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What is a ‘good enough’ prison? An empirical analysis of key thresholds using prison moral quality data European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Katherine M. Auty, Alison Liebling
Performance thresholds and minimum standards in prison have preoccupied policy makers and practitioners alike for some time. These standards are based on widely accepted statements of principle, but benchmarks are rarely set or explored empirically. Nor has there been any attempt to describe or define higher-end thresholds; the point at which outcomes become positive, or stated principles are achieved
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Comparing the criminal careers of organized crime offenders in Italy and the Netherlands European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Francesco Calderoni, Tommaso Comunale, Victor van der Geest, Edward R. Kleemans
The concept of organized crime has dynamically evolved, with researchers contending that it is a social construct or an umbrella concept encompassing different empirical manifestations. Scholars have often suggested classifying organized crime groups into those involved in “racketeering” or “governing” and those engaged in “transit crime” or “trading.” However, these propositions were never assessed
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Moral foundations in gender violence cases decided in Portuguese courts European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Andreia Martinho, Maarten Kroesen, Caspar Chorus
Gender violence encompasses a multitude of morally problematic psychological, physical, and sexual behaviors that, in most countries, constitute criminal offenses. In this study, we investigate the association between moral foundations ( Care, Fairness, Loyalty, Authority, and Sanctity) and punitive responses to gender violence offenses. Our case study focuses on gender violence in Portugal, a country
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Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany? European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Jan-Philip Steinmann
This article complements existing victimological studies on religion by investigating whether religion promotes or reduces fear of crime in Germany. According to the generalized insecurity approach and the theory of social production functions, religion and fear of crime are linked via secularization-induced diffuse insecurities. It is expected that different facets of religion are tied to fearing
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Assessment of a domestic violence telecare protection system from the victims’ perspective European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jorge Quintas, Pedro Sousa, Ana Guerreiro, Alexandra Leandro, Rita Faria
This article presents an evaluative study of the telecare protection system (TPS) implemented in Portugal as a protection order for domestic violence victims. A survey was applied to a representative sample of victims who were supported by the system ( N = 171) and their responses were compared with those of domestic violence victims who did not benefit from it ( N = 100). Victims were asked about
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The pandemic as a criminological experiment: Crime in the Netherlands during 12 months of COVID-19 measures European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Edwin W. Kruisbergen, Marco B. Haas, Debora E.G. Moolenaar, Lisa van Es, Joanieke M.A. Snijders, Lise Houwing, Ben Stickle
COVID-19 caused serious personal and societal damage. It also created, however, a unique natural experiment. How did the pandemic affect crime levels? In this article, we analyse unique empirical data for the Netherlands, covering January 2016–March 2021, to assess if and how crime patterns changed during the first 12 months of COVID-19-related measures. Domestic violence, which was expected to rise
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Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Mirko Nazzari, Michele Riccardi
Despite the wide reach of anti-money laundering legislation worldwide and increasing media attention, fostered by journalistic leaks such as Panama Papers, empirical knowledge on how criminals launder their illicit proceeds is still scarce. The few available empirical studies show that money laundering (ML) schemes are often less sophisticated than they are depicted in the political and media debate
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Experiences of fatherhood in prison: A thematic analysis of differences between fathers in a family approach programme and a comparison group European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Simon D. Venema, Petrick Glasbergen, Marieke Haan, Eric Blaauw, René Veenstra
Various programmes have been implemented in prisons to strengthen parental involvement and parent–child relationships during imprisonment. In-depth insights into such programmes are limited. This qualitative study compared the experiences of two groups of imprisoned fathers in the Netherlands: fathers who participated in a family approach programme ( N = 10) and fathers in a comparison group ( N =
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Revisiting the tautology problem in rational choice theory: What it is and how to move forward theoretically and empirically European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Kevin F. Steinmetz, Travis C. Pratt
Criminological rational choice theory is blighted by tautology—that if a crime occurs, then by definition the benefits must exceed the costs. The current analysis details the nature of this tautology as well as its theoretical and philosophical implications concerning the circumstances under which offenders make rational (thoughtful and reflective) or irrational (habitual, intuitive, or instinctual)
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Changing environments to promote safety in libraries European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Vania Ceccato, Barak Ariel, Emrah Ercin, Adriana Sampaio, Julia Hazanov, Sara Elfström
The purpose of this article is to investigate how changes in the environment of a library affect the safety conditions of both visitors and staff. Using principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, crime and incidents of public disturbance from 2017 to 2020 from libraries in Stockholm, Sweden, are analyzed and later mapped using 3D models in CAD. These findings are inspected via fieldwork
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God moves in mysterious ways: Faith units and their influence on prison governance in Argentina and Sweden European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Albert Pedrosa, Susanne Alm, Lena Roxell, Mauricio Manchado
Faith-based units are prison spaces centred on the performance of religious practices that can nowadays be found in prisons in several countries. These faith-based practices have usually been explo...
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Too civil to care? How online hate speech against different social groups affects bystander intervention European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Magdalena Obermaier, Ursula Kristin Schmid, Diana Rieger
A large share of online users has already witnessed online hate speech. Because targets tend to interpret such bystanders’ lack of reaction as agreement with the hate speech, bystander intervention...
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How the COVID-19 pandemic hit crime in Barcelona: Analysis of variation in crime trends European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Diego A. Díaz-Faes, Ferran Vidal-Codina, Anna Segura, Raúl Aguilar, Noemí Pereda
Objectives:To compare the observed and forecasted crime trends in Barcelona, using crime statistics from January 2018 to March 2021.Methods:We trained (seasonal) auto-regressive integrated moving a...
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Are women of all age groups equally affected by the shadow of sexual assault? Evidence from Germany European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Helmut Hirtenlehner, Stephen Farrall, Eva Groß
Ample evidence suggests that women are more fearful of crime than men. The ‘shadow of sexual assault hypothesis’ offers a possible explanation for this gender gap: in patriarchal societies females ...
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The ‘officer effect’ in risk assessment for domestic abuse: Findings from a mixed methods study in England and Wales European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Andy Myhill, Katrin Hohl, Kelly Johnson
Research on risk assessment for domestic abuse has focused primarily on the predictive validity of specific tools; less attention has been paid to implementation of risk tools by practitioners. Thi...
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Sleep and delinquency: The context of self-control, social support, and sex differences among French adolescents European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Daniel C. Semenza, Elodie Gentina
Prior research demonstrates that poor sleep is an important predictor of delinquent behavior among adolescents. Engagement in delinquency is linked to a range of negative mental and physical health...
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The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Laura D. Keesman
While much scholarly literature on police ‘canteen’ culture focuses on police storytelling, there is little research on the effects of camera phone technologies on police behaviours, particularly i...
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Homicide clearance: Discretionary and non-discretionary factors European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Alberto Aziani, Christian Persurich
Previous studies have produced mixed findings regarding discretionary and non-discretionary factors associated with the likelihood of homicides being cleared. Performing Pearson’s χ2 test, logistic...
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Understanding violent extremism: Risk and protective factors in a jihadi male detainee population in the Netherlands European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Gaby Thijssen, Erik Masthoff, Jelle J. Sijtsema, Stefan Bogaerts
In recent years, the number of detainees confined for terrorism-related offenses has increased worldwide and across Europe. To understand the factors related to terrorism and its underlying motives...
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‘It causes a lot of problems’: Relational ambiguities and dynamics between prisoners and staff in a women's prison European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Ben Crewe, Anna Schliehe, Daria Aleksandra Przybylska
Staff–prisoner relationships have long been recognised as lying ‘at the heart of the whole prison system’ (Home Office, 1984: para. 16; Liebling, 2011). However, relatively few accounts of women's ...
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Deviant peers: Does friendship stability condition the peer-delinquency link? European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Marie Ouellet, Leah Daigle, Owen Gallupe
Prior research demonstrates a clear association between deviant peers and delinquent behavior, but it is unclear whether stable relationships provide stronger sources of influence than ephemeral ti...
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Using criminal histories to empower victim–survivors of domestic abuse European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Katerina Hadjimatheou
The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (DVDS) was first introduced in England and Wales in 2014 and has since been reproduced across the world. Its aim is to empower victim–survivors by giving the...
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Criminogenic and harm-enabling features of social media platforms: The case of sharenting practices European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Anita Lavorgna, Morena Tartari, Pamela Ugwudike
Sharenting – that is, the sharing of identifying and sensitive information of minors, who are often overexposed online by parents or guardians – has, at times, criminogenic potential, as the inform...
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‘Cocooning’ in prison during COVID-19: Findings from recent research in Ireland European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Joe Garrihy, Ian Marder, Patricia Gilheaney
The advent of COVID-19 prompted the enforced isolation of elderly and vulnerable populations around the world, for their own safety. For people in prison, these restrictions risked compounding the ...
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Severe violent victimization and labour market exclusion. The significance of the victim–offender overlap European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Anna Kahlmeter
Evidence that violent victimization is associated with an array of negative outcomes over the life-course is mounting. While its links to poor health have been extensively documented, socio-economi...
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Differential updating and morality: Is the way offenders learn from police detection associated with their personal morals? European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Florian Kaiser, Björn Huss, Marcus Schaerff
The majority of differential deterrability research has investigated whether people differ in the extent to which a perceived threat of sanctions deters them from committing a crime. Less is known ...
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Assessing and reporting leaking of violent intent: Influences of perpetrator and witness characteristics European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Laura Tampe, Rebecca Bondü
Because the police are reliant on laypersons to report announcements (leaking) of terrorist attacks, it is crucial to examine potential determinants for their assessment of the seriousness of leaki...
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Simple indicators of crime and police: How big data can be used to reveal temporal patterns European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Philipp M. Dau, Maite Dewinter, Frank Witlox, Tom Vander Beken, Christophe Vandeviver
This study demonstrates how temporal summary statistics can be a guiding tool for big data analyses to unravel temporal patterns of crime and police presence. Simple indicator statistics were used ...
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The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Phil Mike Jones, Emily Gray, Stephen Farrall
This paper combines archival data and statistical analysis to investigate the context-specific ways that prisons expanded and affected communities in the UK, focusing closely on the role of the UK'...
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Attitudes towards the death penalty: An assessment of individual and country-level differences European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Daniel McCarthy, Ian Brunton-Smith
Research on public attitudes to the death penalty has been predominantly understood through single nation-states, especially within the USA. Examinations of international differences in citizens’ s...
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The SECI model and darknet markets: Knowledge creation in criminal organizations and communities of practice European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Marie-Helen Maras, Jana Arsovska, Adam Scott Wandt, Melanie Knieps, Kenji Logie
This study examines darknet markets through the lens of a business theory on knowledge management. Taking epistemological and ontological dimensions into consideration, this study uses Nonaka's (19...
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Is there a penalty for going to trial in Spain? Plea bargaining and courtroom efficiency European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Steven Kemp, Daniel Varona
The plea bargain is now the most frequent mode of conviction in many countries, yet several problems have been highlighted, such as loss of rights, enhanced sentencing disparities or increased fals...
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How unique are terrorist suspects? Investigating similarities and differences between terrorist suspects, their siblings, and other suspects European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Fabienne Thijs, Elanie Rodermond, Edward Kleemans, Steve van de Weijer
This article contributes to the debate in terrorism research on how unique terrorist suspects (i.e. individuals suspected of crimes with terrorist intent) actually are and whether or not specific t...
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New patterns in residential burglary: The method of deadbolt lock picking European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Boran Ali Mercan
This article examines the adaptability of burglars and tactical displacement in Ankara, the capital of Turkey, as part of an ‘arms race’ escalating in response to the sophistication of offensive an...
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Does fear of migrant crime predict xenophobia: Evidence from three Russian cities European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Anna Gurinskaya, Mahesh K. Nalla, Evgeniya Polyakova
In this study, we examine Russian millennials’ attitudes toward migrants—an estimated 10 million legal and four million illegal migrants, who work in construction, service, and retail industries. M...
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Assessing the predictive validity of a risk assessment instrument for repeat victimization in The Netherlands using prior police contacts European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Niels Raaijmakers, Roos Geurts, Marc JMH Delsing, Alice K Bosma, Jacqueline AM Wientjes, Toine Spapens, Ron HJ Scholte
The current study examined to what extent a valid instrument that predicts repeat victimization can be based on a victim's prior police contacts. Police records between 2010 and 2017 were retrieved...
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Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types? European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Karoliina Suonpää, Janne Kivivuori, Pauline Aarten, Andri Ahven, Sven Granath, Nora Markwalder, Sara Skott, Asser H. Thomsen, Simone Walser, Marieke Liem
This study examines homicide trends in seven European countries – Denmark, Estonia, Finland, the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden and Switzerland – all of which manifested a substantial drop in homici...
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Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation? European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Rebecca Banwell-Moore, Philippa Tomczak
In prisons, participatory mechanisms can foster important outcomes including fairness, legitimacy and dignity. Complaints are one significant (symbolic) mechanism facilitating prisoner participation. Ombud institutions/ Ombudsmen handle complaints externally, providing unelected accountability mechanisms and overseeing prisons around the world. A fair complaints process can stimulate prisoner voice
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Out of prison, out of crime? The complex interplay between the process of desistance and severe resource disadvantages in women‘s post-release lives European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Elanie Rodermond, Steve Van De Weijer, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, Catrien C.J.H. Bijleveld, Anne-Marie Slotboom, Candace Kruttschnitt
We examine the influence of social capital, subjective changes and post-release resource disadvantages on women‘s desistance and reentry pathways. Using a sample of 1478 formerly incarcerated women, we estimate logistic hybrid random-effects models to assess the influence of several factors on offending during a 7-year follow-up period. We use interviews with a subsample of women to explore the mechanisms
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The persistent countervailing consequences of urbanization: A longitudinal study of homicide rates European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Matthew Thomas Clement, Nathan W. Pino, Jarrett Blaustein
Quantitative criminologists often use temporally lagged variables to estimate the structural forces contributing to variation in crime rates. We elucidate the relevance of temporal lags for cross-national research by looking specifically at the lagged longitudinal relationship between urbanization and homicide rates. Using cross-national time-series data for (n = 83) nations, we run a series of 10
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From structural time use to situational rule-breaking: Analysing adolescents’ time use and the person-setting interaction European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Alberto P. Chrysoulakis, Anna-Karin Ivert, Marie Torstensson Levander
While unsupervised and unstructured socialising with peers is associated with delinquency, less is known about to what extent it fits within adolescents’ daily routine activities; that is, their general, structural time use. Furthermore, research informed by the situational action theory shows that unstructured socialising increases the probability of rule-breaking acts more for individuals with higher
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Punishment, political economy and crisis: Disciplining labour through state-corporate surveillance in the ‘neoliberal heartlands’ European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Sappho Xenakis
The aim of this article is to advance the politico-economic analysis of punishment in contexts of crisis. To this end, the article examines punitive state interventions in the ‘neoliberal heartlands’ of the UK and the US, as set against a backdrop of multidimensional crises that have reconfigured political landscapes, the relationship between labour and capital, and the mode and scope of state punishment
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A critical perspective on the administrative approach to crime prevention: The case of labour trafficking European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Hanna M Malik, Johanna Vanto, Liisa Lähteenmäki, Jalo Vatjus-Anttila, Jon Davies
Building on empirical data from Finnish enforcement agencies, we reflect on the challenges of the administrative approach to crime prevention. At the operational level, we identify explicit legal and implicit extra-legal limitations for using the administrative approach, that we call (1) ‘tunnel view’, (2) ‘structural siloes’, (3) ‘double role’, and (4) ‘blurred lines’. At the conceptual level, we
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Crossing borders: Does it matter? Differences between (near-)domestic and cross-border sex traffickers, their victims and modus operandi European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Suzanne L. J. Kragten-Heerdink, Steve G. A. van de Weijer, Frank M. Weerman
Hardly any research exists that empirically compares (near-)domestic and cross-border sex trafficking. The few studies that do, are based on relatively small samples, and only represent US data. This study substantially extends the scarce scientific knowledge about the differences between the two types of sex trafficking, based on European data. Our sample consists of all 658 (near-)domestic sex traffickers
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Entangled in the technology-driven borderscape: Border crossers rendered to their digital self European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Valeria Ferraris
EU management of migration is undergoing an unprecedented transformation because of the use of databases and information systems. Drawing on the concept of border performativity, this article discusses how data is transforming the border. In particular, the article focuses on 1) how the EU JHA databases are evolving, from separate systems each with one purpose to multi-purpose databases, and 2) how
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Culture and corruption: An experimental comparison of cultural patterns on the corruption propensity in Poland and Russia European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Alexander Fürstenberg, Sebastian Starystach, Andrzej Uhl
The development of effective anti-corruption measures relies on a sound understanding of underlying country-specific cultural patterns of corruption. However, finding these patterns faces the problem of ecological fallacies when tracing back the results of comparative macro-studies to the national level or of using ex-post explanations for cultural variances in experimental research designs. Thus,
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Crime, justice and criminology in the Republic of Ireland European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Claire Hamilton
This country survey examines: the core Irish criminal justice institutions; basic trends in crime and punishment over the last 50 years; and critical junctures in the debate over law and order in recent decades. Using an earlier country survey by O’Donnell (2005a) as a baseline, it charts the significant growth of the discipline of criminology within Ireland. The article argues that Irish criminal
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The Gozi group: A criminal firm in cyberspace? European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Jonathan Lusthaus, Jaap van Oss, Philipp Amann
The relative glut of data on cybercriminal forums has led to a growing understanding of the functioning of these virtual marketplaces. But with a focus on illicit online trading, less attention has been paid to the structures of groups that carry out cybercrimes in an operational sense. In economic parlance, some such groups may be known as “firms”. This concept has been a significant part of the literature
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Penal changes, crises, and the political economy of punishment: An introduction European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 José A. Brandariz,Máximo Sozzo
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The enforcement turn in plural policing? A comparative analysis of public police auxiliaries in England & Wales, France and The Netherlands European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Megan O’Neill, Jacques de Maillard, Ronald van Steden
This paper examines ‘auxiliary’ police in three European countries and the extent to which they continue to present a pluralisation of public sector policing. Examining findings from existing empirical research, we will argue that despite different origins, systems of governance, formal powers and levels of centralisation, the police auxiliaries in England & Wales, France and The Netherlands have all
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Classical deterrence theory revisited: An empirical analysis of Police Force Areas in England and Wales European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Juste Abramovaite, Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Samrat Bhattacharya, Nick Cowen
The severity, certainty and celerity (swiftness) of punishment are theorised to influence offending through deterrence. Yet celerity is rarely included in empirical studies of criminal activity and the three deterrence factors have never been analysed in one empirical model. We address this gap with an analysis using unique panel data of recorded theft, burglary and violence against the person for
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Contrasts in freedom: Comparing the experiences of imprisonment in open and closed prisons in England and Wales and Norway European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Kristian Mjåland, Julie Laursen, Anna Schliehe, Simon Larmour
Open prisons are portrayed as less harmful custodial institutions than closed prisons, and prison systems that rely more heavily on low security imprisonment are typically considered to have a more humane and less punitive approach to punishment. However, few studies have systematically compared the subjective experiences of prisoners held in open and closed prisons, and no study has yet compared the
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Explaining cheating in schools with Situational Action Theory: Within-estimations using a German school panel European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 André Ernst, Maria Gerth
Wikström's Situational Action Theory (SAT) explains rule-breaking by reference to the cognitive perception-choice process, which indicates how a person's propensity to break rules interacts with the setting's criminogeneity. SAT's situational model claims that the interaction between personal morality and the moral norms of the setting, the so-called moral filter, is critical in the explanation of
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Community multiculturalism and immigrant crime European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Arjen Leerkes, Tineke Fokkema, Roel Jennissen
There is considerable international and local-level variation in immigrant crime. In this article, we propose a theoretical model to better understand that contextual variation. Furthermore, we present the results of our first attempts to empirically assess the validity of the framework, focussing on local-level variation in crime among residents of Turkish or Moroccan origin in the Netherlands. The
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Inequality, welfare and punishment. Comparative notes between the Global North and South European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Máximo Sozzo
In this paper, I will describe how two strong connections between, on the one hand, income inequality and welfare generosity, and, on the other, punitiveness, have been built in both theoretical and empirical explorations in the contemporary comparative literature on the sociology of punishment. Then, I will point out the strong concentration of these explorations on national cases from the Global
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Punitive by negligence? The myths and reality of penal nationalism in the Czech Republic European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Jakub Drápal
Penal populism has repeatedly been described as influencing penal policies, with harsh penal practices presented as evidence of its influence. However, little attention has yet been paid to its role in the development of penal policies in post-authoritarian countries, which generally have large prison populations. Some minimal research has suggested that Central European countries were driven by penal
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Depression and repression: Global capitalism, economic crisis and penal politics in interwar Greece European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Leonidas K. Cheliotis
Notwithstanding the significant advances made over the last twenty years in terms of charting and explaining the ways in which state punishment is influenced by economic and political forces, little is still known about the penal effects of conditions of economic crisis and about the role the incumbent government's political orientation plays in this regard. Because the few available studies on these
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Victimization experience does matter: Testing the effect of different types of victimization on fear of crime among adolescents European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Zuzana Podaná, Eva Krulichová
The aim of the present study is to thoroughly examine the relationship between adolescent fear of crime and a wide variety of offences which commonly affect children. The analysed data comes from the Urban Youth Victimization Survey conducted among 9th grade students in the Czech Republic. The results unequivocally demonstrate that victimization experience, when measured properly, substantially affects
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Women trafficking networks: Structure and stages of women trafficking in five Dutch small-scale networks European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2021-11-28 Tomáš Diviák, Jan Kornelis Dijkstra, Fenna van der Wijk, Indra Oosting, Gerard Wolters
In this study, we investigated the relation between the different stages of women trafficking (i.e. recruitment, entrance, accommodation, labor, and finance) and the structure of five criminal networks involved in women trafficking in the Netherlands (Ns ranging from 6 to 15). On the one hand, it could be argued that for efficiency and avoidance of being detected by law enforcement agencies, the network
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Violence, worry and trust in the emergence of weapon-carrying European Journal of Criminology (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Iain R Brennan
This paper identifies longitudinal predictors of weapon-carrying in a sample of 10–25 year olds in England and Wales. It conceptualises weapon-carrying as anticipation of an adverse event and proposes hypotheses about the origins of weapon-carrying derived from the field of risk analysis. Specifically, it tests if worry about victimisation and experience of violence predict later weapon-carrying and