Criminology publications

Jewkes, Yvonne and Young, Alison. “Sensory Reflections on a Japanese Prison,” in Herrity, Kate; Schmidt, Bethany and Warr, Jason (eds.,). Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.

Sensory Penalities reflects an explosion in explorations of the sensory and disrupts conventional expectations of both form and focus by expanding anthropological practices and craft into the field of criminology and criminological research.

The book aims to explore what sensory aspects of experience mean to those engaged in such research, and how they can shape our criminological thinking. What are the sensory textures of these experiences? What do they tell us? How do we communicate them? Finally, what does consideration of these elements tell us about penality? More information...

Balint, Jennifer, Evans, Julie, McMillan, Mark and McMillan, Nesam. Keeping Hold of Justice: Encounters Between Law and Colonialism. University of Michigan Press, 2020.

Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasises the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people’s lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and sustaining colonial injustice and in recognising and redressing it. In so doing, the book seeks to demonstrate the possibilities for structural justice that still exist despite the enduring legacies and harms of colonialism. More information…

Fileborn, Bianca, Wadds, Phillip and Tomsen, Stephen. “Gender, transgression and sexual violence at Australian music festivals,” in Platt, Louise and Finkel, Rebecca (eds.,). Gendered violence at international festivals: an interdisciplinary perspective. Routledge, 2020.

Gendered Violence at International Festivals is a groundbreaking collection that focusses on this highly important social issue for the first time. Including a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies on the issue, the book contests the widely held notion that festivals are temporal spaces free from structural sexism, inequalities or gender power dynamics. Rather, they are spaces where these concerns are enhanced and enacted more freely and where the experiential environment is used as an excuse or as an opportunity to victim blame and shame. More information…

McMillan, Nesam. Imagining the International Crime, Justice, and the Promise of Community. Cultural Lives of Law, Stanford University Press, 2020.

International crime and justice are powerful ideas, associated with a vivid imagery of heinous atrocities, injured humanity, and an international community seized by the need to act. Through an analysis of archival and contemporary data, Imagining the International provides a detailed picture of how ideas of international crime (crimes against all of humanity) and global justice are given content, foregrounding their ethical limits and potentials. Nesam McMillan argues that dominant approaches to these ideas problematically disconnect them from the lived and the specific and foster distance between those who have experienced international crime and those who have not. More information…

Travers, Max, Colvin, Emma, Bartkowiak-Théron, Isabelle, Sarre, Rick, Day, Andrew, Bond, Christine. Rethinking Bail – Court Reform or Business as Usual? Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

This book arises from a research project funded in Australia by the Criminology Research Council. The topic, bail reform, has attracted attention from criminologists and law reformers over many years. In the USA, a reform movement has argued that risk analysis and pre-trial services should replace the bail bond system (the state of California may introduce this system in 2020). In the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, there have been concerns about tough bail laws that have contributed to a rise in imprisonment rates. The book advances a policy argument through presenting descriptive statistics, interviews with practitioners and detailed accounts of bail applications and their outcomes. More information…

Spivakovsky, Claire, Steele, Linda and Weller, Penelope (eds.,). The Legacies of Institutionalisation Disability, Law and Policy in the ‘Deinstitutionalised’ Community. Hart Publishing, 2020.

This is the first collection to examine the legal dynamics of deinstitutionalisation. It considers the extent to which some contemporary laws, policies and practices affecting people with disabilities are moving towards the promised end point of enhanced social and political participation in the community, while others may instead reinstate, continue or legitimate historical practices associated with this population's institutionalisation. Bringing together 20 contributors from the UK, Canada, Australia, Spain and Indonesia, the book speaks to overarching themes of segregation and inequality, interlocking forms of oppression and rights-based advancements in law, policy and practice. More information…

Balint, Jennifer. “Prosecuting and partnering for social change: Law, social movements and Australia’s mandatory detention for refugees and asylum seekers,” in Sarat, Austin (ed.,). Studies in Law, Politics and Society Vol. 79. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019.

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society contains two sections. In the first, ‘Religious Inspirations and Legal Responses’, contributors examine the interaction between law and religion. The second section, ‘Law and Social Change: Old Questions, New Answers’, examines the ways in which the law simultaneously enhances and inhibits projects of social change. More information…

Balint, Jennifer; Haslem, Neal and Haydon, Kirsten. “The Work of Peace: World War One, Justice and Translation Through Art,” in Erpelding, Michel; Hess, Burkhard and Fabri, Hélène Ruiz (eds.,). Peace Through Law: The Versailles Peace Treaty and Dispute Settlement After World War I. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co. KG, 2019.

With the benefit of hindsight, presenting the Treaty of Versailles as an example of ‘peace through law’ might seem like a provocation… Relying both on legal and on historical research, this book provides a global overview of how the Paris peace treaties impacted dispute resolution in the interwar period, both substantially and procedurally. The book’s accounts of several all-but-forgotten international tribunals and their case law include references to archival records and photographic illustrations. More information…

Fileborn, Bianca and Loney-Howes, Rachel (eds.,). #MeToo and the politics of social change. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

#MeToo has sparked a global re-emergence of sexual violence activism and politics. This edited collection uses the #MeToo movement as a starting point for interrogating contemporary debates in anti-sexual violence activism and justice-seeking. It draws together 19 accessible chapters from academics, practitioners, and sexual violence activists across the globe to provide diverse, critical, and nuanced perspectives on the broader implications of the movement. More information...

Fileborn, Bianca; Wadds, Phillip and Barnes, Ash. “Setting the stage for sexual assault: the dynamics of gender, culture, space and sexual violence at live music venues,” in Strong, Catherine and Raine, Sarah (eds.,). Towards gender equality in the music industry: education, practice and strategies for change. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Gender inequality is universally understood to be a continued problem in the music industry. This volume presents research that uses an industry-based approach to examine why this gender imbalance has proven so hard to shift, and explores strategies that are being adopted to try and bring about meaningful change in terms of women and gender diverse people establishing ongoing careers in music. More information...

Fileborn, Bianca and Barrett, C. “Sexual violence against older women: documenting the practices of aged care service providers,” in Bows, Hannah (ed.). Violence Against Older Women Volume II: Responses. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

This book brings together international research from scholars and activists on the forms of violence that older women experience into a unique, comprehensive two-volume set. This volume is concerned with understanding the consequences and impacts of violence against older women. More information...

Fitzgerald, John. Life in pain: Affective economy and the demand for pain relief. Springer, 2019.

This book explores pain in a number of ways. It proposes a novel theory that approaches pain as a commodity within an affective economy Offers a new framework for framing chronic pain management policy Appraises the growing medicinal cannabis industry from an international criminological perspective. At the heart of the book is an extension of Melzack’s neuromatrix theory of pain into the social, cultural, and economic fields. Specific assemblages involving varied institutions, flows of capital, encounters, and social and economic structures provide a framework for the formation of pain, its perception, experience, meaning, and cultural production. More information…

Johns, Diana F. Being and Becoming an Ex-Prisoner. Routledge, 2018.

Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison experience have scarcely changed in over a century. Contemporary correctional thinking has congealed around notions of risk and management. This book aims to cast new light on men’s experience of release from prison. More information...

Rush, Peter and Young, Alison. “The Image-characters of Criminal Justice in Tokyo,” in Pearson, Ashley; Giddens, Thomas and Tranter, Kieran (eds.,). Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters. Routledge, 2018.

This volume brings together a range of global scholars to reflect on and critically engage with the place of law and justice in Japan’s popular cultural legacy. It explores not only the global impact of this legacy, but what the images, games, narratives, and artefacts that comprise it reveal about law, humanity, justice, and authority in the twenty-first century. More information…

Spivakovsky, Claire; Seear, Kate and Carter, Adrian (eds.,). Critical Perspectives on Coercive Interventions: Law, Medicine and Society. Routledge, 2018.

Examining the ethical, social and legal issues involved in coerced care, this book brings together the views and insights of leading researchers from a range of disciplines, including criminology, law, ethics, psychology and public health, as well as legal and medical practitioners, social-service ‘consumers’ and government officials. More information…

Voigt, Thomas; Day, Andrew and Balandin, Susan. “The Unintended Consequences of Heroism or Acts of Bravery on Civilians,” in Efthimiou, Olivia; Allison, Scott T. and Franco, Zeno E. (eds.,). Heroism and Wellbeing in the 21st Century: Applied and Emerging Perspectives. Routledge, 2018.

Offering a holistic take on an emerging field, this edited collection examines how heroism manifests, is appropriated, and is constructed in a broad range of settings and from a variety of disciplines and perspectives... This book applies a critical psychological perspective in synthesising the social construction of heroism and wellbeing, contributing to the development of global wellbeing indicators and measures. More information...

Wood, Mark A. Antisocial Media: Crime-watching in the Internet Age. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to Internet-facilitated crime-watching and examines how social media have shifted the landscape for producing, distributing, and consuming footage of crime... Synthesising criminology, media theory, software studies, and digital sociology, Antisocial Media is media criminology for the Facebook age. More information…

Young, Alison. “llicit interventions in public non-spaces: Unlicensed images,” in Manderson, Desmond (ed.,). Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, Critique. University of Toronto Press, 2018.

In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual culture as witnessed from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries. More information…

Balint, Jennifer. “Too near and too far: Australia’s reluctance to name and prosecute genocide,” in Marczak, Nikki and Shields, Kirril (eds.,). Genocide Perspectives V: A Global Crime, Australian Voices. UTS ePress, 2017.

In this collection of essays, Australian scholars discuss the crime of genocide, examining regimes and episodes that stretch across time and geography. Included are discussions on Australia’s own history of genocide against its Indigenous peoples, mass killing and human rights abuses in Indonesia and North Korea, and new insights into some of the core twentieth century genocides, such as the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. More information...

Day, Andrew and Vess, J. “The importance of personal safety to therapeutic outcome in the prison setting,” in Akerman, Geraldine; Needs, Adrian and Bainbridge, Claire (eds.,). Transforming Environments and Rehabilitation: A Guide for Practitioners in Forensic Settings and Criminal Justice. Routledge, 2017.

How can environments play a role in assisting and sustaining personal change in individuals incarcerated within the criminal justice system? Can a failure to address contextual issues reduce or undermine the effectiveness of clinical intervention? Bringing together a range of leading forensic psychologists, this book explores and illustrates inter-relationships between interventions and the environment in which they take place. More information...

Heseltine, K. and Day, Andrew. “Rehabilitation Programmes in Australian Prisons,” in Deckert, Antje and Sarre, Rick (eds.,). The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Haines, Fiona. “Corporate and White Collar Crime,” in Deckert, Antje and Sarre, Rick (eds.,). The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Ross, Stuart and Polk, Ken. “Violent Crime,” in Deckert, Antje and Sarre, Rick (eds.,). The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

This handbook engages key debates in Australian and New Zealand criminology over the last 50 years. In six sections, containing 56 original chapters, leading researchers and practitioners investigate topics such as the history of criminology; crime and justice data; law reform; gangs; youth crime; violent, white collar and rural crime; cybercrime; terrorism; sentencing; Indigenous courts; child witnesses and children of prisoners; police complaints processes; gun laws; alcohol policies; and criminal profiling. Key sections highlight criminological theory and, crucially, Indigenous issues and perspectives on criminal justice. More information...

Haines, Fiona and Parker, Christine. “Human rights and multinational enterprises A criminological analysis of non-judicial mechanisms of redress,” in Holley, Cameron and Shearing, Clifford (eds.,). Criminology and the Anthropocene. Routledge, 2017.

The Anthropocene signals a new age in Earth’s history, a human age, where we are revealed as a powerful force shaping planetary systems. What might criminology be in the Anthropocene? What does the Anthropocene suggest for future theory and practice of criminology? This book seeks to contribute to this research agenda by examining, contrasting and interrogating different vantage points, aspects and thinking within criminology. More information...

Roberts, Paul and McMillan, Nesam. “For criminology in international criminal justice,” in Jamieson, Ruth (ed.,). The Criminology of War. CRC Press, 2017.

The essays selected for this volume provide an overview of the range of issues confronting scholars interested in the complex and multiple relationships between war and criminality, and map the many connections between war, security, governmentality, punishment, gender and crime. More information...

Rogers, Juliet. “Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community,” in Sheils, Barry and Walsh, Julie (eds.,). Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud’s most important metapsychological papers: ‘On Narcissism: An Introduction’ (1914) and ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ (1917 [1915]). More information...

Thorpe, Rachel; Fileborn, Bianca and Clarke, Laura Hurd. “Framing the sexual rights of older heterosexual women: acknowledging diversity and change,” in Barrett, Catherine and Hinchliff, Sharron (eds.,). Addressing the Sexual Rights of Older People: Theory, Policy and Practice. Routledge, 2017.
Fileborn, Bianca; Barrett, Catherine and Roberto, Karen. “Sexual assault of older women: Breaking the silence,” in Barrett, Catherine and Hinchliff, Sharron (eds.,). Addressing the Sexual Rights of Older People: Theory, Policy and Practice. Routledge, 2017.

The book addresses a gap in research and policy. Using an adaptation of the Declaration of Sexual Rights from the World Association of Sexual Health, it provides readers with an innovative and evidence-based framework for achieving the sexual rights of older people. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, it explores the cultural and social locations of old age and its intersections with sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersex status. More information...

Young, Alison and Macdowall, L. “Visual Documentation in Hybrid Spaces: Ethics, Publics and Transition,” in Cruz, Edgar Gómez; Sumartojo, Shanti and Pink, Sarah (eds.,). Refiguring Techniques in Digital Visual Research. Springer, 2017.

This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. It discusses technological change and technological possibility; theoretical shifts toward processual paradigms; and a respectful ethics of responsibility. More information…