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…
Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić
Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić AbstractThe paper excavates ‘implicit criminologies’ concerning victims, perpetrators and bystanders from four films by Bosnian director…
Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil
Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil AbstractThis paper exposes how colonial ways of knowing and being shape judicial behaviour in…
The Construction of Capital Among Family Members of People in Prison
The Construction of Capital Among Family Members of People in Prison AbstractResearchers have documented the harms of imprisonment on family life, but much less is known about how family members…
‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work
‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work AbstractA history of social research has aimed to illuminate consequences for the psyche of workers that carry out occupations…
Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa
Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa AbstractThis article is an autoethnographic account of a 20-year engagement with South African criminology. It is written from…
Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study
Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study AbstractParole and parole boards play critical roles in criminal justice systems. With parolee numbers and imprisonment rates increasing in…
The pains of police custody for children: a recipe for injustice and exclusion?
The pains of police custody for children: a recipe for injustice and exclusion? AbstractThis article utilizes the sociology of punishment, particularly the work of Gresham Sykes in 1958, to develop…
Religious Identity and Delinquency: Comparing Muslim, Christian and Non-Religious Adolescents in the United Kingdom
Religious Identity and Delinquency: Comparing Muslim, Christian and Non-Religious Adolescents in the United Kingdom AbstractThe relationship between religion and delinquency is shaped by sociocultural context, but little research has explored…
This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector
This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector AbstractIncreasing calls for ‘nothing about us without us’ envision marginalized people as valuable and necessary contributors to…
Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case For Including Convicted Felons In Our Jury System. By James M. Binnall (University of California Press, 2021, 275 pp., $29.95 pb)
Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case For Including Convicted Felons In Our Jury System. By James M. Binnall (University of California Press, 2021, 275 pp., $ pb) Twenty Million Angry…
A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent
A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent A SOCIAL THEORY OF CORRUPTION: NOTES FROM THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT. BY RAJANSUDHIR CHELLA (Harvard University Press, 2020, 365pp, $ hbk)…