Criminalisation is the title of the themed section guest edited by Christina Pantazis examining the use of criminalisation as a strategy to respond to a variety of social harms.
The contributors suggest that more laws do not always result in more order. Academics and practitioners also point to the partial and biased way the criminal justice system operates. The magazine features a wide range of articles which critically examine the use of criminalisation as a strategy to respond to a variety of social harms.
A number of articles focus on what might be termed the 'over-criminalisation' of social groups such as the poor, young people, and migrants, as well as neighbourhoods that are blighted by poverty.
Other articles examine the 'under' or 'lesser' criminalisation of certain harmful activities such as failure to implement the minimum wage legislation, the failure to respond to harms against women, and the failure to take environmental harms seriously. In doing so, the magazine draws attention to the selective nature of the criminal justice system and questions whether criminalisation is the most appropriate tool to respond to the myriad of social problems we encounter.
In this edition
Will McMahon and Rebecca Roberts introduce this issue of cjm
By Will McMahon and Rebecca Roberts
Richard Wilkinson calls for a new political movement committed to greater equality to address the social harms in contemporary society
By Richard Wilkinson
Phil Shiner examines the background to the failure of British military justice to hold anyone to account for the killing of Baha Mousa
By Phil Shiner
The government needs to make its mind up about prison, writes Joe Black : is it to be a modern industrialised gulag or a place to modify and control offending behaviour?
By Joe Black
Rebecca Roberts and Will McMahon explore hidden and ignored crimes and harms.
By Rebecca Roberts and Will McMahon
Christina Pantazis discusses the growing tendency for the state to criminalise since New Labour came to power and introduces the theme of ‘criminalisation’ for this issue of …
By Christina Pantazis
John Muncie argues that a critical understanding of criminalisation remains crucial
By John Muncie
Lizzie Seal explores the link between poverty and criminalisation in the eighteenth century
By Lizzie Seal
John J Rodger suggests that the criminalisation of social policy is an aspect of the changing role of the welfare state
By John J Rodger
Lynn Hancock considers how certain localities become labelled as ‘criminal areas’
By Lynne Hancock
Simon Hallsworth and Svetlana Stephenson explore how urban renewal projects can criminalise those that do not fit the utopian dream
By Simon Hallsworth and Svetlana Stephenson
Jon Burnett discusses increased state criminalisation of migrant communities and the social harm that results
By Jon Burnett
Paul Hirschfield explains why school misconduct in the United States, especially in the inner cities, is increasingly treated as crime
By Paul Hirschfield
Simon Pemberton investigates the reluctance of government to criminalise breaches of minimum wage legislation
By Simon Pemberton
Rob White explores how environmental harm is conceptualised and how it should be tackled
By Rob White
Laureen Snider argues that criminalising sexual and domestic assault in Canada has delivered real symbolic benefits to some women but has tightened the noose of coercive control…
By Laureen Snider
Rachel Lart places UK government policy in historical and European contexts
By Rachel Lart
Lois S Bibbings questions the use of criminalisation to address sexual harms
By Lois S Bibbings
Geetanjali Gangoli and Melanie McCarry analyse criminalisation as a strategy to combat forced marriage
By Geetanjali Gangoli and Melanie McCarry
Richard Garside argues for the need to take seriously the relationship between penal regimes and wider social structures.
By Richard Garside
