Month: May 2024

Md Jahirul Islam, Masahiro Suzuki, Nurunnahar Mazumder. ABSTRACT This study delves into the critical issue of access to justice in Bangladesh, particularly focusing on the challenges individuals face within the formal criminal justice system. Significant barriers to achieving equal access to justice in the country include socio-economic disparities, corruption, discrimination, and judicial backlogs. The study Read More …

Matthew Caines Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TXUSA ABSTRACT The historically complex relationship between Blacks and Whites is believed to play an important role in the way offenders select their victims in violent crimes. This study tests two theories that have been used to explain interracial crimes: racial animosity Read More …

Thomas Wojciechowski School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA ABSTRACT Prior research has highlighted persistent racial/ethnic disparities in employment and workforce engagement. That said, this research has yet to be extended to justice-involved youth. This is problematic, given that this is a population that may already face barriers to employment and Read More …

Kamil Mamak a RADAR: Robophilosophy, AI Ethics and Datafication Research Group, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;b Department of Criminal Law, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland ABSTRACT In this paper, I present the punishment called cyberbanishment. This sanction refers to the old-fashioned punishment of forbidding a person to be present in specific places, but instead of physical Read More …

Terance D. Miethe a Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA ABSTRACT Using national online surveys of U.S. adults who know a missing person, the current study explores factors influencing missing person case outcomes (i.e. the person being found alive, an arrest occurring). Both demographic characteristics (e.g. the missing person’s sex, race/ethnicity, Read More …

Mark H. Heirigs a Department of Sociology, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA ABSTARCT here have been a number of studies that have examined the relationship between Anderson’s code of the street and criminogenic behavior. However, little research has been done on the potential relationship between street code adherence and the dark figure of crime. Read More …

Randy R. Gainey a Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA ABSTRACT Cybercrime has become a major societal concern, and a better understanding OF cybercrime is needed to target and prevent it more effectively, minimize its consequences, and provide support for victims. Research on cybercrime victimization has exploded in the Read More …

Claire Seungeun Lee a School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, USA ABSTRACT The Internet and related technology development have increased cybercrime perpetration and victimization opportunities. Individuals who have experienced victimization in the past are fearful of cybercrime. Yet, despite the increase in diversified cybercrime, previous studies have used inaccurate, aggregated Read More …

Kelly Richards a School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia ABSTRACT People convicted of sexual offences are increasingly subject to a range of post-prison measures designed to reduce their risk of reoffending, including civil commitment, public offender registers, electronic monitoring and Circles of Support and Accountability. The views of a range of stakeholders, Read More …

Daniel K. Pryce Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Old Dominion University, College of Arts & Letters, Norfolk, VA, USA ABSTRACT Assessing public attitudes toward the police is a mainstay of policing research because of the importance of police-community relations for the betterment of society. To have a better understanding of the antecedents of public Read More …