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Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation
When the dominant crime narrative embraced by members of the public runs contrary to evidence or exaggerates the incidence or mischaracterises the...
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The Role of Intuition in Expressing Support for Harsh Criminal Justice Policy
Despite being largely ineffective in producing long-term reductions in crime, harsh criminal justice policies receive continuing high levels of...
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Haunting the Margins: Excavating EU Migrants as the ‘Social Ghosts’ of Our Time
Using the spectral as a conceptual metaphor, we explore narratives within Sweden’s welfare institutions and policy discourses surrounding vulnerable...
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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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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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Policy and public communication methods among U.S. state prisons during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
BackgroundThroughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, our research team monitored and documented policy changes in United States (U.S.)...
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“Incitement of insurrection”: Criminogenic antecedents and potential policy responses
On January 6 th , 2021, a mob of more than 2,000 Trump supporters stormed the Capital—at his urging—in an effort to halt counting of electoral college...
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The Social Organization of Pervasive Penality in the Lives of Young People Experiencing Homelessness
Research affirms that municipal laws regulate and criminalize activities associated with homelessness. Research has yet to explore how these laws...
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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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#WayfairGate and the Growth of Sex Trafficking Panics Across Social Media
Moral panics around the issue of sex trafficking are not new, as human trafficking itself has roots in the moral concern over the prostitution of...
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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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State Policy Dilemmas
This chapter provides a conversation with Brendan McQuade, an activist scholar, and two police trainers, Jeffrey Goltz and Jhon Sanabria. Brendan...
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Exploring Overlaps of Cultural Property Crime with Organised Crime in EU Policy Documents
In recent years the interrelation of the trafficking of cultural property with other forms of organised crime has gained prominence in EU policies on...
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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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Punishment in Slovenia: Seventy Years of Penal Policy Development
This paper focuses on a comprehensive study of penal policy in Slovenia in the last 70 years, providing an analysis of statistical data on crime,...
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Forecasting and Criminal Justice Policy and Practice
We address the organization of criminal justice forecasting and implications for its use in criminal justice policymaking. We argue that the use of...
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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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Multi-sector stakeholder consensus on tackling the complex health and social needs of the growing population of people leaving prison in older age
BackgroundAs populations age globally, cooperation across multi-sector stakeholders is increasingly important to service older persons, particularly...
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Social Support During Incarceration: Predictors of External Social Support for Incarcerated Individuals
When individuals reenter their communities after incarceration, they frequently have difficulties in meeting their basic needs. Social support can...
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Responding to Online Hate—Activism Through Policy
This chapter presents how research can be a driver for activism through policy change. First, the chapter explores the role of activist research in...