The British Journal of Criminology

2020 - 2025

Current editor(s): Eamonn Carrabine

From Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK.
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Volume 65, issue 6, 2025

Historical Criminology, Historical Time, and Embodiment: A Phenomenological Intervention pp. 1167-1182

Daniel Gyollai

Economic Sanctions as State Crime: Empire, Law and the United States’ Economic Warfare in Latin America pp. 1183-1201

Jose Atiles

The Dialectics of Migration: Social Bulimia and the Deportation Pipeline in New York City pp. 1202-1220

David C Brotherton and Sarah Tosh

Exclusion from School and Risk of Serious Violence: A Target Trial Emulation Study pp. 1221-1240

Rosie Cornish and Iain Brennan

Probation, Technical Compliance and the ‘Drowning’ of Hope pp. 1241-1261

Jake Phillips, Adam Ali, Anita Dockley, Sarah Lewis, Kam Stevens and Stephen Farrall

Anchors Through Change: Exploring Identity Work in the Unified Probation Service for England & Wales pp. 1262-1279

Gwen Robinson, Harry Annison, Lawrence Burke, Nicola Carr, Matthew Millings and Eleanor Surridge

‘Exceptional’ Open Prisons Under Pressure: Austerity, Instability and Distrust pp. 1280-1297

Pernille Søderholm Nyvoll

‘Who better to be training them?!’: Renewed Moments of Liberal Carceral Expansion and the Role of Higher Education pp. 1298-1314

Mitra Mokhtari

‘I Feel Persecuted. It’s So Distressing and Upsetting, It Is All Too Much’. A Disablist Hate Crime Typology: Intimidation, Exploitation and Brutalization pp. 1315-1331

Valerie Houghton and Thaddeus Muller

The Presumption of Harm and Descriptions of Child Sexual Victimization: Sentencing the Victim-Offender pp. 1332-1350

Bronwyn Arnold

Competing Through Service: Entrepreneurial Bricolage and the Servitization of Local Drug Markets pp. 1351-1368

Thomas Friis Søgaard and Mike Salinas

Neighbourhood Social Control and Police Legitimacy: An Empirical and Theoretical Exploration in the Context of Contemporary Urban China pp. 1369-1388

Guangzhen Wu and Jianhong Liu

Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown. By Herrity Kate (Bristol Univerity Press, 2024, 210pp., £27.99 pbk) pp. 1389-1402

Jamie Bennett, Angela Charles, Reuben Jonathan Miller, Barbara Owen and Kate Herrity

Volume 65, issue 3, 2025

‘Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization pp. 463-479

Emma K Russell

Influence Policing: Domestic Digital Influence Campaigns and Algorithmic Strategic Communications in UK Law Enforcement and Homeland Security pp. 480-503

Shane Horgan, Ben Collier, James Stewart and Daniel R Thomas

Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’ pp. 504-520

Joshua Findlay

A Criminological–Military Enterprise pp. 521-540

Ross McGarry

Feeling (Un)safe in Prison: A Comparative Analysis of England & Wales and Norway pp. 541-558

Sophie Martens and Ben Crewe

Why and How Do Prison Litigation Strategies and Their Cultures Matter? pp. 559-577

Gaëtan Cliquennois

Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–23 pp. 578-597

Fiona Measham, Mark McCormack, Henry Simmons and Liam Wignall

A Fresh Start or a False Dawn? Assessing the Crime-Preventive Effect of Debt Settlements for People With a History of Conviction pp. 598-617

Robin Gålnander, Olof Bäckman and Yerko Rojas

The Liminality of Fraud: Reimagining Fraud Theory to Inform Financial Crime Prevention pp. 618-638

Nicola Harding, Emily Cooper, Tony Sales, Andy McDonald and Sarah Kingston

Re-imagining Procedural Justice in Policing Sexual Violence: Centring Survivors pp. 639-657

Kelly Johnson, Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer, Olivia Smith, Katrin Hohl and Oona Brooks-Hay

Racial Violence in ‘Action’: Police Storytelling and Narrativisation in the Inquiry of Jermaine Baker pp. 658-672

Carson Cole Arthur

Measuring and Explaining Situational Fear of Crime: An Experimental Study Into the Effects of Disorder, Using Virtual Reality and Multimodal Measurement pp. 673-690

Jelle Brands, Jochem Milan Jansen, Janne van Doorn and Remco Spithoven

The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right pp. 691-708

Bianca Bersani, Danny Dorling, Glen O’Hara, Karen F Parker, Samuel Griffin, Lisa Miller, Stephen Farrall and Emily Gray

Volume 65, issue 2, 2025

Racially Determined Case Characteristics: Exploring Disparities in the Use of Sentencing Factors in England and Wales pp. 241-260

Eoin Guilfoyle and Jose Pina-Sánchez

Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the Amount and Gendering of Violence pp. 261-281

Elouise Davies, Polina Obolenskaya, Brian Francis, Niels Blom, Jessica Phoenix, Merili Pullerits and Sylvia Walby

Becoming an Ex-Extremist: Stopping the Hate and Embracing a New Identity pp. 282-297

Matthew DeMichele, Pete Simi and Kathleen Blee

The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution pp. 298-313

Nikhaela Wicks

On Special Liberty and the Motivation to Harm pp. 314-327

Justin Kotzé

Incorporating a One Health Approach Into the Study of Environmental Crimes and Harms: Towards a ‘One Health Green Criminology’ pp. 328-343

Aitor Ibáñez Alonso and Nigel South

Sensing Toxic Injustice: Exploring the Polluting Touch of Colonialism pp. 344-364

Anita Lam and Steven Kohm

Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear? pp. 365-386

Charis E Kubrin, Xiaoshuang Iris Luo and John R Hipp

Attitudes to Crime and Punishment in England and Wales, 1964–2023: A Reinterpretation of the 1980s and a Model of Interactions Between Concern, Punitiveness and Prioritization pp. 387-404

Matteo Tiratelli

‘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 pp. 405-422

Mark Norman, Rosemary Ricciardelli and Katharina Maier

The Ideal Client: Selecting Candidates for Drug Treatment in Prison pp. 423-439

Rose Elisabeth Lunde

‘Why on Earth Aren’t You Doing Anything?’: Private and Voluntary Policing of Nightlife in Norway pp. 440-456

Marina Hiller Foshaugen

Coercive Control. By C. Barlow and S. Walklate (Routledge, 2022, 122pp. £49.99 hbk, ISBN 9781032228006) pp. 457-459

Jenny Korkodeilou

Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk) pp. 460-462

Alice Ievins

Volume 65, issue 1, 2025

Justice Work: Sisters (Having to) Do It for Themselves pp. 1-16

Nancy Lombard and Katy Proctor

Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers pp. 17-36

Kate Brown, Sharon Grace and Scarlett Redman

‘Violence is completely normal’: Managing Violence Through Narrative Normalization pp. 37-53

Frøja Storm-Mathisen

Managing Trouble Along a Continuum of Accountability: On Police Practices for Dealing with Less-Than-Competent Subjects pp. 54-74

André Buscariolli

COVID-19 and the New Pains of Imprisonment pp. 75-92

Veronica L Horowitz, Synøve N Andersen and Jordan M Hyatt

Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex pp. 93-109

Henrique Carvalho, Sally Foreman, Simon Tawfic, Ana Aliverti, Anastasia Chamberlen and Belinda Rawson

Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy pp. 110-125

Cecilie Bjerre and Lea Cecilie Brinkgaard

Far-Right Extremism, Elections and Hate Crime: A Temporal Evaluation of Bias-Motivated Violence in Slovakia pp. 126-146

Whitney Whittington and Sylwia J Piatkowska

Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right pp. 147-162

Liam Gillespie

Using Scammers’ Data to Estimate the Impact and Importance of Preventing Repeat Mail Fraud Victimization pp. 163-181

Lynn Langton, Marguerite DeLiema, Daniel Brannock and Edward Preble

Racial Disparities in Civilian Response to Police Use of Force: Evidence From London pp. 182-201

Nils Braakmann

Pulling Back the Curtain on the California Gang Database: Evidence of Racial, Ethnic and Gender Disparities Among 222 Law Enforcement Agencies pp. 202-233

David C Pyrooz and James A Densley

Unlocking Learning: International Perspectives on Education in Prison. By McDevitt Justin and Gellman Mneesha (Brandeis University Press, 2024, 307pp. £35.00 pbk) pp. 234-235

Ashley M Appleby

Time and Punishment: New Contexts and Perspectives. By Carr Nicola and RobinsonGwen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 257pp. £99.00 hbk) pp. 236-239

Deborah Russo