{"title":"The Norwegian Prison System: Halden Prison and Beyond","authors":"John R. Whitman","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12620","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 3","pages":"415-417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145110879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen Farrall, Jason Warr, Abigail Shaw, Kanupriya Sharma
{"title":"What Do We Know About How Processes of Desistance Vary by Ethnicity?","authors":"Stephen Farrall, Jason Warr, Abigail Shaw, Kanupriya Sharma","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12606","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper reviews what is known about ethnic identity and the processes by which people cease offending. Whilst the past 30 years have seen dramatic growth in what is known about desistance, in many jurisdictions, there is a paucity of research which examines this in terms of ethnicity or ethnic variations. We therefore review what is empirically known about ethnicity and desistance. Whilst this review draws from the global literature, our focus is on what this literature tells us about ethnicity and desistance from a British perspective. We find that the majority of these have been undertaken in the United States (although there are some European and Australasian studies). Few studies, however, have fully unpacked the role of racism (in terms of institutional processes or overt prejudice and hostility) and that there have been very few studies of the roles played by ethnicity in processes of desistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 3","pages":"279-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hojo.12606","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145111086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women Prisoners Regulating Prisons: Did Corston Achieve Networked, Participatory Regulation?","authors":"Gillian Buck, Philippa Tomczak","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12604","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Prison regulators across scales hold potential to illuminate harms of imprisonment and influence alternatives, yet criminologists rarely engage with these mechanisms. We analyse prisoners’ participatory roles in the ‘transformative’ <i>Corston Report</i> (2007) and <i>The Corston Report 10 Years On</i>, using actor-network-theory to guide document analysis. <i>Corston</i> called for a radically different, woman-centred approach to criminal justice, but women's voices were often peripheral, or they were constructed as ‘pathetic’. There is unrealised potential for regulatory efforts to network imprisoned women and their families with other regulators, deepening understanding of problems connected to prisons, for broader social benefit.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 3","pages":"405-414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hojo.12604","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145110770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Dealing With People as We See Fit’: Framing Police Decisions to (and not to) Arrest in the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Camilla De Camargo, Fred Cram","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12602","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic required police officers in England and Wales to enforce new public health restrictions (e.g., stay-at-home directives, social distancing requirements and mask mandates), as well as navigate the risk that COVID-19 posed to their own health and safety during interactions with the public. From a practical standpoint, these factors changed the nature of the policing task significantly, with previously routine police decision-making (e.g., whether or not to carry out stops, searches, arrests and/or detentions) necessarily responding not only to traditional concerns around suspicion and evidence but also directly to these novel legal and organisational challenges. Findings from interviews carried out in 2020 and 2022 with 18 police officers from 11 different forces in England and Wales suggest that well-established predictors of arrest decisions (e.g., offence severity, evidence and/or the pursuit of culturally orientated objectives) were disrupted due to broader considerations, uniquely related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article uses Keith Hawkins’ (2002) conceptual framework of criminal justice decision-making—surround, field and frame—as an explanatory device to help us understand arrest and non-arrest decisions of street-level police officers during this period, despite the existence of sufficient evidence to support such action.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 3","pages":"382-394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hojo.12602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145110673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Talitha Brown, Maria Adams, Daniel McCarthy, Erin Power, Vicki Harman, Jon Garland
{"title":"‘We Still Have a Duty of Care, but How Legitimate Is Her Allergy to Fish?’ Practitioner Engagement in Food Practices in Women's Prison","authors":"Talitha Brown, Maria Adams, Daniel McCarthy, Erin Power, Vicki Harman, Jon Garland","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12603","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper aims to explore how staff members in women's prisons understand their role in relation to the food practices. Given the budgetary restrictions, staff shortages and overall concerns around the quality of food in prison, there is a critical gap in engaging with these staff perspectives which urgently needs addressing. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in four women's prisons in England, this paper will explore the food practices in prison from a range of staff (<i>n</i> = 10). The paper focuses on the following themes: (i) understanding the different ways in which staff navigate structural issues in serving food practices; (ii) examining how staff manage the expectations of women in prison around food; (iii) analysing how they link food practices to notion of normality; and (iv) exploring the ways in which staff navigate the debates on whether food should be seen as a form of punishment or rehabilitation.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 3","pages":"395-404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hojo.12603","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145110967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura MacDiarmid, Carolyn Yule, Nina Hay Cooper, Ethan McCance
{"title":"A Post-Pandemic Bail System: Lessons Learned From Supervising Accused During Covid-19","authors":"Laura MacDiarmid, Carolyn Yule, Nina Hay Cooper, Ethan McCance","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12601","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Socio-legal research has begun charting lessons learned from the pandemic; however, there is a noticeable gap regarding how the pre-conviction phase of the criminal justice system was disrupted. Survey data from bail supervisors across Ontario, Canada, highlights which adaptations introduced during the pandemic are detrimental versus those that may be useful. Results suggest obstacles to accessing and navigating bail, a lack of rapport between accused and bail supervisors, and a dearth of social services, deepened pre-existing deficits of the bail system and further eroded the regulatory and relational aspects of supervision. On the other hand, the benefits of hybrid reporting and flexibility in decision-making allow us to reassess existing approaches to bail release. Our results reveal opportunities for improving the operation and legitimacy of bail supervision, while highlighting the tensions in risk management for those tasked with monitoring accused during the pandemic.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 3","pages":"372-381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145111314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Living with desistance: Breaking the cycle By David Honeywell. Abingdon: Routledge. 2024. pp. 166. £104.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781032228440; £31.19 (pbk). ISBN: 9781032228457; £35.99 (ebk). ISBN: 9781003274452","authors":"M. Doherty","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12599","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 2","pages":"271-273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144074768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The voice of the community in the criminal justice system: Democratic participation in prosecution","authors":"Gustavo A. Beade","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12598","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores a pivotal moment where active community engagement plays a crucial role in the criminal process. It argues for the consistent representation of the community by prosecutors, emphasising their role in holding fellow citizens accountable or deciding not to prosecute based on various discretion criteria. This necessitates that prosecutors engage in discussions with the community on specific issues. Drawing on a deliberative democracy approach, the article aims to demonstrate the importance of public participation in the criminal process and to reshape the role of prosecutors.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 3","pages":"358-371"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145110881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the reciprocal relationship of unstructured socialising with peers and delinquency: A cross-lagged analysis","authors":"Robert J. L. Archer","doi":"10.1111/hojo.12596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12596","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Osgood et al. (1996) established a reformulated theory to better explain patterns of situational offending, coined the routine activity theory of general deviance or more commonly known as unstructured socialising with peers (USWP). The present study seeks to explore whether the association between USWP and delinquency/substance use may influence one another over time in a reciprocal manner. Results showed that although not happening instantly, property delinquency and USWP form a reciprocal relationship, Similar findings were reported for substance use. Violent delinquency, however, influences USWP but not in a reciprocal manner. The study concludes with theoretical implications, limitations and directions for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":37514,"journal":{"name":"Howard Journal of Crime and Justice","volume":"64 3","pages":"307-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145110832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}