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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.
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Criminology & Criminal Justice welcomes high-quality research that advances debates, methods, and theory across the field.
Whether you're analysing policy, unpacking power, or rethinking justice, send us your work.
🖊️ Submit here: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ
📢 Criminology & Criminal Justice is now accepting papers!
We welcome original research that challenges, deepens, or redefines debates in criminology, criminal justice, and beyond.
🖊️ Submit your manuscript:
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(2/2)📊 Using five years of national survey data, this study reveals how gender, ethnicity, age, disability, and SES intersect to shape risks of violence—highlighting urgent needs for targeted, equity-focused interventions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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(1/2)📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice “An intersectional analysis of stranger, acquaintance and domestic violence victimisation in England and Wales using MAIHDA” By Ferhat Tura, Jane C. Healy, George Leckie & colleagues
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2/2)This article explores tensions between public expectations and elite demands during crisis, highlighting the fragility of self-legitimacy in uncertain times. 📖 Read more:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17488958251406236
(1/2)📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice “Police leadership and legitimacy in the context of a global pandemic” By Pauline Ramshaw, Michael Rowe & Claire Davis 📷 How did police leaders navigate legitimacy during COVID-19?
Happy New Year from Criminology & Criminal Justice!
Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and readers for your critical thinking, hard work, and support throughout 2025.
Here’s to a 2026 filled with sharper questions, deeper debates, and continued contributions to criminology
Season’s Greetings from CCJ! 🎄
Wishing all our authors, reviewers, and readers a restful holiday season and a new year filled with critical insights, bold ideas, and meaningful scholarship.
📚 We’ll be back in 2026 with more to read, think, and challenge.
(2/2)⚖️ Why do probation staff stay—or leave? This study applies the EVL-N framework to unpack emotional burnout, muted voice, and vocational commitment in a service under pressure.
📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1748... #Probation #Criminology
(1/2)📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice
“Constrained voice and complicated loyalty: Understanding reasons to leave or stay working in the probation service”
By Nicola Carr, Harry Annison, Gwen Robinson & colleagues
(2/2)This article explores its promise, limits, and the need for more empirical research.
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/1748... #RestorativeJustice #Mediation #Criminology #CCJJournal
📄(1/2) New in Criminology & Criminal Justice
“Beyond face-to-face: Exploring the restorative potential of shuttle mediation”
By Masahiro Suzuki
🕊️ When direct meetings aren't possible, can shuttle mediation still achieve the goals of restorative justice?
(2/2)📉 This article examines how managerialism and responsibilisation undermine peer-led induction in open prisons—muting experiential knowledge and eroding institutional learning.
🔓 Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1748...
📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice
“Hollowing out peer support: Knowledge conversion in hostile knowledge environments of open prisons”
By Ed Schreeche-Powell (1/2)
🚨 Got bold ideas in criminology or criminal justice?
We want to read them.
Criminology & Criminal Justice is open for submissions — from the critical to the creative, the empirical to the theoretical.
🖊️ Send us your best work: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ
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📢 Criminology & Criminal Justice is now accepting papers!
We welcome original research that challenges, deepens, or redefines debates in criminology, criminal justice, and beyond.
🖊️ Submit your manuscript: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ
(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.
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/1748...
📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2)
“Exploring ‘problematisations’ of alcohol intoxication in sentencing”
By Carly Lightowlers
(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.
📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1748...
📄 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
(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
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/1748...
🌊 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2)
“Holding back the tides? Applying the Canute paradox to the regulation of cyberdeviance”
By @drbleaks.bsky.social.
(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.
📖 Read the article: doi.org/10.1177/1748...
📄 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
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
journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/19/4
📚 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.
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.
📖 journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/20/5
🌈 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.
🔍 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
📖 Read more: journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/23/4
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📘 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.