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A health, law and education approach to criminal justice (2021)
Report
Gerry QC, F., Rowland, A., Connelly, L., & Roddy, J. (2021). A health, law and education approach to criminal justice

Submission to the legal and social issues committee, Parliament of Victoria - inquiry into Victoria’s justice system

Strategies to combatting violence in society, including violence against women and girls (2021)
Report
Connelly, L., Roddy, J., & Rowland, A. (2021). Strategies to combatting violence in society, including violence against women and girls

For at least two decades it has been recognised that violence is not an intractable social problem or an inevitable part of the human condition. Our global society can do much to address and prevent violence. For every person who dies as a result of... Read More about Strategies to combatting violence in society, including violence against women and girls.

Identity, religion, and clothing : the lives of British Muslim women (2021)
Thesis
Ansari, S. Identity, religion, and clothing : the lives of British Muslim women. (Thesis). University of Salford

The continuing discourse around Muslim women’s bodies has predominately occupied itself with ideas of ‘traditional’ Islamic dress such as the Hijab, Burka, and the Niqab. Rarely has the image of the Muslim woman moved away from these popular discours... Read More about Identity, religion, and clothing : the lives of British Muslim women.

'The UK is not innocent' : Black Lives Matter, policing and abolition in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Joseph-Salisbury, R., Connelly, L., & Wangari-Jones, P. (2021). 'The UK is not innocent' : Black Lives Matter, policing and abolition in the UK. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 40(1), 21-28. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-06-2020-0170

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to show that racism is not only a US problem. Rather, racism is endemic and pervasive in the UK context, manifesting at every level of policing. From stop and search, to deaths after police contact, the authors... Read More about 'The UK is not innocent' : Black Lives Matter, policing and abolition in the UK.

Disrupting the boundaries of the Academe : co-creating knowledge and sex work ‘academic-activism’ (2020)
Book Chapter
Connelly, L., & Sanders, T. (2020). Disrupting the boundaries of the Academe : co-creating knowledge and sex work ‘academic-activism’. In S. Walklate, K. Fitz-Gibbon, J. Maher, & J. McCulloch (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Feminism, Criminology and Social Change. Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78769-955-720201018

In this chapter, we reflect on how the criminological agenda can move towards disrupting the boundaries that exist between the academe and sex work activism. We do so as academics who strive to affect social change outside of the academe but we do no... Read More about Disrupting the boundaries of the Academe : co-creating knowledge and sex work ‘academic-activism’.

Teaching Grenfell : the role of emotions in teaching and learning for social change (2019)
Journal Article
Connelly, L., & Joseph-Salisbury, R. (2019). Teaching Grenfell : the role of emotions in teaching and learning for social change. Sociology, 53(6), 1026-1042. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038519841826

Although literature on the role of emotions in teaching and learning is growing, little consideration has been given to the university context, particularly from a sociological perspective. This article draws upon the online survey responses of 24 st... Read More about Teaching Grenfell : the role of emotions in teaching and learning for social change.

‘Post-race’ racism in the narratives of ‘Brexit’ voters (2019)
Journal Article
Patel, T., & Connelly, L. (2019). ‘Post-race’ racism in the narratives of ‘Brexit’ voters. Sociological Review, 67(5), 968-984. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026119831590

Although a growing body of scholarship seeks to understand the motivations behind the ‘Brexit’ vote – including that which centralises explorations of racism, nationalism and post-colonialism – little consideration has been given to the ways in which... Read More about ‘Post-race’ racism in the narratives of ‘Brexit’ voters.

‘If your hair Is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy’ : Black hair as a site of ‘post-racial’ social control in English schools (2018)
Journal Article
Joseph-Salisbury, R., & Connelly, L. (2018). ‘If your hair Is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy’ : Black hair as a site of ‘post-racial’ social control in English schools. Molecules, 7(11), 219-231. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci7110219

A growing body of literature examines how social control is embedded within, and enacted through, key social institutions generally, and how it impacts disproportionately upon racially minoritised people specifically. Despite this, little attention h... Read More about ‘If your hair Is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy’ : Black hair as a site of ‘post-racial’ social control in English schools.

Violent and non-violent crimes against sex workers : the influence of the sex market on reporting practices in the United Kingdom (2018)
Journal Article
Connelly, L., Kamerade, D., & Sanders, T. (2021). Violent and non-violent crimes against sex workers : the influence of the sex market on reporting practices in the United Kingdom. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(7-8), NP3938-NP3963. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518780782

Previous research has shown that sex workers experience extremely high rates of victimization but are often reluctant to report their experiences to the police. This paper explores how the markets in which sex workers operate in the United Kingdom im... Read More about Violent and non-violent crimes against sex workers : the influence of the sex market on reporting practices in the United Kingdom.

On our own terms : the working conditions of internet-based sex workers in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Sanders, T., Connelly, L., & Jarvis-King, L. (2016). On our own terms : the working conditions of internet-based sex workers in the UK. Sociological Research Online, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.4152

The sex industry is increasingly operated through online technologies, whether this is selling services online through webcam or advertising, marketing or organising sex work through the Internet and digital technologies. Using data from a survey of... Read More about On our own terms : the working conditions of internet-based sex workers in the UK.

Prostitution and sex work (2016)
Book Chapter
Connelly, L., & Sanders, T. (2016). Prostitution and sex work. In N. Naples, R. Hoogland, M. Wickramasinghe, & W. Wong (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell

Editorial – Blurred Lines : the Contested Nature of Sex Work in a Changing Social Landscape (2015)
Journal Article
Work in a Changing Social Landscape. Graduate Journal of Social Science, 11(2), 4-20

This special edition of the Graduate Journal of Social Science explores the contested nature of the sex industry, a global industry operating within socio-political contexts that have witnessed an array of changes in recent years. The papers in this... Read More about Editorial – Blurred Lines : the Contested Nature of Sex Work in a Changing Social Landscape.

Divided communities? What the ‘Brexit’ future means for people in Salford
Other
Patel, T., & Connelly, L. Divided communities? What the ‘Brexit’ future means for people in Salford

Few events have divided and shocked the nation on the same level as ‘Brexit’. The European Union referendum saw Salford vote 56.8% to ‘leave’, far higher than the national average (51.9%). Many have grappled to understand the outcome: how it will imp... Read More about Divided communities? What the ‘Brexit’ future means for people in Salford.