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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:

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

(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: https://t.co/hs8qFH9yJ2 @MJordanBirkhead

📄 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:

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

(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: https://t.co/OUfTVjfOC5 @maxineewhelan

📄 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” By Eve ZQ Wang, @maxineewhelan & colleagues

Featured topics include: Criminology as a historical explanation Crime control & periodisation The criminological imagination Victorian fraudsters & deviance Narrative ownership in victim experiences Women offenders & continuity of care Procedural justice theory revisited

📚 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.

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. 📖

🌈 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.

(2/2)🔍 Topics include: • U.S. penal exceptionalism • Criminal background checks in the Netherlands • The Qianke system in China • Post-conviction barriers in Canada & Argentina 📖 Read more:

📘 Special Issue Alert (1/2) Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records Criminology & Criminal Justice Vol. 23, Issue 4,September 2023 This cross-national issue examines how criminal records impact people’s lives beyond punishment, shaping access to jobs, rights, and inclusion

Also featured: 🔹 Narrative victimology & IPP families 🔹 Public perceptions of police appearance 🔹 Death penalty support in the Americas 🔹 Criminological fieldwork in China 🔹 Judicial decision-making in Hong Kong 📖 Read the full issue:

📢 Don’t miss our current issue! (1/2) Criminology & Criminal Justice Vol. 25, Issue 4 is now live,bringing together global research on: 🔹 Prisoner re-entry 🔹 Restorative justice 🔹 Police culture & retention 🔹 Remote parole hearings 🔹 Professionalisation in criminal justice

(2/2) Key themes: 🌍 Transnational & localised networks 🧭 Reframing organised crime’s conceptual geography 🏛️ State, corporate & criminal entanglements 📌 Deep, critical case studies from diverse global contexts 📖 Explore the full issue: https://t.co/TvzOMt1A3e #Criminology

🧵 Special Issue Spotlight (1/2) 📘 New Geographies of Organised Crime 🗓️ Vol. 25, Issue 1 (Feb 2025) Guest Editors: @DrEllaC , @prestevez & @felia_allum This special issue rethinks how organised crime operates across borders, sectors, and definitions.