The Police Foundation’s Rise: Implications of Public Policing’s Dark Money
The Police Foundation’s Rise: Implications of Public Policing’s Dark Money AbstractA new kind of organization has emerged in public policing across the United States and Canada: the ‘police foundation’. The…
Tackling Crime and Paramilitary Violence: Present Day Challenges for Community-Based Restorative Justice Projects
Tackling Crime and Paramilitary Violence: Present Day Challenges for Community-Based Restorative Justice Projects AbstractCommunity-based restorative justice projects in Northern Ireland have garnered international attention due to their role in conflict…
Crowdsourcing Subjective Perceptions of Neighbourhood Disorder: Interpreting Bias in Open Data
Crowdsourcing Subjective Perceptions of Neighbourhood Disorder: Interpreting Bias in Open Data AbstractNew forms of data are now widely used in social sciences, and much debate surrounds their ideal application to…
Suspicion-in-the-Making: Surveillance and Denunciation in Financial Policing
Suspicion-in-the-Making: Surveillance and Denunciation in Financial Policing AbstractThe pervasiveness of suspicion throughout society has become a central theme in the literature, especially with the importance of suspicious activity reporting in…
In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women’s Imprisonment
In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women’s Imprisonment In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women’s Imprisonment. By OwenB., WellsJ. and PollockJ. (University of California Press, 2017, 260pp. £)…
Border policing, procedural justice and belonging: the legitimacy of (cr)immigration controls in border areas
Border policing, procedural justice and belonging: the legitimacy of (cr)immigration controls in border areas AbstractResearch suggests that social identity plays an important role in citizens’ views of legal authorities. This…
Victim–Offender Trajectories: Explaining Propensity Differences from Childhood to Adulthood through Risk and Protective Factors
Victim–Offender Trajectories: Explaining Propensity Differences from Childhood to Adulthood through Risk and Protective Factors AbstractAlthough extensive evidence supports a relationship between victimization and offending, research has been limited in focusing…
‘Money Rules’: Exploring Offenders’ Perceptions of the Fine as Punishment
‘Money Rules’: Exploring Offenders’ Perceptions of the Fine as Punishment AbstractAlthough the fine is often the most commonly used form of punishment, criminology knows little about how offenders conceive of…
Austerity Policing, Emotional Labour and the Boundaries of Police Work: An Ethnography of a Police Force Control Room in England
Austerity Policing, Emotional Labour and the Boundaries of Police Work: An Ethnography of a Police Force Control Room in England AbstractThis article discusses the changing role of policing in an…
Punitive Parenting and Delinquency: The Mediating Role of Short-Term Mindsets
Punitive Parenting and Delinquency: The Mediating Role of Short-Term Mindsets AbstractDrawing from life history theory and developmental perspectives, we test the hypothesis that the relation between parental discipline practices and…
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy. By H. A. Thompson (New York: Pantheon Books, 2016, $35 USD)
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy. By H. A. Thompson (New York: Pantheon Books, 2016, $35 USD) Blood in the Water: The Attica…
Bomb Alert: Graffiti Writing and Urban Space in London
Bomb Alert: Graffiti Writing and Urban Space in London AbstractBased on three years of ethnographic research undertaken in London amongst a loose network of what British Transport Police term ‘serious…