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Tuesday, 17 September 2013

The following journals and articles caught our eye this month:

  • Race and criminal justice: A special virtual issue from Taylor and Francis with links to a range of articles from across a number of publications. Also includes links and free access to articles from our own Criminal Justice Matters magazine.
  • International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy (free access): Includes articles on corporate environmental harm; feminist perspectives on female violence; and international juvenile (in)justice. 
  • Forced Migration Review:  Covers forced detention and deportation and is available to download free of charge. 
  • Howard League Journal : An advance access article asks whether some crime prevention strategies are more harmful than the crime. 
  • Criminology and Criminal Justice: Includes articles on the role of the voluntary and community sector in the management of offenders; overcoming intolerance to young people's conduct; and secondary school teacher's narratives of violence. 
  • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology: Looks at domestic violence perpetrator programmes in Europe, including systematic review of the evidence and a survey of current practice. 
  • The British Journal of Sociology: The September issue includes articles on the corporate corruption of the environment; coping with prison as a foreign inmate; and UN genocide commemoration.
  • Critical Criminology: This issue focuses on the topic of 'Crucial critical criminology and covers everything from peacemaking criminology; transformative feminist criminology; new left realism; post modernism; and green criminology.
  • Criminal Justice Review: The September issue includes articles on four models of criminal justice development; an evaluation of the effectiveness of CCTV; and the effect of the pains of imprisonment on inmate violence; 
  • European Journal of Criminology: Includes articles on gang membership - a class analysis; crime, fear and subjective wellbeing; migrants' perceptions of the police; and gender and domestic violence perpetrators in police records. 
  • Crime, law and social change:  A special issue on corruption.