Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal
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Criminology & Criminal Justice Journal
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Official account of Criminology and Criminal Justice, the peer-reviewed journal of the British Society of Criminology.
Publishing cutting-edge research on crime, justice, and penal policy.
Edited by leading scholars.
📚 Published by SAGE.
(2/2)📉 This article examines how managerialism and responsibilisation undermine peer-led induction in open prisons—muting experiential knowledge and eroding institutional learning.

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November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice
“Hollowing out peer support: Knowledge conversion in hostile knowledge environments of open prisons”
By Ed Schreeche-Powell (1/2)
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Criminology & Criminal Justice is open for submissions — from the critical to the creative, the empirical to the theoretical.

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November 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
📢 Criminology & Criminal Justice is now accepting papers!

We welcome original research that challenges, deepens, or redefines debates in criminology, criminal justice, and beyond.

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November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
(2/2)This article critically examines how English and Welsh sentencing guidelines frame alcohol-related offending—revealing how intoxication is problematised and linked to increased blame, danger, and culpability.

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November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2)
“Exploring ‘problematisations’ of alcohol intoxication in sentencing”
By Carly Lightowlers
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
(2/2)🕳️ This article explores the post-release experience as a “necropolitical abyss” marked by precarity, stigma, and ontological insecurity—offering a powerful theoretical intervention into re-entry studies.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2)
“‘Falling from a cliff-face’ into the necropolitical abyss: Experiences of those with sexual convictions leaving prison”
By Lynn Saunders, @MJordanBirkhead & Edward J. Wright
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
(2/2)💻 This article introduces the Canute paradox—highlighting how platform power is often overstated in combating cyberdeviance, and calls for collaborative, system-wide responses to online harm.
@DrBleaks

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November 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🌊 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2)
“Holding back the tides? Applying the Canute paradox to the regulation of cyberdeviance”
By @drbleaks.bsky.social.
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
(2/2)👮‍♀️ This study explores how co-located support services in a UK police station shaped survivor experiences and professional collaboration in domestic abuse response.
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Professional and survivor perspectives on a co-located early domestic abuse intervention in a police station: A qualitative study - Eve ZQ Wang, Grace Carter, Jayne Ross, Rachel Chapman, Tim Healey, M...
The quantity and complex nature of reported and recorded domestic abuse incidents has continued to grow, demanding more efficient and effective support for surv...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2)
“Professional and survivor perspectives on a co-located early domestic abuse intervention in a police station: A qualitative study”
Eve ZQ Wang, Grace Carter,Jayne Ross,Rachel Chapman,
Tim Healey,Maxine Whelan
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Featured topics include:
Criminology as a historical explanation
Crime control & periodisation
Victorian fraudsters & deviance
Narrative ownership in victim experiences
Women offenders & continuity of care
Procedural justice theory revisited
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October 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📚 We’re rewinding to 2019… (1/2)
Vol. 19, Issue 4 featured a thematic section on:
The Uses of Historical Criminology: Explanation, Characterisation and Context
Guest contributions explore historical methods, periodisation, and the role of imagination in criminological inquiry.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Topics include:
• Queer utopias & carceral protectionism
• Gender punitivism & identity politics
• Queering prison, desistance & deviance
• Sex, drugs & normativity
• Homosexual criminalisation & politics of apology

Still essential reading in 2025.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🌈 We’re going back to 2020... (1/2)
Criminology & Criminal Justice Vol. 20, Issue 5
📘 Special Issue: Queer Theory and Criminology
This powerful issue challenged carceral logics, gender normativity, and the limits of mainstream criminology through a queer theoretical lens.
October 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🔍 Topics include:
• U.S. penal exceptionalism
• Criminal background checks in the Netherlands
• The Qianke system in China
• Post-conviction barriers in Canada & Argentina
• Normative critiques of post-sentence discrimination

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October 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
📘 Special Issue Reminder(1/2)
Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records
Criminology & Criminal Justice Vol. 23, Issue 4
🗓️ September 2023

This cross-national issue examines how criminal records impact people’s lives beyond punishment—shaping access to jobs, rights, and inclusion worldwide.
October 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
🔹 Prison education & ethics
🔹 Public perceptions of police appearance
🔹 Epistemic injustice & victimisation
🔹 Death penalty support in the Americas
🔹 Judicial decision-making in Hong Kong
🔹 Environmental & space-focused green criminology

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Criminology & Criminal Justice - Volume 25, Number 4
Table of contents for Criminology & Criminal Justice, 25, 4
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October 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📢 Don’t miss our current issue! (1/2)
Criminology & Criminal Justice Vol. 25, Issue 4 is now live,bringing together global research on:
🔹 Prisoner re-entry
🔹 Restorative justice
🔹 Remote parole hearings
🔹 Professionalisation in criminal justice
📖 Explore the issue: journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/25/4
Criminology & Criminal Justice - Volume 25, Number 4
Table of contents for Criminology & Criminal Justice, 25, 4
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October 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Key themes:
🌍 Transnational & localised networks
🧭 Reframing organised crime’s conceptual geography
🏛️ State, corporate & criminal entanglements
📌 Deep, critical case studies from diverse global contexts
📖 Explore the full issue: journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/25/1
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October 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🧵 Special Issue Spotlight (1/2)
📘 New Geographies of Organised Crime
🗓️ Criminology & Criminal Justice, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (Feb 2025)
Guest Editors: Ella Cockbain, Patricio Estévez-Soto & Felia Allum

This special issue rethinks how organised crime operates—across borders, sectors, and definitions.
October 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
📢 New Series
We’re spotlighting the special issues of Criminology & Criminal Justice.
Each week, we’ll feature a themed issue that brings together powerful work at the frontlines of criminological research.
🧵 Follow along below. #CCJSpecialIssues #Criminology #CCJJournal
October 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice:
“The situational character of prison violence: An exploratory qualitative study”
By Dante B.C. Hoek, Ard J. Barends, Maarten J.J. Kunst & colleagues

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September 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice:
“‘It’s not going to be tech that gets us out of it’: Modern slavery and digitisation in fashion supply networks”
By Jon Davies, Rose Broad, Michelle Corallo & colleagues

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September 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM