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 62, issue 6, 2022

Domestic Violence Policing of First Nations Women in Australia: ‘Settler’ Frameworks, Consequential Harms and the Promise of Meaningful Self-Determination pp. 1323-1340

Emma Buxton-Namisnyk

Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse pp. 1341-1358

Asher Flynn, Anastasia Powell, Adrian J Scott and Elena Cama

Understanding the Attraction: Prison Tourism and the Public Gaze pp. 1359-1379

Diane Urquhart

Discipline in New Clothes: The Controversial Use of Punishments in A Montreal Rehabilitation Centre for Young Offenders pp. 1380-1394

Nicolas Sallée

Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study pp. 1395-1413

Robin Fitzgerald, Arie Freiberg, Shannon Dodd and Lorana Bartels

Procedural Justice, Compliance and The ‘Upstanding Citizen’: A Study of Community Protection Notices pp. 1414-1430

Alex Black and Vicky Heap

Governance and Informal Economies: Informality, Uncertainty and Street Vending in China pp. 1431-1453

Anli Jiang and Peng Wang

Street Skateboarding and the Aesthetic Order of Public Spaces pp. 1454-1469

Sharon Dickinson, Andrew Millie and Eleanor Peters

A legal shot? Police Gun Violence and Individual Accountability in Miami pp. 1470-1484

Thijs Jeursen

Gender and (Fictive) Family in a Women’s Post-Incarceration Mentoring Program pp. 1485-1501

Janet Garcia-Hallett and Johnna Christian

Street Culture Meets Extremism: How Muslims Involved in Street Life and Crime Oppose Jihadism pp. 1502-1517

Sébastien Tutenges and Sveinung Sandberg

The Network of Online Stolen Data Markets: How Vendor Flows Connect Digital Marketplaces pp. 1518-1536

Marie Ouellet, David Maimon, Jordan C Howell and Yubao Wu

Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial pp. 1537-1552

Simon Mackenzie

Still the Exception? Challenging Ideas of Gender in Norwegian Policing pp. 1553-1568

Nina Jon

The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, Volumes 1 and 2. By Paul Rock (Routledge, 2018/2020, 616pp/564pp. £36.99 pbk/£36.99 pbk) pp. 1569-1573

Stephen Farrall

The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales: Vol III: The Rise and Fall of Penal Hope. By David Downes (Routledge, 2021, 277pp. £96.00 hb) pp. 1574-1576

Rod Morgan

Volume 62, issue 5, 2022

Interrogating Crime, Politics and Insecurity: Introducing the Special Issue pp. 1069-1076

Stephen Farrall and Emily Gray

Seizing the Populist Moment: Towards a New Penal Politics? pp. 1077-1092

Emma Bell

Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales pp. 1093-1115

Peter K Enns, Jacob Harris, John Kenny, Andra Roescu and Will Jennings

Crime And Punishment: Public Opinion And Political Law-And-Order Rhetoric In Europe 1996–2019 pp. 1116-1135

Susanne Karstedt and Rebecca Endtricht

Striking the Balance? On the Relationship Between Public and Private Security in Western Countries pp. 1136-1157

Georg Wenzelburger and Helge Staff

Ideologies, Power and the Politics of Punishment: The Case of the British Conservative Party pp. 1158-1174

Thomas Guiney

The Long Arm Of Welfare Retrenchment: How New Right Socio-Economic Policies In The 1980s Affected Contact With The Criminal Justice System In Adulthood pp. 1175-1195

Emily Gray, Stephen Farrall and Phil Mike Jones

Policing, punishment and comparative penality pp. 1196-1212

Tim Newburn and Trevor Jones

Biased Enforcement Expansion? Sociodemographic Differences in Police Drug Testing for Suspected Narcotics Use 1993–2015 pp. 1213-1232

Felipe Estrada, Olof Bäckman and Anders Nilsson

Race and Men’s Imprisonment in the United States: Religious Conservatism, Political Conservatism and Racial Threat pp. 1233-1251

Philip J Levchak, Karen Heimer, Joseph B Lang and Janet L Lauritsen

The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens pp. 1252-1269

Harry Annison and Rachel Condry

When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear pp. 1270-1288

Murray Lee, Justin R Ellis, Chloe Keel, Rebecca Wickes and Jonathan Jackson

Coal Criminals: Crimes of the Powerful, Extractivism and Historical Harm in the Global South pp. 1289-1304

Jose Atiles and Gustavo Rojas-Páez

Disciplinary Neo-Liberalisation and the New Politics of Inequality pp. 1305-1322

Alexander Nunn and Daniela Tepe

Volume 62, issue 4, 2022

The pains of police custody for children: a recipe for injustice and exclusion? pp. 805-821

Miranda Bevan

This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector pp. 822-839

Gillian Buck, Philippa Tomczak and Kaitlyn Quinn

Criminal Careers and Early Death: Relationships In the Cambridge Study In Delinquent Development pp. 840-856

Guy C M Skinner, David P Farrington and Darrick Jolliffe

Religious Identity and Delinquency: Comparing Muslim, Christian and Non-Religious Adolescents in the United Kingdom pp. 857-876

Christopher H Seto

Assessing the Distinct Factors Driving Violent, Drug and Disorder-Related Prison Misconduct from Longitudinal Data in Northern Ireland pp. 877-895

Michelle Butler, Catherine B McNamee and Dominic Kelly

Unravelling the Mystery of Parole in China pp. 896-913

Enshen Li

Talking Good: Analysing Narratives of Desistance in Norway pp. 914-930

John Todd-Kvam and Mari Todd-Kvam

Old, New, Borrowed and Blue – Shifts In Modern Policing pp. 931-947

Johanne Yttri Dahl, Nicholas R Fyfe, Helene Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus, Paul Larsson, Pernille Erichsen Skjevrak, Siv Rebekka Runhovde and Annette Vestby

Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden pp. 948-964

Fia Branteryd, Carina Gallo, Elizabeth Brown and Kerstin Svensson

Between Remand and Verdict: Ethnic Minority Prisoners’ Legal and Penal Consciousness pp. 965-981

Louise Victoria Johansen

‘That Doesn’t Leave You’: Psychological Dirt and Taint in Prison Officers’ Occupational Cultures and Identities pp. 982-999

Joe Garrihy

‘She Was Just Like A Lassie’: Analysing The Views of Cis-Women In Custody About Their Experiences of Living With Transgender Women In The Scottish Prison Estate pp. 1000-1018

Matthew Maycock

Inequality in Exposure to Crime, Social Disorganization and Collective Efficacy: Evidence from Greater Manchester, United Kingdom pp. 1019-1035

Kitty Lymperopoulou, Jon Bannister and Karolina Krzemieniewska-Nandwani

The Crisis in the Courts: Before and Beyond Covid pp. 1036-1053

Barry Godfrey, Jane C Richardson and Sandra Walklate

Social Democratic Criminology by Robert Reiner (Resisting Left Melancholy) pp. 1054-1068

Vincenzo Ruggiero, Wayne Morrison, Jo Phoenix and Robert Reiner

Volume 62, issue 3, 2022

Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society pp. 533-550

David Rodríguez Goyes and Katja Franko

Righting the Police: How do Officers Make Sense of Human Rights? pp. 551-567

Richard Martin

School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States pp. 568-584

Ethan M Higgins, Brandon S Coffey, Benjamin W Fisher, Ivan Benitez and Kristin Swartz

Assessing the Victim–Offender Overlap in Prison Victimization and Misconduct Among Taiwanese Male Inmates pp. 585-606

Shih-ya Kuo, Kuang-ming Chang, Yu-shu Chen, Yung-lien Lai, Yuan-song Chang and Yi Li

Shadow and Light: Online Narratives of Relationship Dissolution among Former Partners of Incarcerated Men pp. 607-622

Janani Umamaheswar

The Transformative Power of Trust: Exploring Tertiary Desistance in Reinventive Prisons pp. 623-638

Thomas Ugelvik

Identifying online risk markers of hard-to-observe crimes through semi-inductive triangulation: The case of human trafficking in the United States pp. 639-658

Ieke de Vries and Jason Radford

The Immigration–Crime Relationship: Evidence Across and Within Vancouver Census Tracts 2003–16 pp. 659-680

Olivia K Ha and Martin A Andresen

Situating Crime Pattern Theory Into The Explanation Of Co-Offending: Considering Area-Level Convergence Spaces pp. 681-698

Zachary R Rowan, Sarah Appleby and Jean Marie McGloin

‘Killing Is Just The Best Solution’: Lynching As Informal Incapacitation pp. 699-715

Dany Franck A Tiwa

Policing’s New Vulnerability Re-Envisioning Local Accountability in an Era of Global Outrage pp. 716-733

Andrew Goldsmith and Eugene McLaughlin

Techniques To Exploit Vulnerabilities: Persuasion And Education In Chinese Police Interrogations pp. 734-750

Yu Mou

ACEs, Places and Inequality: Understanding the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Poverty on Offending in Childhood pp. 751-772

Babak Jahanshahi, Kath Murray and Susan McVie

‘God Is Protecting Me … And I Have Mace’: Defensive Labour In Precarious Workplaces pp. 773-789

Isak Ladegaard, Alexandrea J Ravenelle and Juliet Schor

Law, Insecurity and Risk Control: Neoliberal Governance and the Populist Revolt. By John Pratt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 387pp., £79 Hbk) pp. 790-792

Jo Phoenix

Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case For Including Convicted Felons In Our Jury System. By James M. Binnall (University of California Press, 2021, 275 pp., $29.95 pb) pp. 793-795

Jeffrey Ian Ross

The War against Civilians: Victims of the “War on Terror” in Afghanistan and Pakistan. By Vasja Badalič (Palgrave, 2019, 257 pp., £49.99 pbk) (Towards a Criminology of War in Europe) pp. 796-797

Teresa Degenhardt

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. By Derecka Purnell (Verso, 2021, pp.320, £16.99 pbk) (Police Abolitionist Discourse? Why It Has Been Missing (and Why It Matters)) pp. 798-800

John Lea

Volume 62, issue 2, 2022

The Hidden Harms of Prison Life for People with Learning Disabilities pp. 261-278

Caitlin Gormley

Locked up While Locked Down: Prisoners’ Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 279-298

Olga Suhomlinova, Tammy Colleen Ayres, Matthew James Tonkin, Michelle O’Reilly, Emily Wertans and Saoirse Caitlin O’Shea

Building Immigrants’ Solidarity with Police: Procedural Justice, Identity and Immigrants’ Willingness to Cooperate with Police pp. 299-319

Kristina Murphy, Ben Bradford, Elise Sargeant and Adrian Cherney

‘Social Care Told me I Had to’: Empowerment And Responsibilization in The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme pp. 320-336

Katerina Hadjimatheou

Access to Justice in Clientelist Networks pp. 337-358

Mahvish Shami

It’s not just About Poverty: Capital, Inequality, and Antisocial Behaviour in Schools pp. 359-377

Fernando Pantoja

‘The Usual Suspects’: Knife Crime Prevention Orders and the ‘Difficult’ Regulatory Subject pp. 378-395

Jennifer Hendry

Purchasing Sex in Sweden—A Risky Business pp. 396-412

Ylva Grönvall

Ignored but not Forgotten: The Broken Windows Tipping Point and the Question of Functional Form pp. 413-430

Alaina De Biasi

Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements pp. 431-449

Justin Everett Cobain Tetrault

Air Pollution and Violent Criminal Behaviour pp. 450-467

Erik Cruz, Stewart J D’alessio and Lisa Stolzenberg

Coercive Control: Patterns in Crimes, Arrests and Outcomes for a New Domestic Abuse Offence pp. 468-483

Iain Brennan and Andy Myhill

Top bunk, bottom bunk: cellsharing in prisons pp. 484-500

Anna Schliehe and Ben Crewe

Secrecy as best policy? Stigma management and employment outcomes after release from prison pp. 501-518

Anke Ramakers

A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent pp. 519-521

Vincenzo Ruggiero

The Architecture of Desistance. Edited by S. Farrall (Routledge, 2019, 281 pp. £120.00 hb) pp. 522-524

Monica Barry

Policing County Lines: Responses to Evolving Provincial Drug Markets. By Jack Spicer (Springer, 2021, 253pp, £74.99 hbk) (Chronocentrism and British Criminology) pp. 525-527

Hannah Marshall

Psycho-Criminological Approaches to Stalking Behaviour: An International Perspective. By Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan and Lorraine L. Sheridan (Wiley, 2020, 432pp., $180.00 hbk) pp. 528-530

Emma Short

Corrigendum to: Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements pp. 531-531

Justin Everett Cobain Tetrault

Volume 62, issue 1, 2022

Carnival, Sexual Violence and Harm at Australian Music Festivals pp. 1-17

Phillip Wadds, Bianca Fileborn and Stephen Tomsen

Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents pp. 18-36

Don Weenink, Raheel Dhattiwala and David van der Duin

Overcoming Penal Boundaries: Exploring The Evolution of Retributive Time Through Parole Decision-Making pp. 37-54

Netanel Dagan

Sentencing Multiple- Versus Single-Offence Cases: Does More Crime Mean Less Punishment? pp. 55-72

Mandeep K Dhami

‘Get to know me, not the inmate’: Women’s Management of the Stigma of Criminal Records pp. 73-89

Anita Grace

Police Union Political Communications in Canada pp. 90-105

Jamie Duncan and Kevin Walby

Dirty Work? Policing Online Indecency in Digital Forensics pp. 106-123

Dana Wilson-Kovacs, Brian Rappert and Lauren Redfern

Seasonality and Crime in Orlando Neighbourhoods pp. 124-144

Young-An Kim and James C Wo

Neighborhoods, Criminal Incidents, Race, and Sentencing: Exploring the Racial and Social Context of Disparities in Incarceration Sentences pp. 145-164

Ellen A Donnelly

Professional Legitimacy, Identity, and Practice: Towards a Sociology of Professionalism in Probation pp. 165-183

Matt Tidmarsh

Countering Corporate Power Through Social Control: What Does a Social Licence Offer? pp. 184-199

Fiona Haines, Sara Bice, Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan

Cheats, Threats and Reflexivity: Organizational Narratives on Policing Organized and Economic Crime pp. 200-217

Annette Vestby

‘Covid-19 has caused a dramatic change to prison life’. Analysing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the pains of imprisonment in the Scottish Prison Estate pp. 218-233

Matthew Maycock

Hope and the Life Sentence pp. 234-250

Christopher Seeds

Privatizing Justice: The Security Industry, War and Crime Control. By Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea (Pluto Press, 2020, 211pp, £22.99 Pbk) pp. 251-253

Peter Squires

Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the College de France 1971–1972 pp. 254-256

J M Moore

Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Cybercrime and Criminal Liability. By Dennis J. Baker and Paul H. Robinson (Routledge, 2021, 280pp. £120 hb) pp. 257-259

Zhuozhen Duan