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Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Andy Aydın-Aitchison
The paper excavates ‘implicit criminologies’ concerning victims, perpetrators and bystanders from four films by Bosnian director Jasmila Žbanić: Grbavica (2006); On the path (2010); For those who can tell no tales (2013) and Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020). I argue that in criminological terms, Žbanić’s work is strongest, and has greatest transformative potential, as an example of cinematic victimology. This
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Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Hannah Marshall
This article draws on observations and interviews with youth justice practitioners and young people involved in county lines drug dealing to explore the processes by which young people are identified as victims of child criminal exploitation (CCE). The findings reveal that interpersonal interactions between practitioners and young people, specifically young people’s capacity to share information and
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For Better or Worse? Improving the Response to Domestic Abuse Offenders on Probation The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Nicole Renehan, David Gadd
As the Ministry of Justice looks to develop a ‘new generation’ of programmes to reduce reoffending, we reflect on what can be learnt from the only accredited domestic abuse programme in England and Wales, Building Better Relationships (BBR). Findings from an ethnographic study of BBR are situated within the Probation Inspectorate’s recent inspection of domestic abuse work within the newly unified Probation
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The Eyes and Ears of Sexual Exploitation Online: Are Sex Buyers Part of the Prevention Puzzle to Reduce Harms in the Online Sex Industry? The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Rachel Keighley, Teela Sanders
UK efforts to prevent modern slavery and sexual exploitation online include assessing Adult Service Websites’ (ASWs) moderation and prevention responsibilities. Yet little is known about the role of sex buyers, as the political rhetoric assumes they are sexual offenders within the neo-abolitionist context (Serughetti 2013). Drawing from a large-scale study looking at ASWs’ responsibilities in preventing
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‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Ben Crewe
Based on a longitudinal study of life-sentenced prisoners in England and Wales, this article seeks to make sense of what it characterizes as ‘sedative coping’. In doing so, it brings together analytic conclusions from the existing research literature that appear highly inconsistent, but which indicate the centrality of emotion in the experience of serving a long prison sentence. Specifically, it highlights
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‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Amanda Holt
Drawing on recent criminological scholarship on child to parent violence (CPV), this article applies a feminist ‘ethics of care’ framework to understand how mothers of neurodivergent children understand the violence they experience from them. Examining data from in-depth interviews with 15 mothers who experience CPV, this article explores how mothers construct themselves as a ‘safe space’ through which
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Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Thomas Guiney
Political parties occupy a contradictory position in the criminological literature: at once active participants in the political contestation of crime but virtually absent from contemporary debates concerning the relationship between crime and democratic theory. In this paper, I present a ‘rational reconstruction’ of party and partisanship as distinctive modes of political association that are vital
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The Prison as a Space of Non-life: How Does a Typical Prison Sentence Intervene in What Really Matters to People? The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Alice Ievins
This article argues that imprisonment creates time that does not matter. It is based on longitudinal interviews conducted with 35 men and women sentenced to typical prison sentences in England. It argues that some responded to this situation by trying to treat the institution as a space of temporary removal and then return to their unblemished lives after release. Others tried to use the prison as
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The Victimization of Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh: Breaking the Silence - Postcolonial Criminology, Ethnography and Genocide The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Manikandan Soundararajan, Karuppannan Jaishankar, Mark Bushell, Luke Telford, James Treadwell
This paper gives voice to the victims of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Using criminological ethnographic research in refugee camps in Bangladesh, we examine the qualitative accounts of violence and persecution and ‘break the silence’ by giving voice to Rohingya people who had fled military violence. We place the Rohingya’s testimonies within a wider theoretical and historical discussion that also addresses
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Taking Prison to Court: Exploring the Judicial Review of Prison Decision-Making Through Supreme Court Judges in Israel The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Netanel Dagan, Shmuel Baron
Scholars have criticized the gap between judicial work and the realities of prison life. In this article, drawn from qualitative findings from Supreme Court Judges in Israel, we analysed how such Judges negotiate their administrative judicial review over prison officials’ decisions. We found that through their judicial review, the Judges either bureaucratise, re-sentence the prisoner or reform prison
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Invisible Stripes? A Field Experiment on the Disclosure of a Criminal Record in the British Labour Market and the Potential Effects of Introducing Ban-The-Box Policies The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Marti Rovira
Labour market discrimination against individuals with criminal records may be unfair, ineffective and counterproductive. This article describes a field experiment designed to indicate whether job applicants disclosing a criminal record in the British labour market have a lower probability of success than equivalent applicants not disclosing criminal records. The research also provides insights into
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Making Good?: A Study of How Senior Penal Policy Makers Narrate Policy Reversal The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Harry Annison, Lol Burke, Nicola Carr, Matthew Millings, Gwen Robinson, Eleanor Surridge
This paper provides insights into the predominant styles of political reasoning in England and Wales that inform penal policy reform. It does so in relation to a particular development that constitutes a dramatic, perhaps even unique, wholesale reversal of a previously introduced market-based criminal justice delivery model. This is the ‘unification’ of probation services in England and Wales, which
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Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–2019 The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Guillermo J Escaño, William Alex Pridemore
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) possesses 8 per cent of the global population but approximately one-third of global homicides. The region also exhibits high per capita alcohol consumption, risky drinking patterns and a heterogeneous mix of beverage preferences. Despite this, LAC violence receives limited attention in the English-language literature and there are no studies of the population-level
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Peyote as Earth Medicine: Examining How Symbolic Meanings Shape Experiences With Psychedelics The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Heith Copes, Jared Ragland
Narrative criminology prioritizes personal narratives for explaining past behaviours and shaping future decisions. Using this perspective, we rely on data from a photo-ethnography with people who use peyote in religious ceremonies to understand how their discourses about peyote shape their experiences with it. We find that participants define peyote as an ‘earth medicine’ that helps with healing (physical
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Desistance Upon Release From Prison: Narratives of Tragedy, Irony, Romance and Comedy The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Emma Villman
Desistance research has largely revolved around the concepts of persistence in and desistance from crime, missing what happens between these two poles. The study uses longitudinal interview data from Finnish people in prison (N = 22) before and after release to elucidate the narrative development between the positions of persistence and desistance. Taking a narrative criminological approach, the article
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Envisioning Social Justice With Criminalized Young Adults The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Beth Weaver, Trish McCulloch, Nina Vaswani
Rather than attending to the social harms underpinning youth offending, justice responses tend to amplify and entrench them. While perhaps less noticeable, inequalities further reside in the systematic disparities in criminalized young adults’ opportunities to influence policy and practice and to have control of the choices concerning their present and their future. Resultantly, perhaps, there is a
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Between Democratic Modernization and Authoritarian Punitiveness in Brazil: Mass Incarceration, Political Rationalities and the Dynamics of Subnational Variation The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 David S Fonseca
Since the return to democracy in the 1980s, the Federal government in Brazil promoted the democratic modernization of the criminal justice apparatus. However, the arrival of a post-neoliberal government to the federal administration at the beginning of the century took place simultaneously with the emergence of mass incarceration. Rather than readily blaming their penal policies for this development
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An Intersectional Analysis of Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Prevalence, Experiences and Impacts of Victimization The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Asher Flynn, Anastasia Powell, Sophie Hindes
Technology-facilitated abuse (TFA) is a growing problem. This article explores lifetime victimization experiences of TFA, presenting findings from the first study to establish a reliable national prevalence estimate for victimization in Australia, using a general adult population sample (n = 4,562) and 20 qualitative interviews with adults who have experienced TFA. Key findings include an overall high
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Critical Narratives Or Crime Stories? The Ethics And Politics Of Narrative Research In Criminology The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Rebecca Bunn
Amid growing criminological interest in narrative, there is hope that the mainstreaming of ‘narrative criminology’ will yield a more critical disposition within the discipline. This article contends that critical practice does not simply entail attending to issues of harm, power and resistance or researcher reflexivity, but grappling with the complex ethics and politics of our research practices. Focusing
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Decomposing Neighbourhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighbourhood Crime The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Seth A Williams
While the human ecological model views neighbourhood instability as a function of household-level decisions, the present study draws on a political economy of place perspective to highlight how the profit-seeking interests of outside actors shapes instability, with consequences for neighbourhood crime. Using data on neighbourhoods in Los Angeles County from 2007 to 2013, I decompose levels of stability
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Understanding Perceptions of Victimization: A Critical Analysis of Gay and Bisexual Male Grindr Users Negotiations of Safety and Risk The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Ben Colliver
The victimization of gay and bisexual men has gained significant academic and social attention, with that focus extending to the role of digital victimization. Grindr has dominated the market for online dating apps targeting gay, bisexual, trans and queer people. Drawing on qualitative data collected from men who use Grindr, this paper addresses a gap in criminological literature by exploring the way
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Digital Ritual: Police–Public Social Media Encounters and ‘Authentic’ Interaction The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Alistair Henry
This article formulates the concept of digital ritual to characterize the continuum of symbolic encounters enabled by social media affordances, and to explain their solidarity-enhancing potential. Applying digital ritual to police uses of social media confirms this promise but also reveals risks of mediated authenticity. The article cautions against influencer styles of engagement that risk privileging
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Legacies of Change: Probation Staff Experiences of the Unification of Services in England and Wales The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Matt Tidmarsh
A discourse of professionalism has proved crucial to driving recent organizational restructurings of the probation service in England and Wales. The Coalition Government argued that bureaucratic, state provision of services had stifled probation practice—for which the introduction of market logic, via the 2014 Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms, would restore professional discretion. And yet
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The Assassination Cases of Madan Lal Dhingra, 1909 and Udham Singh, 1940 as Social Drama The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Lizzie Seal, Alexa Neale
There were two Indian nationalist assassinations in London in the twentieth century: Sir William Curzon Wyllie by Madan Lal Dhingra in 1909 and Sir Michael O’Dwyer by Udham Singh in 1940. We read these assassinations as social dramas during which shifting meanings of British imperialism were articulated, contested and reinforced. We compare the cases to examine how Dhingra and Singh’s insistence on
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Does Policing Help or Hurt? Examining the Longitudinal Relationship Between Police Involvement and Delinquency in Norway The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Synøve Nygaard Andersen
The population heterogeneity argument links criminality to time-stable individual traits and suggests that criminal justice system involvements exert no independent influence on criminal behaviour. This study directly tests this postulation by estimating the relationship between police involvement and subsequent delinquency in an individual fixed effects design. The analysis relies on five waves of
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Rescuing women from the brinks of whiteness: Carceral restoration in a human trafficking court The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Rashmee Singh
Research on gender-specific penal reform programs critique their failure to prioritize the socio-economic recovery of criminalized women. This paper draws on these insights to examine the Women’s Refuge Court (WRC), a human trafficking court for adult women criminalized for prostitution and drug offences in Ohio. Using ethnographic research, I illustrate the WRC’s rejection of bootstrapping and emphasis
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Border Control and the Degradation of Labour The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Mary Bosworth
This article uses testimonies from private sector staff about their experiences of working in sites of short-term immigration detention and in facilitating deportation, to explore the material conditions of this form of custodial labour. Until now, most criminological accounts of criminal justice or border staff have paid little attention to them as workers. As a result, the connections between sites
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Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Claire Fitzpatrick, Katie Hunter, Julie Shaw, Jo Staines
Prior research highlights how criminalized mothers may be particularly at risk of negative judgements, but little work to date explores how criminalisation, care experience and motherhood may intersect to produce multi-faceted structural disadvantage within both systems of care and punishment. This paper attends to this knowledge gap, drawing on interviews with imprisoned women who have been in care
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Intersectional Making of the ‘Sri Lankan Case’ The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Faten Khazaei
This article uses an intersectional lens to ethnographically analyze police treatment of domestic violence in Switzerland. The analysis suggests three interlinked explanatory factors to understand the differential treatment of domestic violence for white Swiss/European nationals on the one hand, and racialized non-European migrants on the other. These factors are (1) prevailing generalized representations
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Support for Democratic Policing Among Frontline Police Officers: The Role of Social Dominance Orientation The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Jill A Davis, Darwin A Baluran, Shahidul Hassan
Motivated by emerging research that connects officer psychological orientations to policing outcomes, we examine how Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), i.e. preference for group-based social hierarchy, is related to officer attitudes toward democratic policing practices. Analysing survey data collected from officers in a state-level police organization in the United States, we find that high SDO officers
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Ghost Criminology: A Framework for the Discipline’s Spectral Turn The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann, Theo Kindynis
Drawing upon recent criminological scholarship examining spectrality, as well as Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, this article sets out a framework to explore harms experienced as ‘out of joint’. We propose a new sub-discipline of ‘ghost criminology’ as a means to explore and reckon with these afterlives. We identify three strands of the (in)visible, the (in)corporeal and dead space with which
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Illegal Market Governance and Organized Crime Groups’ Resilience: A Study of The Sinaloa Cartel The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Valentin Pereda, David Décary-Hetu
Since its emergence in the early 1990s, the Sinaloa Cartel has effectively surmounted all challenges to its existence, while, simultaneously, successfully developing its illegal ventures in Mexico and beyond. Based on evidence from the accounts of witnesses who testified in the prosecution of Joaquin Guzmán Loera (also known as El Chapo), one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s most prominent figures, we argue
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Relational Police Work: How Police Officers Work With, On and Through ‘Personal Relationships’ in a Danish Gang Exit Programme The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Mette-Louise E Johansen
This article examines how police-assisted gang desistance in Denmark is run on the backdrop of a particular kind of ‘relational work’ that focuses on relationships as the basis for change. The analysis is based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted in 2020 with police officers, social workers and gang defectors attached to the city of Aarhus Exit Unit, part of Denmark’s national gang exit
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Recognizing the Paradigm of the Unknowing Victim and the Implications of Liminality The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Suzanne Ost, Alisdair A Gillespie
This article presents the novel conceptualization of the unknowing victim (UV) and addresses the ethical ramifications of this status. Criminology and victimology have primarily focused on knowing victims, but certain crimes occur without the victim’s detection (e.g. sexual assault of an unconscious victim). There is a critical liminal dimension to UV’s status: they are on the threshold between unawareness
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Beyond Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Domestic and Family Violence and Temporary Migration The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Stefani Vasil, Marie Segrave
This paper explores the importance of moving beyond a narrow examination of technology-facilitated abuse (TFA) and domestic and family violence (DFV). Drawing on findings from two studies that capture the experiences of over 300 temporary visa holders in Australia, we detail how technology is one tool used within the context of patterns of control and isolation. We detail the experiences of TFA in
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‘I Clocked You Going 50 In a 25’: A Discourse-Based Critique Of Police Procedural Justice Research Through A Sequential Exploration Of ‘Voice’ And Excuses In Traffic Encounters The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Phillip Shon
The police in the United States typically pull over about 19 million drivers a year for routine violations such as speeding and running a stop sign. The verbal exchanges that occur during traffic encounters embody one of the ideal principles of procedural justice: giving citizens an opportunity to speak (voice) before a decision is made. The accounts and excuses that drivers articulate represent the
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Ghosts of the Gulag: Negotiating Spectres of the Penal Past in Northern Russia The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Gavin Slade, Laura Piacentini, Alena Kravtsova
The paper develops the concept of penal spectrality—a sense of the presence of those who endured past penal suffering within environments and among objects related to the practice of punishment. The residents of Ukhta, a Gulag town in Northern Russia, engage uncomfortably with penal spectrality and employ two forms of distancing—pragmatic and cultural—to deal with its melancholic affects. Pragmatically
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Witnessing (Dis)engagement: A Framework for Examining Legitimacy in the Criminal Courts The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Amy Kirby
This paper examines legitimacy in the criminal courts from the perspective of witnesses, an under-researched setting and participant group. Based on interviews with witnesses and observations of court proceedings, the paper provides a framework for examining how witnesses engage with the courts, arguing that ‘engagement’ can be used as a lens through which to understand legitimacy. The findings suggest
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From Acculturation to Transculturation?: Police Culture Change in the Pluralized Crime Investigation Department The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Lindsey Rice
This article uses the concept of transculturation (Ortiz 1944) as a lens to examine the effects of civilianization on the (re)production of ‘detective culture’ in two police forces in England. It critiques acculturation as the principal framework for understanding the complexity of cultural (ex)change processes happening within pluralized police settings. By bridging police studies with postcolonial
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Did the Prison Industrial Complex Deliver on Its Promise? Prison Proliferation and Employment in Rural America The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Yiwen Zhang
Two concurrent phenomena emerged in rural America in the 1970s: job losses due to deindustrialization and prison proliferation relating to mass incarceration. While supporters of the prison industrial complex promised an economic lifeline for rural America, opponents questioned the economic benefits of prison openings. Using county fixed-effects models and data covering 1960–2000, this study reveals
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Desperation on the Battlefield, the Ethnic Security Dilemma, or Economic Competition? Mass Shootings in Chicago’s Gang Wars, 2010–20 The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Patrick J Burke
In this study examine the logic of gang-related mass shootings in Chicago between 2010 and 2020. I argue that gangs utilize mass shootings to win market share when demand for illegal drugs spikes. I also test two established theories of indiscriminate violence: ‘desperation on the battlefield’ and the ‘ethnic security dilemma’. To do so I construct an original dataset mainly using Freedom of Information
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Violence is Islam, Violence is Not Islam: Meaning-Making Among Muslim Men in Norway The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Uzair Ahmed
This article employs cultural repertoire theory to investigate how 84 Muslim men in Norway make meaning of adopting or rejecting political violence. Previous studies have addressed political violence among Muslims, but little attention has been paid to how its adoption and rejection involve self-ascription and ascriptions by others. The participants made meaning by drawing on stories about their past
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Delinquent Peers and Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Youth The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Jihoon Kim, Yeungjeom Lee
Although the relationship between delinquency and deviant peers has long been an important topic in criminology, there remain unresolved issues including theoretical incongruences and a lack of rigorous empirical studies examining the interplay between the two. Acknowledging this gap in the literature, the primary purpose of this study is to examine the dynamic interrelationship between delinquency
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Historical Co-offending Networks: A Social Network Analysis Approach The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Grace Di Méo
Recent decades have witnessed growing use of social network analysis (SNA) to study criminal activities, including that of co-offending. However, few studies have examined co-offending networks within a historical context. This paper focuses on group-based crime in a large English town during the Victorian period, employing SNA methods to examine the prevalence, structure and composition of co-offending
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Factoring in Family: Considerations of Parenthood in the Assessment, Enforcement, and Collection of Legal Financial Obligations (LFOs) The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Brittany T Martin, Kimberly Spencer Suarez, Andrea Giuffre, Timothy G Edgemon, Veronica Horowitz
Prior research has yet to address how criminal legal system actors take parenthood into account when imposing and enforcing LFOs. Drawing on evidence from 205 semi-structured interviews conducted across four states, this study explores the relationship between monetary punishment and parenthood from the perspectives of court and community corrections professionals. Engaging Kathleen Daly’s framework
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Punishing the Non-convicted Through Disclosure of Police Records The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Paula Maurutto, Kelly Hannah-Moffat, Marianne Quirouette
As police records expand with big data analytics, so too has the range of non-conviction information seeping into the public domain through criminal background checks. Numerous studies have documented the negative effects of background checks for those with criminal convictions, but less understood are the effects of non-conviction records. We draw on 8 focus groups and 52 interviews to understand
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Between Ordinary Harm and Deviance: Evaluating the UK’s Regulatory Regime For Controlling Air Pollution From Wood Burning Stoves The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 James Heydon
Particulate matter (PM) in air pollution causes illness, injury and premature death by infiltrating essential organs. Wood burning stoves are a primary source of PM in the United Kingdom, where domestic wood burning emissions have tripled over the last decade. This article adopts a constructivist lens to examine the regulatory regime controlling these pollutants. Combining analysis of ‘expert’ interviews
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‘They Might Not Kill You Today but They’re Going to Get You in the End’: The Correctional Subculture and the Schematization of Danger The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Ethan M Higgins, Kristin Swartz, John C Navarro, Katie Hughes
Criminology has long investigated criminal justice cultures and their preoccupation with dangerousness. Over a half century ago, correctional scholars called for a richer understanding of how a ‘social reality’ of danger might shape the mental state of staff. More recently, correctional scholarship has demonstrated that correctional culture and perceptions of danger likely play a fundamental role in
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Confirm Not Command: Examining Fraudsters’ Use of Language to Compel Victim Compliance in Their Own Exploitation The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Elisabeth Carter
Using discourse analysis to examine exchanges between fraudsters and victims in telephone-mediated frauds, this research examines the interactional techniques used by perpetrators of fraud to gain and maintain compliance from their victims, without causing them alarm. It reveals how compliance is secured and maintained in a process of establishing the relationship, grooming the victim and setting expectations
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Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Muhammad Asif, Don Weenink, Peter Mascini
Based on case studies of seven (attempted) lynchings in Pakistan, we argue that they can be considered lynching rituals, which are instrumental in a context of political strife. ‘Shrpsnd anasr’ (agitators) play an important role as ritual engineers; they assemble crowds by spreading rumours and vocalizing accusations, use rhythmic chanting and slogan repetition to generate a shared vengeful mood and
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‘They Wouldn’t Believe Me’: Giving a Voice to British South Asian Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Aisha K Gill, Hannah Begum
British South Asian male child sexual abuse (CSA) survivors face a twofold problem: lack of research on this phenomenon and limited service provision. First, male CSA survivors have traditionally been marginalized in favour of female CSA survivors, a group that forms the basis of most academic research and to whom the majority of counselling and support services in the UK cater (Rapsey et al. 2020)
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‘We Call it Getting Your Eye In’: Policing Sexual Harassment on the London Underground Through the Lens of Haraway’s Situated Knowledges and Cyborgs The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Sian Lewis
This article explores police perspectives of sexual harassment on the London Underground. Drawing on 15 semi-structured interviews with the British Transport Police this article demonstrates how the police a) use their ‘situated knowledges’ to make sense of the dynamics of the London Underground and seek out offenders within the network, often without a report of harassment; and b) engage with technologies
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The Floating Signifier of 'Safety': Correctional Officer Perspectives on COVID-19 Restrictions, Legitimacy and Prison Order. The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 William J Schultz,Rosemary Ricciardelli
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect prisons internationally. Existing research focuses on infection data, meaning we do not fully understand how COVID-19 shapes frontline prison dynamics. We draw on qualitative interviews with 21 Canadian federal correctional officers, exploring how the pandemic impacted prison management. Officers suggested inconsistent messaging around COVID-19 protocols reduced
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Law in the Margins: Economies of Illegality and Contested Sovereignties The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Ana Aliverti
Liberal theory has long fetishized state law as a fortress against disorder, anarchy, and private violence. To prevent violence writ large, it advocated, the nation-state should be endowed with its monopoly, as the impartial and rational guardian of civilization and social peace. Yet, as critics suggest, the normative binary of law/violence and the legal purity of the state is empirically untenable
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Criminal Court Sentencing: The Case for Specialist ‘Young Adult’ Courts The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Jennifer Ward, Ruth Spence
Treating young adults (18–25 year olds) as a distinct group within the criminal justice system is receiving growing support. This article asks three specific questions. Should specialist young adult courts be introduced so that young age and developing maturity are considered with more consistency across court sentencing; should social background factors be taken into account when appraising culpability
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Offending and the Long-Term Risk of Death: An Examination of Mid-Life Mortality Among an Urban Black American Cohort The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Elaine Eggleston Doherty, Kerry M Green
Research on the long-term relationship between offending and mortality is limited, especially among minorities who have higher risk of premature mortality and criminal offending, particularly arrest. Using Cox proportional hazard models, we estimate the relationship between young adult offending and later mortality (to age 58) among a community cohort of Black Americans (n = 1,182). After controlling
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Image-Based Sexual Abuse: Online Communities and the Broader Misogynistic Landscape The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Antoinette Raffaela Huber
This article offers an in-depth examination of user motivations and misogynistic online cultures drawing on data collected from two websites that openly condone the sharing and viewing of non-consensually shared sexual images. Analysed using a feminist lens, findings show significant cultural differences and motivations for engagement across the two websites indicating that these online spaces should
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Doing Crime Prevention, Doing Gender: Canadian Women’s Responses to Police-Produced Gendered Crime-Prevention Messaging The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Rebecca Lennox
Drawing on focus group and interview data, this paper examines how race and social class intersect with gender to inform Canadian women’s responses to police-produced gendered crime-prevention messaging. I position women’s enactments of institutionally endorsed crime-prevention strategies as a resource for the successful achievement of femininity, and I consider how intersecting social statuses shape
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Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2022-09-10 Rasmus Munksgaard, Jason A Ferris, Adam Winstock, Larissa J Maier, Monica J Barratt
Past research into illicit online markets suggests that trust is produced by governance, reputation systems and the formation of social ties. In this paper, we draw on accounts of abstract and institutional trust, examining whether using a market is associated with general positive beliefs about product quality. Using data from the 2018 Global Drug Survey (n = 25,471) we utilize propensity score matching
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Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation The British Journal of Criminology (IF 3.288) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Jason Warr
‘You know what? You can’t be a “Black Man” in prison.’ Negative impositions of Blackness, grounded in the myths of Black Criminality, shape assessments of risk and rehabilitation within the scriptural economy of the contemporary prison. This creates a rehabilitative colour line that results in specific forms of narrative labour, whereby prisoners attempt to control the recording and interpretation