The Hidden Harms of Prison Life for People with Learning Disabilities
The Hidden Harms of Prison Life for People with Learning Disabilities AbstractPeople with learning disabilities’ experiences of punishment and prison life remain invisible within prison policy and research. With participants’…
Air Pollution and Violent Criminal Behaviour
Air Pollution and Violent Criminal Behaviour AbstractThis study advances the literature by examining the effect of carbon monoxide emissions on the degree of physical violence exhibited by a criminal offender…
Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements
Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements AbstractResearchers increasingly use counterterrorism approaches to explain how right-wing groups mobilize as a growing social…
Male, Failed, Jailed: Masculinities and “Revolving-Door” Imprisonment in the UK. By D. Maguire (Palgrave, 2021, 243pp, £89.99 hb)
Male, Failed, Jailed: Masculinities and “Revolving-Door” Imprisonment in the UK. By D. Maguire (Palgrave, 2021, 243pp, £ hb) Male, Failed, Jailed: Masculinities and “Revolving-Door” Imprisonment in the UK. By MaguireD.…
The Architecture of Desistance. Edited by S. Farrall (Routledge, 2019, 281 pp. £120.00 hb)
The Architecture of Desistance. Edited by S. Farrall (Routledge, 2019, 281 pp. £ hb) The Architecture of Desistance. Edited by FarrallS. (Routledge, 2019, 281 pp. £ hb) Read the syndicated…
Access to Justice in Clientelist Networks
Access to Justice in Clientelist Networks AbstractDespite its importance for poverty reduction, the poor face barriers when accessing justice. However, the literature, looking mostly at developed countries, focuses on the…
Building Immigrants’ Solidarity with Police: Procedural Justice, Identity and Immigrants’ Willingness to Cooperate with Police
Building Immigrants’ Solidarity with Police: Procedural Justice, Identity and Immigrants’ Willingness to Cooperate with Police AbstractSome immigrants can be reluctant to cooperate with the police due to experiences of social…
Locked up While Locked Down: Prisoners’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Locked up While Locked Down: Prisoners’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic AbstractWorldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on prisoners. The prison environment and prisoner health put prison…
Dirty Work? Policing Online Indecency in Digital Forensics
Dirty Work? Policing Online Indecency in Digital Forensics AbstractMore than 80 per cent of the work undertaken by digital forensics examiners deals with images of sexual abuse of children. While…
Cheats, Threats and Reflexivity: Organizational Narratives on Policing Organized and Economic Crime
Cheats, Threats and Reflexivity: Organizational Narratives on Policing Organized and Economic Crime AbstractDrawing on narrative criminology and sensemaking theory, this paper explores interpretive patterns in an interagency policing collaboration that…
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents AbstractWe seek to understand collective third-party intervention in violent incidents. Based on analyses…
Seasonality and Crime in Orlando Neighbourhoods
Seasonality and Crime in Orlando Neighbourhoods AbstractThe current study examines seasonality by modelling crime in small spatial units while accounting for numerous land uses ( hotel, store, school and industrial)…