Managing Trouble Along a Continuum of Accountability: On Police Practices for Dealing with Less-Than-Competent Subjects
Managing Trouble Along a Continuum of Accountability: On Police Practices for Dealing with Less-Than-Competent Subjects AbstractThis article uses conversation analysis to examine recordings of police encounters, focusing on how officers…
Justice Work: Sisters (Having to) Do It for ThemselvesWomen’s Experiences of the Criminal Justice System When Reporting Domestic Abuse and Stalking
Justice Work: Sisters (Having to) Do It for ThemselvesWomen’s Experiences of the Criminal Justice System When Reporting Domestic Abuse and Stalking AbstractThis article outlines findings from our research which sought…
Racially Determined Case Characteristics: Exploring Disparities in the Use of Sentencing Factors in England and Wales
Racially Determined Case Characteristics: Exploring Disparities in the Use of Sentencing Factors in England and Wales AbstractThere is little understanding of how documented ethnic disparities in sentencing outcomes in England…
Racial Disparities in Civilian Response to Police Use of Force: Evidence From London
Racial Disparities in Civilian Response to Police Use of Force: Evidence From London AbstractThis study explores the impact of police use of force on civilian interactions with the police, focussing…
Becoming an Ex-Extremist: Stopping the Hate and Embracing a New Identity
Becoming an Ex-Extremist: Stopping the Hate and Embracing a New Identity AbstractDomestic radicalization to violent extremism has evolved into the most urgent terrorism threat facing the West. We contribute to…
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need. By Sara Salman (New York: New York University Press, 2023, 233pp. $30.00 pbk)
The Shaming State: How the Treats Citizens in Need. By Sara Salman (New York: New York University Press, 2023, 233pp. $ pbk) The Shaming State: How the Treats Citizens in…
Using Scammers’ Data to Estimate the Impact and Importance of Preventing Repeat Mail Fraud Victimization
Using Scammers’ Data to Estimate the Impact and Importance of Preventing Repeat Mail Fraud Victimization AbstractThis study examines the frequency and cost of repeat mail fraud victimization in the United…
Far-Right Extremism, Elections and Hate Crime: A Temporal Evaluation of Bias-Motivated Violence in Slovakia
Far-Right Extremism, Elections and Hate Crime: A Temporal Evaluation of Bias-Motivated Violence in Slovakia AbstractThe present study provides an initial attempt to assess the impact of extremist right electoral support…
Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas
Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas AbstractCrime data are problematic: Crimes that are never reported undermine its validity and differences in police recording practices affect its reliability.…
Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy
Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy AbstractIn this article, we demonstrate how ‘penal nationalism’ came to influence Danish social policy during the 2000s. While critical evaluations of…
White Nationalism, Politically Motivated Reasoning and Americans’ Attitudes About Criminally Charging Donald Trump
White Nationalism, Politically Motivated Reasoning and Americans’ Attitudes About Criminally Charging Donald Trump AbstractOn 19 December 2022, the United States House Select Committee referred former president Donald Trump to the…
‘Violence is completely normal’: Managing Violence Through Narrative Normalization
‘Violence is completely normal’: Managing Violence Through Narrative Normalization AbstractThis article introduces the concept ‘narrative normalization of violence’ as a theoretical framework for exploring the interplay between crime and marginality…