Theoretical Criminology

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is pleased to announce the 2025 Best Article Prize has been awarded to Samuel Singler for his article 'Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control.' Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Are you interested in guest-editing for Theoretical Criminology? #TheoreticalCrim is now accepting proposals for our 2028 special issue! Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2026. Find our full criteria here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm....

Making victims, making offenders: County lines, modern slavery and the criminal law - Simon Flacks, 2026 ‘County lines’ drug supply has grown into a powerful cultural, criminological and political concern in the UK. In recent years, the criminal law has been mobili...

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Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices - Steffen Jensen, Mette-Louise E. Johansen, 2025 This article explores the salience of the concept of violent exchange to contribute towards a global criminology of relationality. Coined in the Global South, t...

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NEW! Check out Valeria Ruiz Pérez's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Administrative co-evolution: Penality and welfare in Colombia's child protection system.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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NEW! Check out "Criminalizing solidarity, regulating the enemy: Analyzing the criminalization of migrant solidarity through ‘enemy under-criminalization’ in Greece," a new article by Filippos Kourakis. Now available from #TheoreticalCrim in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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#TheoreticalCrim is happy to name our 4th and final #EditorsChoice article of 2025: Sean Columb's, 'Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route.' Check out this article and this growing #OpenAccess collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Daniel E. Martínez's review of @asadasad.bsky.social's, 'Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life.' Now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read @francispakes.bsky.social's review of @aitorjimenez.bsky.social's, 'The Crimes of Digital Capitalism: Corporate Crime in an Age of Exploitation.' Now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read @profegascon.bsky.social's review of Tony Cheng's, 'The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input.' Now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Brett C. Burkhardt's article, 'Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling,' now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read 'Keeping it real: A signaling theory perspective on authentic claims of gang membership made on social media' by John Leverso, James A. Densley, and Lindsey Insco. Now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Marion Vannier's article, 'The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners,' now available #OpenAccess as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read '“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance' by @faithmdeckard.com, now available #OpenAccess as part of #TheoreticalCrim's final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Thomas Ugelvik's article, 'The kindness of strangers: Trust, recognition, and the co-production of desistance,' now available #OpenAccess as part of #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Sean Columb's article, 'Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route,' now available #OpenAccess as part of #TheoreticalCrim's final issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Theoretical Criminology - Volume 29, Number 4 Table of contents for Theoretical Criminology, 29, 4

NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025 is now available! Check out our latest collection of articles and book reviews in print and online 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/4

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NEW! Check out this new article by Caitlin S. Ducate, Sarah R. Bostrom, K. Ryan Proctor and @reniemeyerphd.bsky.social for #TheoreticalCrim: 'The theory crisis in criminology: Causes, consequences, and solutions.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The remorseful enemy - Irit Ballas, Netanel Dagan, 2025 Soliciting a defendant's remorse during sentencing resonates with the idea that the individual has breached the community's shared moral values but ca...

NEW! Check out this new article by Irit Ballas and Netanel Dagan for #TheoreticalCrim: 'The remorseful enemy' is now available in #OnlineFirst. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Thank you, @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social! What an honour. The article is part of our on-going study of the knowledge foundation of criminal justice policy and practice, which you can read more about here:

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#TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce our 3rd #EditorsChoice article of 2025, 'Outsourcing the brains: The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice' by Katja Franko & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social! Read this & the growing #OpenAccess collection here: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts - Lorena Avila, Andres F. Rengifo, 2025 We examine pretrial decisions by judges and the broader process of case review during open hearings in two courts in Colombia. We theorize these displays of aut...

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Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety - Daria Przybylska, 2025 Based on a longitudinal study of life-sentenced prisoners in England and Wales, this article explores the disruptive impact of having a murder conviction on the...

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Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression - Mark A. Walters, 2025 Hate crime has gained heightened attention in criminology recently, with a particular focus on research detailing its impacts on direct victims and the communit...

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Amr Marzouk's review of 'Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference' by Mareile Kaufmann. Available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's Special Issue, guest-edited by Katja Franko and @heidimorklomell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read @camillalangeland.bsky.social & Thea Myrvang's review of Gabriele Balbi's 'The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology' (translated by @lapoeta.bsky.social). Part of #TheoreticalCrim's new Special Issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️Read Aleš Završnik's review of @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social's 'Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms.' Part of #TheoreticalCrim's Special Issue, guest-edited by Katja Franko & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Samuel Singler's 'Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control.' Available #OpenAccess in #TheoreticalCrim's Special Issue, guest-edited by Katja Franko & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read 'Scientification through privatization: POL-INTEL in Denmark' by Björn Karlsson and Vasilis Galis, now available as part of #TheoreticalCrim's third and Special Issue of 2025, guest-edited by Katja Franko and @heidimorklomell.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Katerina Hadjimatheou and @petefussey.bsky.social's "‘The dream to know everything about everyone’: Affordances of commercial data systems and digital net-widening in policing." Available #OpenAccess in #TheoreticalCrim's new Special Issue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....