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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
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#OpenAccess, peer reviewed #Criminology journal publishing critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems - promotes social democratic solutions
https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/
👏At the end of 2025, we would like to acknowledge and thank the Editorial team, the International Editorial Board, the authors and the Journal reviewers for their significant and valuable contributions throughout the year #criminology #OpenAccess
www.crimejusticejournal.com/announcement...
December 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🆕 #OpenAccess
A critical criminological lens to examine penal discrimination – an analytical approach that remains under-developed in South African criminological scholarship #SouthAfrica #CriminalJustice #discrimination
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December 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🆕New article, Online First and #OpenAccess
Open Disclosure - recommendations to improve harm recognition, embed meaningful apology, and strengthen systemic accountability in custodial settings in Australia #YouthJustice #NT #watchhouse @johngscott.bsky.social
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December 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🏆 Congratulations to KuoRay Mao and Zhong Zhao - winners of the 2025 Rosa del Olmo Prize for Best Paper
Recipient announcement at www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view...
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
New article Online First #OpenAccess examining police reforms through a meta-relational framework: Focusing on active listening in police training
#policing #PoliceReform #abolitionism
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November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Who Owns our Knowledge?
This week (20-26 October) is International Open Access Week
The theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAWeek2025
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October 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
New article Online First #OpenAccess
Resisting “Manufactured” Vulnerability: Discretionary Policing and Migrant Sex Workers’ Resistance Strategies in Malta #policing #SexWork @johngscott.bsky.social
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October 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kate Rossmanith and Ian Freckelton review the concept of “closure” in death investigations - the experiences of bereaved families and #JusticeSystem professionals, and on inquests undertaken by #coroners under the Anglo-Canadian-Australasian model
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September 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The Northern Territory (NT), Australia has expanded its mandatory sentencing regime in respect of assaults on frontline workers – Stephen Enciso discusses the entrenchment of trauma, poverty and criminalisation in #Indigenous communities calling for reform #CLP
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September 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
🟣From latest issue
#OpenAccess article - the unique cultural context of policing #rape in metropolitan India #SexualViolence @drgemmahamilton.bsky.social
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September 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
📝15-19 September is #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 Acknowledging - and thanking - the Journal’s peer reviewers who play a vital role in supporting research integrity – critical in #ScholComm #ResearchIntegrity #PeerReviewWeek #OpenAccess #AI @peerreviewweek.bsky.social @johngscott.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
🆕Online First #OpenAccess:
A multi-modal Australian study examining informants perceptions and experiences of hoon drivers, why they do it, and the harms associated with it #NusianceDriving #AntiSocialBehaviour #BoyRacer @clarefarmer.bsky.social @emmagretgrix.bsky.social
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September 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
🟣In latest issue
The disparate and idiosyncratic implementation of the protection order (PO) process at magistrates’ courts in #SouthAfrica and the impact on survivors of #DomesticViolence
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September 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
In latest issue
#OpenAccess: Calculating the degree of ethno-religious over-representation in the US no-fly list #RacialDiscrimination #NoFlyList
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September 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In latest issue #OpenAccess article

Cultural Practices and Human Rights: The Non-reporting of #Rape Cases in the Lupane Rural District of Zimbabwe #HumanRights
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September 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🆕New article Online First #OpenAccess
Martina Lassalle sociologically examines the evolving punishment of women who harm or kill their intimate partners in the context of gender violence in #Argentina
#GenderBasedViolence #homicide #decriminalization
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September 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🆕New Issue
#OpenAccess findings from a survey-based questionnaire investigating the prevalence and predictors of student disclosures of crime, violence, and trauma to #criminology educators working at Australian and Aotearoa NZ universities
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September 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🟣In latest issue:
#OpenAccess: Coercively controlling tactics in Australian women’s same-gender intimate relationships #IPV #DomesticViolence
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September 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In latest issue #OpenAccess:
Bilguundari Enkhtugs and Kevin Walby discuss how youth care workers supporting marginalised youth manage work-related stress and the emotions experienced by young people #EmotionalLabour #YouthJustice
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September 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🔘In latest issue
#OpenAccess article: @ecojustice.bsky.social provides a political economic analysis of the Mobuoy illegal dump #NorthernIreland #GreenCriminology #pollution
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September 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🎈Congratulations to @austlii.edu.au
A non-profit organisation that provides free online access to legal information from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and other countries in the Australasian region - making legal research and law #OpenAccess and "more accessible, usable, and relevant"
Last week @austlii.edu.au celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special event bringing together distinguished guests from the judiciary, government, legal profession, academia, and the wider community. www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/even...
AustLII – Australasian Legal Information Institute
Free access to Australian legislation, case law, treaties and legal materials.
www.austlii.edu.au
August 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
🆕New article Online First #OpenAccess
The role of state actors in polluting activities across borders, focusing on a case study of #Norway’s role in Norsk Hydro’s polluting activities in Barcarena, #Brazil from 1967 to 2024 #pollution #CorporateCrime #GreenCriminology
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August 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A very warm welcome to new International Editorial Board members joining the team this year
A continuing and sustained contribution to global criminology research and scholarship - making #criminology research accessible to all #OpenAccess
www.crimejusticejournal.com/announcement...
August 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM