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Imaginary Penalities. Edited by Pat Carlen (Cullompton, Devon: Willan, 2008, 332pp. {pound}25.00)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Ruggiero, V. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Victims of Crime: Policy and Practice in Criminal Justice. By Matthew Hall (Devon: Willan, 2009, 262pp. {pound}38.00 hb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Walklate, S. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

A History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present. By Pieter Spierenburg (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7456-4378-6. {pound}17.99)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Seal, L. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

The Currency of Justice: Fines and Damages in Consumer Societies. By Pat O'Malley (Abingdon and New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009, ix + 187pp. {pound}22.99)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Carlen, P. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Unequal Crime Decline: Theorising Race, Urban Inequality and Criminal Violence. By Karen F. Parker (New York: NYU, 2008, 163pp. {pound}35.50)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Antonopoulos, G. A., Papanicolaou, G. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Out There/in Here: Masculinitiy, Violence and Prisoning. By Elizabeth Comack (Halifax Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2008, 160pp. {pound}12.26)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Earle, R. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Policing and Crime Control in Post-Apartheid South Africa. By Anne-Marie Singh (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2008, 158pp. {pound}50.00)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Dixon, B. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions. Edited by M. O'Neill, M. Marks and A.-M. Singh (Amsterdam: Elsevier JAI Press, 2007, 393pp. {pound}59.00 hb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Stenning, P. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Mothers for Justice?: Gender and Campaigns against Miscarriages of JusticeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Miscarriages of justice are often only exposed through the extra-judicial activities of parties determined to fight for a particular cause, involving those closest to victims of miscarriages of justice. This paper examines the role of women, and particularly of mothers, in such justice campaigns and the extent to which there is a gendered dimension to campaigns against injustice. Based on interviews with those closely associated with justice campaigns, the paper argues that women tend to occupy a special, powerful place in campaigns against miscarriages of justice, one interwoven with familial relationships. The paper proc...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Charman, S., Savage, S. P. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

What Works for Women?: A Comparison of Community-Based General Offending Programme CompletionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study uses multivariate statistical techniques on national data for 2006–07 to examine the characteristics significantly predicting completion rates for General Offending Programmes. In particular, it uses criminogenic factors from the OASys risk-assessment tool to identify the features predicting compliance, as captured by the Interim Accredited Programmes System (IAPS), and determine whether they differ between men and women. The results show significant variation between the women and men in the predictors of programme completion. The practical implications of these for research, policy and practice are discu...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Martin, J., Kautt, P., Gelsthorpe, L. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Reconsidering the Theory on Adolescent-Limited and Life-Course Persistent Anti-Social BehaviourEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents a critical review of the taxonomic theory of adolescent-limited and life-course persistent anti-social behaviour (Moffitt 1993) and its empirical evidence. This influential theory suggests that there are two qualitatively distinct types of offenders that require distinct theoretical explanations. Moreover, the empirical evidence for the typology is considered to be strong, at least by some. I discuss along three lines: first, to what extent the taxonomy should be interpreted literally; second, whether the suggested mechanisms are likely to produce the hypothesized groups; third, whether some of the mo...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Skardhamar, T. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Embodying Uncertainty?: Understanding Heightened Risk Perception of Drink 'Spiking'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is a stark contrast between heightened perceptions of risk associated with drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) and a lack of evidence that this is a widespread threat. Through surveys and interviews with university students in the United Kingdom and United States, we explore knowledge and beliefs about drink-spiking and the linked threat of sexual assault. University students in both locations are not only widely sensitized to the issue, but substantial segments claim first- or second-hand experience of particular incidents. We explore students’ understanding of the DFSA threat in relationship to their attit...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Burgess, A., Donovan, P., Moore, S. E. H. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Public Health and Fear of Crime: A Prospective Cohort StudyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Public insecurities about crime are widely assumed to erode individual well-being and community cohesion. Yet, robust evidence on the link between worry about crime and health is surprisingly scarce. This paper draws on data from a prospective cohort study (the Whitehall II study) to show a strong statistical effect of mental health and physical functioning on worry about crime. Combining with existing evidence, we suggest a feedback model in which worry about crime harms health, which, in turn, serves to heighten worry about crime. We conclude with the idea that, while fear of crime may express a whole set of social and p...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Jackson, J., Stafford, M. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Governing Through Anti-social Behaviour: Regulatory Challenges to Criminal JusticeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article argues that the language of regulation has been appropriated and deployed to cloak and legitimize ambitious (yet ambiguous) bouts of hyper-active state interventionism. These may have more to do with quests to demonstrate government's capacity to be seen to be doing something tangible about public anxieties than with meaningful behavioural change. Rather, regulatory ideas are being used to circumvent and erode established criminal justice principles, notably those of due process, proportionality and special protections traditionally afforded to young people. Consequently, novel technologies of control have res...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Crawford, A. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Community Policing or Zero Tolerance?: Preferences of Police Officers from 22 Countries in TransitionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study is the first of a two paper series on the relationship between democratization and police attitudes, preferences and behaviours. This study reports the results of a pilot study of 315 police supervisors from 22 transitioning nations asking about their preferences towards two different styles of crime prevention—community-oriented policing and zero tolerance approaches. The results indicate that the officers from countries more democratically consolidated tend to have stronger relative preferences towards community-oriented policing over zero tolerance styles. (Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues)
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Lum, C. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Social Control in the Face Of Security and Minority Threats: The Effects of Terrorism, Minority Threat and Economic Crisis on the Law Enforcement System in IsraelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study focuses on a combination of security, minority and economic threats that occurred concurrently during the Second Intifada in Israel and their impact on social control. The Israeli situation provides a unique opportunity for implementing the natural experiment approach. This study was based on an interrupted time-series analysis of a restricted time period, namely 1995–2005. ARMA models were used to examine the effects of Intifada period, terrorist attacks, unemployment rates and ethnic origin on pre-trial detention rates. The findings support the minority threat hypothesis. A strong and statistically signi...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Sela-Shayovitz, R. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Aggravating Racism and Elusive MotivationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Since the implementation of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, courts in England and Wales have seen an increase in the number of racially aggravated charges brought before them. However, the extent to which racism is central, rather than ancillary to, the offences prosecuted under this law remains contested, both in individual legal cases and in criminological writing about hate and bias-motivated crime. Using the narrative accounts of one man convicted of perpetrating a racially aggravated assault, this article outlines how important it is to engage with the complexity of motivation as it is perceived by offenders and the ...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Gadd, D. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

'I'm a Muslim, but I'm not a Terrorist': Victimization, Risky Identities and the Performance of SafetyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Since the events of 11 September 2001, Muslim minority groups have been subjected to pervasive scrutiny in the United Kingdom. The 7 July 2005 attacks have led to young Muslims’ being party to intensified modes of monitoring, surveillance and intervention by crime and security agencies. The introduction of multiple forms of counter-terrorism regulation by the state has been underpinned by discourses of (in)security, which have defined British Muslims en bloc as a risky, suspect population. Against this wider backdrop, this paper presents the findings from a study investigating the effects of these processes on young ...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Mythen, G., Walklate, S., Khan, F. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

'We Are Going to Rape You and Taste Tutsi Women': Rape during the 1994 Rwandan GenocideEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Over the past decades, scholars have paid greater attention to sexual violence, in both theorization and empirical analysis. One area that has been largely ignored, however, is sexual violence during times of armed conflict. This paper examines the nature and dynamics of sexual violence as it occurred during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Drawing upon testimonies given to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), descriptions of rapes—both singular and mass—were qualitatively analysed. In general, three broad types of assaults were identified: opportunistic assaults, which seemed to be a product of the...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - October 15, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Mullins, C. W. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Justice in a Time of TerrorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article looks at aspects of the war on terror from the perspective of a concern to defend the ideal of justice. Under headings of justice and legality, the lesser evil, the threat to liberal values, and justice and the other, war and occupation, torture, curtailment of civil liberties and the extent to which we each have a responsibility to protect the rights of those who are not our fellow citizens and who do not appear to share our values and our commitments to rights and freedoms are discussed. Recent writings by Michael Walzer on just and unjust wars, Michael Ignatieff on the use of the lesser evil, Jacques Derrid...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - August 17, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Hudson, B. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Exceptionalism and the 'War on Terror': Criminology Meets International RelationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article argues that there is value in engaging with the IR debates on the exception. From the perspective of IR, the exception makes possible different insights about the dialectics between law and crime by unpacking the constitutive role of the politics of fear, the importance of the ‘international’ and the transformed relationship to the future. It also exposes the deteriorating effects of the ‘war on terror’ on justice, democracy and social transformation. (Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues)
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - August 17, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Aradau, C., van Munster, R. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Prison Islam in the Age of Sacred TerrorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research indicates that Islam is the fastest growing religion among prisoners in Western nations. In the United States, roughly 240,000 inmates have converted to the faith since the 9/11 attacks. According to federal law enforcement, Saudi-backed Wahhabi clerics have targeted these prisoners for terrorist recruitment. The present research examines this claim from several different perspectives. First, it reviews the literature on prisoner conversions to Islam and concludes that there are opposing viewpoints on the matter. One side of the debate takes an alarmist stance, arguing that prisons have become incubators for Islam...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - August 17, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Hamm, M. S. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

From THE 'Old' to the 'New' Suspect Community: Examining the Impacts of Recent UK Counter-Terrorist LegislationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The ‘war on terror’ has emerged as the principal conflict of our time, where ‘Islamic fanaticism’ is identified as the greatest threat to Western liberal democracies. Within the United Kingdom, and beyond, this political discourse has designated Muslims as the new ‘enemy within’—justifying the introduction of counter-terrorist legislation and facilitating the construction of Muslims as a ‘suspect community’. In this paper, we develop Hillyard's (1993) notion of the ‘suspect community’ and evidence how Muslims have replaced the Irish as the main focus of the ...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - August 17, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Pantazis, C., Pemberton, S. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Pre-Crime and Counter-Terrorism: Imagining Future Crime in the 'War on Terror'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article looks at pre-crime in the context of counter-terrorism. Pre-crime links coercive state actions to suspicion without the need for charge, prosecution or conviction. It also includes measures that expand the remit of the criminal law to include activities or associations that are deemed to precede the substantive offence targeted for prevention. The trend towards anticipating risks as a driving principle in criminal justice was identified well before 2001. However, risk and threat anticipation have substantially expanded in the context of contemporary counter-terrorism frameworks. Although pre-crime counter-terr...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - August 17, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: McCulloch, J., Pickering, S. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

The Transformation of Violence in IraqEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article explores the connections between various forms of organized political violence and ostensibly private, non-political violence in post-invasion Iraq, focusing on gender-based violence and the links between militias and organized crime. We argue that, as in other civil wars, much of the violence is ‘dual-purpose’, simultaneously serving private and political goals, and that despite a decline in violence since 2007, the situation created by the overthrow of the previous dictatorship remains extremely dangerous. (Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues)
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - August 17, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Green, P., Ward, T. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

IntroductionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - August 17, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Hudson, B., Walters, R. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

A Deafening Silence: Hidden Violence against Women and Children. By Patrizia Romito (Bristol: Policy Press, 2008, 223pp. {pound}52.00 hb, {pound}19.99 pb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Westmarland, N. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Reluctant Gangsters: The Changing Face of Youth Crime. By John Pitts (Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2008, 176pp. {pound}22.00 pb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Muncie, J. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Restorative Justice, Self-interest and Responsible Citizenship. By Lode Walgrave (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2008, 240pp. {pound}25.99 pb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Karstedt, S. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies (The Hamlyn Lectures 2007). By N. Lacey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 235pp.)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Morgan, R. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Sexual Assault and the Justice Gap: A Question of Attitude. By Jennifer Temkin and Barbara Krahe (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008, xi + 257pp. {pound}30.00 pb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: McAlinden, A.-M. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

ASBO Nation: The Criminalisation of Nuisance. Edited by Peter Squires(Bristol: Policy Press, 2008, 383pp. {pound}24.99 pb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Rodger, J. J. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Victims' Rights, Human Rights and Criminal Justice. By Jonathan Doak (Oxford: Hart Publications, 2008, 325pp. {pound}30.00 pb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: O'Mahony, D. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 1775-1865. By David G. Barrie (Uffculme, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2008, xii + 307pp. {pound}45.00)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Dodsworth, F. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Violence and Sex Work in Britain. By Hilary Kinnell (Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2008, 290pp. {pound}19.50 pb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Self, H. J. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Cultural Criminology: An Invitation. By Jeff Ferrell, Keith Hayward and Jock Young (London: Sage, 2008) * Criminal Identities and Consumer Culture: Crime, Exclusion and the New Culture of Narcissism. By Steve Hall, Simon Winlow and Craig Ancrum (Cullompton: Willan, 2008, 248pp. {pound}19.50 pb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Carlen, P. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Co-Offending, Age, Gender and Crime Type: Implications for Criminal Justice PolicyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It has long been reported that many crimes are committed in groups, yet few studies of co-offending exist. In this paper, we argue that large-scale information on the prevalence of co-offending and its variations across age, gender and crime type is essential for the development of criminological theory and for the accurate estimation of important criminal justice measures like the probability of conviction and the incapacitative effects of imprisonment. To this end, we present results from the most extensive multivariate analysis of co-offending available in the United Kingdom to date. Findings indicate that a minority of...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: van Mastrigt, S. B., Farrington, D. P. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Under These Conditions: Gender, Parole and the Governance of ReintegrationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Despite the widespread use of conditions in various phases of the criminal justice system (e.g. bail, probation, parole), there has been little theoretical examination of their purposes or the implications associated with their use. This paper extends the theoretical discussion of women prisoners’ reintegration by focusing on parole conditions as a form of ‘targeted governance’. Using national data on federally sentenced female offenders in Canada, it shows how parole boards constitute the female parolee as a fractured subject consisting of various ‘risk/need factors’ to which parole condition...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Turnbull, S., Hannah-Moffat, K. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

The Causal Connection Between Drug Misuse and CrimeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One of the most influential accounts of the causal connection between drug use and crime was developed by Paul Goldstein in a tripartite conceptual framework that divided explanations of the connection into ‘economic-compulsive’, ‘psychopharmacological’ and ‘systemic’ (Goldstein 1985). The aim of this paper is to examine the validity of the taxonomy in explained drug-related crime across different crime types and to identify some of the mechanisms involved. This was done by interviewing drug-misusing offenders currently serving sentences of imprisonment in the United Kingdom about the ro...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Bennett, T., Holloway, K. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

The Robbery of Motorcycle Taxi Drivers (Dake Zai) in China: A Lifestyle/Routine Activity Perspective and BeyondEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using official police records, interviews with motorcycle taxi drivers and the participant observation of their working activities in Tianzhi city, China, this paper examines how and why a dimension of social stratification—household registration (hukou)—is related to the risk of robbery victimization and attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of applying lifestyle/routine activity theory to contemporary urban China. It discloses that migrant motorcycle taxi drivers are highly overrepresented in robbery victimization. Their night-time working practices enhance their chances of being robbed by both increasing ex...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Xu, J. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Guanxi and Fear of Crime in Contemporary Urban ChinaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Western research has investigated individual correlates of fear of crime with a primary focus on people's vulnerability. This vulnerability model examines the possible effects on fear of indicators of people's physical vulnerability (e.g. age and gender) and social vulnerability (e.g. income and education). As is well documented in the research on China, guanxi is a unique aspect of social capital in Chinese society. The present study argues that guanxi in the immediate neighbourhood is an important indicator of the social vulnerability of individuals in urban China. We accordingly hypothesize that residents who have stron...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Zhang, L., Messner, S. F., Liu, J., Zhuo, Y. A. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

The International Ban on Ivory Sales and its Effects on Elephant Poaching in AfricaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) secured an agreement in 1989 among its member states to ban the international trade in ivory. This disruption of the international ivory market was intended to reverse a sharp decline in the African elephant population, which resulted from widespread poaching for ivory in the previous decade. The continent's overall population of elephants increased after the ban, but an analysis of elephant population data from 1979 to 2007 found that some of the 37 countries in Africa with elephants continued to lose substantial numbers of them. This pattern is largely e...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Lemieux, A. M., Clarke, R. V. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

Restorative Justice for Banks Through Negative LicensingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The most general lesson of the crime prevention literature is taken to be that repeat victimization and repeat offending are concentrated in time and space; early intervention to prevent wider inflammation of such hot spots is more effective than reactive general deterrence (as in economic models of crime). That prescription is applied to how the 2008 financial crisis might have been prevented and how the crimes of Enron and Arthur Andersen might have been tackled to ameliorate the 2001 crisis. Negative licensing based on walking the beat and kicking the tyres at financial hot spots, with reduced reliance on economic model...
Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Braithwaite, J. Tags: research-article Source Type: journals

The radzinowicz memorial prizeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - June 16, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Pratt, J. Tags: announcement Source Type: journals

Handbook of Probation. Edited by Loraine Gelsthorpe, and Rod Morgan (Cullompton: Willan, 2007, 626pp. {pound}32.50)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - April 10, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Green, S. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Crime, Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice. By H. Blagg (Leichhardt, NSW: Federation Press, 2008, 176pp. {pound}20.99)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - April 10, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Cunneen, C. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Penal Populism, Sentencing Councils and Sentencing Policy. Edited by Arie Freiberg and Karen Gelb (Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2008, 248pp. {pound}25.00 pb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - April 10, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Whitehead, P. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

The Phantom Capitalists: The Organization and Control Of Long-Firm Fraud . By Michael Levi (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, lxxxiv + 356pp. {pound}60.00 hb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - April 10, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Tombs, S. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

The Irish War on Drugs: The Seductive Folly of Prohibition. By Paul O'Mahony (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008, 244pp. {pound}55.00 hb, {pound}16.99 pb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - April 10, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Murphy, T. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals

Decisions to Imprison: Court Decision-Making Inside and Outside the Law. By Rasmus H. Wandall (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, {pound}55.00 hb)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: British Journal of Criminology - recent issues - April 10, 2009 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Henham, R. Tags: book-review Source Type: journals