Re-assessing the consistency of sentencing decisions in cases of Assault: Allowing for within-court inconsistencies
Re-assessing the consistency of sentencing decisions in cases of Assault: Allowing for within-court inconsistencies AbstractEmpirical research has repeatedly focused on the potential existence of sentencing disparities. In particular, a growing…
Commanding The ‘Art of Killing’: How Virtuosic Performances of Street Culture Disrupt Gang Rules
Commanding The ‘Art of Killing’: How Virtuosic Performances of Street Culture Disrupt Gang Rules AbstractStreet cultural scholarship draws heavily on Bourdieusian social theory to explain how criminal social practices are…
Spatially Varying Relationships Between Immigration Measures And Property Crime Types In Vancouver Census Tracts, 2016
Spatially Varying Relationships Between Immigration Measures And Property Crime Types In Vancouver Census Tracts, 2016 AbstractWe empirically test for spatial heterogeneity or local effects of multiple immigration measures on various…
Only One Way To Swim? The Offence And The Life Course In Accounts Of Adaptation To Life Imprisonment
Only One Way To Swim? The Offence And The Life Course In Accounts Of Adaptation To Life Imprisonment AbstractRecent studies of long-term imprisonment describe a largely invariant pattern of prisoner…
Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape, and Narrative Politics. By Tanya Serisier (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, 259pp. £69.99 hb).
Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape, and Narrative Politics. By Tanya Serisier (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, 259pp. £ hb). Speaking Out: Feminism, Rape, and Narrative Politics. By SerisierTanya (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, 259pp. £…
Life Imprisonment From Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time. By Ben Crewe, Susie Hulley and Serena Wright (Palgrave, 2020, 340pp, €93.59)
Life Imprisonment From Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time. By Ben Crewe, Susie Hulley and Serena Wright (Palgrave, 2020, 340pp, €) Life Imprisonment From Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time.…
You’re Nicked: Investigating British Television Police Series. By Ben Lamb. (Manchester University Press, 2019, 232pp. £80.00 hb).
You’re Nicked: Investigating British Television Police Series. By Ben Lamb. (Manchester University Press, 2019, 232pp. £ hb). You’re Nicked: Investigating British Television Police Series. By LambBen. (Manchester University Press, 2019,…
Police Powers and Citizens’ Rights: Discretionary Decision-Making in Police Detention. By Layla Skinns (Routledge, 2019, 233pp, £120.00)
Police Powers and Citizens’ Rights: Discretionary Decision-Making in Police Detention. By Layla Skinns (Routledge, 2019, 233pp, £) Police Powers and Citizens’ Rights: Discretionary Decision-Making in Police Detention. By SkinnsLayla (Routledge,…
To Trust or Distrust?: Unpacking Ethnic Minority Immigrants’ Trust in Police
To Trust or Distrust?: Unpacking Ethnic Minority Immigrants’ Trust in Police AbstractStudies find that immigrants can be less trusting of police than non-immigrants, with immigrants’ views deteriorating as their length…
Benevolent policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls
Benevolent policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls AbstractIn the United Kingdom, as in other jurisdictions, the language of vulnerability and ‘safeguarding’, protection and care is becoming increasingly…
Crime, order and the two faces of conservatism: An encounter with criminology’s other
Crime, order and the two faces of conservatism: An encounter with criminology’s other AbstractOver the past half century, conservatism has been a powerful force in shaping public and political responses…
Prisoner Society in an Era of Psychoactive Substances, Organized Crime, New Drug Markets and Austerity
Prisoner Society in an Era of Psychoactive Substances, Organized Crime, New Drug Markets and Austerity AbstractFramed by the limited and now dated ethnographic research on the prison drug economy, this…