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Revisiting the gap between ideals and realities within restorative justice: Experiences from the Norwegian youth justice reform Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Therese Marie Andrews, Ann Kristin Eide
In this article, attention is paid to understanding how the principle of restorative justice is operationalised and works within a context such as the Norwegian youth justice reform. The study reveals a distinct gap between ideals and practical realities. This gap is elaborated on and discussed within various perspectives on restorative justice. By this, the article adds both to international literature
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‘It was a challenge to look at things from a perpetrator perspective’. The problem of holding domestically abusive men to account in multi-agency partnership work Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Pamela Davies, Charlotte Barlow, Rebecca Fish
One of the most challenging aspects of multi-agency partnership work aimed at reducing domestic abuse is the problem of holding perpetrators to account. Drawing on findings from our recent mixed methods evaluation of a revised approach to multi-agency policing of domestic abuse, this article explores this problem from the perspective of the multi-agency practitioner stakeholders. We present evidence
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Debt, sex, and money: Imperialist discourses of transactional sex across three geographic and cultural contexts Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Rachel E Davis
Discourses surrounding similar forms of transactional sex in the United States and Europe, Africa, and East Asia exemplify the ways that sexual transactions serve as affectively charged inflection points at which gendered, racialized, and classed forms of power collide. Deconstructing academic discourses and affective strategies surrounding sugar arrangements in the United States and Europe, blessed
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Lethality assessment protocol: Challenges and barriers of implementation for domestic violence victim advocates Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Tanya M Grant, Bronwyn Cross-Denny
This exploratory qualitative research study examined the attitudes and barriers domestic violence victim advocates identified in successful implementation of the lethality assessment protocol, a collaborative intervention between police departments and domestic violence advocacy agencies in the state of Connecticut. Focus groups were conducted at four domestic violence agencies to ascertain advocates’
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Institutional thoughtlessness and the incarcerated pregnancy Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Laura Abbott, Tricia Scott, Hilary Thomas
This article examines the unique experiences of pregnant women in prison, building on Sykes’ concept of the pains of imprisonment and Crawley’s notion of institutional thoughtlessness. Based on qualitative data from an ethnographic study of three English prisons, including interviews with 28 pregnant prisoners and 10 staff members and field observations, the study highlights the lack of basic provisions
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The predictability of court-adjudicated compensation for pain and suffering damages within the criminal proceedings and the role of victim labels: A case study on victims of sexual crime in the Netherlands Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Freya Augusteijn, Antony Pemberton, Catrien CJH Bijleveld, Alice K Bosma
Compensation for pain and suffering damages has been a focal point within legal academic debate. The difficulty of placing a monetary value on such damages and the lack of well-defined guidelines have been claimed to result in widely varying compensatory awards, making them random and unpredictable. Variability may arise from victim labels depicting who is deserving, and who is not. In this study,
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The parole dossier and its negative impacts on prisoner identity Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Bradley Read
This article suggests that the parole dossier may be working to damage prisoners’ sense of their identity through the creation of a carceral script which describes a person whom they do not recognise as themselves, and which leads to an increased narrative labour. Prisoners struggle, therefore, under that labour to form a post offence identity with which to navigate a complex process such as parole
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Private security discretion: Economic rules, social norms and situational judgement in the night-time economy Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Fryni Kostara, Adam White
This article seeks to transform private security discretion from a subject discussed in passing to a substantive area of research. It first draws upon the police discretion literature to construct ...
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The limits of ‘professionalisation from above’: On the ‘re-professionalisation’ of street-level policing in England Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Clifford Bacon, Bill Hebenton, Leo McCann
The occupation of policing is in crisis. Criticism of police failings has created intense pressure for the traditional ‘occupational closure’ model of policing as a craft to be replaced by new ‘pro...
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Predictors of public support for the death penalty in the Americas: A comparative analysis Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Francis D Boateng, Michael K Dzordzormenyoh, Wendell C Wallace
The primary purpose of this study was to explore public support for capital punishment in seven Latin and North American countries to determine factors that influence citizens’ support for the deat...
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Journey to Diagnosis of Young-Onset Dementia: A Qualitative Study of People with Young-Onset Dementia and their Family Caregivers in Australia Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Michelle Lai, Yun-Hee Jeon, Heather McKenzie, Adrienne Withall
ObjectivesThis study aims to explore the journey to dementia diagnosis and reaction to the diagnosis from the perspective of people with young-onset dementia living in the community from diverse ar...
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Exploring the lived experiences of debilitating period pain management in the UK Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Parmis Vafapour, Esther Murray
BackgroundFive to ten percent of women experience period pains that disrupt their lives yet 4 in 5 women believe that their claims for their dysmenorrhea are not taken seriously. Within the process...
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H∞ performance tracking and group consensus of delayed multiagent systems under attack Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Muhammad Nasir, Zahoor Ahmed, Nihad Ali, Muhammad A Saeed
This paper deals with the problem of performance tracking and group consensus control of a multiagent system (MAS) under deception attack in the frequency domain. Deception attack, a type of networ...
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Year in Review 2022: Noteworthy Literature in Cardiac Anesthesiology Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Elijah Christensen, Joseph Morabito, Markus Kowalsky, John-Paul Tsai, Douglas Rooke, Nathan Clendenen
Last year researchers made substantial progress in work relevant to the practice of cardiac anesthesiology. We reviewed 389 articles published in 2022 focused on topics related to clinical practice...
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Effect of wear damage on aero-thermal performance of the film-cooled squealer tip in a turbine stage Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Mingliang Ye, Xin Yan, Kun He
Effects of wear damage on the aerodynamic performance, heat transfer and film cooling effect in the squealer tip region of a gas turbine stage were investigated under engine condition. Two wear par...
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COVID crisis, austerity and the ‘Left Behind’ city: Exploring poverty and destitution in Stoke-on-Trent Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 David Etherington, Martin Jones, Luke Telford
Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic and ‘cost of living’ crisis revealed and intensified the United Kingdom’s (UK) socio-spatial inequalities, these crises did not emerge into a vacuum. Long-term trends o...
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A silica/epoxy resin nanocomposite exhibiting high thermal stability and low thermal expansion based on the uniform dispersion of hydrophilic colloidal silica nanospheres Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Mitsuru Tanahashi, Kazuma Hirota
The present study fabricated high-performance silica/epoxy resin nanocomposites having a low coefficient of linear thermal expansion (CTE) and a high glass transition temperature (Tg). This was acc...
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An astro-green criminological examination of orbital space debris Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Jack A Lampkin, Tanya Wyatt
The aims of this study were to (1) highlight the importance of orbital debris as an environmental and green criminological issue, (2) build on recent work in astro-green criminology and (3) analyse...
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Criminal records and post-prison employment in Ghana: Formal and informal means of performing criminal background checks Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Frank Darkwa Baffour, Abraham P Francis, Mark David Chong, Nonie Harris
This article contributes to the discussion on criminal record-keeping and post-prison employment from the perspective of a developing country. We present and discuss the results of a qualitative re...
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An international review and normative examination of the collateral consequences of criminal record disclosures for domestic abuse Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Katerina Hadjimatheou
Domestic abuse disclosure schemes allow members of the public to request and receive information from police about the criminal histories of their partners, if they are at risk of abuse. In doing s...
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Criminal records and employment restrictions in Argentina: Between post-sentence discrimination and resistance strategies Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Leandro Gastón, Carlos Carnevale
The current growth of criminal background screening for non-criminal justice purposes observed in the Global North is also found in Latin America. The aim of this article is twofold. First, it cont...
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Mitigating and bordering: The dual nature of Canadian collateral consequences of conviction Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Lili Dao
Roughly, 13% of Canada’s adult population has some kind of criminal record. Collateral consequences stemming from a criminal record are wide-ranging, from formal restrictions to more informal forms...
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The Qianke system in China: Disorganisation, discrimination and dispersion Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Enshen Li
In the Chinese criminal legal system, the term ‘Qianke’ (前科) is conceptually interchangeable with the idea of a criminal record that lists one’s past crimes, convictions and sentences. In this arti...
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Privacy, promotionalism and the proliferation of state-performed criminal record screening in the Netherlands: How a restrictive legal framework can still result in a steep increase of criminal background checks Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Elina van ’t Zand-Kurtovic, Miranda Boone
The Netherlands has endorsed a unique system regarding the management, disclosure and screening of criminal records. Disclosure to third parties is strongly restricted, yet all (potential) employee...
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Collateral consequences of criminal records from the other side of the pond: How exceptional is American penal exceptionalism? Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Alessandro Corda, Marti Rovira, Andrew Henley
In this article, we highlight the existence and expansion of so-called ‘collateral consequences’ (CCs) of criminal records in Europe to challenge the prevalent view that these are features of the c...
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Conducting criminological fieldwork in China: A comprehensive review and reflection on power relations in the field Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Shuai Wei, Anli Jiang, Qipu Hu, Bin Liang, Jianhua Xu
Practical and personal challenges inevitably arise during fieldwork, and identifying these complications is a fundamental part of the research process. Through a comprehensive review of 61 articles...
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Remote parole oral hearings: More efficient, but at what cost? Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 David Peplow, Jake Phillips
The Parole Board (PB) is responsible for deciding whether some prisoners are safe to be released into the community. COVID-19 accelerated the PB’s move towards using remote oral hearings. Little is...
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UK–EU law enforcement cooperation post-Brexit: A UK law enforcement practitioner perspective Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Matthew Shellaker, Stephen Tong, Paul Swallow
Law enforcement cooperation between the United Kingdom and the European Union has experienced substantial change. The practice and impact of police cooperation are aligned with various formal and i...
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Professional support and re-entry preparedness among prisoners Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Amanda J Pasma, Esther Van Ginneken, Hanneke Palmen, Paul Nieuwbeerta
Multiagency support is considered crucial in the successful resettlement of prisoners. Various prison-based and community-based professionals should each play a part in supporting prisoners through...
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The production of hate crime victim status: Discourses of normalisation and the experiences of LGBT community members Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Amanda Haynes, Jennifer Schweppe, Jon Garland
This article identifies discourses which serve to ‘normalise’ experiences of anti-LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) violence and prevent harmed LGBT persons from accessing the status of...
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Children and police questioning: A rights-based approach Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Louise Forde, Ursula Kilkelly
Under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, children in conflict with the law are entitled to dignity and respect for their rights within a youth justice system adapted to their...
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Punishment and personality: Low agreeableness and low conscientiousness as mediators of the inconsistent/angry parenting–delinquency relationships Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Glenn D Walters
This study’s purpose was to determine whether the personality trait dimensions of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness mediate the relationship between mid-adolescent inconsistent/angry parenting an...
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Mismatches and criminal justice policy: The case of GPS for domestic violence Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Peter R Ibarra, Oren M Gur, Edna Erez
Mismatches are incongruencies between programmatic policies and working practices that engender counter-productive dynamics or outcomes relative to aspirations. The present article addresses electr...
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Victimization, negative emotions, and substance use: Variability in general strain theory processes by marriage and relationship quality Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Gregory C Rocheleau, Jordan T Olson, Anthony G Vito
General strain theory maintains that the likelihood that individuals engage in deviance to cope with negative emotions is conditioned by several factors, including social support. Yet, this tenet o...
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Rape myth acceptance among Croatian and Cypriot police officers Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Angelo G Constantinou, Ksenija Butorac
This article draws on a survey involving 390 police officers from Croatia and Cyprus, where the officers’ views on rape and rape myths are measured via the updated Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Sca...
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Coercion and crime: Convergences, divergences and ‘county lines’ Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Sally Atkinson-Sheppard, Coral Dando, Tom Ormerod, Bregetta Robinson
How can we understand coercion in a ‘county lines’ context? By drawing on data gathered with criminal justice practitioners, social workers, mothers of sons engaged in county lines and young people...
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Gone fishing: The operation of police vehicle stops in England and Wales Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Geoff Pearson, Mike Rowe
This article analyses the operation of police vehicle stop checks in England and Wales. In contrast to other common police powers, vehicle checks are remarkably under-regulated and have received li...
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European probation order: What doesn’t work? Recommendations to overcome its underuse Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Esther Montero Pérez de Tudela, Carmen Rocío García Ruiz
On 28 November 2008, the Council of the European Union (EU) adopted Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA, creating the European Probation Order (EPO). It allows EU citizens sentenced or subject to a pro...
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(En)gendering change: Understanding the gendered dynamics of domestic abuse perpetrator programmes Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Will Hughes
Drawing on extensive participant observation and interviews, this article considers the interactive dynamics of two group-based, probation domestic abuse perpetrator programmes. Specifically, the I...
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Sexual offences committed by members of the armed forces: Is the service justice system fit for purpose? Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Charlotte Herriott, Abigail D Wood, Nicola Gillin, Matt J Fossey, Lauren R Godier-McBard
Recent policy reviews, academic research and high-profile media critiques have repeatedly emphasised the UK military as a hypermasculine culture, seemingly permissive of sexual violence, marked by ...
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To pay or not to pay: An exploratory analysis of sextortion in the context of romance fraud Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Cassandra Cross, Karen Holt, Thomas J Holt
Romance fraud, where an offender uses the guise of a genuine relationship for monetary gain, affects millions globally. Further to financial losses, evidence suggests victims may also be targeted f...
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Procedural justice and process-based models: Understanding how practitioners utilise Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Vicky Heap, Alex Black, Zoe Rodgers
Community Protection Notices (CPNs) were created and introduced in England and Wales through the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (2014). They are used to prevent and/or require specif...
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Gender equality and female incarceration: Evidence from global and regional analyses Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Doris C Chu, Bill Hebenton, Albert Toh
This article examines the nature of female1 incarceration patterns globally and regionally in relation to societal gender equality using cross-national analysis of 138 countries. Importantly, our a...
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Fear, learning, or self-control? Predictors of Russian citizens’ compliance with mandatory and voluntary Covid-19 prevention measures Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Anna Gurinskaya, Mahesh K Nalla, Chae M Jaynes
In this article, we examine citizens’ willingness to comply with Covid-19 prevention strategies of mandatory mask-wearing and recommended social distance/contact limitation measures from competing ...
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Image-based sexual abuse: Legislative and policing responses Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Antoinette Raffaela Huber
Twenty-eight in depth interviews were conducted with victims, stakeholders and criminal justice staff to investigate legislative and policing responses to image-based sexual abuse in England and Wa...
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Telecommunication and cyber fraud victimization among Chinese college students: An application of routine activity theory Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Kai Lin, Yuning Wu, Ivan Y Sun, Jia Qu
Analyzing survey data from 1037 college students in China, a country with the world’s largest number of Internet users and the world’s largest e-commerce market, the current study demonstrates that...
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Police recruits, moral judgements and an empathetic policing Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Andrew Millie, Steven Hirschler
In this article, we consider the moral judgements of new recruits to the police by drawing on two stages of semi-structured interviews with recruits over their first 6 months working for Lancashire...
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Just for kids? How the youth decarceration discourse endorses adult incarceration Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Hedi Viterbo
This article lays bare three interrelated and previously overlooked pitfalls of calls to reduce or abolish youth incarceration. First, despite their anti-carceral semblance, such calls persistently...
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‘What discretion do you need?’ Factors influencing police decision-making in possession of cannabis offences Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Sharon Grace, Charlie Lloyd, Geoff Page
Research suggests that those most likely to be policed for cannabis possession are young, ethnically minoritised, urban males belonging to ‘suspect’ groups. This study examined police decision-maki...
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“It’s all about covering your . . .”: The unintended consequences of police accountability measures Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Laura Huey, Lorna Ferguson, Rosemary Ricciardelli
Policing faces increased accountability measures, influencing officers to engage in “covering your ass” and over-documentation. In this qualitative study of police officers across three Canadian pr...
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Technology-facilitated violence: A conceptual review Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Matthew Mitchell, Jackson Wood, Tully O’Neill, Mark Wood, Flynn Pervan, Briony Anderson, William Arpke-Wales
This article provides a conceptual review of the term ‘technology-facilitated violence’. In the last decade, discussion of technology-facilitated violence has become commonplace in criminological a...
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The role of collective efficacy in shaping behavioral responses to fear of crime Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Adam Dulin
This present work examines functional and dysfunctional behavioral responses to fear of crime through a novel conceptualization of behavior that aims to further elucidate the behavioral component o...
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Dancing with the devil: Intervention programs under criminal governance in Northern Central America Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Jonathan D. Rosen, José Miguel Cruz
This article examines how violence intervention programs are implemented in places governed by street gangs. It is based on focus groups conducted in communities impacted by gangs and gang-related ...
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The rise of paedophile hunters: To what extent are cyber-vigilante groups a productive form of policing, retribution and justice? Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Anna Tippett
There are an increasing number of cyber-vigilante groups in the United Kingdom who use the Internet as a tool for regulation and retributive justice. The policing of child sexual predators by citiz...
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A criminological analysis of proceeds of crime legislation in three Australian states Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Hilde Tubex, Rhianna Chisholm, Tamara Tulich, Natalie Skead, Sarah Murray
In recent decades, Australian states and territories have introduced a raft of legislation aimed at stripping those involved in criminal activity of their ill-gotten gains. This contribution report...
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How concentrated disadvantage moderates the built environment and crime relationship on street segments in Los Angeles Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 John R Hipp, Sugie Lee, Dong Hwan Ki, Jae Hong Kim
Criminological theories have posited that the built environment impacts where crime occurs; however, measuring the built environment is difficult. Furthermore, it is uncertain whether the built env...
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Making, unmaking, remaking: Mapping the boundaries of professional legitimacy, identity and practice in probation in England and Wales Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Matt Tidmarsh
This article maps the (shifting) boundaries of professional legitimacy, identity and practice in probation in England and Wales. Probation established itself in the 20th century as a core instituti...
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The smoking gun: How gun policies influence types of firearms involved in violent crimes in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Ladislav Zouhar, Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz
The article contributes to the discussion about gun control by examining whether restrictions on certain types of firearms influence the number of crimes committed with these types of guns. The aim...
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When social media feeds classic punitivism on media: The coverage of the glorification of terrorism on XXI Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Jesús C. Aguerri, Fernando Miró-Llinares, David Vila-Viñas
This article addresses the impact of social media on media coverage of criminal justice. We specifically analyse the Spanish media coverage of the glorification of terrorism between 2011 and 2020. ...
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“Disincarcerating incarcerated emotions”: The influence of emotional dynamics behind and beyond bars on desistance from crime Criminology & Criminal Justice (IF 1.604) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Aurélie Stoll
This article is based on 50 interviews and six written testimonies of 24 individuals convicted, incarcerated, and then released from penitentiaries in Switzerland. Focusing on emotional mechanisms ...