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VOL 14 SPECIAL Topics Edition 

Special Topic Edition

Old Ideas, Still Valuable... (For a Destructive 21st Century)
A Few Introductory Notes                                                                    (39-43)
Ronnie Lippens, Keele University (UK)                                          

'Circulus Vitiosus Deus': The Death Drive Now and Then                         (44-60)
Mark Featherstone, Keele University (UK)                                      

On Friedrich Nietzsche: Nihilism and the 21st Century                            (61-73)
Patrick Van Calster, Bournemouth university (UK)        

Restoring Equilibrium (type II): Physiological Lessons for
the 21st Century from Dr. Guislain's (1795-1860) Art of
Healing                                                                                              (74-91)
Ronnie Lippens, Keele University                           

Book review 
Bodies in Evidence/; Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault 
Adjudication                                                                                        (92-94)
Heather R. Hlavka & Sameena Mulla  
New York University Press
Reviewed by Haley Gilke                                                                                 

November Special Edition 
 

FEATURED TEXT:
A Criminology of Narrative Fiction
Rafe McGregor
Bristol University Press
978-1-5292-0805-4

A Synopsis: A Criminology of Narrative Fiction
Rafe McGregor, Edge Hill University                                          (92-98)

Fiction, Knowledge and Cinematic Realism 
Mario Slugan, Queen Mary, University of London                     (99-110) 

Fictional Realities and Criminology: Apprehending 
Social Reality Through Narrative Fiction                     
Jon Frauley, University of Ottawa                                             (111-125)

Valuing Crime Fiction: Aesthetic Appreciation or
Criminological Data
Karen Simecek, University of Warwick                                     (126-135)

Reflections on A Criminology of Fiction by
Rafe McGregor
Rosalchen Whitecross, University of Sussex                            (136-147)

Response to Frauley, Simecek, Slugan and Whitecross   
Rafe McGregor, Edge Hill University                                         (148-157)

August, 2021 Vol13

Western Criminology vis-a-vis Nigerian Criminology 
Chijioke Nwalozie, De Montfort University, UK                                  (1-10)

Victimization, Perceived Organizational Support and Perceived Danger Among Police Officers                                                                                    (11-28)
Paul D. Reynolds, University of North Texas, Dallas
Richard Helfers, University of Texas, Tyler 
Janiece Upshaw, University of North Texas, Dallas 

Corporate Criminal Careers: Thinking about Organizational Offending 
Ben Hunter, University of Greenwich & Royal Naval College          (29-45)                       

Special Edition: Vol 12: September 2020
Blame, Responsibility, and Forgiveness: Problematizing Peacemaking Criminology
Editors:  Bruce Arrigo, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
                                              &
               David Polizzi, Indiana State University, USA


Problematizing Peacemaking: A Conversational Inquiry and 
Philosophical Critique                                                                   (153-170)
Don Crewe, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Bruce Arrigo, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
David Polizzi, Indiana State University, USA

Responsive Categorization and Accusation                                 (171-187)
George Pavlich, Professor and H.M. Tory Chair,
Department of Sociology, University of Alberta

Between Athens and Jerusalem in Peacemaking Criminology: The Importance of Weak and Marginal Positions
Aaron Pycroft, University of Portsmouth, UK                              (188-199)

Response to Pavlich and Pycroft
Don Crewe, Leeds Beckett University, UK                                   (200-206)

August 2020 Issue:

Crime as an assemblage                                                             (68-79)
Phil Crockett Thomas, University of Glasgow

Reconsidering the response to mass violence: Meaning,
choice and human truth                                                              (80-97)
Michael DeValve, Bridgewater State University 

On Criminogenic grit and theoretical criminology                   (98-115)
Chidike I. Okeem, Western New England University 

In their own words: A qualitative exploration of Agnew's
storylines among imprisoned offenders                                (116-137)
Amanda Howerton-Orcutt,  Gina Curcio, Jeb Booth, Salem State University
Richard Byng, University of Plymouth 
John Campbell, University of Exeter

Following Foucault's continuum between war and law
in Kosovo: 'Hybrid policing' and selective criminalization in 
international policing                                                              (138-152)
Teresa Degenhardt, Queen's University Belfast

VOL 12 January 2020

Narratives of Crime: Narrative Psychology and the Integral Theory Perspective (p.p. 1-17) 
David R. Champion, Slippery Rock University
Randy Martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey W. Cohen, University of Washington-Tacoma

Criminological Fiction: What is it Good For? (18-36)

Rafe McGregor, Edge Hill University


Modernizing and Activating Beccaria's Proportionality (p.p. 37-51)
Sanjay Marwah, University of California Eastbay
Jerry Joplin, Guilford College

 

Revisting Reasons & Kaplan 1975: Toward an Open Wall Approach to Rehabilitative Prisons  (p.p. 52-67)
Roger Schaefer, Central Washington University 
Danielle Neal, The Donor Motivation Program, Kansas City, MO
Madison Kneadler, Heritage Law Office Cle Elum, WA

Vol 11: 3 August 2019

What is Realist about Ultra-Realist Criminology?  A Critical Appraisal of the Perspective, p.p. 95-114
Mark Wood, University of Melbourne

The Embracement of Risks: How to make sense of 'resilience' for safety and security management?, p.p. 115-132
Juul Gooren, The Hague University of Applied Sciences

A Qualitative Study of an Environmental Justice Fight in a Freedman Community:A Content Analysis of Sand Branch, Texas, p.p. 133-158

Paul D. Reynolds, University of North Texas at Dallas
Janiece Upshaw, University of North Texas at Dallas
Theodore Larson, University of North Texas at Dalllas

Integrating General Strain Theory and the Gender Strain Paradigm:
Initial Considerations, p.p. 159-186
Amanda L.C. Fontaine, University of New Hamsphire


The natural history of street-level criminality: Self-perceptions of "vincibility" and a persistant offender's motive for desistance (p.p. 187-204)
Joshua Ellsworth, Indiana University, Bloomington

Vol 11:2 
Special Edition July 2019

SPECIAL TOPICS EDITION:  Terrorism in the 21st Century

A Cosmopolitian response to the 'war on terror'
Shamila Ahmed, University of Westminster

"Cubs of the caliphate": ISIS speciticale of violence 
Weeda Mehran, Georgia State University

Vol 11: 1 February, 2019

Blame, Responsibility, and Peacemaking
Don Crewe Leeds Beckett University, UK. (1-17)

Witnessing riot: a political ecology of digital things
Elaine Campbell, Newcastle University (18-37)


Staging sovereignty: Punitivity, xenophobia, and the frail society
Victor L. Shammas, Oslo Metropolitan University (38-51)

Vol 10: 2 July, 2018

The phenomenological psychology of stopping an active shooter
 Rodger E. Broomé  &  Eric J. Russell, Utah Valley University

Applying contextual anomie and strain theory to recent  acts of corporate deviance
Matthew Robinson and Ms. Jessica Rogers, Appalachian State University 

Vol 10: 1 February, 2018 

Consciousness in rather than of: Advancing modest claims for the development of phenomenologically informed approaches to complexity theory in criminology (1-20)
Aaron Pycroft, Portsmouth University, UK

Radicalisation and beheadings: Philosophy of transgressions in terrorist violence  (21-33)
Elise Impara, Kingston University, UK

The little things: Deconstructing Christian doctrine and theorizing a loving justice (34-52)
Michael DeValve & Sara Brightman, Fayetteville State University

Vol 9:2   August, 2017 

Forget ‘Moral Panics’
Mark Horsley, Teesside University, U.K.

Going inside crime and punishment: the oranges of anti-rehabilitative justice
Anna King, Georgian Court University

Epistrophe: desideratum for a loving justice 
Michael DeValve, Fayetteville State University 

Vol 9:1    February 2017

What are the barriers to recovery perceived by people discharged from a medium-secure forensic mental health unit? An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Simon R. Stuart, NHS Lanarkshire, Scotland
Louise Tansey, NHS Lothian, Scotland
Ethel Quayle, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Dialogical Nature of Transferential Processes: Tacit Moral Frameworks
Kevin Glenn, MSC, LAC & Paul McCormick Utah Valley University

Social Structure and Sociobiology: A Radical-Political Economic Reinterpretation
Michael J. Lynch, University of South Florida
Paul B. Stretesky Northumbria University

Criminology and Violence: Reflections on Elliott Currie’s The Roots of Danger
Don Crewe, Leeds Becket University

The Roots of Danger Elliott Currie Commentary
Steve Hall, Tesside University, UK

Response to Crewe and Hall
Elliott Currie, University of California, Irvine, and Queensland University of Technology

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VOL 8: 2 July 2016

Policing and its Spatial Imaginaries
Elaine Campbell, Newcastle University, UK 

The Descent of Nature: Constructing the "Other" in Historucal Newspapers
Ethan Higgans, & Kristin Swartz

The Noble Cause Corruption of Frank Castle
Aryeh Halevy, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Jonathon A. Cooper, University of Pennslvania

Civilian United States Support for Military and Imperial State Crime
Joshua Klein, Iona College

Inmate' Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison: Rewriting Personal Histories through Cognitive Behavioral Programs
Jennifer Schlosser, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Routledge
Lydia Littlejohns & Tony Ward, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Prison-based Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Programs--A Mechanism of Panoptic Control
Commentary of Jennifer A. Schlosser's (2015) Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison:
Rewriting Personal Histories through Cognitive-Behavioral Programs
Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Seattle University 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Cost of Collective Humanity: Commentary on Discursive Discipline in Prisons--Schlosser
Roger L. Schaefer, Central Washington University

Author's Response
Jennifer A. Schlosser, Colorado State University--Pueblo

VOL 8: 1 February 2016

Synthesizing Structure and Agency: A Developmental Framework of Bourdieu's Constructivist Theory
Tricia Johnston, Georgia State University 

Other Theories of Justice
Anthony Amatrudo, Middlesex University

Medieval Violence and Criminology: Using the Middle Ages to Understand Contemporary Motiveless Crime
Elise Impara, Kingston University

Economic Nomads: A Theoreticak Deconstruction of the Immigration Debacle
Brian Sellers, Eastern Michigan
Bruce A. Arrigo, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Understanding Cyber-Vigilantism: A Conceptual Framework
Joshua Smallridge, Fairmont State University 
Philip Wagner, University of Wisconsin--Parkside
Justin N. Crowl, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

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Vol 7: 2    August, 2015

Vol 7: 1  February, 2015
Rethinking Subculture and Subcultural Theory in the Study of Youth Crime – A Theoretical Discourse
Chijioke J. Nwalozie, New College, Stamford, U.K.

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Vol 6: 2    July, 2014

Vol 6: 1    January, 2014 

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Vol 5: 2    July, 2013

Quantum Holographic Critical Criminology 
Dragan Milovanovic, Northeastern Illinois University

The overlap between war and crime: unpacking Foucault and
Agamben’s studies within the context of the war on terror
Teresa Degenhardt,  Queen’s University, Belfast

Actors of genocide and processes of deviantization: a Weberian ideal typical formulation
Kenneth Hemmerechts, Free University Brussels

Social Capital and Collective Efficacy: Resource and OperatingTools of Community Social Control
Sami Ansari, Salem State University

Trayvon Martin: The Unsettling Symbol, the Irreplaceable Son
Joy Simmons Bradley

Vol 5: 1    January, 2013

Conceptualization, Operationalization,Construct Validity, and Truth in Advertising
in Criminological Research
Randy Martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey W. Cohen, University of Washington-Tacoma 
David R. Champion, Slippery Rock University

Hospitality and the Homeless: Jacques Derrida in the Neoliberal City
Bryan Hogeveen,University of Alberta
Joshua Freistadt, University of Alberta

Can One Paint Criminology?
Ronnie Lippens, Keele University
Interviewed by James Hardie-Bick, Keele University

Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society
The Author’s Response to the Commentary  of Toward a Unified Criminology:
Robert Agnew, Department of Sociology, Emory University

Vol 4: 2    July, 2012

Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society
New York University Press, 2011
Robert Agnew, Emory University

The Challenges of Integrating Criminology:A Commentary on Agnew?s Toward a Unified Criminology:  

The Power Of One?: Reflections On Agnew?s Unified Theory Of Crime 
Stuart Henry, San Dirgo State University

The Perversion of Criminology
Matthew Robinson, Appalachian State University

The Power Of One?: Reflections On Agnew?s Unified Theory Of Crime
James D. Unnever, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manate

Toward a Unified Criminology: Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society: A Commentary 
Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentuck University

In Search of the Ethical in Criminal Justice Practice
David Polizzi, Indiana State University
Michelle Brown, University of Tennessee

What's A Just War Theorist?
Aleksander Jokic, Portland St. University

Just War, Genocide, or Necessity: A Critical Response to Jokic
David Polizzi, Indiana State University

Gadd, D., & Jefferson, T. (2007). Psychosocial criminology: An introduction. Los Angeles, CA: Sage
Review by Roger Schaefer, Washington State University

Alexander, M. (2010). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New York, NY: The New Press
Review by: Justin Grinage, University of Minnesota

Vol. 4 (2)  January 2012 (Special Edition)

Special Edition Topic:
Does Evolutionary Psychology Have a Place in Criminology?

Editor's Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief, Associate Professor Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice Indiana State University

Featured Article:

The Role of Evolutionary Explanations in Criminology
Russil Durrant, Victoria University of Wellington & Tony Ward, Deakin University

Commentary:

Barak Responds to Durrant and Ward on Evolution and Crime
Gregg Barak, Eastern Michigan University

Once More into the Breach: Revisiting the Metaphor of Mechanism in Evolutionary Psychological Explanations
Edwin E. Gantt & Jeffrey L. Thayne, Brigham Young University

Expanding Our Thinking on Theorizing Criminology and Criminal Justice? The Place of Evolutionary Perspectives in Integrative Criminological Theory
Stuart Henry, San Diego State University

The Evolutionary Psychology of Crime
By David M. Buss, University of Texas, Austin


Vol. 4   (1)  January, 2012

Social Control on Public Buses
David Patrick Connor & Richard Tewksbury, University of LouisvilleFuture Scholars: Student Papers:

WikiLeaks and Realpolitik
Kevin F. Steinmetz, Sam Houston State University

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Vol. 3 (2)  August, 2011

2011 Editor's Statement
David Polizzi, Editor in Chief,
Associate Professor
Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice Indiana State University

Liberated Voices: Juvenile Offenders? Perceptions of the Therapeutic Relationship
John S. Ryals, Jr., Department of Juvenile Services, Jefferson Parish, LA

Is Capital Punishment Just? Assessing the Death Penalty Using Justice Theory
Matthew Robinson, Government & Justice Studies, Appalachian State University 

Book Review: Essential Criminology 3rd Edition
Roger Schafer, Washington State University
 

Vol. 3  Issue 2  August 2011, Continued:

Special Feature: Student Articles

Vol. 3   (1 ) January, 2011

Editor's Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief

Justice-Rendering Schemas: A Typology for Forms of Justice and a Prolegomenon for Transformative Justice
By Dragan Milovanovic, Justice Studies Department, Northeastern Illinois University

Democratic Criminology: The Place of Criminological Expertise in the Public Sphere
By Aaron Fichtelberg and Aaron Kupchik, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware

Filling in the Gaps in Culture-Based Theories of Organizational Crime
By Adam Trahan, University of North Texas, Department of Criminal Justice

Knowledge Reifying Force-Intention-Harm K(F+I+H): The Nature and Structure of Crime: A Multidimensional Theoretical Model
By Ehor Boyanowsky & Jonathan Yasayko, Simon Fraser University

Inmate Mental Health, Solitary Confinement, and Cruel and Unusual Punishment: A Preliminary Response To Commentators
By Heather Y. Bersot, M.S., and By Bruce A. Arrigo, Ph.D.*, UNC Charlotte

Book Review: "Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race" (George Yancy)
By David Polizzi, Ph.D., Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice Indiana State University

Book Review: "Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men" (Lois Presser)
By Laura King

Book Review: "Criminology: An Integrated Approach" (Gregg Barak)
By Joshua Smallridge

Book Review: "A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Criminology." (Ronnie Lippens)
By Tyler Wall


Vol. 3 ( 2)  August, 2011

Editor's Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief
Associate Professor 
Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Indiana State University

Liberated Voices: Juvenile Offenders? Perceptions of the Therapeutic Relationship
By John S. Ryals, Jr., Department of Juvenile Services, Jefferson Parish, LA

Vol 2   (3)  December, 2010

Editor's Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief

Arguing the 8th Amendment for the Mentally Ill: Can Aristotle Help?
By Annalise Acorn, University of Alberta

Inmate Mental Health, Solitary Confinement, And Cruel And Unusual Punishment: An Ethical And Justice Policy Inquiry
By Heather Y. Bersot, M.S., UNC Charlotte and
By Bruce A. Arrigo, Ph.D.*, UNC Charlotte

Commentary on "Inmate Mental Health," Solitary Confinement, And Cruel And Unusual Punishment: An Ethical And Justice Policy Inquiry.
By Terry A. Kupers, M.D., M.S.P.

Care for Convicts
By Lois Presser, The University of Tennessee and
By Beth Easterling, The University of Tennessee

Dignity, Virtue, and Punishment: The Ethical Justification of Disciplinary Segregation in Prisoners
By Tony Ward Victoria University of Wellington

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Vol. 2  ( 2)  July, 2010

Editor?s Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief

The Interstitial And Creativity: Bergson And Fitzpatrick On The Emergence Of Law 
By Ronnie Lippens, Keele University, UK

Power: The Supposed Definitions Revisited
By Dr Don Crewe, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Wrongful Incarceration: A Foucauldian Analysis
By Eric Dunning, University Of Alabama

A ?Morphological Sphinx?: On The Silence Of The Assassin Leon Czolgosz
By Cary Federman, Montclair State University

In Search Of The Human In The Shadows Of Correctional Practice: A Theoretical Reflection
David Polizzi, Indiana State University
Shadd Maruna, Queen's University, Belfast  

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Vol. 2  (1)  January, 2010


Editor?s Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief

A Foucaultian Analysis of ?Tripping? on Death Row
By Sandra McGunigall-Smith,  Matthew R. Draper, Kayla Birmingham, David Durtschi; Utah Valley University

The Mediated Body as the Site for Contested Agencies: MS-13 as a Case Study
By Heather Pruss, Indiana University

The Symbolic Capital of Capital Punishment: A Scholarly Reflection
By Jennifer Grimes, Indiana State University

Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim): Definition and Application 
By Mark M. Lanier, PhD

The Emergence of Habitual Criminals in 19th Century Britain: Implications for Criminology
By George Pavlich, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Alberta

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Vol. 1  (1)  January, 2009

Editor's Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief

Kill Method: A Provocation
By Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University

Quantitative versus Qualitative Methods:  Understanding Why
Quantitative Methods are Predominant in Criminology and Criminal Justice
By George E. Higgins, University of Louisville

Qualitative versus Quantitative Methods:  Understanding Why
Qualitative Methods are Superior for Criminology and Criminal Justice
By Richard Tewksbury, University of Louisville

Inescapable Morality: Responding to the Qualitative versus
Quantitative Issue
By Matthew R. Draper, Utah Valley University

Fear of Crime and Punishment
By Annalise Acorn, University of Alberta

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