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Dr Sarah Waite

@drswaite.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology

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Dr Sarah Waite @drswaite.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Please join Dr Alexandria Bradley and I on 16th January for our webinar on Problem Solving Courts for Women www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-matte...
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What Matters to Women? Shaping the Next Generation of Problem-Solving Court
Join Leeds Beckett University to explore how PSCs can better support women through evidence-based and gender-responsive practice
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Research and Enterprise at Leeds Beckett University @lbu-rae.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
In our second Research and Knowledge Exchange feature, read all about our Community Impact Award winners and shortlistees. 🏆 bit.ly/4pu5pOX Congratulations to @drswaite.bsky.social and Dr Alexandria Bradley who won the award for their research on Women’s Problem-Solving Courts! #RKEFest25
Dr Sarah Waite with her Research and Knowledge Exchange award
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Research and Enterprise at Leeds Beckett University @lbu-rae.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
And congratulations to @drswaite.bsky.social, Dr Alexandria Bradley, Dr Sofia Persson @shsslbu.bsky.social and our Postgrad Research Student Photo Competition winner, Jennifer Rainford! Thank you to everyone who nominated colleagues and to our wonderful research community! #RKEFest25 #LBUResearch
Jennifer Rainford receiving her award for the PGR photo competition.Dr Sarah Waite receiving the award for Community Impact.Dr Sofia Persson receving her award.
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Transform Justice @transformjustice.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
⚠️ Is the term 'vulnerable' helpful when used to describe women in the criminal justice system? Dr Sarah Waite and Lucy Campbell explore in the latest episode of the Transform Justice Podcast. 🎧 Listen to the full discussion - pod.fo/e/32d390 #TransformJusticePodcast #WomenInPrison
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Transform Justice @transformjustice.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Should stealing baby milk to feed your child lead to prison? Dr Sarah Waite & Lucy Campbell discuss how the prison system is failing women & what could be done to improve society’s response to women in crisis. 🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/32d390
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Dr Sarah Waite @drswaite.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New evaluation report, ‘Listening to Women, Learning for Justice’ on Greater Manchester Problem-Solving Court for Women, by myself and Dr Alexandria Bradley: eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/12...
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Listening to Women, Learning for Justice - Leeds Beckett Repository
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Dr Sarah Waite @drswaite.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New paper from @danicadarley.bsky.social and I problematising the operationalisation of ‘vulnerability’ in women’s prisons onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Penelope Gibbs @penelopegibbs.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Via FOI we'd found out that people who committed childhood offences (under age 18) have to declare them in DBS checks decades later - a 70 year old had to declare obstructing a constable as a teenager & a 67 year old to disclose shoplifting committed before 1973 www.thetimes.com/article/291a...
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DBS checks force pensioners to disclose childhood crimes
Call for reform of criminal record disclosures as people who have not transgressed since the 1960s are made to explain minor offences
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Dr Sarah Waite @drswaite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
💜 Our edited collection is available for pre-order. This book is the work of a feminist collective - a powerhouse of women, challenging & reimagining the CJS through diverse voices & forms of expression. So proud of everyone involved bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/women-relati...
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Women, Relationships & Criminal Justice
Women, Relationships & Criminal Justice - Recognising the Personal, Public & Professional; This edited collection offers diverse perspectives on the central role of relationships for criminalised wome...
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Steph Scott @stephscott.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Watch the trailer here: lnkd.in/debW7gWh Read the Divided Households report here: lnkd.in/drrSwFza And please do share this far and wide!
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Karan Tripathi @karantripathi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Funny how European scholars keep using “risk profiles” instead of “control profiles” to refer to group-based profiling of people. ‘Risk’ both sanitises and legitimises the deeply political, dehumanising, and subjugating logics (and legacies) of racialised group-based profiling.
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Russell Webster @russellwebster.com · 13/02/2025
Gendering Jail Craft: Preparing Officers for the Realities of Women’s Prisons? This blog shares some preliminary findings from a study tracking the development of graduate prison officers following gender-informed training @drswaite.bsky.social on British Society of Criminology wp.me/p9dqlz-izE
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Gendering Jail Craft: Preparing Officers for the Realities of Women’s Prisons?
This blog shares some preliminary findings from a study tracking the development of graduate prison officers following gender-informed training
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Prof. Rachel Armitage @profrarmitage.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
After only 4 weeks in my new post at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social I am already feeling immensely proud of my wonderful colleagues. Tonight, our very own Prof. Nnenna Ifeanyi-Ajufo gave her Ted Talk on governance of cyberspace/digital colonialism. She was AMAZING. Photo cred. @agatafijalkow.bsky.social
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Dr Sarah Waite @drswaite.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Really pleased to be able to share some insights from my work tracking the development of graduate prison officers following gender-informed training. Paper in progress, happy to connect with anyone interested in this area: thebscblog.wordpress.com
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The BSC Blog
all about current issues on crime, criminology and criminal justice
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Penelope Gibbs @penelopegibbs.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Roll up, roll up ...we are recruiting new trustees at Transform Justice. Do join us...no trustee experience needed. Details here www.transformjustice.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Dr Danica Darley @danicadarley.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
One of the best parts of my job is being part of this supportive, uplifting community. Team Zine is awesome and I’m so glad our work is out there to share with others.
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Dr Sarah Waite @drswaite.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Very pleased to be able to share this paper, a true team effort! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Claire Fitzpatrick @clairefitzpatrick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
NEW ARTICLE. ‘Power in the Courtroom: Judicial Perspectives on Care-Experienced Girls & Women in Court’ just published – by me, Katie Hunter, @jostaines.bsky.social & Julie Shaw. This one was a very long time in the writing and so pleased to see it out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Power in the courtroom: Judicial perspectives on care‐experienced girls and women in court
This article focuses on rarely heard judicial perspectives, and the little explored challenges facing care-experienced girls and women in court. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with judges and ...
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Criminal Justice Alliance @cjalliance.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Released on Monday, @transformjustice.bsky.social's film supports their #FairChecks campaign. The powerful short film centres the experiences of people dealing with the life-long impact of a criminal record. fairchecks.org.uk/fairchecks-a...
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FairChecks | A short film - #FairChecks
A short film highlighting the experiences of those facing the life-long barrier of a criminal record. Join our campaign for criminal records reform today.
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