British Journal of Criminology articles from September 1998

British Journal of Criminology archives from September 1998

DRUGS IMPORTATION AND THE BIFURCATION OF RISK.
September 22, 1998... Capitalization, Cut Outs and Organized Crime Qualitative research was conducted with 15 persons convicted of serious offences in connection with drugs importation into the UK, and with 10 informants of Her Majesty's Customs and Excise,...

THE PROSECUTION AND DEFENCE OF BLACK DEFENDANTS IN DRUG TRIALS.
September 22, 1998... Evidence of Claims-Making Prosecuting and defence barristers' participation in trial is of principal significance in determining a case outcome. It is the intention of this article to examine the role that barristers play in shaping the...

HUMAN RIGHTS, DUE PROCESS AND SENTENCING.
September 22, 1998... The aim of this paper is to examine the arguments for adopting a rights-based approach to the analysis of the sentencing process rather than the traditional crime control and due process models developed by Packer (1968). An attempt is also...

CRIME CONTROL, DUE PROCESS AND `THE CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION'.
September 22, 1998... A Problem of Terminology? The recent debate in this journal between Smith and McConville, Sanders and Leng is bedevilled by terminological problems. These might be solved by renaming Packer's `Crime Control model' as the `Efficiency...

REFORM OR MORAL OUTRAGE--THE CHOICE IS YOURS.
September 22, 1998... In their reply to my commentary on The Case for the Prosecution, McConville, Sanders, and Leng (henceforth MSL) offer a highly restricted choice between `Descriptive' and `Critical' sociology.(1) The main purpose of this note is to suggest...

POLICING THE DROSS.
September 22, 1998... A Social Disciplinary Model of Policing In this article I use the findings of an ethnographic study of police station procedures to explore the limitations of Packer's Crime Control and Due Process models of justice. Concentrating on the...

ASSAULT IN PRISON.
September 22, 1998... The `Victim's' Contribution Assaults in prison occur for diverse reasons. Understanding the role of the victim can help to explain the assault. In this article, concepts developed to analyse the victim's contribution to crimes outside...

IDENTIFYING REPEAT VICTIMIZATION WITH GIS.
September 22, 1998... Until recently most attempts at identifying repeat victimization locations have focused on searching address fields in police records. Problems with inaccurate data entry and variation in address format make this method fraught with...

DELINQUENT PHASES.
September 22, 1998... The Case of Temporally Intensified Shoplifting Behaviour This article examines the prevalence and correlates of shoplifting phases among Finnish adolescents. The data are based on the Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study (FSRD-96) whose...

CRIME AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE IN POST-WAR BRITAIN REVISITED.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 1998... The relationships between property crime and the economy are re-examined. The work of Field (1990) and Pyle and Deadman (1994) are reviewed. Whilst both analyses have made substantial contributions to emphasizing the importance of economic...

The Future of Policing.(Review)
September 22, 1998... THE FUTURE OF POLICING. By ROD MORGAN and TIM NEWBURN (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 224 pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling] pb) Now that commenting on the growth of police studies has become superfluous, it may be time to initiate a new...

Critical Criminology: Visions From Europe.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1998... CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY VISIONS FROM EUROPE. By R. VAN SWAANINGEN (London: Sage, 1997. 281 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]) The excoriating rise and ruthless consolidation of the new right over the last two decades has had a profound impact on...

Profitable Penalties: How to Cut Both Crime Rates and Costs.(Review)
September 22, 1998... PROFITABLE PENALTIES: How TO CUT BOTH CRIME RATES AND COSTS, by DANIEL GLASER (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Fore Press, 1997. 306 pp., 17.99 [pounds sterling]) Profitable Penalties has a cover illustration which Daniel Glaser, now a Professor...

New-Born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth Century England.(Review)
September 22, 1998... NEW-BORN CHILD MURDER: WOMEN, ILLEGITIMACY AND THE COURTS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND. By MARK JACKSON (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. ix + 206 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]) A young, poor, single woman becomes pregnant. She...

Child Homicide.(Review)
September 22, 1998... CHILD HOMICIDE. By ANIA WILCZYNSKI (London: Greenwich Medical Media, 1997. 278 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]) A young, poor, single woman becomes pregnant. She is so frightened of the reaction of her parents or community that she contrives to...

Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency.(Review)
September 22, 1998... DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIES OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY. Edited by Terence P. Thornberry. (New Brunswick and London [UK]: Transaction Publishers, 1997. 359 pp. 44.95 [pounds sterling] hb) This is Volume 7 of a series entitled `Advances in...

Culture of Fear: Risk-Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation.(Review)
September 22, 1998... CULTURE OF FEAR: RISK-TAKING AND THE MORALITY OF LOW EXPECTATION. By FRANK FUREDI (London: Cassell, 1997. viii+184 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling] pb) Albert Camus once described the twentieth century as the `century of fear': Furedi's book...

BOOKS RECEIVED.
September 22, 1998... 1 March 1998-31 May 1998 LAW IN ACTION: ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL AND CONVERSATION ANALYTIC APPROACHES TO LAW. Edited by MAX TRAVERS and JOHN F. MANZO (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1997. x + 296 pp, 40 [pounds sterling] hb). GOVERNING THE...