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Honour-based violence and intimate partner homicide in Portugal 葡萄牙基于荣誉的暴力和亲密伴侣谋杀

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100818

Marlene Matos , Jacinta Sousa , Isabel Dias , Margarida Santos

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Corrigendum to “You wouldn’t want to get rid of criminal justice processes’: tensions involved with criminalising family abuse based on identities of gender and sexuality in England and Wales” [IJLCJ Vol 83 (2025) 100798] “你不会想摆脱刑事司法程序”的勘误表：在英格兰和威尔士，基于性别和性取向的家庭虐待犯罪化所涉及的紧张关系[IJLCJ Vol 83 (2025) 100798]

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100815

Catherine Donovan , Geetanjali Gangoli , Aisha K. Gill

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Finding employment in the stigma machine: Reflections from Canada’s penal voluntary sector 在耻辱机器中寻找工作：来自加拿大刑事志愿部门的反思

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2026.100828

Samantha McAleese

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Bureaucratized snitch markets: The commodification of criminal intelligence under China's ligong regime 官僚化的告密者市场：中共政权下的犯罪情报商品化

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2026.100829

Xiyu Wu

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Assessing the efficiency of penitentiary system in Minas Gerais, Brazil: Evidence from Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) 巴西米纳斯吉拉斯州监狱系统效率评估：来自数据包络分析（DEA）的证据

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2026.100824

Maria Eduarda Souza Costa , Leandro Moreira , Enzo Barberio Mariano , Diogo Ferraz

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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 : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100775

Richard J. Stringer , Nicole Gatipon

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Resettlement and citizenship in Iceland: The role and position of halfway house Vernd 冰岛的重新安置和公民身份：中途之家凡尔德的作用和地位

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100806

Francis Pakes , Helgi Gunnlaugsson

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Forced marriage in Finland: A continuum from honour-based violence to human trafficking 芬兰的强迫婚姻：从基于荣誉的暴力到人口贩运的连续体

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International Journal of Law Crime and Justice Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100793

Anniina Jokinen

{"title":"Forced marriage in Finland: A continuum from honour-based violence to human trafficking","authors":"Anniina Jokinen","doi":"10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100793","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100793","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forced marriage is a globally under-reported crime, widely recognized as a violation of human rights and a form of gender-based and honour-based violence. It is also closely linked to human trafficking. In Finland, forced marriage is not criminalised as a separate offence but is primarily conceptualized as a form of human trafficking. Given the limited research on forced marriage in Finland, this article deliberately focuses on describing the phenomenon and its manifestations. Using the concept of the continuum of violence, the article examines how professionals in Finland navigate forced marriage cases along the continuum from honour-based violence to human trafficking. Based on a thematic analysis of semi-structured expert interviews, the study explores how professionals identify and interpret gendered and honour-based violence in the context of forced marriage and trafficking, and how they operationalise this understanding in practice. The article highlights the multi-dimensional continuum of abuse, exploitation, and control experienced by victims. Particular attention is paid to how professionals identify and address forced marriage through victim support and criminal justice systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Law Crime and Justice","volume":"83 ","pages":"Article 100793"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145684763","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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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 : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100773

Dwayne Antojado

{"title":"Embodied overcrowding and sensory tensions: A carceral autoethnography of Philippine jails","authors":"Dwayne Antojado","doi":"10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100773","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100773","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, I undertake a sensorially oriented autoethnography of two Philippine jails, illuminating the visceral textures of carceral life that conventional sociological or criminological discourses often overlook. Drawing inspiration from Jewkes and Young's (2021) examination of Kyoto Prison, I foreground the overlapping realms of sight, sound, smell, and touch, arguing that incarceration is inherently a profoundly embodied phenomenon. By weaving personal reflections, field observations, and broader scholarly insights, I reveal how overcrowded dormitories, suffocating heat, and lingering bodily odours converge to redefine detainees' spatial, temporal, and psychosocial realities in ways rarely captured by quantitative metrics. While mindful of Nelken's (2009) caution against ethnocentrism and simplistic cross-cultural comparisons, I situate this Philippine context within a global conversation on punitive confinement, underscoring the urgent need for sensorially attuned research, policy, and praxis. Ultimately, this paper advocates for a radical reconsideration of punishment's sensory dimensions in the pursuit of more humane (if ever possible) penal landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46026,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Law Crime and Justice","volume":"83 ","pages":"Article 100773"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144932436","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 : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijlcj.2025.100776

Susanne Nothhafft

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