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Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’ The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Joshua Findlay
Resistance to entering the UK government’s modern slavery victim identification mechanism is widespread and part of normal practices of state evasion that shape the lives of large numbers of insufficiently documented people. This article provides evidence of the role practitioners play in producing referrals into that mechanism in spite of such resistance and in spite of the harms caused by the identification
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The Ideal Client: Selecting Candidates for Drug Treatment in Prison The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Rose Elizabeth Boyle
Therapeutic interventions have been implemented in many prison systems around the world, in an attempt to address high rates of harmful substance use amongst people in prison. This article analyses the criteria for acceptance to drug recovery units in Norwegian prisons, based on an ethnographic study of four high-security prisons and 22 interviews with prison staff. The main criteria that were considered
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‘You’re Walking into Situations Where You Just Really Don’t Know How It’s Going to Go Down’: The Production of Carceral Space and Risk in Parole Work The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Mark Norman, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Katharina Maier
Following interviews with 150 Canadian federal parole officers employed in prisons or community spaces, we ‘spatialize’ parole work by analysing how participants perceive and navigate risk and use emotional labour in relation to their carceral workspaces. Employing Henri Lefebvre’s theorization of the social production of space, we analyse how parole officers’ feelings of vulnerability arise from the
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Pulling Back the Curtain on the California Gang Database: Evidence of Racial, Ethnic and Gender Disparities Among 222 Law Enforcement Agencies The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 David C Pyrooz, James A Densley
The California Gang Database (CalGang) is the first, largest and arguably most controversial shared gang database in the United States. This study examined its demographic composition and disparities in 103,840 records input by 222 unique law enforcement agencies between 2017 and 2022; the database was 94 per cent male, 66 per cent Hispanic, 23 per cent Black, 51 per cent 18 to 30 years old and 38
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Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Henrique Carvalho, Sally Foreman, Simon Tawfic, Ana Aliverti, Anastasia Chamberlen, Belinda Rawson
This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single
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Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Liam Gillespie
Sound’s ability to impact the body and cross borders places it firmly within the remit of criminological concern. However, although sound continually emerges as a feature of far-right protests and riots—including through music, chants, singing, yelling and drumming—the role it fulfils for the far right has gone untheorized. To address this gap, this article introduces the concept of ‘nationalist soundscapes’
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The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Nikhaela Wicks
Previous canonical writings on racism and policing have focussed on the shift from overt to covert articulations (Loftus 2010; Holdaway and O’Neill 2013), finding that racism is communicated primarily by white, heterosexist men in ‘white spaces’ (Loftus 2008). This paper moves beyond individualistic conceptions of racism to explore how police officers subscribe to a white racial ideology (Bonilla-Silva
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Managing Trouble Along a Continuum of Accountability: On Police Practices for Dealing with Less-Than-Competent Subjects The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 André Buscariolli
This article uses conversation analysis to examine recordings of police encounters, focusing on how officers respond to routine forms of trouble emerging from civilians’ failure to comprehend and cooperate with their initiating actions. The analysis demonstrates how officers improvise methods to deal with their subjects’ troublesome responses to their queries and directives, treating civilians along
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COVID-19 and the New Pains of Imprisonment The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Veronica L Horowitz, Synøve N Andersen, Jordan M Hyatt
As the COVID-19 pandemic upended life worldwide, prisons gained attention as epicentres for the virus. The focus was primarily on infections and death rates, often omitting the impact on incarcerated people. This study draws on semi-structured interviews (n = 58) with men imprisoned throughout the pandemic. Using and extending classic and contemporary theorizations of ‘the pains of imprisonment’, we
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Justice Work: Sisters (Having to) Do It for Themselves The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Nancy Lombard, Katy Proctor
This article outlines findings from our research which sought to explore the lived experiences of victim/survivors of stalking and/or coercive control as they navigated their way through the Scottish Criminal Justice System (SCJS), commissioned by the Scottish Government. Building on the work of Acker (1990), Hochschild (1983), Fishman (1978), Kelly (2016) and Vera-Gray (2018; 2020) our findings show
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Becoming an Ex-Extremist: Stopping the Hate and Embracing a New Identity The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Matthew DeMichele, Pete Simi, Kathleen Blee
Domestic radicalization to violent extremism has evolved into the most urgent terrorism threat facing the West. We contribute to research on extremism and role exit processes by demonstrating how identity transformations are linked to the pursuit and avoidance of possible future selves motivated by negative emotional states of shame, embarrassment and guilt. The data are drawn from in-depth life history
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Racial Disparities in Civilian Response to Police Use of Force: Evidence From London The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Nils Braakmann
This study explores the impact of police use of force on civilian interactions with the police, focussing on neighbourhoods with different ethnic compositions across London. Analysing the effects of three notable police-induced civilian fatalities as well as monthly fluctuations in the Metropolitan Police Service’s use of force, I find a decrease in reported crime and the proportion of crime without
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Far-Right Extremism, Elections and Hate Crime: A Temporal Evaluation of Bias-Motivated Violence in Slovakia The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Whitney Whittington, Sylwia J Piatkowska
The present study provides an initial attempt to assess the impact of extremist right electoral support on racially motivated and extremist violent crime rates across Slovak regions. We transcend previous research by examining associations between national and regional elections, immigration rates, vote-shares, and violent hate crime rates utilizing temporal statistics on racially motivated and extremist
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Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Cecilie Bjerre, Lea Cecilie Brinkgaard
In this article, we demonstrate how ‘penal nationalism’ came to influence Danish social policy during the 2000s. While critical evaluations of the Nordic Exceptionalism thesis have underscored the significance of immigration in shaping both penal and border policies of the Nordic welfare states, our analysis delves into the core of the Danish welfare state by examining the implementation of the social
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White Nationalism, Politically Motivated Reasoning and Americans’ Attitudes About Criminally Charging Donald Trump The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Melissa M Sloan, Murat Haner, Justin T Pickett, Francis T Cullen
On 19 December 2022, the United States House Select Committee referred former president Donald Trump to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. Subsequently, Mr. Trump was indicted four times and charged with 91 felonies. Nevertheless, some Americans have remained steadfast in supporting him. Observers theorize that indifference to Mr. Trump’s wrongdoing reflects white nationalism and politically
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‘Violence is completely normal’: Managing Violence Through Narrative Normalization The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Frøja Storm-Mathisen
This article introduces the concept ‘narrative normalization of violence’ as a theoretical framework for exploring the interplay between crime and marginality in street culture. Drawing from 4 months of ethnographic observations and 24 qualitative interviews with young men involved in a violent street culture in Oslo, Norway, the study identifies three prevalent narratives. The first, ‘Part of the
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Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Kate Brown, Sharon Grace, Scarlett Redman
The state’s duty to protect vulnerable people gives rise to powerful forms of social intervention, especially in policing. This article reports from co-produced multimethods research focussed on one form of policing vulnerability within an English police force; the role of a specialist sex worker liaison officer (SWLO). Findings highlight that an enhanced focus on vulnerability through the role was
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Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Johanne Miller
Boredom may be one of the largest maladies of the modern world. A phenomenon which has increasingly become embedded in our social structures. Yet, as a concept within criminology there is a dearth of knowledge concerning it, despite the influence it has on offending and offending behaviours. Through a constructivist grounded theory (CGT) methodology with gangs in Glasgow, insights are shared, exploring
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Emerging Victims in Contemporary Drugs Policing The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Hannah Marshall, Matthew Bacon, Jack Spicer
Recent shifts in UK policy have seen certain populations, who were predominantly viewed as offenders due to their involvement in drug offences, increasingly recognized as victims of exploitation. Drawing on qualitative data from three studies, this article interrogates how this trend is playing out within contemporary drugs policing, focussing on officers’ responses to people affected by: drug addiction
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Managing the Risk of Living: Life Imprisonment, the Medical Gaze and the Construction of the Paroled Body The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Netanel Dagan, Marion Vannier
Drawing on Israeli life-sentence parole hearings, we argue that release decisions are centred on the body, not the soul. The board employs a ‘medical gaze’ that dissects the paroled body by magnifying the applicant’s dying body and narrowing the gaze to evaluate the days left to live. A new risk emerges: the risk of living upon release rather than dying. The board is ambivalent when managing this risk:
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Unmasked and Exposed: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Youth Custodial Estate. A Compelling Case for Ideological Change The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Hannah Smithson, Deborah Jump
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on custodial institutions has been the subject of intense scrutiny. During the pandemic, many international jurisdictions failed to develop clear and child-focussed plans for the management of children in custody, instead relying on strategies developed for adult populations. Presenting the findings from the United Kingdom’s (England Wales) first empirical in-depth
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Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić The British Journal of Criminology (IF 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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 2.4) 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