One Foot on the Street and One in Prison: Experiencing Life in Open Prisons
One Foot on the Street and One in Prison: Experiencing Life in Open Prisons ABSTRACT This article explores the lived experience of imprisonment in Spain's open prisons, where prisoners spend…
‘Set Up to Fail’: The ‘Pains’ of Post‐Prison Transitional Housing as a Barrier to Desistance From Crime
‘Set Up to Fail’: The ‘Pains’ of Post‐Prison Transitional Housing as a Barrier to Desistance From Crime ABSTRACT Drawing on qualitative data among a sample of people leaving prison in…
Making Good in The Global South
Making Good in The Global South ABSTRACT This essay revisits Shadd Maruna's Making Good from a Global South perspective. Widely recognised as a landmark in desistance research, Maruna's work shifted the analytical…
Never Mind the Bollards: Exploring the Role of GCHQ, MI5, and the National Technical Authorities in UK Security Markets
Never Mind the Bollards: Exploring the Role of GCHQ, MI5, and the National Technical Authorities in UK Security Markets ABSTRACT The cultures and governance of security markets in the United…
Loyalty, Integrity, Protection and Gender: The Making and Breaking of Correctional Officer Collectivity
Loyalty, Integrity, Protection and Gender: The Making and Breaking of Correctional Officer Collectivity ABSTRACT Discourses of ‘brotherhoods’ prevail in public safety sectors and remain empirically limited regarding correctional officers (COs). We…
Making Good to Making Space: Lived Experience and the Convict Criminology Tradition
Making Good to Making Space: Lived Experience and the Convict Criminology Tradition ABSTRACT Making Good’s 25th anniversary offers an opportunity to revisit one of criminology's most consequential texts through the…
Gender, Desistance and Women as Affected Others: A Case Study Exploration of the Pains of Desistance Emotional Work
Gender, Desistance and Women as Affected Others: A Case Study Exploration of the Pains of Desistance Emotional Work ABSTRACT Desistance research promotes intimate relationships without recognising the gendered expectations of…
Co‐Creating a Blueprint for Correctional System and Intergenerational Change: Better Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children
Co‐Creating a Blueprint for Correctional System and Intergenerational Change: Better Addressing the Needs of Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children ABSTRACT Most incarcerated women have histories of trauma, victimisation, poor mental…
Restorative Journeys: Youth Offending Trajectories and Victim Recovery Following Restorative Justice Conferencing
Restorative Journeys: Youth Offending Trajectories and Victim Recovery Following Restorative Justice Conferencing ABSTRACT Restorative justice (RJ) is associated with offenders’ movement away from crime and victim recovery. However, little is…
The Political Calculus of Capital Punishment in Mandatory Palestine
The Political Calculus of Capital Punishment in Mandatory Palestine ABSTRACT This article examines capital punishment in civil court cases in Mandatory Palestine (1920–1948), focusing on the British High Commissioner's role…
From the Editors: Academic Writing in an Age of Urgency
From the Editors: Academic Writing in an Age of Urgency The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView. Louise Brangan, Marion Vannier Read the syndicated article here
We Need to Talk About Court Custody
We Need to Talk About Court Custody ABSTRACT Court custody is an overlooked but significant site of incarceration that holds tens of thousands of individuals each year in England and…