Have the England and Wales Guidelines Affected Sentencing Severity? An Empirical Analysis Using a Scale of Severity and Time-Series Analyses
Have the England and Wales Guidelines Affected Sentencing Severity? An Empirical Analysis Using a Scale of Severity and Time-Series Analyses AbstractSentence severity has increased in England and Wales in recent…
Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment?
Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment? Prisons, Punishment, and the Family: Towards a New Sociology of Punishment? By Rachel Condry and Peter Scharff Smith (eds)…
Going Spatial: Applying Egohoods to Fear of Crime Research
Going Spatial: Applying Egohoods to Fear of Crime Research AbstractA central theme in criminology is how fear of crime is influenced by the residential context. Most researchers rely on administrative…
Other People’s Dirty Money: Professional Intermediaries, Market Dynamics and the Finances of White-Collar, Corporate and Organized Crimes
Other People’s Dirty Money: Professional Intermediaries, Market Dynamics and the Finances of White-Collar, Corporate and Organized Crimes AbstractThis article analyses the market dynamics of the misuse of ‘corporate vehicles’ in…
Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison
Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison. By BruceWestern(New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2018, 216pp. $£, ISBN: 0871549557). Read the syndicated article here
Children as ‘Risk’ – Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People. By A.-M. McAlinden (Cambridge University Press, 2018, 372 pp. £ 85.00)
Children as ‘Risk’ – Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Children and Young People. By McAlinden (Cambridge University Press, 2018, 372 pp. £ ) Children as ‘Risk’ – Sexual Exploitation and…
A De-Civilizing Reversal or System Normal? Rising Lethal Violence in Post-Recession Austerity United Kingdom
A De-Civilizing Reversal or System Normal? Rising Lethal Violence in Post-Recession Austerity United Kingdom AbstractThis article offers incipient theoretical analysis and reflections on the recent rises in lethal violence recorded…
Criminological Policy Mobilities and Sex Work: Understanding the Movement of the ‘Swedish Model’ to Northern Ireland
Criminological Policy Mobilities and Sex Work: Understanding the Movement of the ‘Swedish Model’ to Northern Ireland AbstractIdeas, policies and models related to criminal justice often travel between places. How, then,…
Technology-Facilitated Domestic and Family Violence: Women’s Experiences
Technology-Facilitated Domestic and Family Violence: Women’s Experiences AbstractThe use of technology, including smartphones, cameras, Internet-connected devices, computers and platforms such as Facebook, is now an essential part of everyday life.…
The Penal Voluntary Sector: A Hybrid Sociology
The Penal Voluntary Sector: A Hybrid Sociology AbstractThe penal voluntary sector (PVS) is an important, complex, under-theorized area. Its non-profit, non-statutory organizations are highly significant in the operation of punishment…
Japanese Atmospheres of Criminal Justice
Japanese Atmospheres of Criminal Justice AbstractWhat is a criminal justice atmosphere? Defined as that connecting individuals within and to the spaces they occupy or move through, the study of criminal…
Civilizing Imprisonment: The Limits of Scottish Penal Exceptionalism
Civilizing Imprisonment: The Limits of Scottish Penal Exceptionalism AbstractFocusing on imprisonment in Scotland during the 1980s–1990s, and drawing on extensive archival research, documentary analysis and interviews with seven retired civil…