Overcoming Penal Boundaries: Exploring The Evolution of Retributive Time Through Parole Decision-Making
Overcoming Penal Boundaries: Exploring The Evolution of Retributive Time Through Parole Decision-Making AbstractThe relations between sentencing and post-sentencing stages (, the implementation of prison, parole or community-based sanctions) are often…
The Inconvenient Truth About Mobile Phone Distraction: Understanding the Means, Motive and Opportunity for Driver Resistance to Legal and Safety Messages
The Inconvenient Truth About Mobile Phone Distraction: Understanding the Means, Motive and Opportunity for Driver Resistance to Legal and Safety Messages AbstractEvidence for how phone-use impacts driving is clear: phone-using…
Securitizing the Colour Revolution: Assessing the Political Role of Triads in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
Securitizing the Colour Revolution: Assessing the Political Role of Triads in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement AbstractIn Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, the use of Chinese triads to attack protestors has attracted…
Rethinking Prosecutorial Discretion: Towards A Moral Cartography of Prosecutors
Rethinking Prosecutorial Discretion: Towards A Moral Cartography of Prosecutors AbstractThis article examines the justifications that a group of prosecutors employs when coordinating human trafficking investigations in the Amazon. The study…
This is Denmark: Prison Islands and the Detention of Immigrants
This is Denmark: Prison Islands and the Detention of Immigrants AbstractAccording to mainstream criminology, Nordic societies with their generous welfare states are supposed to moderate, if not restrict, penal powers.…
Parental Migration and Children’s Problem Behaviours in Rural China: Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model
Parental Migration and Children’s Problem Behaviours in Rural China: Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model AbstractThis study aims to investigate the social mechanism underlying the associations between parental migration and left-behind…
Segregation Seekers: an Alternative Perspective on the Solitary Confinement Debate
Segregation Seekers: an Alternative Perspective on the Solitary Confinement Debate AbstractRecent calls from senior managers, human rights groups and academics continue to scrutinize the impact of solitary confinement. But much…
Politics, Research Design, and the ‘Architecture’ of Criminal Careers Studies
Politics, Research Design, and the ‘Architecture’ of Criminal Careers Studies AbstractCriminal careers research is one of the bedrocks—if not the bedrock—of criminology. It remains a key focal point of criminological…
Exception, Symbolism and Compromise: The Resilience of Treason as a Capital offence
Exception, Symbolism and Compromise: The Resilience of Treason as a Capital offence AbstractThis article explores the causes, forms and consequences of the resilience of treason as a capital offence. Though…
‘Covid-19 has caused a dramatic change to prison life’. Analysing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the pains of imprisonment in the Scottish Prison Estate
‘Covid-19 has caused a dramatic change to prison life’. Analysing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the pains of imprisonment in the Scottish Prison Estate AbstractThe purpose of this…
Cybercrime is (often) Boring: Infrastructure and Alienation in a Deviant Subculture
Cybercrime is (often) Boring: Infrastructure and Alienation in a Deviant Subculture AbstractThe boredom and alienation produced by capitalist societies and countervailing forces of attraction and excitement are at the heart…
The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing: an ethnographic study of an amplification spiral
The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing: an ethnographic study of an amplification spiral AbstractResponding to cases of ‘cuckooing’, where drug dealers take over other people’s homes, has…