Valour for Money? Contested Commodification in the Market for Security
Valour for Money? Contested Commodification in the Market for Security AbstractScholars of security governance generally assume that the labour of private security officers can straightforwardly be transformed into discrete commodities.…
Police, Politics And Participation: The Effect Of Police Exposure On Political Participation In The United Kingdom
Police, Politics And Participation: The Effect Of Police Exposure On Political Participation In The United Kingdom AbstractA growing literature in the United States suggests that exposure to the criminal justice…
Accommodating the Expressive Function of Victim Impact Statements: The Scope for Victims’ Voices in Dutch Courtrooms
Accommodating the Expressive Function of Victim Impact Statements: The Scope for Victims’ Voices in Dutch Courtrooms AbstractThe expressive function of victim impact statements (VISs) enables victims to have a voice…
Does Stop and Search Deter Crime? Evidence from Ten Years of London-Wide Data
Does Stop and Search Deter Crime? Evidence from Ten Years of London-Wide Data AbstractIn this article, we used ten years of police, crime and other data from London to investigate…
‘#IT’S Dangerous’: The Online World of Drug Dealers, Rappers and the Street Code
‘#IT’S Dangerous’: The Online World of Drug Dealers, Rappers and the Street Code AbstractAs the digital divide has narrowed, the internet and social media have become more accessible to disadvantaged…
‘#IT’S Dangerous’: The Online World of Drug Dealers, Rappers and the Street Code
‘#IT’S Dangerous’: The Online World of Drug Dealers, Rappers and the Street Code AbstractAs the digital divide has narrowed, the internet and social media have become more accessible to disadvantaged…
Troubling recognitions in British responses to modern slavery
Troubling recognitions in British responses to modern slavery AbstractThis article interrogates the advent of modern slavery policy in Britain, explaining how the police and NGO sector have welcomed an organized…
Organized Crime in the United Kingdom: Illegal Governance of Markets and Communities
Organized Crime in the United Kingdom: Illegal Governance of Markets and Communities AbstractThis article focuses on governance-type organized crime (OC). First, it explores two cases of illegal governance in Salford…
Extending a Geographical Perspective to the Study of Jurisdictional Consistency in Sentencing Outcomes
Extending a Geographical Perspective to the Study of Jurisdictional Consistency in Sentencing Outcomes AbstractConsistency in sentencing has long been regarded as a fundamental principle of justice. Yet despite its universal…
The Ukrainian response to Sykes: Prisoner hierarchy and self-rule—power, legitimacy, and dynamics
The Ukrainian response to Sykes: Prisoner hierarchy and self-rule—power, legitimacy, and dynamics AbstractAlthough the political and economic bankruptcy of the erstwhile Leninist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe has triggered…
Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Edited by Michelle Brown and Eamonn Carrabine (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, 578pp., £165.00 hb)
Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Edited by Michelle Brown and Eamonn Carrabine (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, 578pp., £ hb) Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Edited by BrownMichelle and CarrabineEamonn…
Discourses of Mass Probation: From Managing Risk to Ending Human Warehousing in Michigan
Discourses of Mass Probation: From Managing Risk to Ending Human Warehousing in Michigan AbstractOver the past decade, some Western countries have begun to shift away from punitive criminal justice rhetoric,…