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Radicalisation and de-radicalisation of social movements: The comeback of political Islam?
Forty years after Mathiesen wrote the ‘politics of abolition’ his work can enhance our understanding about radicalisation and de-radicalisation of...
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The Role of the Academe in Match-Fixing
The academe, otherwise referred to as the University, has a long and rich history which is renowned for its contributions in the areas of research,...
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Do Retributive and Restorative Justice Processes Address Different Symbolic Concerns?
In support of a unitary conceptualization of retributive justice (justice through the imposition of punishment) and restorative justice (justice...
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Doing Justice: Perceptions of Gender Neutrality in the Jury Selection Process
There is a paucity of research on juries in general including the jury selection process. Very little of it examines the effect of gender. This study...
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Long-Term, Maximum-Security Punishment
The general public knows practically nothing about the prison and appears to be little concerned about how it is managed and how prisoners are...
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Peer Victimization
Besides the multitude of ways in which adults harm children, children everywhere are frequently physically, emotionally, and psychologically...
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Develo** a common law of animal welfare: offences against animals and offences against persons compared
Most animal welfare/suffering cases heard by the courts focus only on the facts: did the defendant, as a matter of fact, do those things with which...
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It Counts, But Only When It Does Not Matter? Evolving Standards of Decency and the Law of Other Countries
The opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court consistently include assessment of the evolving standards of decency (ESD) as a central component of the more...
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The Narrative Dimension
We begin by discussing legal narratives, and overall narrative plausibility. We consider approaches from the New Evidence scholarship, discuss...
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Accounting for Social, Spatial, and Textual Interconnections
This is a chapter about what link analysis and data mining can do for criminal investigation. It is a long and complex chapter, in which a variety of...
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Qualitative Research and Intersectionality
Much of the extant criminological literature on the relationships between race, class, gender, and crime has treated these demographic...
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Postscript
Why should we, as scholars of law-in-action, bother about procedure? Why not focus on conversation, interaction, or social situation as so many...
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Between the ‘Home’ and ‘Institutional’ Worlds: Tensions and Contradictions in the Practice of House Arrest
In this paper we argue that the theoretical work of Goffman (
1961 ) on “total institutions,” Foucault’s (1977 ) insights into the workings of... -
Low-intensity community supervision for low-risk offenders: a randomized, controlled trial
The Philadelphia Low-Intensity Community Supervision Experiment provides evidence on the effects of lowering the intensity of community supervision...
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Self-Regulatory Approaches to White-Collar Crime: The Importance of Legitimacy and Procedural Justice
Securing employee adherence to workplace rules and company policies is a key antecedent of successful functioning within organizations. It is...
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Philosophical Criminology and Complex Systems Science: Towards a Critical Theory of Justice
Chaos theory (or complex systems science, CSS) has made considerable inroads across a range of social science disciplines, including criminology....
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Delivering security through networks: Surveying the relational landscape of security managers in an urban setting
The concept of network is fast becoming ubiquitous. Its broad appeal lies in its ability to account for the present multiplicity of institutional,...
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How to Develop More Effective Policies Against Crime: Some Reflections on Drugs and Crime Research in an International Context
This paper offers some reflections on how to develop more effective policies against crime, drawing on more than 10 years of research experience on...
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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Robbed: Inequality in U.S. Criminal Victimization, 1974–2000
This paper investigates inequality in criminal victimization in the United States over the past quarter century. By analyzing data from the National...