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  1. Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the Amount and Gendering of Violence

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, July 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  2. Using Saturated Count Models for User-Friendly Synthesis of Large Confidential Administrative Databases

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  3. On Integrating the Number of Synthetic Data Sets m into the a priori Synthesis Approach

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  4. Reflections on statistical modelling: A conversation with Murray Aitkin

    Article • Statistical Modelling, November 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  5. Down syndrome, temporal variation and fallout radiation revisited: statistical evidence

    Article • Communications in Mathematical Biology and Neuroscience, January 2021, SCIK Publishing Corporation

    Professor Brian Francis

  6. Whitehead et al. Response to “Misunderstandings of Multiple Systems Estimation.”

    Article • Journal of Human Trafficking, November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  7. Heaviness-brightness correspondence and stimulus-response compatibility

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  8. On the Unreliability of Multiple Systems Estimation for Estimating the Number of Potential Victims of Modern Slavery in the UK

    Article • Journal of Human Trafficking, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  9. Statistical Challenges of Administrative and Transaction Data

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), February 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  10. Patterns of infant mortality in rural England and Wales, 1850-1910†

    Article • The Economic History Review, April 2017, Wiley

    Dr Paul Atkinson, Professor Brian Francis

  11. Why and how do we measure violence against women and against men?

    Article • January 2017, OAPEN Foundation

    Professor Consuelo Corradi, Professor Brian Francis

  12. Cross-Sensory Correspondences: Heaviness is Dark and Low-Pitched

    Article • Perception, December 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  13. Statistical Modelling of a Terrorist Network

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), September 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  14. Investigating the Relationship Between the Diversity Index and Frequency of Offending

    Article • Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  15. Blackmail

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  16. Gambling Harm and Crime Careers

    Article • Journal of Gambling Studies, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  17. Using the UK general offender database as a means to measure and analyse organized crime

    Article • Policing An International Journal, March 2016, Emerald

    Professor Brian Francis

  18. Smoothing Group-Based Trajectory Models Through B-Splines

    Article • Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  19. Do fetuses move their lips to the sound that they hear? An observational feasibility study on auditory stimulation in the womb

    Article • Pilot and Feasibility Studies, March 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  20. The Fetal Observable Movement System (FOMS)

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  21. Is Violent Crime Increasing or Decreasing? a New Methodology to Measure Repeat Attacks Making Visible the Significance of Gender and Domestic Relations

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  22. The size-brightness correspondence: evidence for crosstalk among aligned conceptual feature dimensions

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  23. Modelling escalation in crime seriousness: a latent variable approach

    Article • METRON, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  24. Stopping rape

    Article • July 2015, Policy Press

    Professor Brian Francis

  25. A new Bayesian approach for determining the number of components in a finite mixture

    Article • METRON, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  26. Changing Prevalence of Sex Offender Convictions

    Article • May 2015, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  27. Mainstreaming Domestic and Gender-Based Violence into Sociology and the Criminology of Violence

    Article • The Sociological Review, December 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  28. Markov models of dependence in longitudinal paired comparisons: an application to course design

    Article • AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  29. Statistical modelling of the group structure of social networks

    Article • Social Networks, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  30. Laterality of foetal self-touch in relation to maternal stress

    Article • Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  31. Development of prenatal lateralization: Evidence from fetal mouth movements

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  32. The long term recidivism risk of young sexual offenders in England and Wales– enduring risk or redemption?

    Article • Journal of Criminal Justice, March 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  33. A Mixture Model for Longitudinal Partially Ranked Data

    Article • Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  34. Sexual Recidivism

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  35. The development of anticipation in the fetus: A longitudinal account of human fetal mouth movements in reaction to and anticipation of touch

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  36. Middle-Class Offenders as Employees—Assessing the Risk: A 35-Year Follow-Up

    Article • Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  37. Can the FIFA World Cup Football (Soccer) Tournament Be Associated with an Increase in Domestic Abuse?

    Article • Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  38. Sexual and General Offending Trajectories of Men Referred for Civil Commitment

    Article • Sexual Abuse, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  39. Can Healthy Fetuses Show Facial Expressions of “Pain” or “Distress”?

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2013, PLOS

    Professor Brian Francis

  40. Questioning Crime and Criminology

    Article • January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  41. Development of Fetal Yawn Compared with Non-Yawn Mouth Openings from 24–36 Weeks Gestation

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2012, PLOS

    Professor Brian Francis

  42. Middle-Class Offenders: A 35-Year Follow-Up

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, May 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  43. Missing observations in paired comparison data

    Article • Statistical Modelling, April 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  44. Reviewing the pantheon of sexual offending

    Article • Amicus Curiae, March 2012, School of Advanced Study

    Professor Brian Francis

  45. Modeling Microgenetic Data

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  46. Handbook of European Homicide Research

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  47. A Common Scheme for Cross-Sensory Correspondences across Stimulus Domains

    Article • Perception, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  48. Do Facial Expressions Develop before Birth?

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2011, PLOS

    Professor Brian Francis

  49. Homicide in England and Wales

    Article • August 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  50. Controls over nutrient dynamics in overland flows on slopes representative of agricultural land in North West Europe

    Article • Geoderma, August 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  51. What is latent class analysis?

    Article • January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  52. Modeling heterogeneity in ranked responses by nonparametric maximum likelihood: How do Europeans get their scientific knowledge?

    Article • The Annals of Applied Statistics, December 2010, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

    Professor Brian Francis

  53. The quality of fetal arm movements as indicators of fetal stress

    Article • Early Human Development, December 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  54. A Longitudinal Study of Escalation in Crime Seriousness

    Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  55. Criminal Lifestyle Specialization: Female Offending in England and Wales

    Article • International Criminal Justice Review, May 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  56. The taxonomic status of Tilia dasystyla in Crimea, Ukraine

    Article • Edinburgh Journal of Botany, April 2010, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

    Professor Brian Francis

  57. The impact of peatland drain-blocking on dissolved organic carbon loss and discolouration of water; results from a national survey

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, February 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  58. The importance of co-convictions in the prediction of dangerous recidivism: Blackmail and kidnapping as a demonstration study

    Article • Criminology & Criminal Justice, February 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  59. The Brightness-Weight Illusion

    Article • Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie), January 2010, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Brian Francis

  60. Exploring Paradigms of Crime Reduction: An Empirical Longitudinal Study

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, November 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  61. Tackling mixed messages: embedding advanced numeracy in graduate identities

    Article • MSOR Connections, November 2009, Educational Development Unit, University of Greenwich

    Professor Brian Francis

  62. When do Ex‐Offenders Become Like Non‐Offenders?

    Article • The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, August 2009, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  63. Criminal convictions among children and young adults

    Article • Criminology & Criminal Justice, August 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  64. Kidnapping offenders: Their risk of escalation to repeat offending and other serious crime

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  65. Risk factors for a first-time drink-driving conviction among young men: A birth cohort study of all men born in Denmark in 1966

    Article • Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  66. Does Serious Offending Lead to Homicide?: Exploring the Interrelationships and Sequencing of Serious Crime

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, March 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  67. Older People and Dissatisfaction with Wheelchair Services

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, March 2008, Stockholm University Press

    Professor Brian Francis

  68. Violent Life Events and Social Disadvantage: A Systematic Study of the Social Background of Various Kinds of Lethal Violence, Other Violent Crime, Suicide, and Suicide Attempts

    Article • Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, December 2007, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Professor Brian Francis

  69. Changing Patterns of Offending Behaviour Among Young Adults

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, November 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  70. Using cardinality to compare quantities: the role of social‐cognitive conflict in early numeracy

    Article • Developmental Science, July 2007, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  71. A paired comparison approach for the analysis of sets of Likert-scale responses

    Article • Statistical Modelling, April 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  72. Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), March 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  73. Modelling change: new opportunities in the analysis of microgenetic data

    Article • Infant and Child Development, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  74. A latent Markov model for detecting patterns of criminal activity

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society), January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Fulvia Pennoni, Professor Brian Francis

  75. Estimation Issues and Generational Changes in Modeling Criminal Career Length

    Article • Crime & Delinquency, January 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  76. Patterns of Offending Behaviour: A New Approach

    Article • January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Brian Francis

  77. Socioeconomic gradients in smoking among young women: A British survey

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, December 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  78. Modelling dependency in multivariate paired comparisons: A log-linear approach

    Article • Mathematical Social Sciences, September 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  79. Pathways of disadvantage and smoking careers: evidence and policy implications

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, September 2006, BMJ

    Professor Brian Francis

  80. Kidnapping: a criminal profile of persons convicted 1979–2001

    Article • Behavioral Sciences & the Law, May 2006, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  81. Socioeconomic lifecourse influences on women's smoking status in early adulthood

    Article • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, March 2006, BMJ

    Professor Brian Francis

  82. Identifying future repeat danger from sexual offenders against children: A focus on those convicted and those strongly suspected of such crime

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, June 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  83. Who Is Most at Risk of Becoming a Convicted Rapist? The Likelihood of a Rape Conviction among the 1966 Birth Cohort in Denmark

    Article • Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, June 2005, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Professor Brian Francis

  84. What is the Future Repeat Danger from Sexual Offenders against Children? Implications for Policing

    Article • The Police Journal Theory Practice and Principles, January 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  85. Grouping Cancer Patients by Psychosocial Needs

    Article • Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, May 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  86. Multiple Cohort Data, Delinquent Generations, and Criminal Careers

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, May 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  87. Profiles of Crime Recruitment: Changing Patterns over Time

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, April 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  88. Newspaper Reporting and the Public Construction of Homicide

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, March 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  89. The Reporting Trajectories of Top Homicide Cases in the Media: A Case Study of The Times

    Article • The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  90. The Criminal Careers of Arsonists

    Article • Medicine Science and the Law, January 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  91. Identifying Patterns and Pathways of Offending Behaviour

    Article • European Journal of Criminology, January 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  92. Using homicide data to assist murder investigations: Home Office online report 26/04

    Article • January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Brian Francis

  93. The persistent offenders debate:

    Article • Criminal Justice, November 2003, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  94. An upbringing to violence? Identifying the likelihood of violent crime among the 1966 birth cohort in Denmark

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  95. Place of death: analysis of cancer deaths in part of North West England

    Article • Journal of Public Health, March 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  96. The universal, situational, and personal needs of cancer patients and their main carers

    Article • European Journal of Oncology Nursing, March 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  97. Psychosocial needs in cancer patients related to religious belief

    Article • Palliative Medicine, January 2003, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  98. Homicide and the Media: Identifying the Top Cases in The Times

    Article • The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, December 2002, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  99. Analysing Partial Ranks by Using Smoothed Paired Comparison Methods: An Investigation of Value Orientation in Europe

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics), July 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  100. Exploring the Relationship between Homicide and Levels of Violence in Great Britain

    Article • Security Journal, July 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  101. Gender, ethics and social work An international study of students' perceptions at entry into social work education

    Article • International Social Work, April 2002, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  102. Moral panics and the aftermath: a study of incest

    Article • Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, February 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  103. The psychosocial needs of cancer patients: findings from an observational study

    Article • European Journal of Cancer Care, December 2001, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Brian Francis

  104. Informal carers of cancer patients: what are their unmet psychosocial needs?

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, November 2001, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Brian Francis

  105. The significant unmet needs of cancer patients: probing psychosocial concerns

    Article • Supportive Care in Cancer, November 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  106. A New Approach for Ranking 'Serious' Offences. The Use of Paired-Comparisons Methodology

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, September 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  107. Bertin, Lexis and the graphical representation of event histories

    Article • Cybergeo, November 2000, OpenEdition

    Professor Brian Francis

  108. The geography of survival after surgery for colo-rectal cancer in southern England

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, April 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  109. Article • Journal of Quantitative Criminology, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  110. Does sex offending lead to homicide?

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  111. Sex Offenders: Specialists, Generalists--or Both?

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, January 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  112. Poisoned chalice or just deserts? (The Sex Offenders Act 1997)

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, September 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  113. The responses of Briza media and Koeleria macrantha to drought and re‐watering

    Article • Functional Ecology, August 1998, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  114. The Use of Visualization in the Examination of Categorical Event Histories

    Article • January 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  115. Involvement of deprivation and environmental lead in neural tube defects: a matched case-control study

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, February 1997, BMJ

    Professor Brian Francis

  116. THE VALUE OF FINDING EMPLOYMENT FOR WHITE-COLLAR EX-OFFENDERS: A 20-Year Criminological Follow-Up

    Article • The British Journal of Criminology, January 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Brian Francis

  117. Statistical Modelling

    Article • January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  118. The Standard Spending Assessment as a Measure of Spending Needs in Nonmetropolitan Districts

    Article • Environment and Planning C Government and Policy, March 1994, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  119. Fitting Power Models to Two-Way Contingency Tables

    Article • January 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  120. Geographic Influences on the Uptake of Infant Immunisations: 2. Disaggregate Analyses

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, April 1993, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  121. Geographic Influences on the Uptake of Infant Immunisations: 1. Concepts, Models, and Aggregate Analyses

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, March 1993, SAGE Publications

    Professor Brian Francis

  122. Statistical modelling of university conditional offer requirements

    Article • Studies in Higher Education, January 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  123. Advances in GLIM and Statistical Modelling

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  124. Medical applications in GLIM4

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  125. Model fitting applications in GLIM4

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  126. NHS nursing: vocation, career or just a job?

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  127. Effects of over‐winter fumigation with sulphur and nitrogen dioxides on biochemical parameters and spring growth in red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.)

    Article • Plant Cell & Environment, January 1991, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  128. Remark AS R88: A Remark on Algorithm AS 121: The Trigamma Function

    Article • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics), January 1991, JSTOR

    Professor Brian Francis

  129. Nursing the statistics: a demonstration study of nurse turnover and retention

    Article • Journal of Advanced Nursing, July 1989, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  130. GLIM4 - structure and development

    Article • January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  131. Statistical Modelling

    Article • January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  132. Prediction of the probability of forest decline damage to Norway spruce using three simple site‐independent diagnostic parameters

    Article • New Phytologist, December 1988, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  133. Use of carotenoid ratios, ethylene emissions and buffer capacities for the early diagnosis of forest decline

    Article • New Phytologist, May 1988, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  134. Growth responses and delayed winter hardening in Sitka spruce following summer exposure to ozone

    Article • New Phytologist, April 1988, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis

  135. Generalized Linear Models

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Brian Francis

  136. A Reanalysis of the Stanford Heart Transplant Data

    Article • Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 1983, JSTOR

    Professor Brian Francis

  137. Rejoinder

    Article • Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 1983, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Brian Francis

  138. GLIM — A Developing System

    Article • January 1983, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater, Professor Brian Francis

  139. Interactive Regression Modelling

    Article • Biometrics, June 1982, JSTOR

    Professor Brian Francis

  140. Health and education expenditure in the United Kingdom: What priority?

    Article • Health Policy and Education, March 1981, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  141. Clinical decision-making: A study of general surgery within trent RHA

    Article • Social Science & Medicine Part A Medical Sociology, January 1979, Elsevier

    Professor Brian Francis

  142. COMPARISON OF PLASMA STEROID AND GONADOTROPHIN PROFILES IN SPONTANEOUS CYCLES IN WHICH CONCEPTION DID AND DID NOT OCCUR

    Article • BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, June 1978, Wiley

    Professor Brian Francis