Criminology

Jo Phoenix says researchers need a ‘decent database’ to get beyond ‘political mantras’

Prisoners offer exceptionally honest answers to doctoral student serving with them in a US prison

Prison governor-turned-criminologist David Wilson tells Rachael Pells about befriending killers, doing unauthorised research and challenging his students’ preconceptions

Clive Bloom considers the development of a particularly disturbing form of crime

The banning of certain academic books by prisons in Northern Ireland is deeply counterproductive, says Dieter Reinisch

A punitive attitude towards incarceration limits the access of the US’ uniquely large prison population to college degrees. But there are signs that attitudes are finally shifting. Paul Basken considers the arguments and looks at some prime examples of what can be achieved with a captive audience

Book of the week: Scott Decker praises a bold attempt by economists to illuminate the American criminal justice system

Novelists write short stories for Spanish university’s criminology degree

Matthew Reisz hears the case for in-depth immersive research among marginalised communities

Laleh Khalili ponders how the eschewing of Muslim suspects’ human rights affects us all

Prisoners rarely get tertiary lessons, let alone have undergraduates study alongside them, but the results can be profound. Helen Lock reports

Project at Canterbury Christ Church aims to explore building’s history and create new heritage centre

Bias in assessing submissions is inevitable and damaging. Anonymisation is the least bad solution, says Graham Farrell

Westminster course brings serving prisoners together with students

Hate studies grows in importance as a discipline as more universities open research centres

Princeton leads Times Higher Education's list of institutions with the most affiliated Nobel prizewinners for the second consecutive year

New facility should provide crucial information for detecting crimes

Matthew Feldman appreciates an enlightening exploration of radicalisation and its causes

Richard Williams on a study of Tinseltown, a place where dreams and death, success and tragedy, and fantasy and reality collide

A brilliant study examines the wide variety of markets for trafficked human beings, writes Jonathan Mirsky

A whistle-stop tour of criminals’ texts is packed with listicles and promises, says Sharon Wheeler

Interviewing a Mafia researcher made John Elmes consider how scholars should study volatile groups

A fine ethnography reveals how poor Angelenos and the cops control each other, says Dick Hobbs

We talk gangsters, London crime and dodging punches with the noted ethnographer

A political scientist who made a major contribution to criminology and the study of public order has died

People contemplating a criminal career might do well to stay in and do their homework

International Policing and Justice Institute integrates practical police training into an academic context

Book of the week: Tim Hall on post-Soviet criminal clans, diverse and complex groups to whom lawlessness is anathema

Bob Lambert, who has quit London Met and St Andrews, fathered child with activist he was spying on

The real-life versions of Philip Marlowe were more likely criminals than heroes, says Sharon Wheeler

There are insights for scholars and law enforcement officials alike in this investigation of how the most lethal lone-wolf attack was planned, says Matthew Feldman

Matthew Reisz reflects that some jobs are really not for him – even on Halloween

From living rent-free to Madoff’s fraud, a study of scams forces us to face our sins, says Dick Hobbs

You might not think it, but students in the 14th and 15th century could teach today’s cohort a thing or two about tearing up the town, writes Matthew Reisz

Dick Hobbs on a study of a career criminal that demystifies gangs and a society that has tried to marginalise them

Angelia Wilson on a prison system that has eroded democratic institutions and exacerbated social injustices

Dick Hobbs on an ethnographic study exploring the resilience of youths whose lives have been marred by violence

A study of immigration removal centres reveals their dehumanising effect, says Lucy Williams

Rachel Condry extols an analysis that draws upon survey data and interviews to ask vital questions about the hidden victims of parental incarceration

Dick Hobbs on how the intense nature of policing creates secondary casualties in poor communities

Luna Centifanti welcomes a disentanglement of popular confusions over brain and behaviour

A millennium of jails, their inmates and those in charge makes riveting reading for Yvonne Jewkes

Lee Maril on how immigration policies prolong the misery of the exploited

Dick Hobbs finds low-life tales of illegal entrepreneurs in abundance, but not so scholarly rigour

Vicky Conway on the corrosive effect of unchecked power

Ilaria Favretto on how the ‘years of lead’ were brought to a close

Laura Piacentini ponders the power of the penal system to destroy a prisoner’s sense of self

Matthew Feldman on the expanding threat to society from unpredictable individuals

A. W. Purdue on the prevalence of crime within the British armed forces

Tim Hall on an informed probe into the world of illegal trade in East London

Stephen Wade on the accurate contemporary science behind the Holmesian investigations