M. Benson, S. Messner, M. Levi, S. Farrall, S. Karstedt
{"title":"Review Symposium: Respectable Citizens—Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes","authors":"M. Benson, S. Messner, M. Levi, S. Farrall, S. Karstedt","doi":"10.1093/BJC/AZAB012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/BJC/AZAB012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48244,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Criminology","volume":"61 1","pages":"872-885"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/BJC/AZAB012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43480261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parental Migration and Children’s Problem Behaviours in Rural China: Testing an Integrative Theoretical Model","authors":"Xiaojin Chen","doi":"10.1093/BJC/AZAB028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/BJC/AZAB028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study aims to investigate the social mechanism underlying the associations between parental migration and left-behind children’s delinquent and deviant behaviours in rural China. Using a middle school student sample, our results reveal that the effects of parental migration on children’s delinquency differ across caretaking arrangements. Specifically, compared with children living with non-migrant parents, those cared for by a remaining father (with a mother migrated) or by one grandparent (with both parents migrated) had weaker bonding with primary caretakers and schools, which led to delinquency and deviance directly or indirectly through more frequent association with deviant peers. In contrast, children living with a remaining mother or with two grandparents did not differ significantly from those living with non-migrant parents.","PeriodicalId":48244,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47806679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exception, Symbolism and Compromise: The Resilience of Treason as a Capital offence","authors":"R. Dudai","doi":"10.1093/BJC/AZAB036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/BJC/AZAB036","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the causes, forms and consequences of the resilience of treason as a capital offence. Though generally overlooked by the literature on the death penalty, treason has been the second most common capital offence—after murder—in states’ law books in the post-WWII world and has had tangible effects on abolition trajectories. The article first traces the transformation of treason from the paradigmatic capital offence in the pre-modern era to a peripheral yet persistent component of contemporary death penalty. It then analyses and explains the dynamic of ‘exempting’ treason from abolition for common crimes. The third section examines situations where treason remains a capital offence on the books but is rarely used, functioning as ‘symbolic law’ with important consequences and spillover effects. In the conclusion, I argue that treason laws could become a central obstacle in the path to full global abolition of the death penalty.","PeriodicalId":48244,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/BJC/AZAB036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48533517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politics, Research Design, and the ‘Architecture’ of Criminal Careers Studies","authors":"S. Farrall","doi":"10.1093/BJC/AZAB033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/BJC/AZAB033","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Criminal careers research is one of the bedrocks—if not the bedrock—of criminology. It remains a key focal point of criminological research and has embraced ideas and theories from sociology, psychology, psychiatry and urban and community studies. Despite the widening of the landscape of what might be termed ‘the criminological enterprise’ (to include victimology, prisons research, punishment, deterrence and environmental criminology), criminal careers (now differentiated into studies of onset, persistence and desistance) remains a key plank of criminology. This article critiques the research design of longitudinal studies of criminal careers, arguing that a key explanatory factor has been consistently overlooked in criminal careers research due, in part, to the research design of such studies. In focussing on the role of politically motivated changes to economic policies and the restructuring of the industrial base this produced, I empirically relate individual offending careers to politics in ways very few have done before. The article touches upon a series of suggestions for how empirical studies of criminal careers might be improved.","PeriodicalId":48244,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44024115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ben Collier, R. Clayton, Alice Hutchings, Daniel R. Thomas
{"title":"Cybercrime is (often) Boring: Infrastructure and Alienation in a Deviant Subculture","authors":"Ben Collier, R. Clayton, Alice Hutchings, Daniel R. Thomas","doi":"10.1093/BJC/AZAB026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/BJC/AZAB026","url":null,"abstract":"The boredom and alienation produced by capitalist societies and countervailing forces of attraction and excitement are at the heart of the subcultural account of crime. The underground hacker subculture is no exception, commonly represented as based around exciting, technically skilled practices and high-profile deviance. However, the illicit economy associated with these practices has become industrialized, developing shared infrastructures that facilitate the sale of illicit services rather than skilled technical work. We explore how this shift in the nature of work has shaped the culture and experiences of this subculture. Developing a novel concept—the ‘illicit infrastructure’—and drawing on an extensive analysis of empirical data from interviews and novel data sources such as forums and chat channels, we argue that as they industrialize, deviant subcultures can begin to replicate the division of labour, cultural tensions and conditions of alienation present in mainstream capitalist economies.","PeriodicalId":48244,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42375219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The policing of cuckooing in ‘County Lines’ drug dealing: an ethnographic study of an amplification spiral","authors":"J. Spicer","doi":"10.1093/BJC/AZAB027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/BJC/AZAB027","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Responding to cases of ‘cuckooing’, where drug dealers take over other people’s homes, has become a significant policing activity in the United Kingdom. Drawing on ethnographic data and the deviancy amplification spiral model, this article theorizes how police responses to cuckooing emerged, developed and became established. Five stages of the spiral are outlined: identifying cuckooing as a problem; demonstrating a response; spreading the problem; making it other people’s problem too; the establishment of a policing priority. The article advances amplification theory by considering it from within the setting of the police and the contemporary drug supply context of County Lines. It concludes by stressing the importance of critically considering the dynamic relationship between the police and their drug market targets.","PeriodicalId":48244,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43778706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael Adorjan, Rosemary Ricciardelli, James Gacek
{"title":"'We're both here to do a job and that's all that matters': Cisgender correctional officer recruit reflections within an unsettled correctional prison culture.","authors":"Michael Adorjan, Rosemary Ricciardelli, James Gacek","doi":"10.1093/bjc/azab006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reflecting on new trans prisoner placement policies within Canadian federal prisons, in light of recent changes instigated under the Canadian Liberal Trudeau government, we provide knowledge from cisgender correctional officer (CO) recruits regarding these policy changes and underscore their views of working with officers who identify as transgender. Canada's new policies recognize the presence of trans prisoners and create new protocols accordingly, simultaneously challenging some of the foundational tenets of the carceral system. While overwhelming support exists from cisgender recruits for their trans colleagues, support among a relative minority of COs is contingent upon notions like safety and security grounded in a dominantly cisgender prison culture; a culture we situate within the wider context of an <i>unsettled</i> correctional prison culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":48244,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Criminology","volume":"61 5","pages":"1372-1389"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/bjc/azab006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39390498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Legitimacy of Change: Adopting/Adapting, Implementing and Sustaining Reforms within Community Corrections Agencies.","authors":"Danielle S Rudes, Shannon Portillo, Faye S Taxman","doi":"10.1093/bjc/azab020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many criminal justice institutions implement evidence-based reforms. While most scholars are aware of implementation challenges, we still know relatively little about sustainability. Using longitudinal data from criminal legal staff implementing an evidence-based reform, this paper considers: <i>What happens during the implementation of an organizational reform that affects continued use of these reforms?</i> Guided by an organizational change framework, findings suggest sustainability aligns with key organizational goals including legitimacy, efficiency and effectiveness. While all sites saw the reformed practices as legitimate enough to initially consider adoption, two sites never adopted, four sites toyed with reform, and two sites continued to use the reform after the study was over. This paper explores sustainability and identifies legitimacy as an important factor that affects the routinization of new practices. Transformation of organizational change initiatives into routine practices should consider efforts to build legitimacy in lieu of primarily rationalizing on the values of efficiency and effectiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":48244,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Criminology","volume":"61 6","pages":"1665-1683"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/bjc/azab020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39568871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nested Complex Crime: Assessing the Convergence of Wildlife Trafficking, Organized Crime and Loose Criminal Networks","authors":"William D. Moreto, D. Uhm","doi":"10.1093/BJC/AZAB005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/BJC/AZAB005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Wildlife trafficking is considered to be an example of a transnational organized crime by policymakers and enforcement agencies. Empirically, however, there is mixed support for this. Recently, there has been increased attention on the convergence of different illegal activities in an effort to share resources, personnel and transport routes. The present study attempts to qualitatively examine the intersection of wildlife trafficking and organized crime from a crime mutualism framework in order to explore how these criminal activities and entities converge. Based on fieldwork conducted in Uganda and China, we find that while organized crime appears to have a presence in illegal wildlife markets, such involvement appears to be more relevant during specific stages. Furthermore, it appears that illegal wildlife markets in both case studies reflect both loose, informal criminal networks and more organized crime groups. These findings have implications for the criminological study of and the response to complex wildlife crime.","PeriodicalId":48244,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/BJC/AZAB005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48208119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. N. Brehm, Laura C. Frizzell, C. Uggen, Evelyn A. Gertz
{"title":"Consequences of Judging in Transitional Justice Courts","authors":"H. N. Brehm, Laura C. Frizzell, C. Uggen, Evelyn A. Gertz","doi":"10.1093/BJC/AZAB008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/BJC/AZAB008","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Research has found that participation in transitional justice (TJ) is associated with increased social capital and decreased well-being. This article extends this scholarship by examining how TJ mechanisms affect the social capital and well-being of the people who implement them via interviews with 135 Rwandan gacaca court judges. In terms of well-being, judges discuss pride and confidence yet also highlight stress and trauma. In terms of social capital, many judges are now mediators and local leaders, though numerous judges have also experienced grudges from the families of those they sentenced. These negative consequences were particularly prominent among judges with more authority.","PeriodicalId":48244,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1093/BJC/AZAB008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48944904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}