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Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands
This article will explore how the current narratives (and corresponding changes) in Dutch organised crime policing relate to ethnic profiling of...
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Cohort Profile: The Woodlawn Study
The Woodlawn Study is an epidemiologically- defined community cohort study of 1242 Black Americans (51% female and 49% male), who were in first grade...
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Cohort Profile: Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and Its Additions (PHDCN+)
The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) began in the mid-1990s, using an accelerated longitudinal design and drawing a...
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Cohort Profile: The Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study
In this profile, we describe how the Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study (ISVYOS) leveraged detailed administrative data to create...
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Eating the Other: Assimilation and Commodification of Ethnic Difference
Linked to the previous chapter’s exploration of the repurposing of the historic, this chapter explores the promotion and development of tourism in...
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Gender differences in online abuse: the case of Dutch politicians
Online abuse and threats towards politicians have become a significant concern in the Netherlands, like in many other countries across the world....
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Cohort Profile: The Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso)
The Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso) began in 2004 in response to the need for a better evidence base...
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Police Stops in Norway: Public Controversies and Minority Status
There have been ongoing debates about police disproportionately stop**, controlling, and searching ethnic minorities, due to skin color or other...
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“Like Fetching Water with a Bucket Full of Holes”: High-Profile Cases and Perceptions of System Failure
High-profile trials are often held up as emblematic of social justice causes, but this often obscures rather than clarifies justice issues for the...
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Crossing the Social Boundary: Racial and Ethnic Representation of Black Female Offenders inside South African Institutions of Incarceration
This chapter seeks to examine the major routes towards female offending and the circumstances of black female offenders in African institutions of...
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Police Stop and Search Practices in Austria
The recurrent public discourse on police stop and search practices in Austria is largely based on event-specific discussion, which is only seldom...
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Police Stops in Europe: A Citadel Under Siege, But Still Standing
As an issue for public debate, police stops are not new. In the United States, the Kerner Commission in 1968 identified controls as one of the...
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To date a “victim”: testing the stigma of the victim label through an experimental audit of dating apps
ObjectivesPublicly revealing prior victimization could produce negative reactions and could affect a self-identified victim’s initiation of romantic...
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Policing Migration, Protest, and Sovereignty: The Politicisation of Stop and Search Practices in Spain
Stop and search measures, and policing practices more generally, have rarely made their way into public and political conversations in Spain....
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Police Stops in Hungary: In the Light of Public Debates and Media Coverage
Hungarian policing is based on the continental approach, and it can be considered to be administrative activity. However, it is an important part of...
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Legitimacy and Its Consequences: With a Special Gaze at Race/Ethnicity
This chapter discusses the consequences of police legitimacy, with special attention to the confounding or conditioning impact of race and ethnicity....
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Gangland and Task Force Gain: An Alternative Account of Middle Eastern Crime in Sydney, Australia
According to prominent public commentators in Sydney, Australia, the city’s many diverse Middle Eastern communities possess extraordinary criminal...
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Predictors of Public Reactions to Armed Police: Findings from the UK
Police in England, Scotland and Wales operate largely unarmed and have done since the formation of the London Metropolitan Police in 1829. Yet,...
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Risk Assessment in Sentencing
Since the 1970s, the US criminal justice system has favored a determinate approach to sentencing involving sentencing guidelines and mandatory...
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From Flat-Packed Furniture to Fascism: Transracial Adoptees in Myths of Swedish Goodness
This chapter looks at the role the transracial adoptee has in building national myths of Swedishness and reflects on the enduring desire for, and...