Theoretical Criminology
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Interdisciplinary, international, peer reviewed journal for the advancement of the theoretical aspects of criminological knowledge
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🗣️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....
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February 3, 2026 at 5:06 PM
🗣️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....
NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim! Read 'Making victims, making offenders: County lines, modern slavery and the criminal law,' by @simonflacks.bsky.social. Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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January 28, 2026 at 5:36 PM
NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim! Read 'Making victims, making offenders: County lines, modern slavery and the criminal law,' by @simonflacks.bsky.social. Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
NEW! Check out Steffen Jensen and Mette-Louise E. Johansen's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices.' Now available in #OnlineFirst here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
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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January 19, 2026 at 9:23 PM
NEW! Check out Steffen Jensen and Mette-Louise E. Johansen's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices.' Now available in #OnlineFirst here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....
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 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....
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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December 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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....
#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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December 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
#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...
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
Theoretical Criminology - Volume 29, Number 4
Table of contents for Theoretical Criminology, 29, 4
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November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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
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....
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October 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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....
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...
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...
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September 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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...
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September 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#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...
NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim! Lorena Avila and Andres F. Rengifo's 'The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts' is now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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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September 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim! Lorena Avila and Andres F. Rengifo's 'The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts' is now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
NEW! Check out @daria-przblsk.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety.' Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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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August 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
NEW! Check out @daria-przblsk.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety.' Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim: 'Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression' by Mark Walters. Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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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August 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim: 'Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression' by Mark Walters. Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's third issue of 2025 is now available! Check out our Special Issue, "Private Economies of Knowledge in Criminal Justice," guest-edited by Katja Franko and @heidimorklomell.bsky.social here 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/3
Theoretical Criminology - Volume 29, Number 3
Table of contents for Theoretical Criminology, 29, 3
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August 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's third issue of 2025 is now available! Check out our Special Issue, "Private Economies of Knowledge in Criminal Justice," guest-edited by Katja Franko and @heidimorklomell.bsky.social here 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/3
NEW! Check out Elena Vasiliou's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory.' Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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July 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
NEW! Check out Elena Vasiliou's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory.' Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
NEW! Read Hayley Boxall, Jason Payne, Lorana Bartels and Anthony Morgan's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Who defines desistance? Exploring the perspectives and experiences of female victim–survivors of intimate partner violence.' Now available #openaccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Who defines desistance? Exploring the perspectives and experiences of female victim–survivors of intimate partner violence - Hayley Boxall, Jason Payne, Lorana Bartels, Anthony Morgan, 2025
A small body of research has started to explore the factors and processes that contribute to desistance from intimate partner violence (IPV). However, this evid...
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July 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
NEW! Read Hayley Boxall, Jason Payne, Lorana Bartels and Anthony Morgan's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Who defines desistance? Exploring the perspectives and experiences of female victim–survivors of intimate partner violence.' Now available #openaccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
NEW! Check out Eleonora Di Molfetta's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency." Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency - Eleonora Di Molfetta, 2025
Until recently, the impact of language barriers faced by non-citizens in institutional settings, particularly within the criminal justice system, has been large...
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July 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
NEW! Check out Eleonora Di Molfetta's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency." Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
NEW! Read @kategooch.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'The new debtors' prison: Conceptualising the relationship between prisoner debt, prison violence and prisoners crisis.' Now available #openaccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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June 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
NEW! Read @kategooch.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'The new debtors' prison: Conceptualising the relationship between prisoner debt, prison violence and prisoners crisis.' Now available #openaccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
NEW! Read Sara K. Thompson, Ajay Sandhu, & Claudia Koziol's article,"‘History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings’: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility." Available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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June 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
NEW! Read Sara K. Thompson, Ajay Sandhu, & Claudia Koziol's article,"‘History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings’: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility." Available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
NEW! Check out @drconorwilson.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X." Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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June 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
NEW! Check out @drconorwilson.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X." Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
NEW! Check out Gabreélla Friday, Joshua Price, and Nicola Satchell's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Temporicide: Waiting, punishment, and (social) death.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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June 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NEW! Check out Gabreélla Friday, Joshua Price, and Nicola Satchell's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Temporicide: Waiting, punishment, and (social) death.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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This made my day when I saw it. My article 'Gendering Postcolonial Penality', on the religious detention of women in post-independence Ireland, drawing on how Magdalen laundries and other sites were a shadow penal system in a process of nation formation with a new domestic enemy - women.
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce its 2nd Editors' Choice article of 2025, 'Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland,' by @lynseyblack.bsky.social! Read this article & the growing #EditorsChoice collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...
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June 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This made my day when I saw it. My article 'Gendering Postcolonial Penality', on the religious detention of women in post-independence Ireland, drawing on how Magdalen laundries and other sites were a shadow penal system in a process of nation formation with a new domestic enemy - women.
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce its 2nd Editors' Choice article of 2025, 'Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland,' by @lynseyblack.bsky.social! Read this article & the growing #EditorsChoice collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...
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May 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce its 2nd Editors' Choice article of 2025, 'Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland,' by @lynseyblack.bsky.social! Read this article & the growing #EditorsChoice collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...
NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's second issue of 2025 is now available in print and online! Check out our latest collection of articles and book reviews here 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/2
Theoretical Criminology - Volume 29, Number 2
Table of contents for Theoretical Criminology, 29, 2
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May 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's second issue of 2025 is now available in print and online! Check out our latest collection of articles and book reviews here 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/2