Robert Ralphs

Adding Spice to the Porridge11‘Porridge’ is British slang for a prison sentence. E.g. ‘Doing his porridge’. The term is most commonly thought to be an allusion to the fact that porridge is, or used to be, a common food in prison. The term is also thought to be a pun on the much older slang word for prison, ‘stir’.: The development of a synthetic cannabinoid market in an English prison

Robert Ralphs, Lisa Williams, Rebecca Askew et al. · International Journal of Drug Policy · 2016 · 183 citations · Full text

Who needs enemies with friends like these? The importance of place for young people living in known gang areas

Robert Ralphs, Juanjo Medina, Judith Aldridge · Journal of Youth Studies · 2009 · 109 citations · Full text

New psychoactive substances: new service provider challenges

Robert Ralphs, Paul Gray · Drugs Education Prevention and Policy · 2017 · 74 citations

Substance Use, Drug Policy, New Psychoactive Substances +21

Used and Abused: The Problematic Usage of Gang Terminology in the United Kingdom and Its Implications for Ethnic Minority Youth

Hannah Smithson, Robert Ralphs, Patrick Williams · The British Journal of Criminology · 2012 · 62 citations

Critical Race Theory, Victimology, Law +17

Risk, Security and The 'Criminalization' of British Drug Policy

Toby Seddon, Robert Ralphs, Lindy Williams · The British Journal of Criminology · 2008 · 52 citations