British Journal of Criminology articles from January 1998

British Journal of Criminology archives from January 1998

Toward safer societies: punishment, masculinities and violence against women.
January 1, 1998... This paper seeks to took beyond criminalization models to examine what is known about building less violent societies, at the macro, middle and micro levels. It argues that criminalization is a flawed strategy for dealing with male violence...

Policing women police: uniform patrol, promotion and representation in the CID. (United Kingdom)
January 1, 1998... Using data from a survey conducted within a northern constabulary, women officers' experience of police employment is discussed. It is argued that it is necessary to take into account both wider structural, engendered inequalities and...

Other targets or other locations? An analysis of opportunity structures. (residential burglary in Malaga, Spain)
January 1, 1998... Structural or demographic arrangements in one specific culture form the mentality of their inhabitants, their way of life and, presumably, their crime patterns. This article maintains that residential burglary is complicated and relatively...

Burglary revictimization: the time period of heightened risk.
January 1, 1998... Research into the phenomenon of revictimization has consistently demonstrated that a very small proportion of all people and places suffer from a disproportionate amount of victimizations. Whenever victims of both personal and household crimes...

True crime stories: scientific methods of criminal investigation, criminology and historiography.
January 1, 1998... How can we catch the criminal? The history of criminology has had little to say about the place of scientific methods of criminal investigation in the discipline of criminology and in the redistribution of the power to punish that took place...

Contemporary penal trends: modern or postmodern?
January 1, 1998... The postmodern argument in the punishment literature is in its formative beginnings. The achievements in applying a postmodern framework to the study of punishment, thus far, have been speculative and empirically narrow. Consequently, a...

Preventing repeated racial victimization: an action research project.
January 1, 1998... This paper describes the main implementation issues on a crime prevention project set up to reduce repeat racial victimization on a local authority housing estate in East London. These were the victims/statutory agencies' interactions,...

A ten-year follow-up of criminality in Stockholm mental patients: new evidence for a relation between mental disorder and crime.
January 1, 1998... One thousand and fifty-six mental patients with the diagnosis of schizophrenia, affective psychosis or paranoia, who were discharged from mental hospitals in Stockholm in 1986 were followed up ten years later. The result is an...

Changes in the most-cited scholars in major international journals between 1986-90 and 1991-95. (criminology)
January 1, 1998... We determined the most-cited scholars in 1991-95 in the major criminology journals of the major countries of the English-speaking world: British Journal of Criminology (BJC), Criminology (CRIM), Canadian Journal of Criminology (CJC) and...

Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in Law and Criminal Justice Occupations.
January 1, 1998... By Susan Ehrlich Martin and Nancy C. Jurik (London: Sage, 1996. 270 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]) The subtitle of this book `Women in Law and Criminal Justice Occupations' indicates its contents somewhat better than the title. The authors...

Justice Fragmented: Mediating Community Disputes Under Postmodern Conditions.
January 1, 1998... By George C. Pavlich (London: Routledge, 1996; ix +202 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling] hb) This book is a provocative contribution to the social analysis of informal justice. Drawing on recent Foucault-inspired work on `governmentality' and...

The Politics of Attachment: Towards a Secure Society.
January 1, 1998... Edited by Sebastian Kraemer and Jane Roberts (London: Free Association Books, 1996. xvi+254 pp. 15.95 [pounds sterling]) Anxiety, insecurity, worry, uncertainty, risk. Belonging, cohesion, community, well-being. These terms have of late come...

Youth, Policing and Democracy.
January 1, 1998... By I. Loader (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.198 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] hb) Towards the end of this stimulating book Ian Loader says that the most abiding lesson of the research reported here is that the absence of democratic...

Jigsaw: A Political Criminology of Youth Homelessness.
January 1, 1998... By Pat Carlen (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1996. 162 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling] pb) In a recent conversation about the relationship between homelessness and crime with my student inmates at San Quentin State Prison where I volunteer...

Prisons and the Problem of Order.
January 1, 1998... By Richard Sparks, Anthony E. Bottoms and Will Hay (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. 377 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] hb) This book is an important contribution to prison literature which is based on (a) substantial and meticulous fieldwork and (b)...

Understanding Victimisation.
January 1, 1998... Edited by Pamela Davies Peter Francis and Victor Jupp (Gateshead: Northumbria Social Science Press, 1996. 108 pp. Price not stated) The Davies et al. collection--the result of an annual Criminal justice Conference held at Northumbria...

Crime Surveys and Victims of Crime.
January 1, 1998... By Laurence Koffman (Cardiff. University of Wales, 1996. 164 pp. 10.95 [pounds sterling] pb) The Davies et al. collection--the result of an annual Criminal justice Conference held at Northumbria University--contains chapters on feminist...