Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach. By Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016, 280 pp. £32.99 pbk)
Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach. By Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016, 280 pp. £ pbk) Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender…
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers AbstractThe state’s duty to protect vulnerable people gives rise to powerful forms of social intervention, especially in…
Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector
Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector AbstractMetaphors pervade media and political constructions of crime and justice, provoking responses and shaping actions.…
Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs
Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs AbstractBoredom may be one of the largest maladies of the modern world. A phenomenon which has increasingly become embedded in our…
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada AbstractIntimate partner homicide (IPH) can be viewed as the ultimate result…
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours AbstractSince the 1960s, Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) have become a widely used sanction in…
The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman
The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman AbstractThis article describes the creation of a criminal icon, the Paris Apache, brandished as a threat by…
‘Valuable Lives to Save’ vs. ‘Babysitting These People While They Try to Kill Themselves’: Changing Police Attitudes Towards Safe Consumption Sites
‘Valuable Lives to Save’ vs. ‘Babysitting These People While They Try to Kill Themselves’: Changing Police Attitudes Towards Safe Consumption Sites AbstractNorth American police responses to the ‘drug issue’ have…
Emerging Victims in Contemporary Drugs Policing
Emerging Victims in Contemporary Drugs Policing AbstractRecent shifts in UK policy have seen certain populations, who were predominantly viewed as offenders due to their involvement in drug offences, increasingly recognized…
Managing the Risk of Living: Life Imprisonment, the Medical Gaze and the Construction of the Paroled Body
Managing the Risk of Living: Life Imprisonment, the Medical Gaze and the Construction of the Paroled Body AbstractDrawing on Israeli life-sentence parole hearings, we argue that release decisions are centred…
Correction to: For Better or Worse? Improving the Response to Domestic Abuse Offenders on Probation
Correction to: For Better or Worse? Improving the Response to Domestic Abuse Offenders on Probation Economic Social and Research Council Read the syndicated article here
Unmasked and Exposed: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Youth Custodial Estate. A Compelling Case for Ideological Change
Unmasked and Exposed: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Youth Custodial Estate. A Compelling Case for Ideological Change AbstractThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on custodial institutions has been the…