Publications & Team

Current Research

Polly is currently carrying out the Nuffield Foundation funded Evaluation of the Development and Impact of 'One Stop -Shops' for Women Diverted from the Criminal Justice System. This study commissioned by the Corston Coalition of Independent funders will comprise an in-depth, mixed method investigation of six women's centres established following recommendations in the Corston Report (2007) to divert women from the criminal justice system.

Background and Expertise

Polly has experience of health, social welfare and criminal justice related research and joined ICPR from the University of Kent where she worked on a number of mixed method research projects that focused on aspects of substance misuse treatment services. She was the Principle Investigator on an ESRC funded qualitative study exploring substance misusing women's experience of antenatal services in three hospital trusts in the south of England. Polly is a member of an international network of researchers involved in research on the social, cultural and political construction of methadone maintenance therapy and took part in The Methadone Mess Workshop in Vancouver, Canada, 2011.

Publications

Substance –misusing women: Stigma in the maternity setting

  • Author(s) Radcliffe, P.
  • SubjectDrugs, alcohol and crime
  • Year2011
  • LocationLondon
  • Publisher/PublicationBritish Journal of Midwifery, 19 (8)

Motherhood, pregnancy, and the negotiation of identity: The moral career of drug treatment

  • Author(s) Radcliffe, P.
  • SubjectDrugs, alcohol and crime
  • Year2011
  • LocationAmsterdam
  • Publisher/PublicationSocial Sciences and Medicine, 72: 984-991

Towards preventing violent radicalisation

  • Author(s) Radcliffe, P., Pizani Williams, L. and Weilnboeck, H.
  • SubjectEthnicity, religion and identity
  • Year2010
  • LocationLondon
  • Publisher/PublicationLondon Probation Trust
  • Misc infoInterim Report

Drug use and motherhood: strategies for managing identity

  • Author(s) Radcliffe, P.
  • SubjectDrugs, alcohol and crime
  • Year2009
  • LocationHove
  • Publisher/PublicationDrugs and Alcohol Today, 9 (3): 17-21.

Offender Management: Community Scoping of London Gang Demographics

  • Author(s) Radcliffe, P., Stevens, A., Pizani Williams, L., Gladstone, B. and Agar, I.
  • SubjectCrime and the community
  • Year2009
  • LocationLondon
  • Publisher/PublicationA report submitted to London Probation

Early Exit: Estimating & Explaining Early Exit from Drug Treatment

  • Author(s) Radcliffe, P. and Stevens, A.
  • SubjectDrugs, alcohol and crime
  • Year2009
  • LocationLondon
  • Publisher/PublicationRoutledge
  • Misc infoIn Susanne Macgregor (ed.), Responding to Drug Misuse: Research and Policy Priorities in Health and Social Care

Are drug treatment services only for ‘thieving junkie scumbags’? Drug users and the management of stigmatized identities

  • Author(s) Radcliffe, P. and Stevens, A.
  • SubjectDrugs, alcohol and crime
  • Year2008
  • LocationAmsterdam
  • Publisher/PublicationSocial Science & Medicine Volume 67, Issue 7:1065-1073

Early exit: Estimating and explaining early exit from drug treatment (1)

  • Author(s) Stevens, A., Radcliffe, P., Sanders, M., and Hunt, N.
  • SubjectDrugs, alcohol and crime
  • Year2008
  • LocationLondon
  • Publisher/PublicationHarm Reduction Journal, 5:13: 1-14

Reducing Hate Crime in Europe II, London Probation, Fostering the process of de radicalisation post 7/7 London Bombings

  • Author(s) Radcliffe, P.
  • SubjectEthnicity, religion and identity
  • Year2008
  • LocationKent
  • Publisher/PublicationEuropean Institute of Social Services, University of Kent, Report prepared for London Probation.

Early exit: Estimating and explaining early exit from drug treatment

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