Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Edited by Michelle Brown and Eamonn Carrabine (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, 578pp., £165.00 hb)
Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Edited by Michelle Brown and Eamonn Carrabine (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017, 578pp., £ hb) Routledge International Handbook of Visual Criminology. Edited by BrownMichelle and CarrabineEamonn…
Discourses of Mass Probation: From Managing Risk to Ending Human Warehousing in Michigan
Discourses of Mass Probation: From Managing Risk to Ending Human Warehousing in Michigan AbstractOver the past decade, some Western countries have begun to shift away from punitive criminal justice rhetoric,…
The Spread of its Message: Studying the Prominence of al-Qaida Materials in UK Terrorism Investigations
The Spread of its Message: Studying the Prominence of al-Qaida Materials in UK Terrorism Investigations Al-Qaida emphasises its ability to communicate its core message to those who might be sympathetic…
Islamic State and Technology – A Literature Review
Islamic State and Technology – A Literature Review This article offers an overview of the literature on how the Islamic State has used different technologies, primarily within the fields of…
Islamic State and Al-Nusra: Exploring Determinants of Chemical Weapons Usage Patterns
Islamic State and Al-Nusra: Exploring Determinants of Chemical Weapons Usage Patterns This article seeks to examine the determinants of use and non-use of chemical weapons between two typologically similar non-state…
Al-Qaida’s Complex Balancing Act in Syria
Al-Qaida’s Complex Balancing Act in Syria Over the years, al-Qaida has become an increasingly decentralized movement in which its geographically dispersed affiliates have assumed increasing levels of autonomy over their…
Success for al-Qaida in Syria?
Success for al-Qaida in Syria? This article considers how far one can describe al-Qaida’s experiences in Syria as a success. A common line of analysis has been that al-Qaida has…
The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction
The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction. By GarlandD. (Oxford University Press, 2016, 153 + xvi pp. £) Read the syndicated article here
Same Crime: Different Punishment? Investigating Sentencing Disparities Between Irish and Non-Irish Nationals in the Irish Criminal Justice System
Same Crime: Different Punishment? Investigating Sentencing Disparities Between Irish and Non-Irish Nationals in the Irish Criminal Justice System AbstractIreland’s economic growth from the late 1990s prompted sustained and diverse inward…
Injury resulting from targeted violence: An emergency department perspective
Injury resulting from targeted violence: An emergency department perspective Abstract BackgroundHate crimes – those perpetrated because of perceived difference, including disability, race, religion, sexual orientation or transgender status – have…
Jihadi Competition and Political Preferences
Jihadi Competition and Political Preferences While known and feared as the most dangerous global jihadi group, since 2014 al-Qaida has only been involvedin one attack in the West. In the…
The Jihadi Social Movement (JSM): Between Factional Hegemonic Drive, National Realities, and Transnational Ambitions
The Jihadi Social Movement (JSM): Between Factional Hegemonic Drive, National Realities, and Transnational Ambitions This article analyses the evolution of the jihadi social movement (JSM) in changing environmental and factionalcircumstances.…