{"title":"“Talk to strangers!” Omegle and the political economy of technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation","authors":"M. Salter, Saranda Sokolov","doi":"10.1177/26338076231194451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231194451","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation has flourished within the laissez faire regulatory frameworks of neoliberalism, and argues that political economy should play a more central role in theorising about child sexual abuse. Drawing on the case study of Omegle, a livestreaming website that matches strangers via webcam, the paper illustrates how deregulatory trends have produced an alignment between the sexual interests of child sexual abusers and the economic interests of some online service providers. The paper suggests that intersecting political ideologies and economic structures have increased opportunities for child sexual exploitation and decreased formal and informal controls, while recruiting paedophilic desires and exploitative subjectivities within processes of capital accumulation. The paper explores the implications of political economy for theories of child sex offending, which have typically focused on the psychological, social and legal dimensions of child sexual abuse while overlooking the role of capitalist structures and imperatives.","PeriodicalId":29902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47791837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment by Justin Marceau","authors":"Rosina Neubert","doi":"10.1177/26338076231179005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231179005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46910380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"A. Flynn, R. Wickes","doi":"10.1177/26338076231186191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231186191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminology","volume":"56 1","pages":"147 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42994142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Montelle Marius Maradona Felix, Yung-lien Lai, Yalin Yang, Hui-Ching Wu, Tzu-Ying Lo
{"title":"Factors shaping inmate trust in correctional officers in Taiwan: Do procedural justice and distributive justice really matter?","authors":"Montelle Marius Maradona Felix, Yung-lien Lai, Yalin Yang, Hui-Ching Wu, Tzu-Ying Lo","doi":"10.1177/26338076231183978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231183978","url":null,"abstract":"While humane care, fair treatment, and respect for the rights and interests of prisoners have been found to reduce the levels of prisoners’ psychological distress and maladaptation (including mistrust in correctional officers) in the West, there is a lack of empirical research examining the relationship between inmates and correctional officers in a non-West society. Drawing on well-established theoretical models (importation, deprivation, and normative models) developed in the West, this article aims to address the core process of inmate attitude formation towards correctional officers. Using data collected from 1,025 adult inmates incarcerated in 10 Taiwanese prisons in 2020, a series of binary logistic regressions (BLR) was used to examine these survey data in considerable depth. Results showed that more than 60% of the respondents report having trust in the correctional officers in the facilities where they were incarcerated. Multivariate analyses showed that social support from staff, procedural justice, distributive justice, age, and gender (male) all produced significant and positive associations with inmate trust in correctional officers. Discussion of the results observed and policy implications for institutional corrections practice are presented in closing remarks and observations.","PeriodicalId":29902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminology","volume":"28 20","pages":"313 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41249344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Victimisation and fear of crime in Brazil: The effect on the desire to move","authors":"Wander Plassa, L. V. Bernardelli, M. Kortt","doi":"10.1177/26338076231168403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231168403","url":null,"abstract":"We examined the effect of victimisation and fear of crime in Brazil and its attendant influence on the desire to move. Data drawn from the 2012 National Victimisation Survey were used to model the relationship between victimisation and the desire to move, with fear of crime used as a mediator variable. Our results indicate that being a victim of crime leads to increased fear, which, in turn, increases the desire to move. However, the indirect effect is comparatively small (i.e., our mediator variable—fear of crime—only marginally attenuates the relationship between victimisation and the desire to move). We also found evidence that property victimisation, victimisation occurring close to an individual's home, and indirect victimisation (i.e., hearing about a crime committed against another person in the neighbourhood) were also predictors of an increased desire to move in Brazil. Lastly, our results also suggest the importance of distinguishing between victimisation that occurred in the last 12 months compared to victimisation that occurred more than 12 months ago. Thus, policies that reduce victimisation and fear of crime may minimise the desire to move and any related economic and social costs.","PeriodicalId":29902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminology","volume":"56 1","pages":"194 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46056576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decrypting the gaze of electronic monitoring (EM): A comparative book review of Daems’ Electronic monitoring and Gacek's Portable prisons","authors":"Carlotta Berry","doi":"10.1177/26338076231173150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231173150","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic monitoring (EM) is a highly recognisable yet contested penal sanction that employs surveillance and spatial temporal control to enforce curfews. Due to EM’s rapidly transforming and expanding inter-jurisdictional implementation, attempts at understanding this penal measure have often been outpaced by a need to keep up with simple information (Hucklesby & Holdsworth, 2016). Dramatic technological innovations have recently changed EM’s physical equipment and monitoring systems; however, concerns about how many, who and in what stage of the justice process, have taken precedent. Agencies commission official research seeking evaluations of whether EM works, while more penetrating questions about its objectives are left unanswered. Although very beneficial insights, deploying concepts such as telematics and e-topia have been made by luminaries like Mike Nellis (2017), sustained theoretical examinations of EM, until recently, have been rare. Nevertheless, such theoretical analyses are important: How can we ask whether EMworks, when (as is particularly the case in my jurisdiction, England and Wales) its penal objectives are unclear from a practical, let alone philosophical, perspective? Furthermore, if those objectives were explicitly formulated, we could then critically evaluate whether their purported aims match their actual use. Two recent books, Tom Daems’ Electronic monitoring: Tagging offenders in an age of surveillance (2020) and James Gacek’s Portable prisons: Electronic monitoring and the creation Book Review","PeriodicalId":29902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminology","volume":"56 1","pages":"359 - 367"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42541173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A follow-up evaluation of a coordinated police-social services response to recidivist family violence","authors":"Gemma Hamilton, Lisa Harris, Sarah McCook","doi":"10.1177/26338076231174667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231174667","url":null,"abstract":"Coordinated multi-agency approaches are a key strategy for responding to recidivist family violence. This paper presents a follow-up quantitative evaluation of Alexis: a coordinated police-social services approach to recidivist and high-risk family violence piloted in Victoria, Australia. State-wide police data was collected for 75 perpetrators 20 to 36 months since case closure following Alexis intervention. Results indicated that 38 perpetrators (51%) had no further recorded incidents of family violence. The remaining non-mutually exclusive categories indicated that 17 (22%) had perpetrated family violence against the original Alexis victim in another location (outside the pilot catchment zones); 28 (37%) had perpetrated family violence against a different victim; and 8 of the prior two groups (11%) had perpetrated violence against both Alexis and non-Alexis victims. Those classified as low recidivists before intervention were less likely to have a further recorded incident of family violence during the follow-up period compared to high recidivists. Implications for police and policy-makers are discussed with reference to intimate partner violence and parent abuse by adult children.","PeriodicalId":29902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48080772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The cybercrime illusion: Examining the impact of cybercrime misbeliefs on perceptions of cybercrime seriousness","authors":"Erica R. Fissel, J. R. Lee","doi":"10.1177/26338076231174639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231174639","url":null,"abstract":"Though research examining cybercrime has surged in recent years, studies exploring perceptions concerning these phenomena have been scant. In fact, little is known regarding the extent to which individuals perceive cybercrime as serious, whether exposure to cybercrime terminology elicit similar perceptions of seriousness as behavioural descriptions of cybercrime, and the factors predicting perceptions of cybercrime seriousness. While research examining offline crime has found a significant relationship between individuals’ adoption of misleading stereotypes and perceived crime seriousness, no study to date has explored this association within a cybercrime context. As such, using data collected from 504 Mechanical Turk adult respondents, the current study examined: (1) the extent to which individuals perceived cybercrime (generally) as serious, (2) whether perceptions of cybercrime seriousness were differentially influenced based on whether cybercrime terms (e.g., “hacking”, “cyberstalking”) were provided relative to behavioural definitions, and (3) whether respondents’ adoption of cybercrime misbeliefs significantly impacted perceptions of cybercrime seriousness, net of other factors (i.e., comfort with and use of technology, demographic traits). The findings revealed that while more individuals perceived cybercrime as serious when behavioural definitions were provided, the majority of respondents did not perceive cybercrime (generally) as serious. Further, greater adoption of cybercrime misbeliefs and frequent device use were significant predictors of perceived cybercrime seriousness only when behavioural definitions were given. In addition, older respondents were more likely to view cybercrime as serious, while men were less likely to view cybercrime as serious in both models. Collectively, the findings reveal the need for effective educational and awareness campaigns, which are discussed in detail.","PeriodicalId":29902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminology","volume":"56 1","pages":"150 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48357594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging identity to overcome temporal and financial limitations in rapid ethnography in criminological research","authors":"Nauman Aqil, K. Petrich, R. Gundur","doi":"10.1177/26338076231172521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231172521","url":null,"abstract":"With limited time and funding, scholars who deploy qualitative methodologies to examine deviance and criminogenic contexts, such as ethnography, must leverage sources of capital which reduce time-arcs and costs needed for qualitative research. Traditional ethnographic projects require both significant time and funding; accordingly, several authors have indicated the utility of “rapid ethnographies”, which require less time in the field and funding. By reflecting on three rapid ethnographies, we show how identity is simultaneously a property that informs how research unfolds and a capital that can be leveraged to compensate for temporal and financial deficits. In short, we show that rapid ethnography can be conducted ethically and that identity can counterbalance deficits in monetary and temporal capital when identity is carefully considered in the pre-planning and execution of a rapid ethnographic project.","PeriodicalId":29902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminology","volume":"56 1","pages":"170 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48692707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Insufficient guidance and a lack of preparation”: Police academy training and the reality of police work","authors":"Toby Miles-Johnson","doi":"10.1177/26338076231167880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231167880","url":null,"abstract":"Police academy training is the foundation of police performance. In Australia, police academy programmes are usually delivered internally by police officers and are underpinned by traditional policing practices and acceptable methods of response deemed suitable. There is little research, however, which determines whether Australian police academies adequately prepare recruits to conduct police work or prime recruits for the reality of policing. Analysing data collected from 46 constables working in one of the largest Australian police organisations, this research offers original insight into a previously under-research area regarding the effectiveness of police academy training in preparing recruits for general-duties police work.","PeriodicalId":29902,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminology","volume":"56 1","pages":"213 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48060118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}