Testing Routine Activity Theory: Behavioural Pathways Linking Temperature to Crime
Testing Routine Activity Theory: Behavioural Pathways Linking Temperature to Crime AbstractThis study examines direct observations of outdoor routine activities to investigate the pathways through which temperatures shape crime. Daily administrative…
Integrated Through Risk?: How Actuarial and Epidemiological Approaches to Urban Violence Reduction Interact Within a Multi-Agency Gangs Team
Integrated Through Risk?: How Actuarial and Epidemiological Approaches to Urban Violence Reduction Interact Within a Multi-Agency Gangs Team AbstractDespite the emergence of multi-agency initiatives that seek to integrate actuarial and…
Introduction to Convict Criminology. By Jeffrey Ian Ross (Bristol University Press, 2024, 222 pp. £27.99 pbk)
Introduction to Convict Criminology. By Jeffrey Ian Ross (Bristol University Press, 2024, 222 pp. £ pbk) Introduction to Convict Criminology. By RossJeffrey Ian (Bristol University Press, 2024, 222 pp. £…
First Impressions Last? Lay-Judges’ Assessments of Credible Victimhood
First Impressions Last? Lay-Judges’ Assessments of Credible Victimhood AbstractThis article explores how Swedish lay-judges assess victims’ credibility in district court. Previous studies have explored how biases and emotional expressions impact credibility…
The (In)Stability of Punishment Preferences: Implications for Empirical Desert
The (In)Stability of Punishment Preferences: Implications for Empirical Desert AbstractAre public preferences for the type or amount of punishment stable? Instability over short periods would complicate empirical desert by undercutting…
Queering Crime Reporting: Representing Anti-queer Violence in LGBTQ News Media
Queering Crime Reporting: Representing Anti-queer Violence in LGBTQ News Media AbstractWhile criminology has studied news media reporting for decades, it has largely overlooked reporting on anti-queer violence and depictions of crime…
Reassessing the Criminogenic Risk of the ‘Broken Home’: The Concept of ‘The Good Family’ From the Perspective of Young Offenders in Trinidad and Tobago
Reassessing the Criminogenic Risk of the ‘Broken Home’: The Concept of ‘The Good Family’ From the Perspective of Young Offenders in Trinidad and Tobago AbstractThis paper, based on a qualitative…
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate: An Empirical Test of a Variety of Democracies, 1990–2019
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate: An Empirical Test of a Variety of Democracies, 1990–2019 AbstractDemocracy and the level of economic development correlate tightly. While some argue that egalitarian conditions…
Terminal Liminality, Life Imprisonment and the Paroled Body
Terminal Liminality, Life Imprisonment and the Paroled Body AbstractBased on an in-depth analysis of parole board hearings in Israel concerning life sentence prisoners who are old or severely ill, we…
Rehabilitation as Performance: Symbolizing Penal Welfare in Chinese Community Corrections
Rehabilitation as Performance: Symbolizing Penal Welfare in Chinese Community Corrections AbstractThe recent establishment of Chinese community-based corrections (CCC) signals Chinese reformers’ ostensible embrace of the rehabilitation ideal and a looming…
‘Power to the Convicted Class’: Re-Assessing Prisoner-Led Movements and Trade Union Organizing
‘Power to the Convicted Class’: Re-Assessing Prisoner-Led Movements and Trade Union Organizing AbstractThis article examines prisoner-led movements that have sought the right to representation and improvements in pay and conditions.…
Correction to: Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–23
Correction to: Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–23 This is a correction to: Fiona Measham, Mark McCormack, Henry…