Journal Of Crime Research Articles

Political economy and crime: an overview

This issue of The Journal of Crime and Justice is devoted to examining political economic explanations of crime (PEEC). Before getting to the substance of this issue, it is useful to examine some b...

Erratum to “Ethnic Discrimination in Reports of Offenders to the Police” [European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 20 (2012) 31–57

Erratum to “Ethnic Discrimination in Reports of Offendersto the Police” [European Journal of Crime, Criminal Lawand Criminal Justice 20 (2012) 31–57]

Tabloid crime journalism: Writing on the edge of existence

What is the meaning of tabloid crime journalism? This article is based on research into the crime journalism of the Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet between 1966 and 2006. At the root of the research lies an understanding of tabloid crime journalism as being most appropriately conceptualized within a framework of ritual storytelling and existence. The narrative structure of Ekstra Bladet’s crime journalism is characterized, and the changes in its way of narrating crime stories during the period are uncovered: a change from describing crime as seen from the point of view of the police to a more melodramatic narration, which implies a stronger dramatic reader appeal, as well as a blurring of the line between fact and fiction.

Punishing the Poor. By Loïc Wacquant. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii+384.

Previous articleNext article No AccessPunishing the Poor. By Loïc Wacquant. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii+384.Andrew AbbottAndrew AbbottUniversity of Chicago Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 116, Number 4January 2011 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/658399 Views: 315Total views on this site Citations: 4Citations are reported from Crossref © 2011 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Magnus Hörnqvist Neoliberal security provision: Between state practices and individual experience, Punishment & Society 22, no.22 (Oct 2019): 227–246.https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474519875474Ignacio González-Sánchez, Manuel Maroto-Calatayud The penalization of protest under neoliberalism: managing resistance through punishment, Crime, Law and Social Change 70, no.44 (May 2018): 443–460.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-018-9776-9David Garland Theoretical advances and problems in the sociology of punishment, Punishment & Society 20, no.11 (Dec 2017): 8–33.https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474517737274Susan M. Carlson, Elizabeth A Bradshaw, Carrie L. Buist Bringing ‘the poor’ back in: regulation and control of surplus populations in Finland and the Netherlands, Journal of Crime and Justice 36, no.22 (Jul 2013): 194–232.https://doi.org/10.1080/0735648X.2012.752256

"The Best Side of a Case of Crime": George Lippard, Walt Whitman, and Antebellum Police Reports

"The Best Side of a Case of Crime":George Lippard, Walt Whitman, and Antebellum Police Reports Carl Ostrowski (bio) Many nineteenth-century American authors spent part of their careers writing for newspapers. Some authors whose literary reputations are now founded on works that had little to do with journalism found it expedient to be connected with newspapers, where they began to build careers as professional writers. In such cases, how did apprenticeship on a newspaper affect a writer's subsequent literary work in terms of subject matter, tone, or ideology? One answer to this question emerges from a look at the early writings of two authors whose careers follow a similar trajectory, beginning as journalists and moving on to more self-consciously literary forms of publication: George Lippard and Walt Whitman. In the 1840s, both Lippard and Whitman were working journalists, Lippard writing for Philadelphia's Spirit of the Times and Citizen Soldier and Whitman for a number of publications, most notably as editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Moreover, they both worked in the same staple format of the an tebellum daily paper: the police report. Finally, critics praise both Lippard and Whitman for sympathizing in their literary work with outcast elements of society, a position that would have been particularly hard to reconcile with the demands of crime reporting. In this essay, I examine the police reports of Lippard and Whitman to see how they handled the form and where their reporting anticipated the racially and socially progressive perspectives of their later works. Such an inquiry requires familiarity with the police report as it appeared in two of the pioneering penny papers of the period, the New York Sun and the New York Herald, since the content, purpose, and ideological import of such reporting had been firmly established by the time Lippard and Whitman came to the format. A number of scholars have analyzed in broad terms newspaper crime reporting of the antebellum period. In Dan Schiller's account, news about crime was the arena in which penny papers staked their claim as defenders of the interests of the common man. Appropriating the rhetoric of the labor press that died out after the Panic of 1837, [End Page 120] penny papers appealed to a wide audience of mechanics and laborers by exposing corruption in a criminal justice system weighted in favor of the social elite: "Modified and adapted, crime news in the penny press focused not only on the integrity of the state but also on the unequal effect of social class on the political nation and, specifically, in the law." 1 Schiller devotes sustained attention to coverage of the murder of prostitute Helen Jewett. The New York Sun criticized the acquittal of Jewett's accused killer Richard Robinson, claiming that his wealth allowed him to purchase a favorable verdict, while New York Herald editor James Gordon Bennett saw revealed in the trial a conspiracy to cover up the misdeeds of the wealthy brothel patrons who set up Robinson as their fall guy. Either way, the editors wielded class-based rhetoric to impugn an anti-egalitarian legal system. 2 Also focusing on the Jewett murder, among other cases, David Ray Papke hears in antebellum crime reporting a voice for the working and middle classes: "the crime journalism in The Sun and The Herald championed mechanics, artisans, clerks, and small merchants over the traditional landed and mercantile elites, which well into midcentury held power in the modernizing nation." 3 Adding to this consensus, Alexander Saxton observes that "crime and sex were not politically neutral" in the penny press, whose ideological origins he identifies in the urban workingmen's movement of the period. 4 Together, these commentators make a convincing case that certain kinds of sensationalized crime news allowed editors to deploy the language of artisan republicanism. Alongside the occasional coverage of spectacular crimes and ensuing trials, however, the antebellum paper featured a more prosaic variety of crime news in its daily anecdotes about the activities of city police. Analyzing the daily police report, one finds a set of reportorial conventions with different ideological implications, and this was the format in which Lippard's and Whitman's commitments to defending...

Union Regulatory Criminal Law Competence after Lisbon Treaty

This chapter analyses the scope of the Union’s regulatory criminal law competence subsequent to the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. The chapter is primarily focused on examining what legal limitations that can be imposed on the Union’s competence to impose criminal penalties under the new legal basis in Article 83(2) TFEU. In particular, the chapter examines in detail whether criminal sanctions are “essential” for the effective implementation of Union policies. In this regard, it is analysed what standard that the ECJ should adopt in relation to judicial review of EU criminal law enactments. The chapter will as a case study discuss whether criminal sanctions are “essential” for effective implementation of Union competition policies. In this regard it will be considered whether criminal sanctions are suitable and necessary for the effective implementation of Union competition policies. Finally, the chapter discusses the procedural requirements for adopting criminal law legislation. In particular it is analysed how much harmonisation is needed for the adoption of Union criminal law legislation and whether the Union need to adopt a prior harmonisation measure in order to enact criminal law measures on the basis of Article 83(2) TFEU. It is a reprinted form of the article that appeared in European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in 2011. (Less)

Mohsen Rahami. « Islamic Restorative Traditions and Their Reflections in the Post Revolutionary Criminal Justice System of Iran ». European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Vol. 15, N° 2, 2007, pp. 227-248.

L’A. s’interroge sur l’utilite sociale de punir et sur l’opportunite de « qui punir ». C’est ainsi qu’il approche le droit penal iranien comme une reparation du criminel envers la societe. Il se concentre alors sur la notion de violation du devoir moral. Le crime de qiṣāṣ (reparation pour un homicide ou pour une blessure) a selon lui cette approche du droit penal : il s’agit de la violation d’un devoir moral et la reparation doit de ce fait etre proportionnelle au mal qui a ete fait a la soci...

Erratum to “Revisiting the Acquittal of 10 Policemen: Issues of Judicial Independence, Trial by Media and Fair Trial in Cyprus” [European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 18 (2010) 1–42

Erratum to “Revisiting the Acquittal of 10 Policemen: Issues of Judicial Independence, Trial by Media and Fair Trial in Cyprus” [European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 18 (2010) 1–42

“You can be anything you want, but you have to believe it”: Commercialized Feminism in Gender‐Specific Programs for Girls

“You can be anything you want, but you have to believe it”: Commercialized Feminism in Gender‐Specific Programs for Girls

INEFFECTIVENESS, FINANCIAL WASTE, AND UNFAIRNESS: THE LEGACY OF THE WAR ON DRUGS

ABSTRACT This article serves as an introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Crime & Justice on the legacy of the War on Drugs. In it, I argue that the War on Drugs is a major shift in U.S. drug control strategy, one that significantly expanded U.S. drug control efforts and the use of punitive criminal justice sanctions in those efforts. Further, despite massive public investment in these intensified drug control efforts, the War on Drugs has been a failure that has exacted significant collateral damage. I then introduce the articles contained in this special issue. These articles illuminate the failures of, damage done by, and possible ways out of the War on Drugs.

Pre-Trial Detention: The Presumption of Innocence and Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights Cannot and Does Not Limit its Increasing Use

These days the use of pre-trial detention in Europe seems to be ever increasing. This is in spite of the fact that the the presumption of innocence tells authorities to be restrictive in pre-detaining suspects. It also seems contrary to the starting point of the European Court of Human Rights. Basing itself on the presumption of innocence the Court holds that a suspect should await his trial in freedom. For obvious reasons, the presumption of innocence and the European case-law are often invoked to either state that today’s pre-trial detention practices are in violation of both presumption and case-law or to say that pre-trial detention practice should take them more into account. In this article I am concerned with the question whether the presumption of innocence and the case-law of the European Court really make an argument against all too enthousiastic use of pre-trial detention. I will answer that question in the negative. For that I will firstly discuss the claimed pre-trial detention increase in paragraph 2. Secondly, in the third paragraph, I will elaborate on the meaning of the presumption of innocence and I will argue that the presumption cannot be invoked to effectively curtail the use of pre-trial detention. Paragraph 4 then discusses the case-law of article 5 of the European Convention European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 17 (2009) 165–180

MISINFORMATION, MYTH AND DISTORTION

This paper explores the manner in which prison and prisoners are constructed by the news media and highlights the processes of misinformation and distortion that exist in British crime journalism. These are illustrated through a detailed analysis of four stories which appeared in the British press during October 2005. Using discourse analysis, the paper investigates how these stories construct prisoners as high risk and a danger to society while representing prison as an easy form of punishment. It explores the original official Home Office documents informing the reports, and the sources used by journalists to substantiate their claims. The paper suggests that journalists’ reliance on elite sources heightens the legitimising function of newspapers in supporting the use of prison. It concludes with some broader arguments about the nature of prison reporting and crime journalism, exploring the relationship between print media, public opinion and government policy.

THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE INTOLERABLE

The history of crime journalism in Norway is the most prominent feature of the process of popularization of journalism in this country. In addition to this, the process of professionalization is a complementary prerequisite for understanding how crime journalism in the popular media at the start of the 21st century is constituted. Debates around the political connotations of the word “popular”, its use to denote making information as accessible as possible, as well as the qualitative and quantitative uses of the word when applied to journalism are explored. This article demonstrates how journalism in Norway has progressed to include more socially responsible, less sensationalized forms of crime journalism as part of its process of professionalization.

Traffic in Women in War and Peace: Mapping Experiences in Southeast Europe

Since the 1980s, there has been a huge growth in the sex market, with increasing trafficking in women, especially from the ‘Third World’ and Eastern Europe. While the trade in human beings is illeg...

Transmissions Interrupted: Reconfiguring Food, Memory, and Gender in the Cookbook‐Memoirs of Middle Eastern Exiles

Previous articleNext article No AccessIV. The Gender of NostalgiaTransmissions Interrupted: Reconfiguring Food, Memory, and Gender in the Cookbook‐Memoirs of Middle Eastern ExilesCarol BardensteinCarol BardensteinDepartment of Near Eastern StudiesProgram in Comparative LiteratureUniversity of Michigan Search for more articles by this author Department of Near Eastern StudiesProgram in Comparative LiteratureUniversity of MichiganPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 28, Number 1Autumn 2002Gender and Cultural Memory. Special Issue Editors Marianne Hirsch and Valerie Smith Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/341011 Views: 419Total views on this site Citations: 25Citations are reported from Crossref © 2002 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 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Violent Crime: Does Social Capital Matter?

This paper examines empirically the effect of some commonly used indicators of social capital, such as the prevalence of trust on community members and the participation in voluntary secular and religious organizations, on the incidence of violent crimes. This is a cross-country study whose basic sample consists of 39 developed and developing countries and whose dependent variable is the national intentional homicide rate. The paper identifies and deals with three challenges in the empirical estimation of the effect of social capital on the incidence of violent crimes. The omittedvariable problem is dealt with by including income inequality and economic growth as additional determinants of a country’s violent crime rate. The joint endogeneity (or reverse-causation) problem is accounted for by using instrumental variables for social capital in the crime regression. The specificity problem, that is the potentially opposite effects of group-specific and society-wide social capital, is noted and addressed only indirectly by emphasizing the results applied to the social capital indicators that have application for society as a whole. The main result of the paper is that only the component of social capital measured by trust on community members has the effect of reducing the incidence of violent crimes. The results regarding measures of other indicators of social capital are rather unclear. This may be due to a combination of limited samples, inability to fully control for reverse causation, and most likely, the opposite effects that society-wide and group-specific social capital may have on violent crime. ∗ Lederman and Menendez are economists with the Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World Bank. Loayza is a senior economist with the research department of the Central Bank of Chile, and he is currently on leave from the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. The opinions expressed herein should not be attributed to the World Bank. The authors are grateful to Ed Glaeser, Jeff Grogger, Gale Johnson, Sanjay Marwah, Steve Messner, Nicholas Sambanis, and an anonymous referee for invaluable comments and suggestions. The authors are responsible for any remaining errors.

Difference and Indifference: A U.S. Feminist Response to Global Politics

Previous articleNext article No AccessDifference and Indifference: A U.S. Feminist Response to Global PoliticsKathy RudyKathy Rudy Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 25, Number 4Summer, 2000Feminisms at a Millennium Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/495518 Views: 2Total views on this site Citations: 4Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 2000 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:VICTORIA E. COLLINS Looking to Critical Criminology to Centre Gender and Violence Against Women in State Crime Studies, The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 60, no.33 (Sep 2021): 370–387.https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12415Claire M. Renzetti, Margaret Campe Feminist Praxis and Gender Violence, (Nov 2020): 411–426.https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119314967.ch23Lisa Wade Learning from ?Female Genital Mutilation?: Lessons from 30 Years of Academic Discourse, Ethnicities 12, no.11 (Sep 2011): 26–49.https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796811419603Dolores E. Janiewski Engendering the Invisible Empire: Imperialism, Feminism, and US Women's History, Australian Feminist Studies 16, no.3636 (Nov 2001): 279–293.https://doi.org/10.1080/08164640120097525

USING CITATION COUNTS IN CRIMINOLOGY AS MEASURES OF INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCE: A COMMENT ON WRIGHT AND SOMA, MYSELF, AND OTHERS

ABSTRACT Wright and Soma recently published a piece in the Journal of Crime and Justice which used citation counts in American criminology textbooks as measures of cited scholars’ intellectual influence. This comment questions such use of citation not only by Wright and Soma, but others as well, including myself. Drawing from a considerable literature in the sociology of science, I address the general problems associated with using citation as a measure of intellectual influence and the particular problems found in using textbook citations for that purpose.

Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration

Members of some disadvantaged minority groups in every Western country are disproportionately likely to be arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for violent, property, and drug crimes. This is true whether the minority groups are members of different "racial" groups from the majority population, for example, blacks or Afro-Caribbeans in Canada, England, or the United States, or of different ethnic backgrounds, for example, North African Arabs in France or the Netherlands, orirrespective of race or ethnicity-are recent migrants from other countries, for example, Yugoslavs or Eastern Europeans in Germany and Finns in Sweden. Important social policy dilemmas that are seen in individual countries to be uniquely their own, such as race relations in the United States or assimilation of Maghreb-derived guest workers in France or the experience of Aborigines in Australia, are not unique at all but are instead variations on common themes of social structure

PATTERNS OF DRUG USE AMONG DUI ARRESTEES: A RESEARCH NOTE

ABSTRACT The main purpose of this research note is to give a detailed description of drug use patterns among DUI offenders using both self-report and urinalysis data. The data were obtained from 3,987 recently booked arrestees in the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program in Omaha, Nebraska from July 1987 to March 1995. Specifically, the research note supplements Bramlet's (1995) examination of self-reported drug use patterns of DUI offenders, published in the Journal of Crime and Justice, by using both self-report and urinalysis data obtained from recently booked arrestees.