Home treatment was popular but hard to deliver in deprived surroundings and placed a strain on carers. Interventions to enhance community treatments in deprived areas are needed, along with remedial interventions to improve therapeutic relationships in hospital settings.

There is a paucity of literature focusing on the challenges involved in undertaking qualitative research with convicted sexual offenders. This article will address the challenges faced by the researchers whilst conducting fieldwork with convicted sexual offenders in the prison environment and how they overcame them. Such obstacles included the recruitment of participants, informed consent, establishing researcher-participant rapport, avoiding collusion and ensuring confidentiality and anonymity. This article further reflects on the social, political and ethical-legal dilemmas, as well as the emotional aspects (both for the researcher and participant) of researching such populations. Although the focus here is on researching sexual offenders in prison, the experiences will no doubt have resonance for those undertaking research with other vulnerable populations.

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This article seeks to understand the mass murders that took place at Dunblane in 1996 and to consider if we might see aspects of this mass shooting as prophetic of other mass murders, such as those that took place at Columbine, Sandy Hook and on Utoya Island. It does this by using what we describe as a 'criminological autopsy' about the shootings and, in doing so, considers why this mass murder-still the worst in British history-has rarely been considered within Criminology. 2016 marks the 20 th anniversary of the mass murders that took place at Dunblane Primary School in Stirlingshire on 13th March 1996, when forty-three-year-old Thomas Hamilton, using four licensed handguns, shot dead 16, mostly five-year-old children and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, in the school's gymnasium. He also shot and injured 17 others, before taking his own life. These shootings lasted for just three minutes but, within that short space of time, one sixth of the city of Dunblane's five-year-olds were killed and more than half of that year's deaths among under 25s in the Stirling area, (North, 2000: 297). This mass murder remains the worst in British history, with more people killed and wounded in Dunblane than at Hungerford in 1987 or, more recently, in Cumbria in 2010. How are we to explain this dreadful mass murder and does the anniversary of the shootings offer us an opportunity to reflect on it in new ways now that we have become more used to theorising about this type of crime? Why had Hamilton chosen Dunblane-a perfectly ordinary setting for this most awful of crimes-rather than somewhere else where he had connections to, and why 13 th March? In passing, we also consider why Criminology-and other academic disciplines-have been so silent about the shootings. Despite most people being aware of the "Dunblane massacre", or the

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