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Overview

Barry Goldson is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily intersects the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a notable focus on clinical psychology. Their work further extends into subfields such as sociology and political science, law, and education.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a concentration on youth justice and institutional settings involving children and young people. Key research outputs include:

  • Excavating Youth Justice Reform: Historical Mapping and Speculative Prospects (2020), published in The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
  • Components of interventions to reduce restrictive practices with children and young people in institutional settings: the Contrast systematic mapping review (2022), published in Health and Social Care Delivery Research
  • Mapping review of interventions to reduce the use of restrictive practices in children and young people's institutional settings: The CONTRAST study (2022), published in Children & Society

The thematic focus of these works explores aspects of criminal justice and corrections analysis, psychosocial and emotional development in children and adolescents, child abuse and trauma, and healthcare decision-making related to restraints.

Barry Goldson's research interests emphasize several main topics:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including John Baker, Kathryn Berzins, Krysia Canvin, Sarah Kendal, and Stella Branthonne-Foster, each having contributed to multiple joint publications.

Barry Goldson's work has contributed to several respected academic venues, with recent publications appearing in:

  • The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
  • Health and Social Care Delivery Research
  • Children & Society

Best Publications

  • The New Youth Justice

    Barry Goldson

  • Youth Crime and Justice

    Barry Goldson;John Muncie

  • Vulnerable Inside: Children in Secure and Penal Settings

    Barry Goldson

  • Comparative Youth Justice

    John Muncie;Barry Goldson

  • Youth Crime, the 'Parenting Deficit' and State Intervention: A Contextual Critique

    Barry Goldson;Janet Jamieson

  • Rethinking Youth Justice: Comparative Analysis, International Human Rights and Research Evidence:

    Barry Goldson;John Muncie

  • The sleep of (criminological) reason: Knowledge—policy rupture and New Labour’s youth justice legacy:

    Barry Goldson

  • ‘Unsafe, Unjust and Harmful to Wider Society’: Grounds for Raising the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in England and Wales:

    Barry Goldson

  • Towards a global ‘child friendly’ juvenile justice?

    Barry Goldson;John Muncie

  • New Labour, Social Justice and Children: Political Calculation and the Deserving‐Undeserving Schism

    Barry Goldson

  • Child Imprisonment: A Case for Abolition:

    Barry Goldson

  • 'The Demonisation of Children: from the symbolic to the institutional'

    Barry Goldson

  • Sociological criminology and youth justice: Comparative policy analysis and academic intervention:

    Barry Goldson;Gordon Hughes

  • New punitiveness: the politics of child incarceration

    Barry Goldson

  • In the care of the state? Child deaths in penal custody in England and Wales

    Barry Goldson

  • Youth in Crisis? : 'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence

    Barry Goldson

  • International Human Rights Standards and Child Imprisonment: Potentialities and Limitations

    Barry Goldson;Ursula Kilkelly

  • Youth justice : contemporary policy and practice

    Barry Goldson

  • Children, Crime, Policy and Practice: Neither Welfare nor Justice

    Barry Goldson

  • Youth Crime and Justice: Critical Issues

    Barry Goldson;John Muncie

  • England and Wales: The new correctionalism

    John Muncie;Barry Goldson

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Cunneen
Chris Cunneen University of Technology Sydney
Richard Whittington
Richard Whittington Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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