AbstractCustomer services has long been a central pillar of drug sellers’ attempts to build and maintain customer loyalty. However, recent years have seen an intensification

of this process. This article draws upon the concept of ‘entrepreneurial bricolage’ to elucidate customer service provisions as a marketing strategy in localized [...]

AbstractChild sexual abuse is presumed to be inherently harmful. During sentencing, the victim’s harm is relevant as a purpose for punishment and for determining the penalty,

and the sentencing remarks communicate the reasons underpinning the offender’s punishment. [...]

AbstractHigher education is consistently offered as a powerful tool of criminal justice reform. Often presumed to be progressive, it is imperative to interrogate the limits

of these orientations. I draw from 41 (n = 41) semi-structured interviews with staff and faculty at 36 criminology departments across Canada to uncover how they [...]

AbstractIn this article, we develop a typology of disablist hate crime that does justice to the lived experience of victims and highlights the differences between disablist

hate crime and other forms of hate crime in England. This research consists of analyses of cases and semi-structured interviews with professionals. [...]

AbstractThis article examines the impact of various challenges on two Norwegian low-security prisons, Bastøy and Leira, during a particularly demanding period. Using ethnographic

fieldwork and in-depth interviews with 51 prisoners, the article applies the conceptual metaphors ‘depth’, ‘weight’, and ‘tightness’ to explore the severity [...]

AbstractEvidence for or against a causal effect of school exclusion on offending is inhibited by random allocation not being available on ethical grounds. To advance understanding

of the connection between school exclusion and offending—specifically, serious violent offending—we emulate a randomized controlled trial using a target trial [...]

AbstractFollowing the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 New York City has undergone challenges to its status as a refuge to the teeming masses

of the globe. Based on recent research in New York City, we trace the policing of its migrant communities as the US state has resorted to punitive measures to regulate [...]

AbstractThe Probation Service for England & Wales offers an important case study for those who are interested in the impact(s) of organizational change on workers in criminal

justice and, in particular, the identity work that they engage in as they move through frequent iterations of change. [...]

AbstractHope and optimism are central to processes of reform. However, in the context of the dramatic restructuring and reorganizations that the probation service in England

and Wales has undergone in the past decade, there are questions over the extent to which such hopes are realizable. [...]

AbstractThis paper argues that US unilateral economic and financial sanctions on Latin American countries constitute state crime. Although critical scholarship on sanctions

has shown that these coercive measures contravene international law and harm the populations of targeted countries, criminological scholarship has neglected the analysis [...]