Crime, mental health, and the law: A psycho-criminological perspective
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Crime, mental health, and the law: A psycho-criminological perspective
Poaching Forensics: Animal Victims in the Courtroom
Poaching and the international trade in wildlife are escalating problems driven by poverty and greed and coordinated by increasingly sophisticated criminal networks. Biodiversity loss, caused by habitat change, is exacerbated by poaching, and species globally are facing extinction. Forensic evidence underpins human and animal criminal investigation...
Incorporating Quaternary Prevention: Understanding the Full Scope of Public Health Practices in Sexual Abuse Prevention....
Published in International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
This discussion piece argues for a refinement in our understanding of prevention in sexual abuse, suggesting that we include quaternary prevention on the grounds that this concept from medical literature has potential and helpful application to criminal justice and particularly to work with those who cause sexual harm. Located within the paradigm o...
Involvement in Crime and Delinquency and the Development of Technological and Computer Skills: A Longitudinal Analysis.
Published in International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
A body of research has revealed that involvement in crime and delinquency is associated with a wide number of social, economic, and health consequences. The current study built off this knowledge base and examined whether measures of adolescent violent delinquency and contact with the criminal justice system were related to the access of basic, and...
Beyond Predatory Peace
This autobiographical review is about a research life unusually oriented to the long-term study of organizational crime, peace, and crisis prevention. Most ambitions proved half-baked. Hopes for a more sweeping macrocriminology of freedom will doubtless remain half-baked when cooking ceases. None of the author's mentors bear responsibility for the ...
Revitalizing Ethnographic Studies of Immigration and Crime
Ethnographic studies of immigration and crime were prominent in the early decades of the twentieth century, yet contemporary scholarship has been dominated by quantitative approaches. In this review, we heed the call of those who have lamented the “collective amnesia” and “newness fetish” that characterize much of contemporary criminology and revis...
Surveillance Technologies and Constitutional Law
This review focuses on government use of technology to observe, collect, or record potential criminal activity in real-time, as contrasted with “transaction surveillance” that involves government efforts to access already-existing records and exploit Big Data, topics that have been the focus of previous reviews (Brayne 2018, Ridgeway 2018). Even so...
Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in the Australian Convict Colonies
Sodomy and prostitution were the twin moral aberrations which consigned mass transportation in the British Empire to history. In places of secondary transportation, such as Norfolk Island and Port Arthur, and in probation stations in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), “unnatural” crimes became a major source of official and popular anxiety during the 18...
How privacy concerns impact Swedish citizens’ willingness to report crimes : a quantitative mobile phone survey
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify whether there is a lower willingness to report a crime if a victim must hand in their mobile phone as evidence. If that is the case, the research seeks to examine whether privacy concerns and lower willingness correlate with one another and thereby investigate whether privacy concerns could lead to f...
Policing rural victims
This chapter contributes to rural criminological dialogue by unpacking the characterisation complexities specific to understandings of rural crime and rural victims – and differently oriented rural spaces which impact on police and their ability to respond. It expands upon definitions of rurality and rural spaces and highlights the multidimensional...
