🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Our deadline for proposals for our 2028 special issue is fast approaching! If you are interested in guest-editing for #TheoreticalCrim, submit your proposal by this Wednesday, April 15th. Guidelines here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
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#TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce our first #EditorsChoice pick of 2026: @anaaliverti.bsky.social and Simon Tawfic's 'Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing.' Read it in our #OpenAccess collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...
NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim. 'Discursive constructions of masculinity in campaigns addressing gender violence in London' by @sarah-steele.bsky.social and @tylershores.bsky.social is now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 #TheoreticalCrim is currently accepting proposals for our 2028 Special Issue. If you are interested in guest editing for Theoretical Criminology, submit your proposal before APRIL 15. Submission guidelines here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026 wraps up with @cadigonia.bsky.social's review of Owusu-Bempah Akwasi and Rehmatullah Tahira's 'Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice'. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Also in #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026: read @imenelamouri.bsky.social's review of the book 'After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania' by Hassan Ould Moctar: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read "‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X" by @drconorwilson.bsky.social. Available #OpenAccess in #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026: Gabreélla Friday, Joshua Price, and Nicola Satchell's 'Temporicide: Waiting, punishment, and (social) death.' Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read 'Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state' by Alex Black and @drvickyheap.bsky.social! Available #OpenAccess as part of #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read '‘History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings’: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility' by Sara K. Thompson, Ajay Sandhu & Claudia Koziol in our 1st issue of 2026: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Elizabeth Ruth Turner and Mike Rowe's 'Beyond ‘police discretion’: The need for a new conceptual vocabulary.' Available #OpenAccess as part of #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Also in the first issue of our 30th volume of #TheoreticalCrim, read 'The securitization of research ethics: Navigating the ethics of engaging criminalized voices' by @alexisrowland.bsky.social, @joannedecaro.bsky.social and @kerametr.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read 'Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing' by @anaaliverti.bsky.social and Simon Tawfic, available #OpenAccess as part of #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Zelia Gallo's 'Concepts and conditions of penal moderation: Penal policy, public philosophy, and political ideologies. Theoretical reflections from Italy (2010–2018),' available #OpenAccess as part of #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Introducing our 30th Volume of #TheoreticalCrim, read our 2026 'Editorial' by Editors-in-Chief @anaaliverti.bsky.social and Leslie Paik. Available online now: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026 is now available! Celebrate 30 years of Theoretical Criminology by checking out our latest collection of articles and book reviews online🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/30/1
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is currently accepting proposals for our 2028 special issue! Check out our guidelines here and submit your proposal before April 15! journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...
NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim: 'Pharmaceutical pacification: Racialized superhumanization and low-intensity social war' by Travis Linnemann and Corina D. Medley is now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is pleased to announce the 2025 Best Article Prize has been awarded to Samuel Singler for his article 'Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control.' Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Are you interested in guest-editing for Theoretical Criminology? #TheoreticalCrim is now accepting proposals for our 2028 special issue! Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2026. Find our full criteria here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm....
NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim! Read 'Making victims, making offenders: County lines, modern slavery and the criminal law,' by @simonflacks.bsky.social. Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
NEW! Check out Steffen Jensen and Mette-Louise E. Johansen's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices.' Now available in #OnlineFirst here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
NEW! Check out Valeria Ruiz Pérez's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Administrative co-evolution: Penality and welfare in Colombia's child protection system.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
NEW! Check out "Criminalizing solidarity, regulating the enemy: Analyzing the criminalization of migrant solidarity through ‘enemy under-criminalization’ in Greece," a new article by Filippos Kourakis. Now available from #TheoreticalCrim in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#TheoreticalCrim is happy to name our 4th and final #EditorsChoice article of 2025: Sean Columb's, 'Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route.' Check out this article and this growing #OpenAccess collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Daniel E. Martínez's review of @asadasad.bsky.social's, 'Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life.' Now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read @francispakes.bsky.social's review of @aitorjimenez.bsky.social's, 'The Crimes of Digital Capitalism: Corporate Crime in an Age of Exploitation.' Now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read @profegascon.bsky.social's review of Tony Cheng's, 'The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input.' Now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Brett C. Burkhardt's article, 'Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling,' now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read 'Keeping it real: A signaling theory perspective on authentic claims of gang membership made on social media' by John Leverso, James A. Densley, and Lindsey Insco. Now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....