Theoretical Criminology

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🗣️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...

Theoretical Criminology

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4 days ago

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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...

Theoretical Criminology

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2 weeks ago

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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....

Theoretical Criminology

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2 weeks ago

🚨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...

Theoretical Criminology

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1 month ago

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🗣️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....

Theoretical Criminology

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1 month ago

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🗣️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....

Theoretical Criminology

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1 month ago

🗣️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...

Theoretical Criminology

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1 month ago

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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....

Theoretical Criminology

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1 month ago

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🗣️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.....

Theoretical Criminology

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2 months ago

🗣️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....

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2 months ago

Making victims, making offenders: County lines, modern slavery and the criminal law - Simon Flacks, 2026 ‘County lines’ drug supply has grown into a powerful cultural, criminological and political concern in the UK. In recent years, the criminal law has been mobili...

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/...

Theoretical Criminology

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2 months ago

Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices - Steffen Jensen, Mette-Louise E. Johansen, 2025 This article explores the salience of the concept of violent exchange to contribute towards a global criminology of relationality. Coined in the Global South, t...

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/....

Theoretical Criminology

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3 months ago

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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....

Theoretical Criminology

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3 months ago

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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....

Theoretical Criminology

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4 months ago

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#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...

Theoretical Criminology

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5 months ago

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NEW! Check out this new article by Caitlin S. Ducate, Sarah R. Bostrom, K. Ryan Proctor and @reniemeyerphd.bsky.social for #TheoreticalCrim: 'The theory crisis in criminology: Causes, consequences, and solutions.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Theoretical Criminology

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6 months ago

The remorseful enemy - Irit Ballas, Netanel Dagan, 2025 Soliciting a defendant's remorse during sentencing resonates with the idea that the individual has breached the community's shared moral values but ca...

NEW! Check out this new article by Irit Ballas and Netanel Dagan for #TheoreticalCrim: 'The remorseful enemy' is now available in #OnlineFirst. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Theoretical Criminology

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7 months ago

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#TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce our 3rd #EditorsChoice article of 2025, 'Outsourcing the brains: The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice' by Katja Franko & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social! Read this & the growing #OpenAccess collection here: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

Theoretical Criminology

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7 months ago

The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts - Lorena Avila, Andres F. Rengifo, 2025 We examine pretrial decisions by judges and the broader process of case review during open hearings in two courts in Colombia. We theorize these displays of aut...

NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim! Lorena Avila and Andres F. Rengifo's 'The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts' is now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Theoretical Criminology

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7 months ago

Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety - Daria Przybylska, 2025 Based on a longitudinal study of life-sentenced prisoners in England and Wales, this article explores the disruptive impact of having a murder conviction on the...

NEW! Check out @daria-przblsk.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety.' Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Theoretical Criminology

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7 months ago

Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression - Mark A. Walters, 2025 Hate crime has gained heightened attention in criminology recently, with a particular focus on research detailing its impacts on direct victims and the communit...

NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim: 'Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression' by Mark Walters. Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Theoretical Criminology

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7 months ago

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read 'Outsourcing the brains: The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice' by Special Issue guest editors, Katja Franko and @heidimorklomell.bsky.social. Now available #OpenAccess from #TheoreticalCrim: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Theoretical Criminology

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8 months ago

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NEW! Check out Elena Vasiliou's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory.' Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Theoretical Criminology

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8 months ago

Who defines desistance? Exploring the perspectives and experiences of female victim–survivors of intimate partner violence - Hayley Boxall, Jason Payne, Lorana Bartels, Anthony Morgan, 2025 A small body of research has started to explore the factors and processes that contribute to desistance from intimate partner violence (IPV). However, this evid...

NEW! Read Hayley Boxall, Jason Payne, Lorana Bartels and Anthony Morgan's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Who defines desistance? Exploring the perspectives and experiences of female victim–survivors of intimate partner violence.' Now available #openaccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Theoretical Criminology

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9 months ago

‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency - Eleonora Di Molfetta, 2025 Until recently, the impact of language barriers faced by non-citizens in institutional settings, particularly within the criminal justice system, has been large...

NEW! Check out Eleonora Di Molfetta's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency." Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Theoretical Criminology

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9 months ago

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NEW! Read @kategooch.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'The new debtors' prison: Conceptualising the relationship between prisoner debt, prison violence and prisoners crisis.' Now available #openaccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Theoretical Criminology

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10 months ago

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NEW! Check out @drconorwilson.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X." Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Theoretical Criminology

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10 months ago

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NEW! Check out Gabreélla Friday, Joshua Price, and Nicola Satchell's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Temporicide: Waiting, punishment, and (social) death.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Theoretical Criminology

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10 months ago

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce its 2nd Editors' Choice article of 2025, 'Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland,' by @lynseyblack.bsky.social! Read this article & the growing #EditorsChoice collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

Theoretical Criminology

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11 months ago

The securitization of research ethics: Navigating the ethics of engaging criminalized voices - Alexis Rowland, Joanne DeCaro, Keramet Reiter, 2025 We ask what ethical regulations govern criminal legal system research that is not “biomedical and behavioral research”—including oral history and archival proje...

NEW! Read @alexisrowland.bsky.social, @joannedecaro.bsky.social, and @kerametr.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'The securitization of research ethics: Navigating the ethics of engaging criminalized voices.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...