British Journal of Criminology articles from January 1994

British Journal of Criminology archives from January 1994

Multiple murder: a review. (United Kingdom)
January 1, 1994... A review of the literature on multiple murder reveals little systematic research on this phenomen despite widespread media interest and figures indicating that over 3 per cent of homicide victims i England and Wales die in incidents of...

Criminalizing assault; the failure of the 'offense against society' model. (United Kingdom)
January 1, 1994... The authors undertook a study of assault, starting outside the justice system with 93 assault victims admitted to the Accident and Emergency Department of a city-centre hospital. They found that in relation to this type of offence the police...

The long-term detention of those found unfit to plead and legally insane. (United Kingdom)
January 1, 1994... Very little is known about patients who have been the subject of long-term detention as a result of a finding of unfitness to plead or legal insanity. In order to discover more about such patients permission was sought to examine Home Office...

Delinquent values and victim damage; exploring the limits of neutralization theory.
January 1, 1994... Using a multi-faceted approach to Sykes and Matza's neutralization theory, the main hypothesis is that techniques of neutralization are dependent on the possibility of ignoring the damage caused by delinquent acts. Factor analysis of the data...

The Presence of the Past: Male Violence in the Family.
January 1, 1994... The Presence of the Past: Male Violence in the Family. By J. Horsfall. (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1991. 167 pp. 9.95 [pounds] pb.) With the exception of The Birth of Pandora, a book of historical essays on the politics of culture, these...

Working for Change: The Movement Against Domestic Violence.
January 1, 1994... Working for Change: The Movement Against Domestic Violence. By H. McGRregor and A. Hopkins. (Sydney: Allen and Unwin 1991. 150 pp. 10 [pounds] pb.) With the exception of The Birth of Pandora, a book of historical essays on the politics...

Talking of Silence: The Sexual Harassment of Schoolgirls.
January 1, 1994... Talking of Silence: The Sexuak Harrassment of Schoolgirls. By C. M. H. Herbert. (East Sussex: The Falmer Press, 1989. 200 pp. No rice stated.) With the exception of The Birth of Pandora, a book of historical essays on the politics of...

Dissenting Opinions: Feminist Explorations in Law and Society.
January 1, 1994... Dissenting Opinions: Feminist Explorations in Law and Society. Edited by R. Graycar. (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1990. 131 pp. 9.95 [pounds] pb.) With the exception of The Birth of Pandora, a book of historical essays on the politics of...

The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge.
January 1, 1994... The Birth of Pandora and the Division of Knowledge. By J. Barrell. (London: Macmillan, 1992. 263 pp. I4.99 [pounds] pb.) With the exception of The Birth of Pandora, a book of historical essays on the politics of culture, these books...

Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Decency.
January 1, 1994... Criminal Justice and the Pursuit of Decency. By Andrew Rutherford, with a foreword by Lord Scarman. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 199 pp. 25 [pounds] hb. 7.99 [pounds] pb.) Andrew Rutherford's book is an unusual and important...

Women in Control? The Role of Women in Law Enforcement.
January 1, 1994... Women in Control? The Role of Women in Law Enforcement. By Frances Heidersohn. (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1992. 283 pp. 30 [pounds].) This is a timely and stimulating book and will be welcomed by students and analysts of both policing and...

Criminal Justice Under Stress.
January 1, 1994... Criminal Justice Under Stress. Edited by Eric Stockdale and Silva Casale. (London: Blackstone Press. 299. 18.95 [pounds] pb.) The 1990s seem likely to be a watershed for criminal justice policy in England and Wales. Certainly during the...

The Penal System: An Introduction.
January 1, 1994... The Penal System, an Introduction. By Michael Cavadino and James Dignan. (London: Sage Publications, 1992. xxxiii + 264 pp. 12.95 [pounds] pb.) The 1990s seem likely to be a watershed for criminal justice policy in England and Wales....

Suicides in Prison.
January 1, 1994... Suicides in Prison. By Alison Liebling. (London: Routledge, 1992. 273. 140 [pounds] hb.) Perhaps at the behest of publishers seeking a brief and eye-catching title, this intelligent, careful, and important study has emerged under a...

Beneath the Surface: Racial Harassment.
January 1, 1994... Beneath the Surface: Racial Harassment. By Barnor Hesse, Dhanwant K. Rai, Christine Bennett, and Paul McGilchrist. (London: Avebury, 1992. 253 pp. 32.50. [pounds]) Beneath the Surface was originally a report of an inquiry into racial...

Changing the Code: Police Detention Under the Revised PACE Codes of Practice.
January 1, 1994... Changing the Code: Police Detention under the Revised PACE Codes of Practice. By David Brown, Tom Ellis, and Karen Larcombe. Home Office Research Study 129. (London: Home Office, 1992. 123 pp. 13.50. [pounds]) At the time the research...

Police Management, 2d ed.
January 1, 1994... Police Management, 2nd edn. By. A. J. P. Butler. (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1992. 207 pp. 15.95. [pounds]) The publication in 1984 of the first edition of the book under review both reflected and contributed to an important development in...

From Custody to Community: Throughcare for Young Offenders.
January 1, 1994... Both of these books report on field research projects which investigated aspects of social work with offenders: the first integrates two separate studies of throughcare for young offenders, a much-neglected topic; while the second presents...

Sentenced to Serve: The Operation and Impact of Community Service by Offenders.
January 1, 1994... Both of these books report on field research projects which investigated aspects of social work with offenders: the first integrates two separate studies of throughcare for young offenders, a much-neglected topic; while the second presents...

Growing out of Crime: The New Era.
January 1, 1994... When the first edition of Andrew Rutherford's book was published by Penguin Books in 1986 I hailed it as an important book that should be compulsory reading for all those working with young offenders (Jones 1987). It became an...

Last One over the Wall: The Massachusetts Experiment in Closing Reform Schools.
January 1, 1994... When the first edition of Andrew Rutherford's book was published by Penguin Books in 1986 I hailed it as an important book that should be compulsory reading for all those working with young offenders (Jones 1987). It became an...

Children Inside: Rhetoric and Practice in a Locked Institution for Children.
January 1, 1994... When the first edition of Andrew Rutherford's book was published by Penguin Books in 1986 I hailed it as an important book that should be compulsory reading for all those working with young offenders (Jones 1987). It became an...

Juvenile Justice in the New Europe.
January 1, 1994... For many years the only source of external influence on criminal justice policy, practice, and theory in the United Kingdom was the United States of America, despite the totally different criminal culture there, due largely to the legal...

Problem Adolescents: An International View.
January 1, 1994... For many years the only source of external influence on criminal justice policy, practice, and theory in the United Kingdom was the United States of America, despite the totally different criminal culture there, due largely to the legal...

Youth, Crime and Justice: Scandinavian Studies in Criminology, vol. 12.
January 1, 1994... For many years the only source of external influence on criminal justice policy, practice, and theory in the United Kingdom was the United States of America, despite the totally different criminal culture there, due largely to the legal...

Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England.
January 1, 1994... There is a fascination about crime and punishment in the eighteenth century that never fades. On the one hand, the highwaymen, the pirates, the rakes; on the other, the grim spectacle of the stocks, the gallows, and transportation to the...

Can prisons be legitimate? Penal politics, privatization, and the timeliness of an old idea. (Special Issue: Prisons in Context)
January 1, 1994... (1) Beetham differentiates his approach to the question of legitimacy from that of Wever on the grounds that Weber defines the issue in terms of ~belief in' legitimacy. In Beetham's view this dissolves all the difficult normative questions...

Public imprisonment by private means: the emergence of private prisons and jails in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. (Prisons in Context: Special Issue)
January 1, 1994... Although privately operated imprisonment facilities were commonplace in previous centuries in England and the United States (Holdsworth 1922-4:397; Crew 1933 : 50; McKelvey 1977: 197-216; Feeley 1991), by the twentieth century, governments...

The new penology and politics in crisis: the Italian case. (Prisons in Context: Special Issue)
January 1, 1994... Italy of the four mafia organizations (~Cosa Nostra' in Sicily, ~Ndrangheta' in Calabria, ~Camorra' in Campania, and ~Nuova Corona Unita' in Puglie - roughly a quarter of the nation in the hands of organized crime); Italy of administrative...

Russian prisons after Perestroika: end of the Gulag? (Prisons in Context: Special Issue)
January 1, 1994... Introduction: A Moscow Conference At the opening of the International Conference on Penal Reform in Former Totalitarian Societies held in Moscow in November 1992, Boris Zolotukhin, Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Commission of the...

Racial disproportion in U.S. prisons. (Prisons in Context: Special Issue)
January 1, 1994... Outside the United States, probably the best known characteristics of America's correctional system are that capital punishment continues in use and that American incarceration rates are four to 115 times higher than those in other developed...

Why study women's imprisonment? Or anyone else's? An indefinite article. (Prisons in Context: Special Issue)
January 1, 1994... This was going to be the article on women's imprisonment. I did not want to write on women's imprisonment - for two main reasons. First, because I've been wondering with increasing frequency exactly why women's imprisonment should be studied...

Inspecting prisons: the view from Strasbourg. (Prisons in Context: Special Issue)
January 1, 1994... In many European jurisdictions, Britain included, the absence or ineffectiveness of domestic remedies against what critics judge to be acceptable prison conditions or decision-making procedures has meant that attention has turned increasingly...