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Is Machine Learning Really Unsafe and Irresponsible in Social Sciences? Paradoxes and Reconsideration from Recidivism Prediction Tasks
The paper addresses some fundamental and hotly debated issues for high-stakes event predictions underpinning the computational approach to social...
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of procedural justice and legitimacy in policing: the effect of social identity and social contexts
ObjectivesTo systematically review the effect of social identity and social contexts on the association between procedural justice and legitimacy in...
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Public Criminology in the Australian Higher Education Classroom: Bringing Criminology and History Together Through Citizen Social Science
Between 2020 and 2022, University of Tasmania criminology students and University of Newcastle history students completed an exercise in primary...
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Critical Policing Studies: Toward a “Fully Social” Framework
Despite mass protests, demands to defund the police, and a range of institutional reforms, historic patterns of abuse and violence in US policing...
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Develo** and Conducting an SSO Study: A How-to-Guide for Social Science Research
This chapter outlines the different steps of the systematic social observation (SSO) procedure. We discuss these steps chronologically: determining...
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Say NOPE to social disorganization criminology: the importance of creators in neighborhood social control
Despite decades of research into social disorganization theory, criminologists have made little progress develo** community programs that reduce...
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Uncovering the social impact of digital steganalysis tools applied to cybercrime investigations: a European Union perspective
BackgroundEuropean Union (EU) research on cybersecurity is actively develo** more efficient digital steganalysis techniques aimed at uncovering...
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The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal
This article proposes a visual and sensory methodology useful to the study of environmental victimization from the perspective of people exposed to...
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Criminal justice reform guided by evidence: social control works—The Academy of Experimental Criminology 2022 Joan McCord Lecture
ObjectiveJoan McCord was an experimental criminologist who advocated for evaluating social programs for efficacy, benefits, and potential harms to...
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Social Movement Theories
Ongoing protests in Iran can be understood through various social movement theories which examine collective action in both pre- and post-internet...
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The Social Construction of Human Trafficking Victims in the Russian Media
The media contribute to the development and adoption of human trafficking legislation as they frame victims of human trafficking from different...
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Punitiveness toward social distancing deviance in the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from two national experiments
ObjectiveThis study sought to understand how the public perceived new offenses in a time of public health crisis—social distancing deviance in the...
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Criminology and Crime Science in the Arab World
Throughout most of the twentieth century, Western criminological thought was preoccupied by theories of modern criminology, which were concerned with...
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Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method
Heteroglossia refers to the presence of multiple voices and views – exchanges that are central to the academic project (Bakhtin, The dialogic...
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Too Lucky to Be a Victim? An Exploratory Study of Online Harassment and Hate Messages Faced by Social Media Influencers
Influencers are persistently exposed through social media. Once almost unapproachable, celebrities are now open to daily interaction with the public....
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Decolonizing Zemiology: Outlining and Remedying the Blindness to (Post)colonialism Within the Study of Social Harm
This paper hosts the first meaningful dialogue between two important epistemic movements for criminology: zemiology and decolonisation. I identify...
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Conclusion: The Abolition Question for Medical Science
The concluding chapter to Pandemic Police Power synthesizes the ground covered, showing how each element singled out in the preceding chapters sets...
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Policing in the Light of Social Dominance Theory and the Social Distance Theory of Power
Social dominance theory (SDT) and social distance theory of power (SDTP) have been established as theoretically grounded and empirically validated...
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Strange Bedfellows: Austerity and Social Justice at the Neoliberal University
This article examines some aspects of the operation of universities under neoliberalism in Canada and the USA. It begins with a short overview of...
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The Holocaust and Disciplinary Myopia in Criminology and Sociology: Social injury as a response to the challenges of legal formalism
Criminological and sociological discourse recognizes the impact of structure on crime, but generally eschews the consideration of structural damage...
