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Revista Científica do Curso de Direito     Open Access  
Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UERJ     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR     Open Access  
Revista da Faculdade Mineira de Direito     Open Access  
Revista de Bioética y Derecho     Open Access  
Revista de Ciencias Forenses de Honduras     Open Access  
Revista de Ciencias Jurídicas     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista de Ciências Jurídicas     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho (Concepción)     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho (Coquimbo)     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho de la Seguridad Social, Laborum     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho de la Unión Europea     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
Revista de Derecho de la Universidad Nacional del Altiplano de Puno     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Revista de Derecho Fiscal     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho Privado     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho Privado     Open Access  
Revista de Derecho Público     Open Access  
Revista de Direito     Open Access  
Revista de Direito Agrário e Agroambiental     Open Access  
Revista de Direito Ambiental e Socioambientalismo     Open Access  
Revista de Direito Brasileira     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista de Direito da Administração Pública     Open Access  
Revista de Direito da Faculdade Guanambi     Open Access  
Revista de Direito Sanitário     Open Access  
Revista de Direito Sociais e Políticas Públicas     Open Access  
Revista de Educación y Derecho     Open Access  
Revista de Estudios de la Justicia     Open Access  
Revista de Estudios Historico-Juridicos     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista de Estudios Jurídicos y Criminológicos     Open Access  
Revista de Estudos Empíricos em Direito     Open Access  
Revista de Estudos Institucionais     Open Access  
Revista de Historia del Derecho     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista de la Facultad de Derecho     Open Access  
Revista de la Facultad de Derecho (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)     Open Access  
Revista de la Facultad de Derecho : Universidad de la República     Open Access  
Revista de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas     Open Access  
Revista de la Maestría en Derecho Procesal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista de la Secretaría del Tribunal Permanente de Revisión     Open Access  
Revista de Llengua i Dret     Open Access  
Revista de Movimentos Sociais e Conflitos     Open Access  
Revista de Processo, Jurisdição e Efetividade da Justiça     Open Access  
Revista de Sociologia, Antropologia e Cultura Jurídica     Open Access  
Revista Derecho del Estado     Open Access  
Revista Digital de Derecho Administrativo     Open Access  
Revista Direito e Práxis     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista Direito GV     Open Access  
Revista Direitos, Trabalho e Política Social     Open Access  
Revista do Curso de Direito     Open Access  
Revista do Curso de Direito do Centro Universitário Brazcubas     Open Access  
Revista dos Estudantes de Direito da UnB     Open Access  
Revista Electrónica Cordobesa de Derecho Internacional Público : RECorDIP     Open Access  
Revista Eletrônica de Direito Processual     Open Access  
Revista Eletrônica do Curso de Direito - PUC Minas Serro     Open Access  
Revista Española de Medicina Legal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Revista Estudios Jurídicos     Open Access  
Revista Estudios Socio-Jurídicos     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista Eurolatinoamericana de Derecho Administrativo     Open Access  
Revista Facultad de Jurisprudencia     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista Historia y Justicia     Open Access  
Revista Icade. Revista de las Facultades de Derecho y Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales     Full-text available via subscription  
Revista Interdisciplinar de Direito     Open Access  
Revista Internacional CONSINTER de Direito     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Revista Internacional de Derecho del Turismo     Open Access  
Revista Internacional de Doctrina y Jurisprudencia     Open Access  
Revista IUS     Open Access  
Revista Jurídica     Open Access  
Revista Jurídica : Investigación en Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista Jurídica Crítica y Derecho     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista Jurídica da UFERSA     Open Access  
Revista Jurídica de Asturias     Open Access  
Revista Jurídica de la Universidad de León     Open Access  
Revista Jurídica IUS Doctrina     Open Access  
Revista Jurídica Portucalense/Portucalense Law Journal     Open Access  
Revista Jurídica Universidad Autónoma de Madrid     Open Access  
Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Social     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Revista Latinoamericana de Derechos Humanos     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Revista Opinión Jurídica     Open Access  
Revista Pedagogía Universitaria y Didáctica del Derecho     Open Access  
Revista Persona y Derecho     Full-text available via subscription  
Revista Processus de Estudos de Gestão, Jurí­dicos e Financeiros     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Revista Quaestio Iuris     Open Access  
Revue du Droit des Religions     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Revue générale de droit     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
Revue internationale de droit pénal     Full-text available via subscription  
Revue pro právo a technologie     Open Access  
Riau Law Journal     Open Access  
Roger Williams University Law Review i     Open Access  
RUDN Journal of Law     Open Access  
Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Center Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Russian Politics & Law     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 7)
Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Santa Clara Law Review     Open Access  
Santé mentale et Droit     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
SASI     Open Access   (Followers: 8)
Science & Justice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 321)
ScienceRise : Juridical Science     Open Access  
Scientiam Juris     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Scientometrics     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 43)
SCRIPTed - A Journal of Law, Technology & Society     Open Access   (Followers: 16)
Seattle Journal for Social Justice     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Seattle University Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Seqüência : Estudos Jurídicos e Políticos     Open Access  
Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Seton Hall Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Sexual Offending : Theory, Research, and Prevention     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Singapore Academy of Law Journal     Full-text available via subscription  
Singapore Journal of Legal Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Social & Legal Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 16)
Società e diritti     Open Access  
Sociologia del diritto     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Sociological Jurisprudence Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
South African Crime Quarterly     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
South African Journal of Bioethics and Law     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
South East European University Review (SEEU Review)     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Southern Illinois University Law Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Spanish Journal of Legal Medicine     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Sri Lanka Journal of Forensic Medicine, Science & Law     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
St. John's Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Stanford Law & Policy Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
Stanford Law Review     Free   (Followers: 40)
Stanford Technology Law Review     Free   (Followers: 3)
Statute Law Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 17)
Statutes and Decisions : Laws USSR     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Strategic Direction     Hybrid Journal  
Studenckie Zeszyty Naukowe     Open Access  
Studia Canonica     Full-text available via subscription  
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia     Open Access  
Studia Iuridica Toruniensia     Open Access  
Studia z Prawa Wyznaniowego     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Studies in Social Justice     Open Access   (Followers: 8)
Suffolk University Law Review     Free  
Suhuf     Open Access  
Supremasi Hukum : Jurnal Penelitian Hukum     Open Access  
Supreme Court Review, The     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 6)
Sustainable Development Law & Policy     Open Access   (Followers: 12)
Swiss Political Science Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Sydney Law Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 14)
Syiar Hukum     Open Access  
Tanjungpura Law Journal     Open Access  
Te Mata Koi : Auckland University Law Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 6)
Teisė : Law     Open Access  
Temas Socio-Jurídicos     Open Access  
Texas Journal of Women and the Law     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Texas Law Review     Free   (Followers: 8)
The American Lawyer     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
The Journal of Legislative Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 14)
The Jurist : Studies in Church Law and Ministry     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
The Modern American     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
THEMIS - Revista de Derecho     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Theoretical Criminology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 40)
Theory and Practice of Legislation     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
Tidsskrift for erstatningsrett, forsikringsrett og trygderett     Full-text available via subscription  
Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap     Full-text available via subscription  
Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit / The Legal History Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 14)
Tilburg Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Toruńskie Studia Polsko-Włoskie     Open Access  
Touro Law Review     Open Access  
Transnational Environmental Law     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Transnational Legal Theory     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 6)
Transport Policy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 17)
Transportation Planning and Technology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Trusts & Trustees     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Tulane Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Tulsa Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
UCLA Entertainment Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
UCLA Law Review     Free   (Followers: 8)
UCLA Women's Law Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Udayana Journal of Law and Culture     Open Access  
UIR Law Review     Open Access  
Universitas : Revista de Filosofía, Derecho y Política     Open Access  
University of Baltimore Journal of Land and Development     Open Access  
University of Baltimore Law Forum     Open Access  
University of Baltimore Law Review     Open Access  
University of Chicago Law Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 19)
University of Chicago Law School Record     Open Access  
University of Cincinnati Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
University of Kansas Law Review     Open Access  
University of Massachusetts Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
University of Miami Business Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review     Open Access  
University of Miami Law Review     Free   (Followers: 3)
University of Miami National Security & Armed Conflict Law Review     Open Access  
University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
University of New Brunswick Law Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
University of New South Wales Law Journal, The     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 16)
University of Pittsburgh Law Review     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
University of Queensland Law Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 11)
University of St. Thomas Law Journal     Open Access  
University of Toronto Law Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 16)
University of Vienna Law Review     Open Access  
UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Unnes Law Journal     Open Access  
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Theoretical Criminology
Journal Prestige (SJR): 1.847
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Number of Followers: 40  
 
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      Authors: Denis Augustin Samnick
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-09-13T03:46:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231199851
       
  • Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries

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      Authors: Luiz Dal Santo, Máximo Sozzo
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      This introduction establishes the problem that the special issue addresses: punishment in global peripheries. Then, it justifies why analysing it is a timely task to examine such matters in the broader context of the growing debate on southernizing and decolonizing criminology, and more particularly, in punishment and society studies. Finally, the contents of the various articles comprised by this special issue and some of their common elements are briefly described.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-09-11T07:47:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231199758
       
  • Book Review: Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School
           Safety by Charles Bell

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      Authors: Robert J Durán
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-09-08T07:16:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231196694
       
  • Book Review: The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on
           Trial by Maya Pagni Barak

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      Authors: RV Gundur
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-09-07T07:28:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231196691
       
  • Reading penalty from the periphery

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      Authors: Máximo Sozzo
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      This article presents a critical reflection on the task of reading penality from the periphery, adding to several significant contributions in punishment and society studies. It explores the center/periphery, North/South differentiations and their uses in recent social theory as a useful tool for studying contemporary penality at a global scale. It argues that previous modes of analysis did not put relations of inequality, subordination and dependence between different regions of the world in their agenda of research, because they were overwhelmingly concerned with penal processes and dynamics in the central contexts. Instead, it calls for placing at center stage the effects of imperialism and colonialism, in their different forms throughout history, in ways of thinking and acting in relation to penality and the center/periphery. From there, the article identifies some paradoxes and risks, as well as antidotes that provide a horizon for our future research.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-09-06T07:34:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231199749
       
  • Resocialization, gender and the Global South: A critical analysis of the
           concept through women's experiences in prisons in Peru

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      Authors: Lucia Bracco Bruce
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, I critically assess the concept of resocialization through discussions with women in Santa Monica Prison, the largest women's prison in Peru in 2018 and with former women prisoners in 2021. Alongside the formal, institutional gendered and classed forms and ideas of resocialization imposed by the prison, the women themselves innovate and develop new, collective and individual pathways to change. While few entirely disrupt the traditional, gendered norms and penal expectations, in their everyday experiences and collective activities, women seek, and sometimes manage to free themselves from patriarchal mandates.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-09-04T07:02:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231197641
       
  • Understanding contradictory styles of policing

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      Authors: Fernando León Tamayo Arboleda, Mariana Valverde
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      Policing scholars have shown that logics of police governance that appear mutually exclusive can coexist in the same space and time. Within police institutions, we can find more military-like mindsets alongside democratic rationalities. We here present a novel theoretical perspective for understanding such coexistence. Instead of attempting to identify police rationalities by reference to organizational/structural factors such as subcultures, training, or firearms and other equipment, we show that contradictory logics of policing can coexist within the same force by differentiating policing's targets by space, temporality, and identity. To do so, we use the idea of “chronotope” to identify and understand how police officers decide between conflicting rationalities of policing.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-08-30T07:17:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231196564
       
  • Book Review: Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India by Mahuya
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      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-08-21T05:34:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231197287
       
  • Book Review: Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of
           Carceral Territory by James Gacek

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      Authors: Ailie Rennie
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      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-08-21T05:34:21Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231196709
       
  • Book Review: Prisons, Inmates and Governance in Latin America by
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      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-08-21T05:34:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231196374
       
  • ‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of
           inter-organizational justice in parole work

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      Authors: Micheal P Taylor, Rosemary Ricciardelli
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      We conducted semi-structured interviews with 17 parole officers working in Canadian federal correctional services to understand how their perceptions mediate well-being. Our study elucidates dimensions of interactional justice related to three elements of nonverbal communication theory (i.e. haptics, proxemics and kinesics). By centralizing the voices of our participants, we show how nonverbal communication theory mediates organizational citizenship behaviour and the multi-construct concepts of justice. Framing interpretations with how public employees interact, we reflect on the impacts to which correctional workers—as public safety employees—perceive their criminal justice employment. We argue exploration into nonverbal communication, and a deeper understanding of how correctional services govern, may provide structural accountability by closing a loop in organizational knowledge flow.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-08-21T05:33:21Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231195839
       
  • Deen and Dunya: Islam, street spirituality, crime and redemption in
           English road culture

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      Authors: Ebony Reid, Jonathan Ilan
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      This article presents ethnographic and media analysis that explores how Islam has come to shape conceptions of the material, sacred, crime and redemption in contemporary English street culture. Islam’s clear dichotomy between the mundane ‘Dunya’ and sacred ‘Deen’ shape how socio-economically marginalised, ethnic minority men make sense of the world around them. Stark inequalities have tainted the material world for the UK’s most disadvantaged, prompting them to seek redemption entirely outside it – in the world of the sacred where they can experience warmth. In analysing their experiences we highlight how paths to desistance have arguably been overlooked where analyses of Islam in street culture have focused on questions of radicalisation.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-08-14T06:02:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231184172
       
  • Risk, political security and extra-judicial penality under Xi

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      Authors: Enshen Li
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      In authoritarian regimes, risk tends to be politically positioned to reflect the ruling party's interests, needs and priorities. In this article, I focus on the People's Republic of China (China) as a case study to isolate the issue of risk, and more specifically, analyse why risk is framed as a political tenet, what becomes the evidence of such risk, and how it relates to the country's legal approach to maintaining political stability in the Xi Jinping era. This article critically scrutinizes the latest political dynamics and police practices to argue that China has formulated an extra-judicial penal jurisprudence through what I call ‘forward-leaning’ policing (前倾式警务) against those who are perceived to present a threat of political harm. By using data on 2226 cyber-dissident cases during 2014–2021, my analysis points to this ‘warrior style’ policing being an intensified application of coercive police actions, which is heavily weighted towards incarceration as the main approach to addressing political dissent, especially through administrative detention. In doing so, the judicial process that traditionally determines conviction and sentencing is either circumvented or reduced to symbolic significance.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-08-02T06:18:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231189266
       
  • ‘Come on mate, let's make you a cup of tea’: Theorising materiality
           and its impacts on detainee dignity inside police detention

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      Authors: Layla Skinns, Andrew Wooff, Lindsey Rice
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we examine detainee experiences of dignity in police detention through the lens of materiality. To do this, we draw on sociological and anthropological literature on the ‘material turn’ and its application to criminal justice settings, and a mixed-methods study of police custody in England and Wales. First, we conceptualise different dimensions of materiality in police custody. Second, we show how some forms of materiality, in conjunction with staff–detainee relationships, shape detainee dignity rooted in equal worth, privacy and autonomy. Third, we examine how the intertwining of the social and material in police custody opens up new possibilities for theorising police work. The materiality of police work is active, not just symbolic. Alongside social relations, it shapes citizen experiences of the police, including of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ forms of policing, and by implication, pain and injustice. Materiality therefore provides a further way of theorising the production of social order inside and outside police detention.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-07-21T06:07:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231184827
       
  • Dead or alive' Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the
           prospects of global abolition

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      Authors: Ron Dudai
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      There is a growing position among human rights advocates, academics and UN officials, predicting “the death of the death penalty”, and forecasting that it will completely disappear soon. This article questions and problematizes this prediction, exploring the assumptions, premises and gaps that underpin the optimistic outlook. Based on analysis of abolitionist discourse, three fallacies are identified and analyzed: a progressive fallacy, assuming the death penalty is a barbaric anachronism in the “civilized” modern world and displaying a teleological belief in its demise; a classificatory fallacy, entailing defining-down the prevalence of the death penalty through the category of “de-facto abolition”; and a functional fallacy, assuming that repudiating the death penalty as a crime-fighting tool will cause its demise, overlooking its transformation into an institution serving political-symbolic functions. In concluding, I suggest viewing the global death penalty as bifurcated: dying as an ordinary law-enforcement tool, but relatively healthy as an extraordinary political symbol.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-07-19T06:39:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231187376
       
  • Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and
           investigations of sexual assault in prison

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      Authors: Joanne Wilkinson, Jenny Fleming
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      This article draws on Incident Reporting System data from the National Offender Management Service over a ten-year period (2004–2014) and limited, small-scale interviews with four custodial managers. Pat Carlen's work (2008) on imaginary penalities provides the theoretical framework for an assessment of the reporting, recording and initial response to sexual assaults in prisons in England and Wales. The article argues that the recording of sexual assaults became part of a response to new management systems that emphasised compliance, process and audit rather than realising safety in custody. Although the data shows substantial levels of initial activity among staff it is, in essence, practice without prospect. The article suggests that outcomes generally for sexual assaults in prisons in England and Wales are uncertain. Incident reporting has become a bureaucratic process ‘or paper shadow’, which Goffman described as showing ‘what has been done by whom, what is to be done, and who last had responsibility for it’ (Goffman 1961: 73).
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-07-12T06:53:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231184825
       
  • Victim as a relative status

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      Authors: Hannah Marshall
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      This article advances a theory of the ‘relative’ nature of victim status, demonstrating that whether an individual is identified as a victim is, in part, conditional on their relationships with others. Using the example of victim identification in cases of child criminal exploitation, this article demonstrates that youth justice practitioners’ perceptions of young people's peer relationships and their relationships with their families had a significant impact on whether young people were identified as victims of child criminal exploitation. To explain this dynamic, this article then further explores the conceptual nature of victim status, focusing on its transient and finite qualities. In doing so, this article begins to address the relational gap in the study of processes of victim identification.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-07-10T08:10:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231186393
       
  • Understanding conflict penality: Dominant themes and the case of the
           Israeli–Palestinian conflict

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      Authors: Rachel Noah Hefetz
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      Confinement is a common result of conflict, and states use various mechanisms to imprison enemy fighters. This article examines practices of incarceration in times of conflict as punishment. It analyses dominant themes in how states punish those they conceive as ‘enemies’ and proposes the term ‘conflict penality’ to encapsulate commonalities in state punishment during conflict. The article then discusses conflict penality further by examining Israel's punishment of Palestinians for ‘security offences’. The article contributes to the geographical and topical expansion of punishment studies, beyond the traditional borders of national criminal justice systems of Anglo-European countries. It concludes by showing how, under the extreme political climate of conflict, states use penal power to delegitimise their opponents, yet do so through extensive normative compromises that undermine their moral authority to punish.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-06-19T03:13:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231175861
       
  • Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing
           Program in Arizona

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      Authors: Stefano Bloch, Enrique Alan Olivares-Pelayo
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      Prisoners in the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) coordinate to circumvent full racial housing integration, revealing how “race” and adherence to the “racial code” is used as an organizing concept in carceral settings that is distinct from conceptualizations of race and politics of identity within free society. In addition to providing a review of the literature on the complexity of prison racialization, we base our discussion of racialization and adherence to the racial code on our combined experience as formerly racialized and gang-affiliated inmates, as well as on insights from informal and semi-structured interviews with prisoners who have navigated attempts at racial integration as part of the ADCRR's recently adopted Integrated Housing Program.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-06-07T06:33:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231179127
       
  • Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass
           incarceration in Kazakhstan

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      Authors: Gavin Slade, Alexei Trochev, Laura Piacentini
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      Since 2000, the prison rate has declined significantly in Kazakhstan. This article demonstrates that the Kazakhstani prison service, counterintuitively, became a key advocate of prison downsizing owing to a coalescence of norms and incentives in the 1980s and 1990s. In the process, the prison service elite maintained the loyalty of rank-and-file personnel through a focus on reform to performative and quantifiable measures of penal performance – such as rankings in the World Prison Brief – while qualitative changes to the service's identity and organization remained unchanged. Prison staff remained militarized and their livelihood and professional culture continued to be independent of the existence of prisons. In conclusion, we argue that the Kazakhstani case demonstrates the need for an integrative theory of penal change that focuses on the interplay of macro-, meso- and micro-level factors in relationally shaping the norms, incentives and opportunities of penal policy actors.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-06-07T06:32:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231177020
       
  • Preventing prosecution: Narratives on proactive policing

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      Authors: Annette Vestby
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      Multi-agency partnerships and intelligence-led policing are among the proactive policing strategies used to manage and prevent crime outside the criminal justice process. Drawing on narrative criminology, this article studies the co-constitution of concrete proactive policing methods and the populations and crimes that they are directed at. Further, the article illuminates the variety of distinct approaches that are understood in the studied policing context as ‘preventive’, a term found to be applicable to any police strategy or method that does not involve investigation and is not aimed at building a criminal case for prosecution. Whereas crime prevention effects are considered desirable and achievable, at least in theory, the internal organisational aim to prevent prosecution exerts an influence on how crimes as well as the crime prevention mandate are made sense of and rendered actionable.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-05-19T07:00:01Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231173663
       
  • Book Review: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage by
           Jarrod Shanahan

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      Authors: Angélica Camacho
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-05-18T06:06:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231172810
       
  • The soundtrack of criminal careers: On music, life courses and life
           stories

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      Authors: David Rodriguez Goyes, Sveinung Sandberg
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      Music is ubiquitous in contemporary societies, and criminologists are paying increasing attention to it, asserting that it takes antisocial, prosocial and anti-establishment forms regarding criminality. Established approaches provide vital ways to understand the relationship of music and crime, but criminologists have yet to theorise the fluidity of music's roles for those who have committed criminalised acts. The life-story interviews we conducted with prisoners in Latin America reveal that music's role in people's lives changes over the course of their lives in complex ways. It also frames and influences the way they talk about their own histories. Informed by repeat interviews with four prisoners, we suggest including the concepts of life courses and life stories to facilitate understanding the complexity and multi-dimensionality of the relationship between crime and music. We also demonstrate and discuss how life courses and life stories are intertwined.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-05-15T06:56:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231173665
       
  • Book Review: Macrocriminology and Freedom by John Braithwaite

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      Authors: Richard Rosenfeld
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-05-15T05:50:21Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231173746
       
  • Book Review: Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order
           Crisis by Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes
           and Diana Johns

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      Authors: Bonar Buffam
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-05-05T05:31:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231172830
       
  • Foreigners’ crime and punishment: Punitive application of immigration
           law as a substitute for criminal justice

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      Authors: Jukka Könönen
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      Notwithstanding claims about the emergence of ‘crimmigration’ systems, immigration law and criminal law entail two different sets of instruments for authorities to control foreign nationals. Drawing on an analysis of removal orders for foreign offenders in Finland, this article demonstrates that significant administrative powers in immigration enforcement are employed largely autonomously from the criminal justice system. Immigration law enables the police and immigration officials to issue removal orders based on fines or penal orders for (suspected) minor offences, without obtaining criminal convictions. In addition to disproportionate administrative sanctions for foreign nationals, removal orders involve a preventive rationale targeting future risks for the society based on the assumed continuation of criminal activities. While criminal courts adjudicate all severe offences, punitive application of immigration law enables authorities to bypass criminal justice procedures and safeguards, resulting in a distinct, administrative punitive system for visiting third-country nationals.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-05-04T05:25:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231171602
       
  • Book Review: The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk
           Management in Johannesburg by Martin J. Murray

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      Authors: Anna Di Ronco
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-05-03T06:30:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231172381
       
  • Mass incarceration in times of economic growth and inclusion' Three steps
           to understand contemporary imprisonment in Brazil

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      Authors: Luiz Dal Santo
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      Mass incarceration is a phenomenon that emerged in the USA in the 1970s. Since then, this pattern of imprisonment has taken shape in all other continents. Nowadays, many ‘core countries’ have been able to neutralize it and, in some cases, even reverse it. This, however, is not the case in Latin America. In this region, the increase of imprisonment rates has remained intense even in times of economic growth, in contrast to the main theories on punishment developed in the Global North. Drawing on primary and secondary data, I analyse the Brazilian case and indicate three necessary steps to understand contemporary imprisonment in the country. This article is structured in three main sections. I argue first that Brazilian criminologists have asked the wrong question: rather than asking why we have high imprisonment rates now, we should first understand why we had imprisonment rates comparable to Nordic countries up to the 1980s. I then argue we should stop uncritically reproducing northern theories and understand the local conditions of possibility for mass incarceration in times of social inclusion. I finally claim we should change the focus on the players: rather than pointing out to the Executive and Legislative dimensions, we ought to better understand internal struggles in the criminal justice system, considering in particular the pivotal role of judges in the Brazilian mass incarceration.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-04-26T06:43:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231169727
       
  • Book Review: Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers
           by Ron Dudai

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      Authors: Eugene McLaughlin
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-04-21T06:47:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231168691
       
  • Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday
           Policing in Postcolonial Karachi by Zoha Waseem

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      Authors: Amber Lakhani
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-04-17T07:47:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231169312
       
  • The boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military
           incarceration

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      Authors: Smadar Ben-Natan
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      This article extends the study of carceral expansion—currently encompassing criminal, civil, and immigration enforcement—by examining the role of military (and, within that, extraterritorial) incarceration. Drawing on the case of military incarceration of civilians in Israel/Palestine, which since 1967 has accounted for between one-third and one-half of the entire prisoner population, it demonstrates the consolidation of a single carceral apparatus that normalizes military detention and incorporates non-citizens detained in extraterritorial locations. Involving both institutional and spatial dimensions, the article illuminates how the boundaries of the carceral state are relatively independent of formal sovereign borders, legal categories, and institutional arrangements, identifying the military as a carceral state agency. The study thus suggests a framework for an integrated study that accounts for the actual scope of the carceral state and its paradoxical modes of exclusionary inclusion.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-04-04T06:42:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231163109
       
  • Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of
           Torture by Victoria Canning

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      Authors: Ergün Cakal
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-03-30T04:29:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231166495
       
  • Dirty money and financial inequality in North Philadelphia

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      Authors: Jackson Smith
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      Between 1984 and 2016, Philadelphia prosecutors seized over US$86 million dollars, most of it in the form of cash taken from Black and Latinx Philadelphians. These seizures of dirty money were realized through civil forfeiture, which has the unique capacity to enrich municipal law enforcement agencies while dispossessing alleged participants in the drug trade. As a civil intervention into the illicit narcotics trade, cash forfeiture is characteristic of the carceral state's increasing use of non-criminal sanctions. In this essay I argue that Philadelphia police and prosecutors mobilize cash forfeiture to assert social control over the interfaces between licit and illicit economies in Philadelphia's poorest and most racially segregated neighborhoods. Drawing from historical accounts of the racial capitalist state's disciplinary oversight of the monetary system, I show how cash forfeiture operates through a racializing framework of socio-moral remediation that reproduces the harms associated with longstanding financial inequality in these neighborhoods.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-03-20T08:06:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231162608
       
  • Penal duress in (post)colonial Myanmar

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      Authors: Andrew M. Jefferson, Tomas Max Martin
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores the notion and nature of penal duress, illustrated through analysis of martial, penal practice in Myanmar. We examine prison labour and pone-san (a demeaning, defamatory and coercive control of prisoners’ bodies) to show how these two enduring practices of domination, subjection and constraint – understood, drawing on Ann Laura Stoler, as relations of duress – animate penal practice in powerful, productive and problematic ways. Resisting the urge to view imperial forms through a peripheralising northern lens, or solely in terms of continuity and discontinuity, we pursue an understanding of penal duress as a ubiquitous, yet distinctly situated and relational phenomenon that has taken form through local colonial experiences and their afterlives. In sum, we attend to ‘processes of partial inscriptions, modified displacements and amplified recuperations’ to discuss how relations of penal duress are endured and enduring in Myanmar today.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-03-20T08:05:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231162602
       
  • The capitalization of crime in the city of real estate

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      Authors: Eilat Maoz, Meirav Aharon Gutman
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores how the relationship between crime and property values is reshaped by the transformation of houses into investible assets. Departing from neoclassical economics of crime, we introduce the notion of “capitalization of crime” to illustrate how crime is utilized to generate forward-looking financial expectations and shape housing markets in gentrifying neighborhoods. The study, based in Haifa, Israel, combines quantitative and qualitative data to demonstrate how investors and renters each play a role in constructing the value of crime by capitalizing crime in opposite directions. First, using a geographic information system to map crime alongside real-estate prices, we show that the effect of crime on property values is offset by prospects of future gentrification, thereby contributing to housing speculation. Second, using digital ethnography, we show how renters use “crime” to dampen investor expectations, reduce rents, and delay their displacement. Thus, our study adds to the established body of critical criminology, which examines the manipulation of crime for economic and political gains. It further contributes to emergent debates in urban criminology by explicating how the financialization of rental housing is remaking urban politics of crime and criminalization.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-03-20T08:04:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231161595
       
  • Gendering the carceral web: Public sector reform, technology and digital
           (in)justice

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      Authors: Gemma Birkett
      Abstract: Theoretical Criminology, Ahead of Print.
      The UK government's Transforming Our Justice System agenda represents an emerging system of penal governance. Its cumulative impact, manifested through the mainstreaming of virtual hearings, a system of automatic online convictions and the Single Justice Procedure is a story yet to tell, with the potential impact on marginalised women simply a footnote. Such women, well-documented victims of the legal aid cuts as well as the digital divide, must comply with and negotiate the requirements of the carceral web alone. Pursuance of the reforms, representing the next instalment in the neo-liberal justice agenda, exposes another example of life at the penal–welfare nexus. This precarious territory has burgeoned since government-imposed austerity, with implications for self-criminalisation, net-widening and social justice. Reforms couched in the language of ‘efficiency’ and ‘common sense’ are likely to run in direct opposition to what marginalised women might need (or respond well to) and may jeopardise official reductionist strategies.
      Citation: Theoretical Criminology
      PubDate: 2023-02-13T06:33:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/13624806231151657
       
 
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