Forceful De-escalation and Organizational Inertia: Identifying Novel Justifications for Entrenched Police Violence
Forceful De-escalation and Organizational Inertia: Identifying Novel Justifications for Entrenched Police Violence Abstract Despite reforms aimed at reducing racial disparities, the police department in this study experienced ongoing disparities in…
“I’ve Been Hurt Every Single Day Here, You Know:” A Feminist Abolitionist Analysis of Immigration Detention
“I’ve Been Hurt Every Single Day Here, You Know:” A Feminist Abolitionist Analysis of Immigration Detention Abstract While gendered violence against women at home, in intimate relationships, and in the…
Imposed Mobility, Legal Ambiguity, Institutionalized Abandonment: Exploring the Sex Work Crimscape in Contemporary Poland
Imposed Mobility, Legal Ambiguity, Institutionalized Abandonment: Exploring the Sex Work Crimscape in Contemporary Poland Abstract When conceptually framed as a crimscape, the contemporary landscape of sex work criminalization can be…
A Place of Safety? Women, Crimmigration Control and a Stigmatised Identity
A Place of Safety? Women, Crimmigration Control and a Stigmatised Identity Abstract Asylum claimants’ experiences of crimmigration controls are shaped by gender, race, and class. This article seeks to show…
Drug Trafficking as Crime Against Humanity: Global Moral Panics and Drugs at the United Nations
Drug Trafficking as Crime Against Humanity: Global Moral Panics and Drugs at the United Nations Abstract This article presents archival data produced by Australian diplomats in the 1980s that report…
Illegally Crossing an Open Border: The Experiences of Venezuelan Women’s Journeys to Colombia Through Unauthorised Routes
Illegally Crossing an Open Border: The Experiences of Venezuelan Women’s Journeys to Colombia Through Unauthorised Routes Abstract This article aims to document the experiences of women crossing borders through unauthorised…
Ways of “Not Hearing”: Corporate Denial in the Case of Aircraft Noise and Victimisation in the UK
Ways of “Not Hearing”: Corporate Denial in the Case of Aircraft Noise and Victimisation in the UK Abstract The elusive power dynamics behind the victimisation of aircraft noise pollution, a…
Hyper-policing the Homeless: Lived Experience and the Perils of Benevolent and Malevolent Policing
Hyper-policing the Homeless: Lived Experience and the Perils of Benevolent and Malevolent Policing Abstract Drawing on interviews with 164 people experiencing homelessness across Australia, this article discusses the concept of…
Using Speculative Fiction to Imagine Queer Abolition Real Utopias
Using Speculative Fiction to Imagine Queer Abolition Real Utopias Abstract This article uses speculative fiction as a method for exploring the potentialities of queer abolition utopias. Abolition utopias aim to…
The Institutional Hearing Program and the Incarceration-to-Deportation Pipeline
The Institutional Hearing Program and the Incarceration-to-Deportation Pipeline Abstract Through our study of the Institutional Hearing Program (IHP), we examine how immigration courts within prisons enforce immigration law over individuals…
Fear of Crime as a Punitive Project—The Swedish Case
Fear of Crime as a Punitive Project—The Swedish Case Abstract This paper asks what the role of fear of crime research plays in the conception and framing of the crime…
Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice
Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice Abstract This article presents a rationale and strategy for bringing urgent attention to ‘minority’, ‘excluded’, and ‘marginalised’ perspectives within contemporary mainstream criminology.…