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Radzinowicz prize for best criminology article
Dr Jason Warr, associate professor of criminology at the University of Nottingham, has been awarded this year’s Radzinowicz Memorial Prize.
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Radzinowicz prize for best BJC article in 2022
The author of an article on domestic violence policing of First Nations women in Australia has been awarded the prestigious Radzinowicz Prize.
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'County lines' drug dealing article wins top prize
An article on the policing of ‘county lines’ drug dealing has been awarded the prestigious Radzinowicz Prize by the editors of the British Journal of Criminology.
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New research: link between online hate speech with real-world hate crime
The latest post on the Oxford University Press blog examines the link between online hate speech and hate crime as it happens in the real world.
Researcher and blog post author, Professor Matthew Williams, has been conducting research in this area. His findings suggest that anti-Black and anti-Muslim hate speech online is linked to heightened racial and religious violence and harassment.
The post is a summary of an article by...
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Free content in the British Journal of Criminology
The British Journal of Criminology (BJC) is one of the world's top criminology journals. It publishes work of the highest quality from around the world and across all areas of criminology.
We publish the BJC in partnership with an independent academic editorial board and Oxford...
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Research on big data approaches to crime and justice
Big data and criminology is the focus of a March issue The British Journal of Criminology.
A free-to-download article by Matthew L. Williams, Pete Burnap and Luke Sloan assesses the potential role of social media in...
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Criminalisation not a solution to domestic violence
A special virtual issue of The British Journal of Criminology has grouped together articles spanning more than thirty years of scholarship on domestic violence.
Many of the articles challenge the commonsense assumption that more laws and tougher criminal justice enforcement will...
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Security industry shapes public view of law breakers
An article examining how the 19th century security industry shaped the public understanding of law breakers has been judged the best article published in The British Journal of Criminology last year. The prize, named in honour of criminologist Sir Leon Radzinowicz, is one of the most...
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Prison more difficult for women than for men
Being imprisoned is more painful and traumatic for women than it is for men, according to new research published in our journal, The British Journal of Criminology.
The research, by...
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Online abuse of women a form of violence
Online abuse directed at women who debate feminist politics should be treated as a form of violence, claims new research published in The British Journal of Criminology.
The research – by Ruth Lewis, Michael Rowe and Clare Wiper of Northumbria University – found that most of the women they surveyed had 'experienced multiple types of abuse and almost half...
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New from the British Journal of Criminology
The January 2017 edition of the British Journal of Criminology is out now.
In a free-to-download article, Hannah Bowes and Nicole Westmarland of Durham University write about their research on the rape of older...