The British Journal of Criminology

2020 - 2025

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Volume 61, issue 6, 2021

Exception, Symbolism and Compromise: The Resilience of Treason as a Capital offence (Fear and Loathing in America: Application of Treason Law in Times of National Crisis and the Case of John Walker) pp. 1435-1451

Ron Dudai

Segregation Seekers: an Alternative Perspective on the Solitary Confinement Debate (Fortress UK? Gated Communities, the Spatial Revolt of the Elites and Time–Space Trajectories of Segregation) pp. 1452-1468

Ben Laws

Pathways from Relative Deprivation to Individual Violence: The Effect of Subjective Perception and Emotional Resentment in South Korea (Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency) pp. 1469-1485

Seong-Min Park, Young-Oh Hong, Logan P Kennedy and Stacey L Clouse

Rethinking Prosecutorial Discretion: Towards A Moral Cartography of Prosecutors (Usos y abusos del sistema penal. Su uso como forma de emancipación femenina: Un estudio de caso del delito de trata de personas en Colombia) pp. 1486-1502

Diego Tuesta

The Inconvenient Truth About Mobile Phone Distraction: Understanding the Means, Motive and Opportunity for Driver Resistance to Legal and Safety Messages (Changes in Driver Behaviour as a Function of Handsfree Mobile Phones – A Simulator Study) pp. 1503-1520

Helen Wells, Gemma Briggs and Leanne Savigar-Shaw

Securitizing the Colour Revolution: Assessing the Political Role of Triads in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (Criminal Politics: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Organized Crime, Politics, and Violence) pp. 1521-1539

T Wing Lo, Sharon Ingrid Kwok and Daniel Garrett

This is Denmark: Prison Islands and the Detention of Immigrants (Bordered Penalty: Precarious Membership and Abnormal Justice’) pp. 1540-1556

Vanessa Barker and Peter Scharff Smith

Rehabilitation and dynamic security in the Italian prison: challenges in transforming prison officers’ roles (Già Fuori. Note sul Rapporto tra Funzione e Natura Della Pena, Processo e Opinione Pubblica) pp. 1557-1574

Simone Santorso

Politics, Research Design, and the ‘Architecture’ of Criminal Careers Studies (Distribution of Income and Wealth) pp. 1575-1591

Stephen Farrall

Parental Migration and Children’s Problem Behaviours in Rural China: Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model (Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency) pp. 1592-1611

Xiaojin Chen

Mapping the Pains of Neo-Colonialism: A Critical Elaboration of Southern Criminology (“The Earth Is One But the World Is Not”: Criminological Theory and Its Geopolitical Divisions) pp. 1612-1629

Pablo Ciocchini and Joe Greener

Incarceration as a Fundamental Social Cause of Health Inequalities: Jails, Prisons and Vulnerability to COVID-19 (Flattening the Curve for Incarcerated Populations—Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons) pp. 1630-1646

Meghan A Novisky, Kathryn M Nowotny, Dylan B Jackson, Alexander Testa and Michael G Vaughn

‘You’re not Serving Time, You’re Serving Christ’: Protestant Religion and Discourses of Responsibilization in a Women’s Prison (Religion in the Lives of Older Women Serving Life in Prison) pp. 1647-1664

Rachel Ellis

The Legitimacy of Change: Adopting/Adapting, Implementing and Sustaining Reforms within Community Corrections Agencies (Advancing a Conceptual Model of Evidence-Based Practice Implementation in Public Service Sectors) pp. 1665-1683

Danielle S Rudes, Shannon Portillo and Faye S Taxman

Sensory Penalties: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control. Edited by Kate Herrity, Bethany E. Schmidt and Jason Warr (Emerald, 2021, 296pp., £70.00 Hbk) (The critical foundations of visual criminology: The State, crisis and the sensory) pp. 1684-1686

Rod Earle

Male, Failed, Jailed: Masculinities and “Revolving-Door” Imprisonment in the UK. By D. Maguire (Palgrave, 2021, 243pp, £89.99 hb) pp. 1687-1688

Marguerite Schinkel

Interactional Justice: The role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty. By lisa flower (Routledge, 2020, 220pp. £36.99 pb) (The Courtroom as an Affective Arrangement: Analysing Atmospheres in Courtroom Ethnography) pp. 1689-1691

Clare Gunby

Volume 61, issue 5, 2021

Consequences of judging in transitional justice courts (“The Earth is One but the World is Not”: Criminological Theory and Its Geopolitical Divisions) pp. 1169-1186

Hollie Nyseth Brehm, Laura C Frizzell, Christopher Uggen and Evelyn Gertz

Determinants of extortion compliance: Empirical evidence from a victimization survey (Upsurge of Homicides and Its Impact on Life Expectancy and Life Span Inequality in Mexico, 2005–2015) pp. 1187-1205

Patricio R Estévez-Soto

Police legitimacy and procedural justice among young Brazilian adolescents: A cross-sectional and time-ordered analysis (Sibling Relation, Ethnic Prejudice, Direct and Indirect Contact: There is a Connection?) pp. 1206-1224

Herbert Rodrigues and Justin C Medina

‘No one blames men in our society’: Indian police officers’ perceptions of female complainants (Learning to be Gendered: Gender Socialization in Early Adolescence among Urban Poor in Delhi, India, and Shanghai, China) pp. 1225-1242

Saumya Tripathi and Sameena Azhar

Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography (Pleasure Zones and Murder Boxes: Online Pornography and Violent Video Games as Cultural Zones of Exception) pp. 1243-1260

Fiona Vera-Gray, Clare McGlynn, Ibad Kureshi and Kate Butterby

Hope, trust and segregation in schools: An analysis of contextual effects on violent and general offending (Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency) pp. 1261-1281

Julia Sandahl

Predicting the probability of violence in actor–target relational dyads: Self-control and interpersonal provocations as mutual properties (Social Concern and Crime: Moving Beyond the Assumption of Simple Self-Interest) pp. 1282-1299

Christopher J Schreck, Mark T Berg and Ethan M Rogers

Investing in crime prevention after the crisis: Social impact bonds, the value of (re) offending and the new ‘culture of crime control’ (Introduction: Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice: An Overview) pp. 1300-1315

James W Williams and Stefan Treffers

Unemployment and crime: Experimental evidence of the causal effects of intensified ALMPs on crime rates among unemployed individuals (Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency) pp. 1316-1333

Signe Hald Andersen

Nested complex crime: Assessing the convergence of wildlife trafficking, organized crime and loose criminal networks (Wildlife Trafficking between the European Union and Mexico) pp. 1334-1353

William D Moreto and Daan P Van Uhm

Gendered prisons, relationships and resettlement policies; three reasons for caution for imprisoned mothers (Is Motherhood Important? Imprisoned Women’s Maternal Experiences Before and During Confinement and Their Post-release Expectations) pp. 1354-1371

Natalie Booth

‘We’re both here to do a job and that’s all that matters’: Cisgender correctional officer recruit reflections within an unsettled correctional prison culture (Perceptions of the Work Environment among Correctional Officers: Do Race and Sex Matter?) pp. 1372-1389

Michael Adorjan, Rosemary Ricciardelli and James Gacek

The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing: An ethnographic study of an amplification spiral (“Ethnobotanicals” and “Spice Zombies”: New Psychoactive Substances in the Mainstream Media) pp. 1390-1406

Jack Spicer

Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture (Producing Trust among Illicit Actors: A Techno-Social Approach to an Online Illicit Market) pp. 1407-1423

Ben Collier, Richard Clayton, Alice Hutchings and Daniel Thomas

The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance. By Deborah Jump (Bristol University Press, 2020, 220pp, £75.00 hb) pp. 1424-1426

Edward J Wright

Blood, Threats and Fears: The Hidden Worlds of Hate Crime Victims. By Stevie Jade-Hardy and Neil Chakraborti (Palgrave, 2020, 177pp. £44.99 hb) pp. 1427-1429

James Pickles

Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime. By Jonathan Lusthaus (Harvard University Press, 2018, 289pp. £31.95 hb) pp. 1430-1432

Lisa Sugiura

Erratum to: Crime control in Japan: exceptional, convergent or what else? pp. 1433-1433

David Brewster

Volume 61, issue 4, 2021

Gender, risk assessment and coercive control: Contradictions in terms? pp. 887-904

Charlotte Barlow and Sandra Walklate

Hidden victims: the gendered data gap of violent crime pp. 905-925

Kerris Cooper and Polina Obolenskaya

The Hybridization of Street Offending in the Netherlands pp. 926-945

Robert A Roks, E Rutger Leukfeldt and James A Densley

‘Our biographies are the same’: Juvenile Work in Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations from the Perspective of a Collective Trajectory pp. 946-964

Piotr A Chomczyński and Roger Guy

Genocide and ecocide in four Colombian Indigenous Communities: the Erosion of a way of life and memory pp. 965-984

David R Goyes, Nigel South, Mireya Astroina Abaibira, Pablo Baicué, Angie Cuchimba and Deisy Tatiana Ramos Ñeñetofe

The Limits of the City: Atmospheres of Lockdown pp. 985-1004

Alison Young

The Reality of Rural Crime: The unintended consequences of rural policy in the co-production of badger persecution and the illegal taking of deer pp. 1005-1025

Orlando Goodall

Working with Incarcerated Youth: Emotional Labour and Moral Wages pp. 1026-1043

Kelsea Perry and Rosemary Ricciardelli

Transcending the boundaries of punishment: On the nature of citizenship deprivation pp. 1044-1065

Milena Tripkovic

Gun acquisition in Mexico 2012–18: findings from Mexico's National Crime Victimization Survey pp. 1066-1085

Eugenio Weigend Vargas and Carlos Pérez Ricart

Testing the fair process heuristic in a traffic stop context: Evidence from a factorial study with video vignettes pp. 1086-1106

Starr J Solomon and Joselyne L Chenane

‘Suppression on top of oppression’: A symbolic interactionist perspective on the affective experience of incarceration pp. 1107-1125

Janani Umamaheswar

Working for the Clampdown: State Repression and Confidence in Legal Authorities in Comparative Context pp. 1126-1144

Andrew P Davis

Look Who’s Talking: The Snitching Paradox in a Representative Sample of Prisoners pp. 1145-1167

David C Pyrooz, Meghan M Mitchell, Richard K MouleJr and Scott H Decker

Volume 61, issue 3, 2021

The Carceral City: Confinement and Order in Hong Kong’s Forbidden Enclave (Non-State Space: The Strategic Ejection of Dangerous and High Maintenance Urban Space’) pp. 587-606

Alistair Fraser and Anna Schliehe

Wildlife Trade and COVID-19: Towards a Criminology of Anthropogenic Pathogen Spillover (Pandemic and Seasonal Human Influenza Virus Infections in Domestic Cats: Prevalence, Association with Respiratory Disease, and Seasonality Patterns) pp. 607-626

Piers Beirne

Rethinking how Technologies Harm (The Death of the Author’) pp. 627-647

Mark A Wood

Temporal Clustering of Hate Crimes in the Aftermath of the Brexit Vote and Terrorist Attacks: A Comparison of Scotland and England and Wales (Psychological reactions to the 2017 Manchester Arena Bombing: A Population based study) pp. 648-669

Sylwia J Piatkowska and Brendan Lantz

‘Playing the Game’: Power, Authority and Procedural Justice in Interactions Between Police and Homeless People in London (Beyond Procedural Justice: A Dialogic Approach to Legitimacy in Criminal Justice) pp. 670-689

Arabella Kyprianides, Clifford Stott and Ben Bradford

Cultural Processes Shaping Stop-and-Check Practices and Interaction Dynamics in a Large Dutch City: Police Vulnerabilities, Thought Styles and Rituals (Police Suspicion and Discretionary Decision Making During Citizen Stops) pp. 690-709

Patrick Brown and Nathalie van Eijk

A Longitudinal Examination of Building Demolitions on Neighbourhood Crime Rates (Telling a Similar Story Twice? NCVS/UCR Convergence in Serious Violent Crime Rates in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Places (1973–2010)) pp. 710-732

James C Wo and Young-An Kim

‘There’s A Certain Group of Cops that have their Own Vendetta’: Resident Perceptions of Notorious Police Officers and ‘Cop Clockin’ in the Inner-City (Are They all the Same? Norwegian Police Officers’ Personality Characteristics and Tactics of Conflict Resolution) pp. 733-753

Marta-Marika Urbanik, Carolyn Greene and Jake Wojnarowicz

Testing Routine Activity Theory in Mexico (Natural Surveillance Characteristics of Building Openings and Relationship to Residential Burglary) pp. 754-772

Carlos Vilalta and Gustavo Fondevila

Plural Governmentalities: Governing Welfare Fraud in Sweden (Organisatoriska Vägval—En Studie av Försäkringskassans Förändringsarbete) pp. 773-791

Anders Stenström

Constituting Child-to-Parent Violence: Lessons from England and Wales (Why Study Problematizations? Making Politics Visible) pp. 792-811

Amanda Holt and Sam Lewis

Desistance in Context: Understanding the Effects of Subculture on the Desistance Process During Reintegration (Place, Space, Crime and Disorder) pp. 812-831

Shane Bell, Michelle Butler and Cheryl Lawther

When Politicization Stops Algorithms in Criminal Justice (Smart On Crime: The New Language for Prisoner Release) pp. 832-851

Pascal D König and Georg Wenzelburger

A New Approach for Researching Victims: The ‘Strength-Growth-Resilience’ Framework (The Narrative Interview: Comments on a Technique of Qualitative Data Collection’) pp. 852-871

Simon Green, Adam Calverley and Nicola O’Leary

Review Symposium: Respectable Citizens—Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes (Race, Ethnicity, and Social Change: The Democratization of Middle Class Crime) pp. 872-885

Michael L Benson, Steven F Messner, Mike Levi, Stephen Farrall and Susanne Karstedt

Erratum to: Rethinking how Technologies Harm pp. 886-886

Mark A Wood

Volume 61, issue 2, 2021

Distort, Extort, Deceive and Exploit: Exploring the Inner Workings of a Romance Fraud (Free Will in Consumer Behavior: Self-Control, Ego Depletion, and Choice) pp. 283-302

Elisabeth Carter

Organized crime in cyberspace: How traditional organized criminal groups exploit the online peer-to-peer lending market in China (Ezubao) pp. 303-324

Peng Wang, Mei Su and Jingyi Wang

‘Assisted’ facial recognition and the reinvention of suspicion and discretion in digital policing (Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification) pp. 325-344

Pete Fussey, Bethan Davies and Martin Innes

Leaving ‘home?’ Belonging, break-up and becoming in the police family (Patriarchy, Gender, Infantilisation: a Cultural Account of Police Intelligence Work in Scotland’) pp. 345-363

Colin Atkinson and Kath Murray

Measuring the dark figure of crime in geographic areas: Small area estimation from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (From Broken Windows to Busy Streets: A Community Empowerment Perspective’) pp. 364-388

David Buil-Gil, Juanjo Medina and Natalie Shlomo

Age, Period and Cohort Differences Between the Homicide Trends of Canada and the United States (Generations, Cohorts, and Social Change’) pp. 389-413

Mateus Rennó Santos, Yunmei Lu and Rachel E Fairchild

Crime prevention, swarm intelligence and stigmergy: Understanding the mechanisms of social media-facilitated community crime prevention (Swarm intelligence in cellular robotic systems) pp. 414-433

Mark A Wood and Chrissy Thompson

Exploring and Explaining Non-Compliance with Community Supervision (Auditor General, Accounts Commission) pp. 434-455

Beth Weaver, Laura Piacentini, Kristina Moodie and Monica Barry

Resistance and reproduction: an arts-based investigation into young people’s emotional responses to crime (Safety, Fear and Belonging: The Everyday Realities of Civic Identity Formation in Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne) pp. 456-475

Thomas Dodsley and Emily Gray

Abnormal bordering: control, punishment and deterrence in Mexico’s migrant detention centres (Bordered Penality: Precarious Membership and Abnormal Justice) pp. 476-496

Amalia Campos-Delgado

The effects of terrorist incidents on public worry of future attacks, views of the police and social cohesion (Contesting the New York Community: From Liminality to the “New Normal” in the Wake of September 11) pp. 497-518

Liam Fenn and Ian Brunton-Smith

Prison as temporary refuge: amplifying the voices of women detained in prison (Access to Healthcare Services During Incarceration Among Female Inmates) pp. 519-537

Sandra Bucerius, Kevin D Haggerty and David T Dunford

‘Keep Them on the Straight and Narrow’: Understanding, Selecting and Governing Subjects Through Intensive Supervision Units (The Recent Past and Near Future of Risk and/or Need Assessment) pp. 538-557

Garrett Lecoq, Dale Ballucci and Dale Spencer

Using public priorities to disentangle the dimensions of procedural justice and trustworthiness in police–citizen interactions (Speaking of Justice: A Qualitative Interview study on Perceived Procedural Justice Among Defendants in Dutch Criminal Cases) pp. 558-579

Joseph A Hamm and Scott E Wolfe

Adversarial Justice And Victims’ Rights: Reconceptualising The Role Of Sexual Assault Victims. By Mary Iliadis (Routledge, 2020, 209pp., £120 hb) (A Better Deal for Vulnerable Witnesses?) pp. 580-582

Jonathan Doak

Issues and Innovations in Prison Health Research: Methods, Issues and Innovations. Edited by Matthew Maycock, Rosie Meek and James Woodall (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 336pp. £99.99 hb) pp. 583-585

Megan Georgiou

Volume 61, issue 1, 2021

Through Scandinavia, Darkly: A Criminological Critique of Nordic Noir (The World Wants More Danish TV Than Denmark Can Handle) pp. 1-21

Keith J Hayward and Steve Hall

Drug Control Policy, Normalization, and Symbolic Boundaries in Amsterdam’s Coffee Shops (The Rationality of Sexual Offending: Testing a Deterrence/rational Choice Conception of Sexual Assault’) pp. 22-40

Timothy Dickinson and Scott Jacques

Where two ‘exceptional’ prison cultures meet: Negotiating order in a transnational prison (“Crimmigrant” Bodies and Bona Fide Travelers: Surveillance, Citizenship and Global Governance) pp. 41-60

Alison Liebling, Berit Johnsen, Bethany E Schmidt, Tore Rokkan, Kristel Beyens, Miranda Boone, Mieke Kox and An-Sofie Vanhouche

Enhancing Punishment or Repairing Harms? Perceptions of Sentencing Hate Crimes Amongst Members of a Commonly Targeted Victim Group (Measuring Attitudes About Hate: Development of the Hate Crime Beliefs Scale) pp. 61-84

Mark A Walters, Jenny L Paterson and Rupert Brown

The Meaning of Murder: Family Members in the Lives of Juvenile Homicide Offenders (On the Concept of Turning Point) pp. 85-103

Simone Jessica Deegan

Perpetration of Violence by Female Sex Workers in Papua New Guinea: ‘We will Crush their Bones’ (Women Who Kill Their Husbands: Mariticides in Contemporary Ghana) pp. 104-122

Angela Kelly-Hanku, H Worth, M Redman-MacLaren, S Nosi, R Boli-Neo, S Ase, P Hou, H Aeno, M Kupul, A Amos, S G Badman, A J Vallely, A J Hakim and Kauntim mi tu Study Team

Connecting Work To Workers’ Social Past: A Dispositional Analysis of Police Work (From Cult of Masculinity to Smart Macho: Gender Perspectives on Police Occupational Culture) pp. 123-142

David Pichonnaz

The Resilience of the Russian mafia: An Empirical Study (Criminal organizations and resilience) pp. 143-166

Federico Varese, Jakub Lonsky and Yuriy Podvysotskiy

Conflict Management in High-Stakes Illegal Drug Transactions (Upsurge of Homicides and Its Impact on Life Expectancy and Life Span Inequality in Mexico, 2005–2015) pp. 167-186

Martin Bouchard, Melvin Soudijn and Peter Reuter

Beyond Carrot and Stick: The Effect of Conflict Resolution on Crime Control in China (In School and Out of Trouble? The Minimum Dropout Age and Juvenile Crime’) pp. 187-208

Zheng Su and Xun Cao

Experimental Criminology and the Free-Rider Dilemma (From Paper Ethics to Real-world Research: Supervising Ethical Reflexivity When Taking Risks in Research With “The Risky”) pp. 209-227

Johann Koehler and Tobias Smith

Nearby Neighbourhood Influences on Adolescent Offending (Age and the Distance to Crime) pp. 228-250

Matt Vogel, Evelien M Hoeben and Wim Bernasco

Politics and Indigenous Victimization: The Case of Brazil (Bolsonaro diz que “Potencializou” Queimadas por Nova Política Para Amazônia [Bolsonaro States That he “Potentiated” the Fires With a New Policy for the Amazon]) pp. 251-271

Salo de Carvalho, David R Goyes and Valeria Vegh Weis

The Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies. Edited by Kathryn Henne and Rita Shah (Routledge, 2020, 314 pp. £180.00 hb) (For Public Sociology) pp. 272-274

Mark A Wood

Criminological Ethnography: An Introduction. By James Treadwell (Sage, 2019, 240pp, £29.99 pb) (Bars, Drugs and Football Thugs: Alcohol, Cocaine Use and Violence in the Night-time Economy Among English Football Firms) pp. 275-277

Deborah Jump

County Lines: Exploitation and Drug Dealing Among Urban Street Gangs. By Simon Harding (Bristol University Press, 2020, 319 pp, £60.00 hb) (Taxing Times: Inter-Criminal Victimization and Drug Robbery amongst the English Professional Criminal Milieu’) pp. 277-280

Craig Kelly

The Logic of Violence: An Ethnography of Dublin’s Illegal Drug Trade. By Brendan Marsh (Routledge, 2020, 144pp, £120.00 hb) pp. 280-282

Alexandra Hall