Abstract. This study explores how incarcerated, gang-affiliated youths in Sweden navigate questions of change, aspiration and desistance. Drawing on interv

This short post marks the opening of a series dedicated to discussing each of the organising themes of the Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology, in preparation for its launch. Ea…

This article explores the courthouse as a socio-temporal threshold, where past harms are rearticulated and future outcomes are yet uncertain. Drawing on ethnogr...

We, criminologists and criminal justice scholars, are alarmed by several recent decisions by the European Society of Criminology Executive Board and Eurocrim local organizing and scientific committee ...

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Polisen måste sluta gripa barn och unga, säger prisade krim-forskaren Frances Crook.

Join us for this author-meets-readers event! Authors: Tea Fredriksson & Robin Gålnander, Stockholm University.

This book provides a nuanced, critical analysis of desistance from crime, particularly through the lens of women’s experiences. It develops desistance theory by interrogating the concept of normalcy, ...

Abstract. This article explores how Swedish lay-judges assess victims’ credibility in district court. Previous studies have explored how biases and emotion

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