Criminology

Judges, the media, and rape

by Paul Bagguley

FLYER: THE CYBERCRIME HANDBOOK

by Art Bowker

In the early 1990s, professionals began to question how to address offender computer use while on supervision, but in... more In the early 1990s, professionals began to question how to address offender computer use while on supervision, but in the past ten years, tools emerged that were specifically developed
for triage and field forensics. As these were rapidly embraced, it was still unclear what professionals could look for, how to look for it, and how to interpret what they found. This unique book resolves those issues. The book provides a clear outline of what can and should be done regarding the management of offender computer use. Not only does the text help community
corrections professionals understand how to monitor computer use, but it helps realize how information gained during monitoring can assist in overall case management. The book takes the reader through all the paces of managing offender cyber-risk
and is meant specifically for pretrial, probation, parole, and community sanction officers. The chapters are organized by major areas, such as community corrections and cyberspace, understanding the options, condition legality, operational legality,
accessing cyber-risk, computer education, principles of effective computer monitoring, search and seizure, deploying monitoring software, and online investigations. Additionally, numerous appendices provide a wealth of information regarding model forms, questionnaires, and worksheets. This book moves the reader toward a more informed use of the technology that is now readily available to effectively manage offenders' digital behavior.

Toom, Victor. 2012. "Bodies of science and law: forensic DNA profiling, biological bodies and biopower." Journal of Law and Society 39(1):150-66.

by Victor Toom

The paper is part of the Special Issue 'Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society', edited by Chris Lawless and Alex Faulkner.

How is jurisdiction transferred from an individual’s biological body to agents of power such as the police, public... more How is jurisdiction transferred from an individual’s biological body to agents of power such as the police, public prosecutor and judiciary, and what happens to these biological bodies when transformed from private into public objects? These questions are examined by analyzing bodies situated at the intersection of science and law. More specifically, the transformation of ‘private bodies’ into ‘public bodies’ shall be analyzed by going into the details of forensic DNA profiling in the Dutch jurisdiction. It will be argued that various ‘forensic genetic practices’ enact different ‘forensic genetic bodies’. These enacted forensic genetic bodies are connected with various infringements of civil rights, which become articulated in exploring these forensic genetic bodies’ ‘normative registers’.

Savunma Adli Tıp Akademisi (TBB ATA)

by S.Sinan Kocaoglu

KOCAOĞLU S. Sinan- HANCI Hamit, "Adli Tıp ve Ceza Hukuku: Prof. Dr. Hamit HANCI'ya Armağan", Seçkin Yayınları, Proje Yöneticisi: Prof. D.r Kayıhan İÇEL, Editör: Prof. Dr. Yener ÜNVER, Ankara, 2011, s. 14-25.

Silahların eşitliğinisağlayabilmek için savunmanın elinde de bir Adli Tıp Kurumu ya da Kriminoloji Enstitüsü'nün... more Silahların eşitliğinisağlayabilmek için savunmanın elinde de bir Adli Tıp Kurumu ya da Kriminoloji Enstitüsü'nün olması gerekir. Bu araştırmanın ceza muhakemesine yönelik bölümleri Yrd. Doç. Dr. S. Sinan KOCAOĞLU, Adli Tıp ile ilgili kısımları ise Prof. Dr. Hamit HANCI tararfından yazılmıştır. Dileriz Türkiye Barolar Birliği asıl vazifesi olan savunmanın bağımsızlığı ilkesini gerçekleştirmek için bu kurumu ivedi bir şekilde kurar.

El antiterrorismo como paradigma de desaliento de la participación ciudadana

by Matias Bailone

Retribution and Capital Punishment

by Thom Brooks

in Mark D. White (ed.), Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 232-45.

This article argues that retributivists should reject capital punishment even if we held that murderers could deserve... more This article argues that retributivists should reject capital punishment even if we held that murderers could deserve the death penalty.

Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2011) ‘Crime, Fear of Crime and Punitiveness’, in L. K. Cheliotis and S. Xenakis (eds) Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives, pp. 1-43. Bern: Peter Lang AG. (With a response by Jonathan Jackson, Monica Gerber and Carolyn Côté-Lussier, pp. 45-64).

by Leonidas Cheliotis

Over the last the three decades, punitiveness on the part of the state in Greece in the field of law and order has... more Over the last the three decades, punitiveness on the part of the state in Greece in the field of law and order has been on the ascent. The most obvious indicator of this has been the steeply rising use of imprisonment. A striking accompaniment of state punitiveness has been punitive public opinion. As soon as one broaches the question of why this is the case, however, one is confronted with at least two puzzling findings. First, the prevalence of crime has only risen modestly, in sharp disproportion to the high recorded levels of fear of criminal victimisation, of distrust in the police and judicial authorities, and of public punitiveness. And second, fear of criminal victimisation itself does not axiomatically bear a positive correlation with expressed public support for state punitiveness, though it does predict lack of confidence in criminal justice authorities. This chapter sets out to review these contradictions and the limits of available explanations. We begin by outlining the different ways in which Greece’s authoritarian past and the dictatorship of 1967-1974 in particular are thought to have influenced state and public punitiveness in the years that have followed. The next section summarises scholarly and commercial research on the levels and patterns of fear of crime and public punitiveness in contemporary Greece, as both distinct and interrelated themes. Attention is then drawn to the disconnect between crime and imprisonment rates as an illustrative example of the irrational foundations of state punitiveness and its degree of public support; a disconnect that is all the more prominent when examined with reference to the nationality of prisoners. Taking inspiration from political economies of punishment in jurisdictions elsewhere, the remainder of the chapter points to state deployment of a law-and-order discourse and the use of punishment as symbolic devices by which social insecurities, generated in large part by the state itself, are displaced and discharged onto suitably weak subsections of the population.

Homicide, violence and developmental trajectories

by Eric Lacourse

Trajectories of prosocial behavior and physical aggression in middle childhood: Links to adolescent school dropout and physical violence

by Eric Lacourse

A longitudinal-experimental approach to testing theories of antisocial behavior development

by Eric Lacourse

Developmental trajectories of boys' delinquent group membership and facilitation of violent behaviors during adolescence

by Eric Lacourse

Enemies and Citizens of the State: Die Boeremag as the Face of Postapartheid Otherness

by Kathryn Henne

Critical Criminology: An International Journal 19(4), 2011

This examination is a case study analysis of the Mail & Guardian’s news coverage surrounding the ongoing trial of... more This examination is a case study analysis of the Mail & Guardian’s news coverage surrounding the ongoing trial of members of the separatist group, die Boeremag. The 22 defendants stand accused of treason and 41 other criminal charges for the 2002 bombings of Soweto and conspiring to establish an independent Boer state. Utilizing a race critical lens, this analysis looks at these news representations of Afrikaner nationalists to glean insight into how law, race and racism can imbricate public understandings of crime, specifically, in this case, domestic terrorism. It draws attention to the ways in which this fundamentalist group emerges as a repugnant Other and interrogates their roles within the “imagined” postapartheid South African community, the newspaper’s target audience. After explicating these dynamics, the paper concludes with a discussion of how this case study relates to practical dilemmas that stem from the utopian ideologies of reconciliation and nonracialism.

Prediction of early-onset deviant peer group affiliation: a 12-year longitudinal study

by Eric Lacourse

Two‐year predictive validity of conduct disorder subtypes in early adolescence: a latent class analysis of a Canadian longitudinal sample

by Eric Lacourse

Unemployment, Inequality, Poverty and Crime: Spatial Distribution Patterns of Criminal Acts in Belgium, 2001-2006

by Bram Vanhoutte

Hooghe, M., Vanhoutte, B., Hardyns, W., Bircan, T. (2011). Unemployment, Inequality, Poverty and Crime. Spatial Distribution Patterns of Criminal Acts in Belgium. British Journal of Criminology, 51(1), 1-20.

Why is US defence spending still at Cold War levels despite the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

by Owais Rajput

Children of the Abyss: Permutations of Childhood in South Africa’s Child Justice Act

by James Maguire

This article critically examines recent legislation in South Africa intended to systematically overhaul the country’s... more This article critically examines recent legislation in South Africa intended to systematically overhaul the country’s juvenile justice regime. Developed and heatedly debated over the course of a decade, the Child Justice Act implements novel procedural protections and large-scale restorative justice programs. By analyzing the political history, social context, and evolving text of the Child Justice Act, I call into question prevailing assumptions about post-apartheid South Africa’s socio-legal history. Close examination of the act’s major drafts (in 2002, 2007, and 2008) reveals a set of tensions in the political and rhetorical status of youths as alternately victims of circumstance and threats to society. Rather than confronting and resolving this tension, which subverts the linear logic of post-apartheid “transition”, the act reinscribes that tension in a new vocabulary and logic of governance and social management. Contemporary South African history thus demonstrates a pattern not of transition but of problematic permutations.

FUHUŞ YAPTIRMAK AMACIYLA İNSAN TİCARETİ SUÇUNUN YÖNTEMİ VE MAĞDURLARI (ISPARTA ÖRNEĞİ)

by Veysel Dinler

Formosa S., Scicluna S., Azzopardi J., Formosa Pace J., Calafato T., (2011), The Research Road We Make: Statistics for the Uninitiated, NSO, Valletta

by Trevor Calafato

As part of our efforts to ensure that the level of tuition is of the highest standards, five lecturers from the... more As part of our efforts to ensure that the level of tuition is of the highest standards, five lecturers from the Institute of Criminology, at the University of Malta, embarked on a project that was aimed to create a fundamental document which students can refer to during their research efforts as well as through the "tough" times that the longer research modules such as the dissertation elicit. This publication serves as the basis for the research methods modules.


In view of this, the Institute of Criminology at the University of Malta and the National Statistics Office will be launching the book "The Research Road We Make: Statistics for the Uninitiated" on Friday 23rd September 2011 at 09:30 at the Gateway Building Hall B1, University of Malta.



This publication is the result of a joint collaboration between the two entities that are responsible for the full spectrum of the research process and the eventual statistical analysis and publication of key information. The book brings forward research and statistics in an easy-to-understand and graphic method which ensures that even the "uninitiated" understand the processes involved in creating reliable information for consumption by the student and academic as well as the general public.

The NSO kindly agreed to sell this 279-page full-colour book at cost-price of Eur25 to ensure full dissemination at an affordable price.


Please do contact the undersigned or the NSO's External Cooperation and Communication Unit to reserve a copy.


We would like to see you at the launch since it encourages us to continue these efforts and also to enable you to get a glimpse of the goodies in the book!

Reifying Crime, Legitimising Racism: Policing, Local Authorities and Left Realism'

by Karim Murji