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 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

Volume 64, issue 6, 2024

Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector pp. 1239-1258

Kaitlyn Quinn, Gillian Buck and Philippa Tomczak

The Construction of Capital Among Family Members of People in Prison pp. 1259-1274

Janani Umamaheswar

‘Valuable Lives to Save’ vs. ‘Babysitting These People While They Try to Kill Themselves’: Changing Police Attitudes Towards Safe Consumption Sites pp. 1275-1291

Rebekah McNeilly, Luca Berardi, Kevin D Haggerty, Sandra M Bucerius and Harvey Krahn

Emerging Victims in Contemporary Drugs Policing pp. 1292-1309

Hannah Marshall, Matthew Bacon and Jack Spicer

From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours pp. 1310-1327

Kath Murray, Susan McVie, Ben Matthews and Victoria Gorton

Unmasked and Exposed: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Youth Custodial Estate. A Compelling Case for Ideological Change pp. 1328-1346

Hannah Smithson and Deborah Jump

Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas pp. 1347-1361

Ian Brunton-Smith, Alex Cernat, Jose Pina-Sánchez and David Buil-Gil

Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada pp. 1362-1384

Julien Chopin, Jean-Pierre Guay, Francis Fortin, Sarah Paquette, Olivier Péloquin and Eric Chartrand

White Nationalism, Politically Motivated Reasoning and Americans’ Attitudes About Criminally Charging Donald Trump pp. 1385-1404

Melissa M Sloan, Murat Haner, Justin T Pickett and Francis T Cullen

The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman pp. 1405-1427

Jérôme Beauchez

Managing the Risk of Living: Life Imprisonment, the Medical Gaze and the Construction of the Paroled Body pp. 1428-1444

Netanel Dagan and Marion Vannier

Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs pp. 1445-1461

Johanne Miller

Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. By Tzanetakis Meropi and South Nigel (eds) (Emerald, 2023, 183pp., open access) pp. 1462-1464

Tove Gustavsson

Policing Sport Mega-Events: Security, Spectacle, and Camouflage in Rio De Janeiro. By Pauschinger Dennis (Oxford University Press, 2024, 289pp. £90.00 hbk) pp. 1465-1467

Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen

No Justice, No Police? The Politics of Protest and Social Change. Edited by Clement Matt (Zero Books, 2023, 356pp. £17.99 pbk) pp. 1468-1469

Tracey Davanna

Volume 64, issue 5, 2024

Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status pp. 1011-1027

Hannah Marshall

Navigating Police Contact: How Situations Shape Police–Youth Relations pp. 1028-1044

Liridona Gashi

Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil pp. 1045-1062

Omar Phoenix Khan

Colonial Confessions: An Autoethnography of Writing Criminology in the New South Africa pp. 1063-1079

Bill Dixon

‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales pp. 1080-1097

Ben Crewe

Power and Purpose in an Immigration Removal Centre pp. 1098-1113

Dominic Aitken

Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić pp. 1114-1130

Andy Aydın-Aitchison

The Eyes and Ears of Sexual Exploitation Online: Are Sex Buyers Part of the Prevention Puzzle to Reduce Harms in the Online Sex Industry? pp. 1131-1149

Rachel Keighley and Teela Sanders

Surveillance Cameras and Resistance: A Case Study of a Middle School in China pp. 1150-1170

Chen Shi and Jianhua Xu

For Better or Worse? Improving the Response to Domestic Abuse Offenders on Probation pp. 1171-1188

Nicole Renehan and David Gadd

Ethnic Inequalities in Sentencing: Evidence from the Crown Court in England and Wales pp. 1189-1210

Kitty Lymperopoulou

‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work pp. 1211-1227

Ethan M Higgins, Justin M Smith and Kristin Swartz

Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach. By Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight (University of Toronto Press, 2016, 280 pp. £32.99 pbk) pp. 1228-1231

Md Nazmul Arefin

The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need. By Sara Salman (New York University Press, 2023, 233pp. $30.00 pbk) pp. 1232-1234

Eamonn Carrabine

The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales Vol. IV: The Politics of Law and Order. By David Downes and Tim Newburn (Routledge, 2023, 342pp., £96.00 hbk) pp. 1235-1238

Stephen Farrall

Volume 64, issue 4, 2024

Policing and Sense of Place: ‘Shallow’ and ‘Deep’ Security in an English Town pp. 791-810

Ben Bradford, Evi Girling, Ian Loader and Richard Sparks

‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care pp. 811-826

Amanda Holt

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 pp. 827-845

Marti Rovira

Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance pp. 846-862

Grace Low

Hate Crime and Class Vulnerability: A Case Study of White Nationalist Violence Against Unhoused Indigenous People pp. 863-880

Marta-Marika Urbanik, Katharina Maier, Justin E C Tetrault and Carolyn Greene

The Victimization of Rohingyas in Myanmar and Bangladesh: Breaking the Silence - Postcolonial Criminology, Ethnography and Genocide pp. 881-895

Manikandan Soundararajan, Karuppannan Jaishankar, Mark Bushell, Luke Telford and James Treadwell

The Home Office’s Racism Studies Before the Macpherson Inquiry: Revisiting Administrative Criminology’s Corpus pp. 896-912

Julian Molina

Taking Prison to Court: Exploring the Judicial Review of Prison Decision-Making Through Supreme Court Judges in Israel pp. 913-930

Netanel Dagan and Shmuel Baron

The Prison as a Space of Non-life: How Does a Typical Prison Sentence Intervene in What Really Matters to People? pp. 931-946

Alice Ievins

Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime pp. 947-963

Thomas Guiney

Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting pp. 964-979

Solveig Laugerud and May-Len Skilbrei

Illicit Alcohol Markets and Everyday Crime: A Historical Reconceptualization pp. 980-999

Henry Yeomans

Rural Transformations and Rural Crime: International Critical Perspectives in Rural Criminology. Edited by Bowden Matt and Harkness Alistair (Bristol University Press, 2022, 209 pp. £85.00 hbk) (Intersectionality, Rural Criminology, and Re-imaging the Boundaries of Critical Criminology) pp. 1000-1002

Wendell C Wallace

Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials: Is the Jury Out? By Herriott Charlotte (Routledge, 2023, 190 pp. £120.00 hbk) pp. 1003-1005

Yvette Russell

Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From Vulnerability to Ableism. By Taylor Seamus (Bristol University Press, 2022, 262 pp. £85.00 hbk) pp. 1006-1008

Kathleen Lynch

Volume 64, issue 3, 2024

East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology (The Earth is One But the World is Not’: Criminological Theory and its Geopolitical Divisions) pp. 521-537

Laura Piacentini and Gavin Slade

Between Democratic Modernization and Authoritarian Punitiveness in Brazil: Mass Incarceration, Political Rationalities and the Dynamics of Subnational Variation pp. 538-557

David S Fonseca

Criminology and Propaganda Studies: Charting New Horizons in Criminological Thought pp. 558-575

Deborah H Drake, Reece Walters, Mark Wood and Greg Koumouris

Peyote as Earth Medicine: Examining How Symbolic Meanings Shape Experiences With Psychedelics (The Limitations of Language: Male Participants, Stoicism, and the Qualitative Research Interview) pp. 576-599

Heith Copes and Jared Ragland

An Intersectional Analysis of Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Prevalence, Experiences and Impacts of Victimization pp. 600-619

Asher Flynn, Anastasia Powell and Sophie Hindes

Practitioner Understandings of Older Victims of Abuse and Their Perpetrators: Not Ideal Enough? pp. 620-637

Hannah Bows, Paige Bromley and Sandra Walklate

The End of the Age-Crime Curve? A Historical Comparison of Male Arrest Rates in the United States, 1985–2019 pp. 638-655

James Tuttle

Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–2019 pp. 656-674

Guillermo J Escaño and William Alex Pridemore

Envisioning Social Justice With Criminalized Young Adults pp. 675-692

Beth Weaver, Trish McCulloch and Nina Vaswani

Desistance Upon Release From Prison: Narratives of Tragedy, Irony, Romance and Comedy pp. 693-709

Emma Villman

Building Trust and Honouring Agreements in the Supply of Protected Wildlife Products1 pp. 710-725

Rebecca W Y Wong

Making Good?: A Study of How Senior Penal Policy Makers Narrate Policy Reversal pp. 726-743

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

‘Robocops’ in the Making: Reframing Police–Citizen Interactions Through the Lens of Body-Worn Cameras pp. 744-760

Holly Campeau and Laura D Keesman

Security, Emotions and Radical Right Populism: Beyond a ‘Flaunting of the Low’? pp. 761-780

Claire Hamilton

The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting. By Alessandro Moretti (Routledge, 2023, 294 pp. £96.00 hbk) pp. 781-783

Xavier D L’Hoiry

The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Australia and Indonesia: Asylum Out of Reach. By Antje Missbach (Routledge, 2022, 224 pp. £130 hbk) pp. 784-786

Maggy Lee

Desistance from Sexual Offending: The Role of Circles of Support and Accountability. By Kelly Richards (Routledge, 2022, 194 pp. £31.19 pbk) pp. 787-790

David J E Byrne

Volume 64, issue 2, 2024

Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement pp. 257-274

Claire Fitzpatrick, Katie Hunter, Julie Shaw and Jo Staines

Rescuing women from the brinks of whiteness: Carceral restoration in a human trafficking court pp. 275-291

Rashmee Singh

Relational Police Work: How Police Officers Work With, On and Through ‘Personal Relationships’ in a Danish Gang Exit Programme pp. 292-307

Mette-Louise E Johansen

Does Policing Help or Hurt? Examining the Longitudinal Relationship Between Police Involvement and Delinquency in Norway pp. 308-325

Synøve Nygaard Andersen

Illegal Market Governance and Organized Crime Groups’ Resilience: A Study of The Sinaloa Cartel pp. 326-342

Valentin Pereda and David Décary-Hetu

Judicial indifference in criminal sentencing: Explaining inequality of the Thai Fines pp. 343-360

Thanyanuch Tantikul

Decomposing Neighbourhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighbourhood Crime pp. 361-380

Seth A Williams

How Priority Ordering of Offence Codes Undercounts Gendered Violence: An Analysis of the Crime Survey for England and Wales pp. 381-399

Merili Pullerits and Jessica Phoenix

Intersectional Making of the ‘Sri Lankan Case’: The Racialization of Domestic Violence in the Swiss Police Force pp. 400-416

Faten Khazaei

The Assassination Cases of Madan Lal Dhingra, 1909 and Udham Singh, 1940 as Social Drama pp. 417-433

Lizzie Seal and Alexa Neale

Support for Democratic Policing Among Frontline Police Officers: The Role of Social Dominance Orientation pp. 434-451

Jill A Davis John Glenn, Darwin A Baluran John Glenn and Shahidul Hassan John Glenn

Digital Ritual: Police–Public Social Media Encounters and ‘Authentic’ Interaction pp. 452-467

Alistair Henry

Legacies of Change: Probation Staff Experiences of the Unification of Services in England and Wales pp. 468-486

Matt Tidmarsh

Understanding Perceptions of Victimization: A Critical Analysis of Gay and Bisexual Male Grindr Users Negotiations of Safety and Risk pp. 487-502

Ben Colliver

Feeling Trapped: Social Class and Violence Against Women by James Ptacek (University of California Press, 2023, 225 pp, £25.00) pp. 503-519

Walter S De, Raquel Kennedy Bergen, Martin D Schwartz and James Ptacek

Volume 64, issue 1, 2024

Ghost Criminology: A Framework for the Discipline’s Spectral Turn pp. 1-16

Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann and Theo Kindynis

Ghosts of the Gulag: Negotiating Spectres of the Penal Past in Northern Russia pp. 17-33

Gavin Slade, Laura Piacentini and Alena Kravtsova

Witnessing (Dis)engagement: A Framework for Examining Legitimacy in the Criminal Courts pp. 34-50

Amy Kirby

‘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 pp. 51-69

Phillip Shon

From Acculturation to Transculturation?: Police Culture Change in the Pluralized Crime Investigation Department pp. 70-87

Lindsey Rice

Desperation on the Battlefield, the Ethnic Security Dilemma, or Economic Competition? Mass Shootings in Chicago’s Gang Wars, 2010–20 pp. 88-106

Patrick J Burke

Porous Penality and the Myth of Liberal Punishment: Lessons from South Africa pp. 107-123

Gail Super

Border Control and the Degradation of Labour pp. 124-138

Mary Bosworth

Gangs and the Gig Economy: Triads, Precarity and Illicit Work in Hong Kong pp. 139-156

Alistair Fraser and Karen Joe-Laidler

Is the Sinaloa Cartel a Mafia? pp. 157-174

Letizia Paoli, Bryan Peters and Peter Reuter

Beyond Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Domestic and Family Violence and Temporary Migration pp. 175-193

Stefani Vasil and Marie Segrave

Recognizing the Paradigm of the Unknowing Victim and the Implications of Liminality pp. 194-210

Suzanne Ost and Alisdair A Gillespie

Violence is Islam, Violence is Not Islam: Meaning-Making Among Muslim Men in Norway pp. 211-228

Uzair Ahmed

Did the Prison Industrial Complex Deliver on Its Promise? Prison Proliferation and Employment in Rural America pp. 229-247

Yiwen Zhang

Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice. By Sarah Esther Lageson (Oxford University Press, 2020, 242pp. £25.00) pp. 248-250

Jonathan Lusthaus

Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb – A Memoir. By Patrick Magee (Pluto Press, 2021, 272pp. £20.00 hbk) pp. 251-253

Jade Moran

Invisible Mothers: Unseen yet Hypervisible After Incarceration. By Janet Garcia-Hallett (University of California Press, 2022, 248pp. £30.00) pp. 254-256

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