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(2/2)📊 Using five years of national survey data, this study reveals how gender, ethnicity, age, disability, and SES intersect to shape risks of violence—highlighting urgent needs for targeted, equity-focused interventions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @ferhattura19.bsky.social

(1/2)📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice “An intersectional analysis of stranger, acquaintance and domestic violence victimisation in England and Wales using MAIHDA” By Ferhat Tura, Jane C. Healy, George Leckie & colleagues @ferhattura19.bsky.social

2/2)This article explores tensions between public expectations and elite demands during crisis, highlighting the fragility of self-legitimacy in uncertain times. 📖 Read more:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17488958251406236

(1/2)📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice “Police leadership and legitimacy in the context of a global pandemic” By Pauline Ramshaw, Michael Rowe & Claire Davis 📷 How did police leaders navigate legitimacy during COVID-19?

Happy New Year from Criminology & Criminal Justice! Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and readers for your critical thinking, hard work, and support throughout 2025. Here’s to a 2026 filled with sharper questions, deeper debates, and continued contributions to criminology

Season’s Greetings from CCJ! 🎄 Wishing all our authors, reviewers, and readers a restful holiday season and a new year filled with critical insights, bold ideas, and meaningful scholarship. 📚 We’ll be back in 2026 with more to read, think, and challenge.

(2/2)⚖️ Why do probation staff stay—or leave? This study applies the EVL-N framework to unpack emotional burnout, muted voice, and vocational commitment in a service under pressure. 📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1748... #Probation #Criminology

(1/2)📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice “Constrained voice and complicated loyalty: Understanding reasons to leave or stay working in the probation service” By Nicola Carr, Harry Annison, Gwen Robinson & colleagues

(2/2)This article explores its promise, limits, and the need for more empirical research. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/1748... #RestorativeJustice #Mediation #Criminology #CCJJournal

📄(1/2) New in Criminology & Criminal Justice “Beyond face-to-face: Exploring the restorative potential of shuttle mediation” By Masahiro Suzuki 🕊️ When direct meetings aren't possible, can shuttle mediation still achieve the goals of restorative justice?

(2/2)📉 This article examines how managerialism and responsibilisation undermine peer-led induction in open prisons—muting experiential knowledge and eroding institutional learning. 🔓 Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice “Hollowing out peer support: Knowledge conversion in hostile knowledge environments of open prisons” By Ed Schreeche-Powell (1/2)

🚨 Got bold ideas in criminology or criminal justice? We want to read them. Criminology & Criminal Justice is open for submissions — from the critical to the creative, the empirical to the theoretical. 🖊️ Send us your best work: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ #Criminology

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📢 Criminology & Criminal Justice is now accepting papers! We welcome original research that challenges, deepens, or redefines debates in criminology, criminal justice, and beyond. 🖊️ Submit your manuscript: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ

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(2/2)This article critically examines how English and Welsh sentencing guidelines frame alcohol-related offending—revealing how intoxication is problematised and linked to increased blame, danger, and culpability. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2) “Exploring ‘problematisations’ of alcohol intoxication in sentencing” By Carly Lightowlers

(2/2)🕳️ This article explores the post-release experience as a “necropolitical abyss” marked by precarity, stigma, and ontological insecurity—offering a powerful theoretical intervention into re-entry studies. 📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2) “‘Falling from a cliff-face’ into the necropolitical abyss: Experiences of those with sexual convictions leaving prison” By Lynn Saunders, @MJordanBirkhead & Edward J. Wright

(2/2)💻 This article introduces the Canute paradox—highlighting how platform power is often overstated in combating cyberdeviance, and calls for collaborative, system-wide responses to online harm. @DrBleaks 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

🌊 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2) “Holding back the tides? Applying the Canute paradox to the regulation of cyberdeviance” By @drbleaks.bsky.social.

(2/2)👮‍♀️ This study explores how co-located support services in a UK police station shaped survivor experiences and professional collaboration in domestic abuse response. 📖 Read the article: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

Professional and survivor perspectives on a co-located early domestic abuse intervention in a police station: A qualitative study - Eve ZQ Wang, Grace Carter, Jayne Ross, Rachel Chapman, Tim Healey, M...

The quantity and complex nature of reported and recorded domestic abuse incidents has continued to grow, demanding more efficient and effective support for surv...

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📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2) “Professional and survivor perspectives on a co-located early domestic abuse intervention in a police station: A qualitative study” Eve ZQ Wang, Grace Carter,Jayne Ross,Rachel Chapman, Tim Healey,Maxine Whelan

Featured topics include: Criminology as a historical explanation Crime control & periodisation Victorian fraudsters & deviance Narrative ownership in victim experiences Women offenders & continuity of care Procedural justice theory revisited journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/19/4

📚 We’re rewinding to 2019… (1/2) Vol. 19, Issue 4 featured a thematic section on: The Uses of Historical Criminology: Explanation, Characterisation and Context Guest contributions explore historical methods, periodisation, and the role of imagination in criminological inquiry.

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Topics include: • Queer utopias & carceral protectionism • Gender punitivism & identity politics • Queering prison, desistance & deviance • Sex, drugs & normativity • Homosexual criminalisation & politics of apology Still essential reading in 2025. 📖 journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/20/5

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🌈 We’re going back to 2020... (1/2) Criminology & Criminal Justice Vol. 20, Issue 5 📘 Special Issue: Queer Theory and Criminology This powerful issue challenged carceral logics, gender normativity, and the limits of mainstream criminology through a queer theoretical lens.

🔍 Topics include: • U.S. penal exceptionalism • Criminal background checks in the Netherlands • The Qianke system in China • Post-conviction barriers in Canada & Argentina • Normative critiques of post-sentence discrimination 📖 Read more: journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/23/4 #Criminology