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The May issue of the British Journal of Criminology (Volume 56 issue 3) is now available via The Oxford University Press Website (subscription only).
It includes articles on the sexual torture of refugees in Denmark, hate crime in Australia, white collar crime in Sweden, land grabs in Colombia and police searches in London.
An article examining the policing of European Union borders has been judged the best article published in the British Journal of Criminology in 2015. The prize, named in honour of criminologist Sir Leon Radzinowicz, is one of the most prestigious awards in criminology.
The article, by Katja Franko Aas of the University of Oslo and Helene O. I. Gundhus of the Norwegian Police University College, studies the workings of Frontex, the agency tasked with the management of the EU's external borders.
The March issue of the British Journal of Criminology (Volume 56 issue 2) is now available via The Oxford University Press website.
This issue includes a free access article, 'Cyberhate on social media in the aftermath of Woolwich: A case study in computational criminology and big data', by Matthew Williams and Pete Burnap.
Articles include;
The January 2016 issue of the British Journal of Criminology (Volume 56 issue 1) is now available through The Oxford University Press website.
It includes two open access articles:
The latest issue of The British Journal of Criminology is now available online.
Focusing on the topic of violence, the articles explore a wide range of responses to different forms of violence;
Following the sad death of Professor Nils Christie last month, Oxford University Press have made his 1977 article 'Conflicts as property' available free to view as a mark of respect of his presence in the discipline. In this classic text, the article opens with the following;
'Maybe we should not have any criminology. Maybe we should abolish institutes, not open them. Maybe the social consequences of criminology are more dubious than we like to think.'
The July 2015 issue of the British Journal of Criminology (volume 55 issue 4) is now available through The Oxford University Press website (subscription only).
The Radzinowicz prize is awarded annually for the British Journal of Criminology article(s) that the editors think most contributes to knowledge of criminal justice issues and the development of criminology.
The 2014 Prize has been awarded jointly to:
Past articles include:
William R Wood questions whether restorative practices operate as an alternative to incarceration and reduce prison rates.
The March 2015 issue of The British Journal of Criminology (volume 55, issue 2) is available now via The Oxford University Press website (subcription only).
The issue includes articles by:
