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Article

Diba, Parisa and Steckles-Young, Lauren (2026) The Harms of Beauty Sam Barnes, Bristol: Bristol University Press (2025) 160pp, £80hb, £27.99eb ISBN 978-1529235357. The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. ISSN 2059-1101 (In Press)

Roberts, Nicola, Steckles-Young, Lauren and Roberts, Mark (2025) Deconstructing dangerous discourse: an analysis of personal safety advice to students on UK universities’ websites. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 9 (1). pp. 58-75. ISSN 2398-6808

Roberts, Nicola, Steckles-Young, Lauren and Roberts, Mark (2024) Changing the culture of sexual violence at UK universities: a website analysis of definitions, report/support and prevent mechanisms. Higher Education Policy, 37. pp. 549-567. ISSN 0952-8733

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2023) Exploring the Impact of Youth Engagement in Social Media: Shifting the Boundaries of Harm and Criminality in the Digital World? Howard League for Penal Reform ECAN Bulletin (52). pp. 29-38. ISSN 2752-5953

Book Section

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2026) Trolling or 'Banter': How the normalisation of technology-facilitated violence can dehumanise the (un)deserving victim. In: New Perspectives on Global Gender-Based Violence Digital, Institutional and Inter-Personal Harms. Critical Criminological Perspectives . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. ISBN 978-3-032-13212-3

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2025) The Rise of the Victorian Asylum. In: Routledge Handbook of Disability, Crime and Justice. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032391731 (In Press)

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2025) Exploring the Boundary Between Harm and Criminalization of Behaviours in the Digital World. In: Mental Health, Crime and Justice. Critical Criminological Perspectives . Palgrave MacMillan Cham, Netherlands, pp. 261-283. ISBN 978-3-031-83389-2

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2024) Online Harm? Uncovering Experiences of (in)Visible Appearance-Based Trolling and Hostility. In: Disability Hate Crime: Perspective for Change. Routledge, London, pp. 74-90. ISBN 9781003442004

Conference or Workshop Item

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2025) Keep me coming back for more: Understanding the cyclical nature of social media engagement and its’ wider implications on everyday practices. In: CASS Public Lecture Series 2025-26, October 22nd, 2025., University of Sunderland.

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2025) Setting (Un)Realistic Goals: The Influence that AI Filtering Applications Have on the ‘Pathologisation of Attractiveness’. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2025) Setting (Un)Realistic Goals: The Influence that AI Filtering Applications Have on the ‘Pathologisation of Attractiveness’. In: British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Conference, 10th-12th September, Northumbria University.

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2024) Models of Disability: Applied in Custody Settings. In: Northumbria Local Appropriate Adult Scheme July Training Event 2024, 24th July 2024, University of Sunderland. (Unpublished)

Roberts, Nicola, Steckles-Young, Lauren and Roberts, Mark (2023) Changing the Culture of Sexual Violence at UK Universities: A Website Analysis of Definitions, Report/Support and Prevent Mechanisms. In: Economic and Social Inclusion, Fifth Annual Faculty of Education and Society Staff Research Conference, 12 June 2023, University of Sunderland. (Unpublished)

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2023) The Normalisation of Online Hate: Trolling, Diet Culture and Filtered Lifestyles. In: CASS Public Lecture Series, 26th April 2023, University of Sunderland. (Unpublished)

Roberts, Nicola, Steckles-Young, Lauren, Roberts, Mark and Mulligan, Andy (2023) Deconstructing dangerous discourse: An analysis of personal safety advice to students on UK universities' websites. In: Research and Knowledge Exchange Conference, University of Sunderland, 13 January 2023, The Fire Station, Sunderland. (Unpublished)

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2022) Exploring the Impact of Youth Engagement in Social Media: Shifting the Boundaries of Harm and Criminality in the Digital World? In: The Howard League for Penal Reform Annual Conference 2022: Crime, Justice, and the Human Condition., 13th September, 2022, University of Oxford.

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2022) Doyle, L. (2022) Speculative Workshop Considering 'The Digital World vs. Virtual Teaching: Understanding the Adjustment to Agile Working/Teaching in 'Post-Covid' Education'. In: University of Sunderland, Faculty of Education and Society Annual Staff Student-Focused Conference, 14th June, 2022, Online.

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2022) Doyle, L. (2022) Social Media and Harms: A Move to Criminalising Vulnerability of Digital World? In: British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Reimagining Criminological Futures: New Criminologies in a Changing World, 29th June-1st July, 2022, University of Surrey.

Steckles-Young, Lauren and Rodgers, Tom (2021) Doyle, L. & Rodgers, T. (2021) 'Social Media and the Vulnerability of the Digital World: Platforms Not Fit for Purpose?'. In: British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Crime and Harm: Challenges of Social and Global Justice, 7-9 July 2021, Online.

Thesis

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2025) The ‘Insider’ Club of ‘Diet Culture’: What is the Role of Social Media in Creating the ‘Picture Perfect’ Based on Filtered Lifestyles? Doctoral thesis, The University of Sunderland.

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Steckles-Young, Lauren (2025) Are digital spaces designed to facilitate hate? [Audio]

Other

Steckles-Young, Lauren (2023) Normalisation of Online Hate: Trolling, Diet Culture and Filtered Lifestyles. British Society of Criminology.