning groups, as well as visiting speakers with experience of achieving SUI in SVDV services
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    The experiences of criminology student researchers in a ‘co-creation' transitions project with academic and learning and library support services
    (2022-09-22) Turgoose, Di; Hooley, Zara; Broxton, Leigh; Dhadda, Aidan; Neal, Hollie; O'Neill, Sarah; Wilson, Kath
    A poster was presented detailing a research project which was a case study focused on exploring the student experience of transitions in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Division (CCJ) at De Montfort University (DMU). The particular focus of this project is on the student experience, and it is the student voice in relation to the experience of transitions that this project seeks to capture and understand. Aim and Objectives: The aim of this research project is to develop a case study of the student experience of transitions in the Community and Criminal Justice Division at De Montfort University from pre-induction through to outduction. The objectives of the research were as follows: • To explore with students their experience of transition(s); • To allow student voices be heard in relation to transition(s); • To deploy students as co-researchers on the research project with the project team and, through this, to further develop their research skills; • To disseminate the findings from the study among colleagues in the Community and Criminal Justice Division, colleagues at DMU, and to disseminate findings more broadly in the academic community; • To develop a mechanism/model, to be used in CCJ Division to facilitate student input and student feedback on transitions issues/good practices; • To disseminate this new model to other academic departments, at DMU, and across academia more broadly
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    An Exploration of Domestic & Sexual Violence Services and Service User Involvement
    (2018-01-31) Turgoose, Di; Szabo, A.; Fish, Julie
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