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Monday, 21 October 2013

Here is a list journals from our inbox that caught our eye this month:

Probation Journal: A special issue on innovation in probation, edited by Lol Burke. It includes articles on community engagement, electronic monitoring and restorative justice. (Free access)

People, Place and Policy: A special issue on contemporary public policy, with articles on migration, the voluntary and community sector policy and welfare to work. (Free access)

Social Justice: An article from James Kilgore confronting prison slave labour and other myths. (Free access)

Homicide Studies: A special issue on fatality and death reviews, which contains articles such as 'Counting and Accounting for Deaths in Australian Immigration Custody'. (Free access)

Policy and Politics: With articles on reflections upon contemporary debates in policy studies and 40 years of public management reform in the UK central government. (Free access)

Theoretical Criminology: With an article on policing and surveillance of the marginal. (Free access)

Criminology and Criminal Justice: Contains a discussion on mandatory life sentence for murder, public confidence in the police and the point of probation. (Free access)

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice: Contains articles on fear of crime amongst women and linking it to the experience of partner violence. Another article argues for a cross-sector collaboration to address human trafficking in order to emphasis the rights of the trafficked person over the needs of law enforcement. (Subscription required)

Criminology: Contains an article on the unintended consequences of being stopped or arrested and the labelling mechanisms at work which, the authors argue, may lead to to subsequent illegal behaviour. (Subscription required)