Criminalizing Style: Aesthetic Injustice and Racial Profiling in Sweden
Criminalizing Style: Aesthetic Injustice and Racial Profiling in Sweden AbstractThis contribution extends the understanding of the punitive turn that Swedish politics on crime and punishment is taking by exploring the…
Factions and Brokers in the Russian Mafia: Investigating the Structure of the Thieves-in-Law
Factions and Brokers in the Russian Mafia: Investigating the Structure of the Thieves-in-Law AbstractThis paper investigates the internal structure of the fraternity of the vory-v-zakone—the high-ranking members of the Russian…
Para-crime: Notes Towards A ‘Grey Criminology’
Para-crime: Notes Towards A ‘Grey Criminology’ AbstractAlthough criminology has long debated the so-called ‘crime drop’, the shifting nature of criminality complicates any clear-cut assessment. While some offences have decreased, this…
What Makes a Place Safe? Assessing AI-Generated Safety Perception Scores Using Stockholm’s Street View Images
What Makes a Place Safe? Assessing AI-Generated Safety Perception Scores Using Stockholm’s Street View Images AbstractThis article investigates what causes an urban environment to be perceived as safe using Stockholm,…
Still Standing: Proactive Resilience Mechanisms in the MS-13 in El Salvador
Still Standing: Proactive Resilience Mechanisms in the MS-13 in El Salvador AbstractRecent work on resilience in illicit organizations emphasizes the need to examine how groups anticipate and prepare for disturbances.…
Making Sense of Violence Through Women’s Experiences: Meaning-Making, Gendering and Racialization at Peru’s Urban Margins
Making Sense of Violence Through Women’s Experiences: Meaning-Making, Gendering and Racialization at Peru’s Urban Margins AbstractThis article examines how cultural frameworks shape interpretations of women’s experiences of violence. Based on…
Rabbits in Headlights: Professional Responses to Children’s Help-Seeking Practices When They Are Victims of Domestic abuse
Rabbits in Headlights: Professional Responses to Children’s Help-Seeking Practices When They Are Victims of Domestic abuse AbstractThe Victim and Prisoners Act 2024 has legislated the responsibility of professionals to respond…
An Analysis of Gendered, Intersectional Dynamics in Domestic Homicide Reviews
An Analysis of Gendered, Intersectional Dynamics in Domestic Homicide Reviews AbstractThis paper aims to identify, for the first time, how gendered intersectional dynamics are framed in Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs)…
The Safety Work of Women Who Run: Negotiating Fear, Experiences and Normalization of Abuse
The Safety Work of Women Who Run: Negotiating Fear, Experiences and Normalization of Abuse AbstractThe everyday ‘intrusion’ into women’s lives by men in public spaces has been documented within criminological…
Organized Crime and Violence in Local Communities: A Study of an ‘Ordinary’ Setting in the United Kingdom
Organized Crime and Violence in Local Communities: A Study of an ‘Ordinary’ Setting in the United Kingdom AbstractThis study investigates the impact of organized crime (OC) on community-level violence outside…
Dirty Work in Probation: The Breadth and Depth of Taint Amongst Specialist Roles
Dirty Work in Probation: The Breadth and Depth of Taint Amongst Specialist Roles AbstractThis article presents findings from a study exploring the implementation of the Reflective Practice Supervision Standards for…
Racial Profiling, Anti-Black Racism, Black Resistance and the Policing of Young Londoners
Racial Profiling, Anti-Black Racism, Black Resistance and the Policing of Young Londoners AbstractIn this article, drawing on findings from an ethnographic study (2018–21) and a Participatory Action Research project in…