‘A MICROCOSM OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY’?
in The British Journal of Criminology
January 1997; published online January 1997.
Journal Article. Subjects: criminology. 0 words.
This paper presents the findings of an investigation into the social and political composition of a Bench of magistrates in the north midlands of England. These are related to various models of lay...
‘A Want of Order and Good Discipline’: Rules, Discretion and the Victorian Prison. By Richard W. Ireland (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007, 302pp. £45.00)Punish or Treat? Medical Care in English Prisons 1770–1850. By Peter McRorie Higgins(Victoria: Trafford, 2007, 283pp. £14.99)
in The British Journal of Criminology
September 2008; published online July 2008.
Journal Article. Subjects: criminology. 2413 words.
The ABC of Criminology
in The British Journal of Criminology
May 2006; published online April 2006.
Journal Article. Subjects: criminology. 13689 words.
The arrival of criminology as an academic discipline was a post-war development in Australia as much as in Britain or the United States. Classical criminology had developed as a question...
Accomplishing Femininity Among the Girls in the Gang
in The British Journal of Criminology
September 2001; published online September 2001.
Journal Article. Subjects: criminology. 0 words.
Sociologists and criminologists in America have had a longstanding interest in youth gangs dating back to the pioneering work of Frederick Thrasher through to the subcultural theories of the...
Accountability in Restorative Justice. By Declan Roche (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 316pp. £50.00 hb)
in The British Journal of Criminology
July 2004; published online July 2004.
Journal Article. Subjects: criminology. 0 words.
Acting Out: Maladaptive Behaviour in Confinement. By H. Toch and K. Adams (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2002, 446pp. $19.95)
in The British Journal of Criminology
June 2003; published online June 2003.
Journal Article. Subjects: criminology. 0 words.
Active Offender Research
in Criminology
Published online April 2012.
Article. Subjects: criminology and criminal justice; criminal justice; criminology. 6368 words.
Before criminology became obsessed with quantitative research, many of the field’s insights about crime came from offenders’ “own stories,” although this work typically used accounts...
Addressing Crime in Companies
in The British Journal of Criminology
November 2006; published online November 2006.
Journal Article. Subjects: criminology. 6407 words.
Economic crime was examined in a global survey of more than 5,500 companies. This survey combines information on companies, company victimization and on the detection and processing of 2,900...
Adolescent Development, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice
in The Oxford Handbook of Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice
December 2011; published online September 2012.
Article. Subjects: criminology and criminal justice; youth violence and juvenile justice. 7255 words.
Some form of delinquency is a normative part of adolescence for a majority of teens, yet the consequences of risky behavior and juvenile justice involvement can be severe. This article focuses on...
Adolescent Victims of Violence in a Welfare State
in The British Journal of Criminology
January 2001; published online January 2001.
Journal Article. Subjects: criminology. 0 words.
In a normal population sample of Norwegian adolescents, 6 per cent reported to have been victims of violent victimization during the last year. The sample consisted of three cohorts of...