AbstractSexual harassment remains pervasive within the police. In this article, we ask how formal and informal disciplinary practices, such as hierarchical structure and rumor
mill culture, interact to shape police trainees’ and officers’ perceived ability to respond to sexually harassing behavior? We draw on qualitative data from a [...]
AbstractIn Terrorism, Politics and Human Rights Advocacy: The #BringBackOurGirls Movement, the author provides a detailed and multifaceted investigation of the women-led social
movement birthed through the Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping. It exemplifies a striking balance of academic inquiry and moral exigency, thus making it an important contribution [...]
Preventing Violence: The Past, Present and Future of the Public Health Approach. By Irwin-RogersKeir, BillinghamLuke, FraserAlistair, GillonFern, McVieSusan and NewburnTim
(Policy Press, 2025, 204pp. £24.99 pb) [...]
AbstractThe social threat theory holds that individuals who express animus against out-groups are more likely to label members of those groups as a threat, and are therefore
more inclined to support formal social control measures that will impact on those groups. [...]
AbstractDrawing on key insights from relational sociology, criminologists have often analysed the carceral state by examining its relations with welfarist mechanisms of governing
social marginality. This way of setting the relational scope for analysing the carceral state, however, has left important research avenues underexplored. [...]
AbstractIn 1980s, Ireland a perceived social crisis surrounded joyriding. Based on original archival research, this paper examines the antecedents and legacies of this episode.
A combination of rising car ownership, media panic and victim mobilization pressurised a political response. [...]
AbstractWhere does exploitation start and stop? When does cheap labour become forced labour? Where is the line drawn between destitution and coercion? These questions have
never been properly answered, and as a result the understanding and response to issues such as modern slavery are trapped in arguments about global inequalities, [...]
AbstractThe Indigenous peoples of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all over-represented in their prison systems. Yet despite a shared history of colonization
and dispossession, most Indigenous peoples have little if any contact with the criminal justice system. [...]
AbstractBride trafficking is a complex and underexplored form of human trafficking. This article outlines the crime script of cross-border bride trafficking to China using
content analysis of 607 Chinese court judgments. We identify six steps in the trafficking process, detailing the principal destinations of trafficked victims and [...]
