We Know Where You Are, What You Are Doing and We Will Catch You Testing Deterrence Theory in Digital Drug Markets
We Know Where You Are, What You Are Doing and We Will Catch You Testing Deterrence Theory in Digital Drug Markets AbstractIs crime reduced by highly publicized punishment events? Is…
Breaking Down Barriers: Recommendations for Improving Sexual Abuse Reporting Rates in British South Asian Communities
Breaking Down Barriers: Recommendations for Improving Sexual Abuse Reporting Rates in British South Asian Communities AbstractSexual abuse reporting rates, which are low in general, are thought to be even worse…
The Assassination Complex: Inside The US Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Programme. By Jeremy Scahill and the Staff of the Intercept (Serpent’s Tail, 2016, 234 pp. £8.99)
The Assassination Complex: Inside The US Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Programme. By Jeremy Scahill and the Staff of the Intercept (Serpent’s Tail, 2016, 234 pp. £) The Assassination Complex: Inside…
Neighbourhood Disorder, Collective Sentiments and Personal Strain: Bringing Neighbourhood Context into General Strain Theory
Neighbourhood Disorder, Collective Sentiments and Personal Strain: Bringing Neighbourhood Context into General Strain Theory AbstractUsing a random sample of 1,435 Ukrainian and Russian respondents, this study integrates the predictions of…
The Private Policing of Insurance Claims: Power, Profit and Private Justice
The Private Policing of Insurance Claims: Power, Profit and Private Justice AbstractThe article examines the ways private policing is organized with regard to profitability. While the literature on private policing…
After Woolwich: Analyzing Open Source Communications to Understand the Interactive and Multi-Polar Dynamics of The Arc of Conflict
After Woolwich: Analyzing Open Source Communications to Understand the Interactive and Multi-Polar Dynamics of The Arc of Conflict AbstractThis article is based upon a case study of the 2013 murder…
Local variance in the crime drop: A longitudinal study of neighbourhoods in greater Glasgow, Scotland
Local variance in the crime drop: A longitudinal study of neighbourhoods in greater Glasgow, Scotland AbstractThis paper reports on a novel longitudinal study of local variation in the decline of…
Illegal harvest of marine resources on Andros Island and the legacy of colonial governance
Illegal harvest of marine resources on Andros Island and the legacy of colonial governance AbstractWe used a qualitative case study on Andros Island, The Bahamas, to explore illegal harvest of…
Doctoring with conviction: criminal records and the medical profession
Doctoring with conviction: criminal records and the medical profession AbstractThe General Medical Council decides if, when they are convicted of a crime, a doctor in the United Kingdom should be…
Weak Intervention Backfire and Criminal Hormesis: Why Some Otherwise Effective Crime Prevention Interventions Can Fail at Low Doses
Weak Intervention Backfire and Criminal Hormesis: Why Some Otherwise Effective Crime Prevention Interventions Can Fail at Low Doses AbstractAlthough crime prevention tactics are designed to reduce offending, some studies have…
Emotions, Future Selves and the Process of Desistance
Emotions, Future Selves and the Process of Desistance AbstractDesistance research emphasizes that offenders identify a future self that aids desistance efforts. However, it is unclear how future selves operate when…
The Three Graces of Raymond Street: Murder, Madness, Sex and Politics in 1870s Brooklyn. By Robert E. Murphy (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015, ix + 243 pp. $24.95 paper) Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic. By Victor M. Uribe-Uran (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016, xxv + 429 pp. $70.00 cloth)
The Three Graces of Raymond Street: Murder, Madness, Sex and Politics in 1870s Brooklyn. By Robert E. Murphy (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015, ix + 243…