As a husband, father, and human being, numerous aspects of the Cornell University rape case outrage me. But what consistently sticks is this: no one in the Chi Phi Snap group chat appears to have inte...

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This study presents a content analysis of 48 English-language scholarly books on contemporary graffiti and street art published between 1982 and 2025. Each book was coded using a four-category sche...

Almost every time I visit Brooklyn, I stop by the same small wine shop and buy a bottle of wine. It has a great selection; it’s convenient to where I stay; the prices are reasonable; and the staff is knowledgeable. I’ve always been happy with the wines they recommend. Last week, after buying a bottle, […]

It’s just a plain, structured, medium-crown, black baseball cap. No logo, no team name, and kind of boring. And that’s the point. But let’s deconstruct this a little. It has to be black, the same way ...

The Portuguese edition of  Introduction to Convict Criminology (2024) comes as Brazil’s prison population is climbing again after a COVID-era dip. Published as Introdução à Criminologia dos Condenados...

The Department of Sociology at Texas State University (San Marcos, TX) invites applications for a full-time lecturer position beginning fall 2027. The university has a teaching track that includes pro...

The symbols of hyper-masculinity enjoy few comforts as they await a bail hearing in a Bureau of Prisons special unit but experts dispute claims that their lives are at risk.

Search Amazon using the term street culture, and you’ll find countless books about gangs, graffiti, street art, policing, homelessness, drug markets, skateboarding, street fashion, or urban crime, but...

During the late 1970s, I got my start driving cab for Beck Taxi in Toronto. Their business at the time was disproportionately located in the east end, above and below the Danforth. We got calls from t...

Many academic organizations hold annual conferences where participants present papers to colleagues working in the same field. But no learned society that specializes in the  scholarly area of graffit...

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Although textbooks, journal articles, and lectures are important, movies are one of the most effective teaching tools available to criminology and criminal justice instructors. They can communicate id...

Almost a half-century ago, one of the first purchases I made in preparation for leaving my parents’ house was a Hudson’s Bay Company wool point blanket. I walked into the HBC department store at subur...

On my first visit, I brought my Japanese knives (the short deba and the long yanagiba), packed away in my knife case. Then, standing at the trunk of my car, parked across the street from the restauran...

Unlike some other social sciences, criminology and criminal justice consistently produce job openings. But not all positions are created equal, and where you land can affect your career and your menta...

There’s a big gap between what the general public thinks criminologists do and what we actually do. Most people assume we work in forensics, consult on detective cases, or spend our days profiling ser...

The fight against police brutality and impunity is a global struggle. This book argues that police reform efforts around the world should be extirpated and replaced with locally developed and led non-...

Detainees and families dial 311 to report freezing cells, hallucinations and denied medical care. Many complaints are routed as "customer comments" and vanish without action.

PDF | This article examines how the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP) violates specific provisions of the United Nations Standard Minimum... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

Apéritif One of my favorite books is New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City by Andrei Codrescu. A poet, essayist, novelist, and professor emeritus at Louisiana State University...

PDF | On Jan 1, 2026, Jeffrey Ian Ross published Why Convict Criminology Matters | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

In the United States, numerous standards have been developed for the operation of correctional facilities. States and the federal government have constitutional protections. Professional bodies like t...

This past week, I rescued my favorite reusable shopping bag from our own trash bin. My wife had thrown it away. This wasn’t because it was splitting at the seams; I only noticed that after I rescued i...

Gustavo Gatica lost his sight in 2019’s nationwide unrest but as the country prepares to swear in a far-right president the man who fired the rubber bullets has walked free

After heavy snowfalls in American cities, people dig out their parked cars, and some try to “hold” the cleared space with lawn chairs, trash cans, traffic cones, etc. The logic is familiar: I did the ...

Periodically, academics seek and are given the title of visiting scholar. The designation sounds formal and flattering, and for many people it carries a great deal of symbolic weight. But there is con...