Inaugural Research Medal: collected papers
Sarah Armstrong, Laura Caulfield, Anna King, Shadd Maruna, Gemm Plant, Jennifer Rosenberg and Beth Weaver, Inaugural Research Medal: collected papers (May 2012)
The Howard League for Penal Reform launched its Research Medal to identify the highest quality research into penal issues which offered genuinely new insights into the penal system. However, this award sought to match this academic rigour and scholarship with the researchers’ ability to translate the findings into impact beyond the reach of academia itself and effectively communicate their research to a non-academic audience.
All the entries were original pieces of research that had been completed in the preceding three years - The five papers in this collection represent the most highly regarded and impactful research according to the Competition Panel. The winning authors have presented their research in the papers published here alongside an annex which demonstrates the impact of their research and their future dissemination and action plans. The inclusion of this annex is aimed at inspiring other researchers so that they too may enhance the potential impact of their research.
The five papers:
Once a criminal, always a criminal: ‘Redeemability’ and the psychology of punitive public attitudes
Professor Shadd Maruna, Queen’s University Belfast, with Dr Anna King, Georgian Court University, USA
User views of punishment: Qualitative research on the comparative experience of short prison and community-based sentences
Sarah Armstrong, Glasgow University and Beth Weaver, Strathclyde University
Researching the impact of a prison music project
Laura Caulfield, Birmingham City University
The impact of prison placement on young adult offenders’ substance misuse problems
Gemma Plant, Cardiff University
The invisible victims of a rising prison population: children with imprisoned fathers
Jennifer Rosenberg
