McGowan, W (2024) The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels, by Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans, New York, Crown, 2024, 311 pp., Hardcover: $30.00; ISBN 9780593239056. Mortality. ISSN 1357-6275

Fletcher, S and McGowan, W (2023) The Neoliberal State: Then and Now. In: Scott, D and Sim, J, (eds.) Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm. Critical Criminological Perspectives . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031462139

Jackson, WH, McGowan, W and Murray, ET (2023) Criminological Artivism: Examining the Potential of Collaboration and Coproduction between Socially Engaged Art and Critical Criminology. In: Canning, V, Martin, G and Tombs, S, (eds.) The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology. Emerald Studies in Activist Criminology . Emerald. ISBN 9781802622003

Fletcher, S and McGowan, W (2023) The New Normal? Ordinary Deaths and Marginalised Mortalities in Extraordinary Times. Mortality, 28 (2). pp. 207-219. ISSN 1357-6275

Ahmed, S and McGowan, W (2022) Researching “Resilience”: Reflections from the Field, Past and Present. Sentio, 4. ISSN 2632-2455

McGowan, W and Cook, EA (2020) Comprehensive or Comprehensible Experience? A Case Study of Religion and Traumatic Bereavement. Sociological Research Online. ISSN 1360-7804

Carrapico, HF, Massoumi, N, McGowan, W and Mythen, G (2020) Disputing Security and Risk: The Convoluted Politics of Uncertainty. In: The Politics of Uncertainty. Routledge.

Fletcher, S and McGowan, W (2020) The State of the UK funeral industry. Critical Social Policy. ISSN 0261-0183

Fletcher, S and McGowan, W (2020) “YOU DESPICABLE BEASTS”: Dignity Funerals and commodified death in the spotlight. Corporate Watch.

McGowan, W (2020) ‘If you didn’t laugh, you’d cry’: Emotional labour, reflexivity and ethics-as-practice in a qualitative fieldwork context. Methodological Innovations, 13 (2). ISSN 2059-7991

McGowan, W (2019) Performing Atrocity: Staging Experiences of Violence and Conflict. In: Lippens, R and Murray, E, (eds.) Representing the Experience of War and Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Visual Criminology. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-13925-4

Wilkinson, H, McGowan, W and Fletcher, S (2018) ‘I should be doing my PhD. Instead, I’m here. Making this sign, and defending a pension I don’t even have yet…’. Brave New Europe.

McGowan, W (2017) The perils of ‘uncertainty’ for fear of crime research in the 21st century. In: Lee, M and Mythen, G, (eds.) The International Handbook on Fear of Crime. Routledge. ISBN 9781315651781

Mythen, G and McGowan, W (2017) Cultural Victimology Revisited: Synergies of Risk, Fear and Resilience. In: Walklate, S, (ed.) Handbook of Victims and Victimology. Routledge. ISBN 9781315712871

McGowan, W (2017) In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff. The British Journal of Criminology: an international review of crime and society, 57 (6). pp. 1520-1523. ISSN 0007-0955

Vaughn, L and McGowan, W (2016) Treating honour-based violence as terrorism will only harm more women and girls. The Conversation. ISSN 2201-5639

McGowan, W (2016) Critical terrorism studies, victimisation, and policy relevance: compromising politics or challenging hegemony? Critical Studies on Terrorism, 9 (1). pp. 12-32. ISSN 1753-9153

McGowan, W Time of Death: A Sociological Exploration By Glenys Caswell, Leeds: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2024. p.137. £75. ISBN: 978-1-80455-006-9. British Journal of Sociology. ISSN 0007-1315 (Accepted)