NEW! Check out this new article by Irit Ballas and Netanel Dagan for #TheoreticalCrim: 'The remorseful enemy' is now available in #OnlineFirst. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The remorseful enemy - Irit Ballas, Netanel Dagan, 2025

Soliciting a defendant's remorse during sentencing resonates with the idea that the individual has breached the community's shared moral values but ca...

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Thank you, @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social! What an honour. The article is part of our on-going study of the knowledge foundation of criminal justice policy and practice, which you can read more about here: www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...

Private knowledge, Public Issues (CRIMKNOW) - Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (IKRS)

Criminal justice agencies, in Norway as in most European countries, have in recent years undergone an intense process of digitalization as well as restructuring and reform. This research project examines the role of digitalization and private economies of knowledge in criminal justice.

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#TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce our 3rd #EditorsChoice article of 2025, 'Outsourcing the brains: The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice' by Katja Franko & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social! Read this & the growing #OpenAccess collection here: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

Check out the @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social special issue on private economies of knowledge in CJ guest edited by Katja Franko and Heidi Mork Lomell

Check out @jmchacon.bsky.social's clear account of the legal and personal impact of the recent US Supreme court decision on racial profiling in immigration enforcement ... verfassungsblog.de/noem-ice-sup...

Whose Common Sense?

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CfP: POLICING, MILITARIZATION AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND EUROPE/ POLICÍA, MILITARIZACIÓN Y AUTORITARISMO EN LATINOAMÉRICA Y EUROPA, Deadline: 31/10/25, English-Español, hybrid-híbrida, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 9&10 Abril 2026 drive.google.com/file/d/13lE2...

NEW! Read Sara K. Thompson, Ajay Sandhu, & Claudia Koziol's article,"‘History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings’: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility." Available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's second issue of 2025 is now available in print and online! Check out our latest collection of articles and book reviews here 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/2

Theoretical Criminology - Volume 29, Number 2

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✎ ¡NUEVO NÚMERO PUBLICADO! 
Ya disponible el Vol. 29 Núm. 1 (2025) de la revista.
Incluye el monográfico GEOGRAFÍAS DEL CONTROL FRONTERIZO con 8 artículos, además de 4 artículos independientes. ☞ Consúltalo aquí: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Sc...

Researching borders and criminal justice? Come to study at Warwick. PhD funding through Eutopia cotutelle relaunched. This is an excellent opp warwick.ac.uk/global/europ...

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️Starting in 2025, #TheoreticalCrim will feature one article per issue as the ‘Editors’ Choice’ for its innovative analysis and approach to criminology. The articles will be #OpenAccess for one year after they are added to the page: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

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#TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce that our first #EditorsChoice article is 'Border penality as antagonistic politics' by @mattia800.bsky.social, from Volume 29 Issue 1! Check out this exciting article in our Editors' Choice collection here: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

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🚨 We are currently accepting proposals for our 2027 Special Issue 🚨 Interested in guest-editing for #TheoreticalCrim? Submit a proposal by April 15 for consideration. We look forward to reading yours! Guidelines for special issue proposals can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Interested in guest editing for #TheoreticalCrim? We are now accepting proposals for our 2027 Special Issue! Check out our full guidelines for special issue proposals and submit yours by April 15: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

#TheoreticalCrim thanks its many contributors to our first issue of 2025! Keep an eye out for our second issue, due in May. Also, we are accepting proposals for our 2027 Special Issue! If you are interested in guest-editing, please submit a proposal by April 15: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Matthew Light's review of 'Proud to Punish: The Global Landscapes of Rough Justice' by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer, now available in print and online as part of #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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NEW! Check out Alex Black and @drvickyheap.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state.' Now available #openaccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state - Alex Black, Vicky Heap, 2025

This article explores preventive justice through the use of Community Protection Warnings (CPWs), a civil measure used to tackle anti-social behaviour in Englan...

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim would like to congratulate Irene Vega and Maartje van der Woude, winners of our 2024 Best Article Prize! Read 'Colourblindness across borders: The de-racialized logics of Dutch and American border agents,' available #openaccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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In response to the UK government's new Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill, @vickytaylor.bsky.social and Catriona Götz have written this blog post analysing the implications of this bill and how it may further criminalise people on the move: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas

Abstract. In this article, we empirically document the changing dynamics of border controls in the context of the COVID pandemic, and its consequences for

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Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing - Ana Julia Aliverti, Simon Tawfic, 2025

This article explores everyday discourses of care among public protection police officers and asylum-screening officers in Britain. Contemporary policy rhetoric...

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🗣️ANNOUNCEMENT🗣️ As of today, #TheoreticalCrim will be enforcing a new word count standard for all manuscripts and revisions of 8000 words, +/- 1000 words including notes and references. Any submissions outside of this standard will be returned to the submitting author. Thank you!

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[New Blog 🖊️] Prof. Juliet Stumpf explores Trump’s plan to militarise immigration enforcement, merging criminal policing, the policing of administrative immigration violations, and military force, potentially creating a form of militarised crimmigration:

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NEW! Read @brandmorrissey.bsky.social's review of 'Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis' by Meredith J. Greif. From #TheoreticalCrim's 2024 Special Issue guest-edited by Gabriela Kirk-Werner, @curlyprofessor.bsky.social & April D. Fernandes: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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NEW! Read Roseanna Benser's review of 'Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System' by Regina Serpa. Part of #TheoreticalCrim's 2024 Special Issue, guest-edited by Gabriela Kirk-Werner, @curlyprofessor.bsky.social & April D. Fernandes: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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NEW! Need some perfect holiday reading? Check out Thomas Ugelvik's 'The kindness of strangers: Trust, recognition, and the co-production of desistance,' now available from #TheoreticalCrim: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The kindness of strangers: Trust, recognition, and the co-production of desistance - Thomas Ugelvik, 2024

This article explores the significance of new relationships between former offenders who have made changes to their lives and the people they meet as part of th...

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NEW! Read @camillalangeland.bsky.social and Thea Myrvang's review of Gabriele Balbi's 'The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology,' now available from #TheoreticalCrim in OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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#TheoreticalCrim would like to thank all of our staff, contributors, and readers for a successful 2024 and look forward to an even more exciting 2025. Look out for our first issue in February!