Gwyneth R. Boswell- MA & PhD Criminology
- Professor at University of East Anglia
Gwyneth R. Boswell
- MA & PhD Criminology
- Professor at University of East Anglia
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Introduction
Gwyneth Boswell is Director of Boswell Research Fellows, and a Visiting Professor at the School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia. Gwyneth specialises in research on adolescents who have committed murder and other violent crimes, and on the children of imprisoned parents. Relevant recent publications are :
Boswell, G. (2018) 'Imprisoned Fathers and their Children: A Reflection on Two Decades of Research', Child Care in Practice, 24:2, 212-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2017.1420037
Boswell, G., Wedge, P., Moseley, A., Dominey, J. & Poland, F. (2016) 'Treating Sexually Harmful Teenage Males: A Summary of Longitudinal Research Findings on the Effectiveness of a Therapeutic Community', Howard Journal (55) 1-2: 168-187
https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12165
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Twenty years ago, the author co-led an extensive study for the UK Department of Health on the parenting role of imprisoned fathers in England and Wales. Against a background of children’s needs and rights, it examined the place of fatherhood in their lives, the meaning of paternal absence to a child, and the particular significance for children of...
The report presents key findings from a review of the research and practice literature concerning trauma in the backgrounds of young people who offend. It aims to highlight what is currently known about trauma within the population of young offenders, and to identify the importance of this knowledge for effective resettlement practice. It focuses o...
This is a summary version of: Trauma and young offenders - a review of the research and practice literature
There is growing evidence of the impact of childhood and adolescent trauma on young people across the life course. This article focuses on trauma in the backgrounds of violent juvenile offender groups, on which the author has conducted research over the last 20 years. It contends that such trauma frequently goes unidentified, and requires proper re...
This twelve-year study evaluated the effectiveness of a therapeutic community for young men who had been abused in a range of ways, and had themselves become sexually harmful, usually to children. Each young man was interviewed on arrival at the community, at their departure two years later, and thereafter at one-year intervals. Annual findings wer...
Summary of a 10-yr longitudinal study of the effectiveness of a residential therapeutic community in treating teenage males who have both abused and been abused. 16% had reoffended, as against 44% of a comparable but untreated group. Though only a minority were in employment at final interview, in other key areas, such as accommodation, family rela...
This paper provides a summary of the main findings of an evaluation
of a new multi-agency Strategy set up to tackle on-street sex-working, after
five prostitutes were murdered in the English county town of Ipswich. It
focuses on the outcomes of the Strategy’s four objectives, including their
cost-effectiveness. It also offers an insight into the li...
When children and young people commit sexually inappropriate or harmful acts, they pose a major dilemma for a society which has a responsibility to protect them because of their youth, but also itself requires protection. Most, if not all the young people referred to Kites Children’s Services came from difficult and damaged backgrounds, where physi...
The maintenance of family ties is generally recognised as constituting a key factor in
successful prisoner resettlement. Overall, evidence from this evaluation indicates a high
need for the Kinship Care Support Service (provided by Pact - the Prison Advice & Care Trust) which has proved extremely effective in contributing to such maintenance throug...
The Family Support Worker (FSW) role evolved from a partnership between the charities Pact and Safe Ground which, respectively, provide prison-based support and educative family relationships programmes to prisoners and their families. The National Offender Management Service (NOMS, Ministry of Justice) and the former Department of Children, Scho...
In recent years, there have been political talks on the need to rebalance the criminal justice system in favour of the victims of crime. This ethos was reflected in the White Paper Justice for all and in the 2003 Criminal Justice Act which introduced new, lengthy custodial sentences for the express purpose of public protection. These new sentences...
Introduction
In recent years there has been much political talk of the need to ‘rebalance’ the criminal justice system in favour of victims of crime. This ethos was given expression in the White Paper Justice for all (Home Office et al, 2002) and in the subsequent 2003 Criminal Justice Act that introduced new, lengthy custodial sentences for the ex...
Section 53 offenders are young people between the ages of 10 and 17 years of age (inclusive) who commit grave crimes, and are sentenced under Section 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933. Subsection (1) provides that such children convicted of murder be detained during Her Majesty's Pleasure for an indeterminate period. Subsection (2) prov...
An unexplained death in custody represents an important focal point for public scrutiny of the criminal justice system, especially when excess deaths occur in those of minority ethnic descent. Sickle cell anaemia is a serious inherited blood disorder disproportionately affecting minority ethnic groups. Sickle cell trait is the genetic carrier state...
McGregor Hall (a pseudonym) is a Voluntary Children's Home registered with the Department of Health. It was founded nearly forty years ago and has operated as a therapeutic community for over thirty of those years. Having always catered for particularly damaged and challenging young men, the majority of whom had failed in previous care or custodial...
Universities, like most organisations, are in a state of continuous transformation. The past decade has seen dramatic changes taking place at universities in South Africa, which have impacted on employees, especially academics. This article focuses on the transformations at the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape, and recounts the qualitati...
While many women, especially in the developed world, are living longer, reviews of recent research, notably that of the World Health Organization’s Gender and Health Working Group (Doyal et al., 1998), have clearly demonstrated how women are subject to health inequalities conditioned by wider socio-economic inequalities: mental stress and poverty l...
Young people between the ages of ten and 17 inclusive who commit grave crimes are invariably sentenced to be detained under Section 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933. Subsection (1) provides that such children convicted of murder be detained during Her Majesty's Pleasure for an indeterminate period. The two ten-year-old boys convicted o...
Children are frequently the forgotten victims of a parent’s imprisonment. Their relationships with their imprisoned fathers have been particularly neglected in research and their own voices seldom represented. National research which examined in depth the parenting role of imprisoned fathers contained an important investigation of children’s views...
This article is derived from a talk given to the national Quality Management Conference for the Probation Service in June 1994. It addresses two main themes. The first surrounds the development of a more self-critical staff culture within social work and probation organisations. The second is a consideration of the nature of quality. In the sense t...
The publication of 'Punishment, Custody and Community' has brought clearly within earshot some of the distant but longstanding rumblings about how much longer the Probation Service can hold onto its traditional base of social work values. Whilst recognising the inherently problematic and ambiguous nature of the term 'values', the authors offer one...
The role of the Senior has never been properly defined, but requires clearer definition and identity at a time of new demands and greater accountability. The author analyses the demanding and conflicting set of expectations facing supervisors if they are to offer a useful and coherent service to their teams.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Liverpool, 1982.
