Journal Articles
Monaghan, M (2026)
15 Steps to Recovery: enhancing the substance use recovery offer in prisons in England and Wales,
Journal of Criminal Psychology, ISSN: 2009-3829.
Berlin, J, Bacon, M, Beerjeraz, A, Duckworth, P, Glasspoole-Bird, H, Henrie, N,
Monaghan, M, Obed, S, Smith, R, Sutton, C, Williams, E, Woodfinden, K, Stevens, A (2026)
Involving lived experience peer research in programme evaluation: the case of police-led drug diversion schemes in England,
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, ISSN: 0968-7637. DOI:
10.1080/09687637.2026.2723077.
Smith, R, Bacon, M, Beerjeraz, A, Berlin, J, Duckworth, P, Hendrie, N,
Monaghan, M, Obed, S, Woodfinden, K, Stevens, A (2026)
More than a second chance: Realist, qualitative insights on the outcomes of police drug diversion in England,
Criminology & Criminal Justice, ISSN: 1748-8958. DOI:
10.1177/17488958261462143.
Bacon, M, Glasspoole-Bird, H, Hendrie, N, Lewer, D, Mills, A,
Monaghan, M, Pascual, G, Quinton, P, Smith, R, Sutton, C, Williams, E, Stevens, A (2026)
Implementation fidelity matters: insights from a realist evaluation of police drug diversion schemes in England,
Policing and Society, 36(7), pp.837-860, ISSN: 1043-9463. DOI:
10.1080/10439463.2026.2651196.
Sutton, C, Greenhalgh, J,
Monaghan, M, Case, S, Wright, J (2026)
Considering youth justice interventions in context for more effective prevention: Realism over reductionism,
European Journal of Criminology, ISSN: 1477-3708. DOI:
10.1177/14773708251412654.
Spicer, J and
Monaghan, M (2025) Series Editors' Foreword,
Understanding and Preventing Cuckooing Victimisation County Lines and Beyond, pp.xiv-xv.
Smith, R, Bacon, M, Glasspoole-Bird, H, Hendrie, N,
Monaghan, M, Sutton, C, Stevens, A (2025)
Achieving collaborative advantage in policing: strategic and frontline partnership in police-led drug diversion schemes in England,
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 19, paaf044, ISSN: 1752-4512. DOI:
10.1093/police/paaf044.
Sutton, C, Bacon, M, Glasspoole-Bird, H, Hendrie, N,
Monaghan, M, Smith, R, Stevens, A (2025)
Triggering motivations for change: exploring engagement in adult police-led drug diversion programs,
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 33(4), pp.490-503, ISSN: 0968-7637. DOI:
10.1080/09687637.2025.2566921.
Monaghan, M and Ward, V (2025)
Parliamentary research services: mapping the territory,
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), 994, ISSN: 2662-9992. DOI:
10.1057/s41599-025-05381-y.
Stevens, A, Agnew-Pauley, W, Bacon, M, Glasspoole-Bird, H, Hendrie, N, Hughes, CE, Lloyd, C,
Monaghan, M, Smith, R, Sutton, C, Williams, E, Quinton, P (2025)
Cascading constraint and subsidiary discretion: perspectives on police discretion from police-led drug diversion and stop and search in England,
British Journal of Criminology, azaf050, DOI:
10.1093/bjc/azaf050.
Stevens, A, Hendrie, N, Bacon, M, Parrott, S,
Monaghan, M, Williams, E, Lewer, D, Moore, A, Berlin, J, Cunliffe, J, Quinton, P (2023)
Correction: Evaluating police drug diversion in England: protocol for a realist evaluation (Health & Justice, (2023), 11, 1, (46), 10.1186/s40352-023-00249-2),
Health and Justice, 11(1), DOI:
10.1186/s40352-023-00255-4.
Stevens, A, Hendrie, N, Bacon, M, Parrott, S,
Monaghan, M, Williams, E, Lewer, D, Moore, A, Berlin, J, Cunliffe, J, Quinton, P (2023)
Evaluating police drug diversion in England: protocol for a realist evaluation,
Health & Justice, 11, 46, DOI:
10.1186/s40352-023-00249-2.
Caulfield, L, Brooks-Wilson, S, Booth, J,
Monaghan, M (2023)
Engaging parents to reduce youth violence: evidence from a youth justice board pathfinder programme,
Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 25(4), pp.401-426, ISSN: 1460-3780. DOI:
10.1057/s41300-023-00190-4.
McNair, R,
Monaghan, M, Montgomery, P (2023)
Heroin assisted treatment for key health outcomes in people with chronic heroin addictions: a context-focused systematic review,
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 247, 109869, ISSN: 0376-8716. DOI:
10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109869.
Case, S, Sutton, C, Greenhalgh, J,
Monaghan, M, Wright, J (2022)
Searching for context: a review of “what works” reviews of interventions to prevent youth offending using the EMMIE Framework,
Safer Communities, 21(4), pp.272-289, ISSN: 1757-8043. DOI:
10.1108/SC-04-2022-0014.
Sutton, C,
Monaghan, M, Case, S, Greenhalgh, J, Wright, J (2022)
Contextualising youth justice interventions: Making the case for realist synthesis,
Sustainability, 14(2), 854, DOI:
10.3390/su14020854.
Monaghan, M, Wincup, E, Hamilton, I (2021)
Scandalous decisions: explaining shifts in UK medicinal cannabis policy,
Addiction, 116(7), pp.1925-1933, ISSN: 0965-2140. DOI:
10.1111/add.15350.
Hamilton, I and
Monaghan, M (2019)
Cannabis and Psychosis: Are We any Closer to Understanding the Relationship?,
Current Psychiatry Reports, 21(7), 48, ISSN: 1523-3812. DOI:
10.1007/s11920-019-1044-x.
Hamilton, I and
Monaghan, M (2019)
Trends in cannabis use, is cannabis use disorder a valid diagnosis?,
International Journal of Drug Policy, 69, pp.53-54, ISSN: 0955-3959. DOI:
10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.05.009.
Sarda, T, Natale, S, Sotirakopoulos, N,
Monaghan, M (2019)
Understanding online anonymity,
Media, Culture and Society, ISSN: 0163-4437. DOI:
10.1177/0163443719842074.
Hamilton, I,
Monaghan, M, Lloyd, C (2019)
Rising numbers of older and female cannabis users seeking treatment in England and Wales,
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 26(2), pp.205-207, ISSN: 0968-7637. DOI:
10.1080/09687637.2018.1478948.
Aldridge, J, Mughal, A,
Monaghan, MP (2019)
Perspectives of the dropped-out children on their dropping out from public secondary schools in rural Pakistan,
International Journal of Educational Research, 66, pp.52-61, ISSN: 0883-0355. DOI:
10.1016/j.ijedudev.2019.02.004.
Kay, C and
Monaghan, MP (2018)
Rethinking recovery and desistance processes: Developing a social identity model of transition,
Addiction Research and Theory, 27(1), pp.47-54, ISSN: 1606-6359. DOI:
10.1080/16066359.2018.1539479.
Monaghan, M, Wincup, E, Wicker, K (2018)
Experts, expertise and drug policy-making,
The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 57(3), pp.422-441, ISSN: 0265-5527. DOI:
10.1111/hojo.12265.
Monaghan, M (2018)
The politics of drugs: perceptions, power and policies,
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 25(5), pp.446-447, ISSN: 0968-7637. DOI:
10.1080/09687637.2017.1401696.
MONAGHAN, MARK and INGOLD, JO (2018)
Policy Practitioners’ Accounts of Evidence-Based Policy Making: The Case of Universal Credit,
Journal of Social Policy, pp.1-18, ISSN: 0047-2794. DOI:
10.1017/S004727941800051X.
Tieberghien, J and
Monaghan, M (2017)
Public scholarship and the evidence movement: Understanding and learning from Belgian drug policy development,
European Journal of Criminology, 15(3), pp.278-295, ISSN: 1477-3708. DOI:
10.1177/1477370817731413.
Quinn, A, Cooke, L,
Monaghan, M (2017)
An exploration of the progress of open crime data: how do ongoing limitations with the Police.uk website restrict a comprehensive understanding of recorded crime?,
Policing and Society, ISSN: 1477-2728. DOI:
10.1080/10439463.2017.1397149.
Monaghan, M and Yeomans, H (2016)
Mixing drink and drugs: ‘Underclass’ politics, the recovery agenda and the partial convergence of English alcohol and drugs policy,
International Journal of Drug Policy, 37, pp.122-128, ISSN: 0955-3959. DOI:
10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.02.005.
Wincup, E and
Monaghan, M (2016)
Scrounger narratives and dependent drug users: welfare, workfare and warfare,
The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 24(3), pp.261-275, ISSN: 1759-8273. DOI:
10.1332/175982716X14721954315084.
Ingold, J and
Monaghan, M (2016)
Evidence translation: an exploration of policy makers' use of evidence,
Policy & Politics, 44(2), pp.171-190, ISSN: 0305-5736. DOI:
10.1332/147084414X13988707323088.
Monaghan, M, Hamilton, I, Lloyd, C, Paton, K (2016)
Cannabis matters? Treatment responses to increasing cannabis presentations in addiction services in England,
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 23(1), pp.54-61, ISSN: 0968-7637. DOI:
10.3109/09687637.2015.1090398.
Monaghan, M (2015) An interview with Wim Suyker (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis),
Evidence and Policy, 11(2), pp.275-280, ISSN: 1744-2648.
Monaghan, M (2015)
Sources and Resources,
Evidence & Policy, 11(2), pp.273-298, ISSN: 1744-2648. DOI:
10.1332/174426415x14314328093440.
Monaghan, M (2014)
Drug policy governance in the UK: lessons from changes to and debates concerning the classification of cannabis under the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act,
International Journal of Drug Policy, 25(5), pp.1025-1030, ISSN: 0955-3959. DOI:
10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.02.001.
Manzano, A,
Monaghan, M, Potrata, B, Clayton, M (2014)
The invisible issue of organ laundering,
Transplantation, 98(6), pp.600-603, ISSN: 0041-1337. DOI:
10.1097/TP.0000000000000333.
Hamilton, I, Lloyd, C,
Monaghan, M, Paton, K (2014)
The emerging cannabis treatment population,
Drugs and Alcohol Today, 14(3), pp.150-153, ISSN: 1745-9265. DOI:
10.1108/DAT-01-2014-0005.
Monaghan, M and Wincup, E (2013)
Work and the journey to recovery: Exploring the implications of welfare reform for methadone maintenance clients,
International Journal of Drug Policy, 24(6), pp.e81-e86, ISSN: 0955-3959. DOI:
10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.08.006.
MONAGHAN, M (2013)
James H. Mills (2013), Cannabis Nation: Control and Consumption in Britain, 1928–2008. Oxford: Oxford University Press. £35, pp. 292, hbk,
Journal of Social Policy, 42(4), pp.844-846, ISSN: 0047-2794. DOI:
10.1017/s004727941300038x.
Monaghan, M, Pawson, R, Wicker, K (2012)
The precautionary principle and evidence-based policy,
Evidence & Policy, 8(2), pp.171-191, ISSN: 1744-2648. DOI:
10.1332/174426412x640072.
Monaghan, M (2012)
The Recent Evolution of UK Drug Strategies: From Maintenance to Behaviour Change?,
People, Place and Policy Online, 6(1), pp.29-40, DOI:
10.3351/ppp.0006.0001.0004.
Monaghan, M (2010) Adversarial policies and evidence utilization: Modeling the changing evidence and policy connection,
German Policy Studies, 2(2), pp.17-52.
Monaghan, M (2010)
The Complexity of Evidence: Reflections on Research Utilisation in a Heavily Politicised Policy Area,
Social Policy and Society, 9(1), pp.1-12, ISSN: 1474-7464. DOI:
10.1017/s1474746409990157.
Monaghan, M (2008)
Appreciating cannabis: the paradox of evidence in evidence-based policy making,
Evidence & Policy, 4(2), pp.209-231, ISSN: 1744-2648. DOI:
10.1332/174426408784614662.
Monaghan, M (2008)
Debate: The evidence base in UK drug policy: the new rules of engagement,
Policy & Politics, 36(1), pp.145-150, ISSN: 0305-5736. DOI:
10.1332/030557308783431643.
Chapters
Thurnell-Read, T and
Monaghan, M (2023)
Introduction to Intoxication: self, state and society. In
Intoxication: Self, State and Society, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.1-18, ISBN: 9783031191701. DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-19171-8_1.
Monaghan, M and Hamilton, I (2023)
COVID-19 and Drug Trends. In
Crime Justice and Covid 19, pp.166-189, DOI:
10.51952/9781447363187.ch009.
Monaghan, M (2022)
Corporate Crime. In
Shades of Deviance, Taylor & Francis, pp.155-158, DOI:
10.4324/9781003138198-40.
Monaghan, M and Boaz, A (2018) The place of realist explanation and review and their impacts on policy. In
Doing Realist Research, Sage, pp.0-0, ISBN: 9781473977891.
Monaghan, M (2014)
Corporate crime. In
Shades of Deviance A Primer on Crime Deviance and Social Harm, pp.215-217, DOI:
10.4324/9781315848556.
Monaghan, M (2014) Welfare reform and drug policy: Coalition, continuity and change. In
Social Policies and Social Control New Perspectives on the Not so Big Society, pp.167-180.
Monaghan, M (2014)
State violence. In
Shades of Deviance A Primer on Crime Deviance and Social Harm, pp.218-221, DOI:
10.4324/9781315848556.
Monaghan, M (2011)
List of abbreviations and key terms. In
Evidence versus politics, Bristol University Press, pp.ix-x, DOI:
10.56687/9781847426987-003.
Monaghan, M (2011)
Competition, conflict and controversy in the making of UK drug classification policy. In
Evidence versus politics, Bristol University Press, pp.43-60, DOI:
10.56687/9781847426987-007.
Monaghan, M (2011)
The nature of evidence in a politicised policy area. In
Evidence versus politics, Bristol University Press, pp.89-110, DOI:
10.56687/9781847426987-009.
Monaghan, M (2011)
Conceptualising and modelling evidence use in politicised policy areas. In
Evidence versus politics, Bristol University Press, pp.129-152, DOI:
10.56687/9781847426987-011.
Monaghan, M (2011)
The origins and reach of the evidence movement. In
Evidence versus politics, Bristol University Press, pp.11-26, DOI:
10.56687/9781847426987-005.
Monaghan, M (2011)
List of tables and figures. In
Evidence versus politics, Bristol University Press, pp.vii-vii, DOI:
10.56687/9781847426987-001.
Monaghan, M (2011)
The utilisation of evidence in a politicised policy area. In
Evidence versus politics, Bristol University Press, pp.111-128, DOI:
10.56687/9781847426987-010.
Monaghan, M (2011)
Developing tools for exploring ‘evidence’ in politicised policy areas. In
Evidence versus politics, Bristol University Press, pp.61-88, DOI:
10.56687/9781847426987-008.
Monaghan, M (2011)
Introduction. In
Evidence versus politics, Bristol University Press, pp.1-10, DOI:
10.56687/9781847426987-004.
Monaghan, M (2011)
The two communities of evidence and policy, the challenge of politics and the impact of the media. In
Evidence versus politics, Bristol University Press, pp.27-42, DOI:
10.56687/9781847426987-006.
