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‘It's the little things that matter’: Material culture and adaptation in a local prison - Chris Waller, 2026

At the centre of this paper is the question of how selves take on durable forms within transient and unpredictable environments. Drawing on material culture stu...

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We are happy to announce our second #EditorsChoice pick of 2026! Read Lorena Avila and Andres F. Rengifo's 'The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts' and the full #OpenAccess collection here: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col....

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NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's second issue of 2026 is now available! Check out our latest collection of articles as we continue our celebration of 30 years of Theoretical Criminology in print and online 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/30/2

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#TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce our first #EditorsChoice pick of 2026: @anaaliverti.bsky.social and Simon Tawfic's 'Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing.' Read it in our #OpenAccess collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is pleased to announce the 2025 Best Article Prize has been awarded to Samuel Singler for his article 'Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control.' Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

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Making victims, making offenders: County lines, modern slavery and the criminal law - Simon Flacks, 2026

‘County lines’ drug supply has grown into a powerful cultural, criminological and political concern in the UK. In recent years, the criminal law has been mobili...

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Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices - Steffen Jensen, Mette-Louise E. Johansen, 2025

This article explores the salience of the concept of violent exchange to contribute towards a global criminology of relationality. Coined in the Global South, t...

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#TheoreticalCrim is happy to name our 4th and final #EditorsChoice article of 2025: Sean Columb's, 'Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route.' Check out this article and this growing #OpenAccess collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

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NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025 is now available! Check out our latest collection of articles and book reviews in print and online 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/4

Theoretical Criminology - Volume 29, Number 4

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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...

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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...