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Barry Goldson publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barry Goldson sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 101 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Barry Goldson D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barry Goldson sits on this spectrum.

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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
Alan Haycox
Alan Haycox University of Liverpool

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