International Journal of Law Crime and Justice最新文献

Recruits' motivations for joining the police: A scoping review 新兵加入警察的动机：范围审查

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100788

Franklin Epiphanio, Aquino Alves Mário

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Uncovering judges’ gender effects in Brazilian sentencing: A counter-hegemonic role of women in the criminal justice system? 揭露法官在巴西量刑中的性别效应：女性在刑事司法系统中的反霸权角色？

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100789

Gabriel Silveira de Queirós Campos , Américo Bedê Jr. , Elda Coelho de Azevedo Bussinguer , Hugo Batista da Silva

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An emotional exit: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the drivers for leaving and mental health of ex police officers 情感退出：前警官离职动因与心理健康的解释性现象学分析

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100787

S.J. Lennie , S.E. Crozier , A. Sutton

{"title":"An emotional exit: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the drivers for leaving and mental health of ex police officers","authors":"S.J. Lennie , S.E. Crozier , A. Sutton","doi":"10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100787","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100787","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the emotional labour of ex England and Wales police officers and charts the impact upon their mental health and pathways to leaving their roles. Utilising Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis this paper focuses on the unrestricted voice of officers who have left the service and are no longer bound by the ‘feeling and display rules’ of their profession, thereby offering a unique perspective not often captured by work and stress research. Phenomenological interviews were conducted with seven ex-police officers. Four key drivers for leaving (Consequences and Trust, Self-Sacrifice and Worthlessness, Relationship Breakdown, and Dissociation and Depersonalisation – a culture) intersect as powerful detrimental narratives, illustrating damaging organisational expectations of emotional suppression leading to avoidant coping and emotional alienation, with officers expressing a range of dissociative behaviours. Organisational policy and procedures, and the attitude of senior officers and supervisors send clear signals that emotional expression is a weakness. Implications for theory and practice are illuminated and the paper provides a mapping that illustrates numerous examples of damaging organisational expectations about emotional suppression that accumulate over time and impact individual and organisational consequences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Law Crime and Justice","volume":"83 ","pages":"Article 100787"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145118190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Women's bodies between passion and honour. Why the German Criminal Code needs to integrate a gender-specific qualifying characteristic in the criminal section for homicide 女人的身体在激情和荣誉之间。为什么德国刑法需要在杀人罪的刑事部分整合一个性别特定的资格特征

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100776

Susanne Nothhafft

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The path from childhood to crime: Adverse childhood experiences, personality, substance abuse, and criminal decision-making 从童年到犯罪的道路：不良的童年经历、个性、药物滥用和犯罪决策

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100775

Richard J. Stringer , Nicole Gatipon

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Embodied overcrowding and sensory tensions: A carceral autoethnography of Philippine jails 具体化的过度拥挤和感官紧张：菲律宾监狱的囚犯自我民族志

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100773

Dwayne Antojado

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Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue: Feminist approaches to justice: Contributions to CSW68 特刊：女权主义的正义途径：对CSW68的贡献

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100749

Dawn Beichner-Thomas , Rosemary Barberet , Sheetal Ranjan

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Criminalisation of forced marriages in Poland: the critical analyses of the reasons behind this current legal change 波兰对强迫婚姻的刑事定罪：对当前法律变化背后原因的批判性分析

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-08-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100774

Witold Klaus

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Re-employment barriers: An empirical study on employment opportunities for Chinese ex-offenders 再就业障碍：中国刑满释放人员就业机会的实证研究

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100772

Zheng Li , Xifen Lin

{"title":"Re-employment barriers: An empirical study on employment opportunities for Chinese ex-offenders","authors":"Zheng Li , Xifen Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100772","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100772","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Influenced by a range of structural and institutional factors, individuals in China who have completed their prison sentences often encounter greater challenges in securing employment compared to their counterparts in other countries. Based on in-depth interviews with 358 respondents in City S, our research reveals that criminal records have a persistent and long-term negative impact on the employment prospects of ex-offenders in China. We argue that although the existing legal framework imposes numerous employment restrictions on individuals with criminal records, these formal limitations are not the primary cause of their employment difficulties. Rather, entrenched employment discrimination—transmitted from the state to the market—constitutes the most significant barrier to their reintegration into the labor force. Moreover, the experience of criminal punishment diminishes individuals’ employment capabilities, while the enduring nature of the criminal record undermines the potential benefits of personal attributes such as skills, health, and social networks. This latter dynamic represents a secondary barrier to successful reemployment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Law Crime and Justice","volume":"82 ","pages":"Article 100772"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144863681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Discerning qualitative changes in offense characteristics across time: An examination of past and present Korean paternal filicides 辨别犯罪特征的质变：对过去和现在的韩国父亲杀女行为的调查

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100771

Phillip Shon , Leah C.J. Shon

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