BOOK OF ABSTRACTS MADELINE-SOPHIE ABBAS, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The 'Imperil/led Muslim Woman': The Criminalisation of Muslim Women and their Experiences of Hate Crime in Leeds and Bradford Since 9/11, Muslims and Islam have become associated with the ‘threat of terrorism’ which in the British context, has predominately been epitomised by young Muslim males of Pakistani heritage. Drawing from interviews conducted with British Muslim women living in Leeds or Bradford in 2010-11, this paper challenges dominant framings by proposing the stereotype of ‘imperil/led’ to address the shifting ways in which Muslim women are treated as both objects of terror at the hands of violently patriarchal males and its subject as ‘terrorists’ and ‘extremists.’ As such, I argue that a more nuanced understanding of the criminalisation of Muslims is required that addresses how gender intersects with categories of race and religion to affect both the ways in which Muslim women are increasingly criminalised as threatening bodies and become victims of hate crime. KATHERINE ALBERTSON AND JAMES BANKS, SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY Cultural distinctions informing the delivery of health, social-care and criminal justice-related services to ex- military personnel Understanding the unique cultural and relational context from which the UK ex-forces community orientate is important in promoting practical approaches to preventing veterans from engaging in crime and substance misuse, and the deterioration in their mental and physical health. This paper presents research findings from 24 qualitative interviews with veterans engaged with an addictions recovery service, illustrating the lasting legacy of military experience, learnt responses and the persistence of a military identity. It is argued that adopting a strength-based, social capital approach can capitalise on these unique experiences and that this cohort is most likely to engage positively to with services that are at least responsive to their military background and at best facilitated by others with a history of military service. AMAL ALI, NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY Intersectionality and Human Rights: The (in)Visibility of Veiled Muslim Women Current approach to gender equality is based on an incorrect assumption of ‘sameness’ and leads to the double discrimination of veiled Muslim women. My second premise is that the management of plurality is gendered in terms of where veiled Muslim women are located in the debate and is derived from the public- private dichotomy which has defined inter-state decision making and politics in liberal thought. When forced to make the decision between manifesting religious beliefs and remaining in the public sphere many veiled Muslim women may choose to remain in the private sphere and become disconnected from public life. Using a thematic framework derived from feminist critiques of political, cultural and religious thought within intersectionality, this paper will identify if the ECtHR has integrated underlying assumptions and representations of religious women into their discourse in a way which undermines its current gender equality jurisprudence. CLARE ALLELY, UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD, Violence is rare in autism: When it does occur, what does it look like? Research has shown that, rather than be more likely to engage in offending behaviour or violent behaviour, individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are actually more at risk of being the victim rather than the perpetrator. Fitzgerald (2010) argued that there is a very small subgroup of individuals with ASD who exhibit violent offending behaviours. In his recently published paper, Fitzgerald (2015) highlights that school shootings and mass killings are not uncommonly carried by individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders with frequent evidence of warning indicators. Serial killings and mass shootings are relatively rare events that have a very profound societal impact. In our current review, we investigated Fitzgerald’s (2015) theory in more detail by investigating the 73 mass shooting cases identified by Mother Jones in their database for potential ASD. Exploring the presence of ASD in the 73 mass shooters identified by Mother Jones tentatively reveals evidence of ASD in six cases (8%) which is ten times higher when compared to the prevalence found in the general population worldwide. Crucially, ASD may influence, but does not cause, an individual to commit extreme violent act such as a mass shooting episode. We previously conducted a systematic review, following PRISMA guidelines, of both the peer reviewed literature and of journalistic and legal sources regarding mass and serial killings. Our findings tentatively indicated that these extreme forms of violence may be a result of a highly complex interaction of biological, psychological and sociological factors and that, potentially, a significant proportion of mass or serial killers may have had neurodevelopmental disorders such as ASD or head injury. Research into serial murders and mass shooters is in its infancy: there is a lack of rigorous studies and most of the literature is anecdotal and speculative. Specifically future study of the potential role of neurodevelopmental disorders in serial murder and mass shooting is warranted and, due to the rarity of these events, innovative research techniques may be required. CHERYL ALLSOP AND SOPHIE PIKE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES The Changing Face of Homicide Investigations – only the crime is fixed in time Homicide investigations have changed immeasurably since the 1980s when the flawed investigation by West Yorkshire Police to apprehend Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, was widely criticised and led to a public inquiry that called for wide-ranging changes in homicide investigation. With a history already marred by corruption and miscarriages of justice, this case was a pivotal moment in the investigation of major crime, triggering a process of reform that has continued to the present day. Nevertheless, flawed and highly criticised investigations continue to occur, suggesting that the investigation of major crime remains fallible, and some cases remain unsolved and unresolved. This presentation will consider the findings that have emerged from doctoral research which explores the changing nature of homicide investigations, to provide an insight into how the investigation of homicide has changed and what we have lost and/or gained throughout more than 30 years of continuous reform. What will become apparent is that one of the advantages these changes and developments, in particular advances in science and technologies, have provided the police service with is a renewed opportunity to look back at long term unsolved homicides in order to finally detect these cold cases. A cold case homicide investigation will be drawn on to illuminate the opportunities and challenges advances in science and technology can bring to these investigations suggesting that while the crime is fixed in time the potential for obtaining justice is not. SUNDARI ANITHA, UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN Gendered violence in transnational spaces: transnational abandonment of women as a new form of violence against women This paper explores the relationship between global inequalities and one particular manifestation of violence against women in transnational spaces. Transnational marriage abandonment takes place when a non-resident Indian man marries a woman settled in India, secures a dowry and returns to his country of residence but does not apply for a visa that would enable his wife to join him; or when a woman of Indian nationality residing in the West with her husband is deceptively/coercively abandoned in India with no money, passport or visa to re-join her husband. The consequences for women include poverty, domestic violence from natal and affinal family, and infraction of their financial rights. Based on the narratives of 59 women who have experienced such abandonment we argue that in a context where women’s identity and social status are closely connected to marriage, such neglect, abuse and instrumental deprivation of rights results in range of ongoing harms. The findings suggest that cultural practices like dowry, son preference, and dominant social norms which make for patriarchal control and devaluation of women played an important role in the violence and abandonment that ensued in all such marriages. More crucially, the inadequacy of national and transnational legal mechanisms served to create transnational brides as a particularly vulnerable category of women who can be abused and exploited with impunity. It is in this context that some Indian-origin men in the diaspora sought brides in India and treated them as a category of disposable women. HARRY ANNISON, SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY Experiencing Coalition – Penal Policymakers and the 2010-15 government The 2010-15 Conservative-Liberal Democrat government was exceptional in peacetime British history, the first coalition government for sixty-five years. This period has resulted in an array of scholarly literature addressing important policy developments during this period, perhaps most notably the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda (see for example British Journal of Community Justice special issue, 2013 and Probation Journal special issue, forthcoming). In addition, a growing body of autobiographical and scholarly literature is emerging which reflects on policymaking during this. This paper presents initial findings from a project that makes