Purpose–This article aims to review popular frameworks used to examine fraud and
earmarks three areas where there is considerable scope for academic research to guide …

Over the past decade, government policy has repeatedly identified prisons as particularly
important environments in terms of both the risks of radicalisation and of opportunities for de …

In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in
shaping and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal …

In contrast to many other social sciences, criminology has largely resisted the notion that
qualitative inquiry has autoethnographic dimensions and remained quiet on the subject of …

This article first takes the reader inside the Los Angeles County Jail, the largest detention
facility in theFree World', to give a ground-level sense of how the entry portal of the US …

Research findings on the psychological effects of solitary confinement have been strikingly
consistent since the early nineteenth century. Studies have identified a wide range of …

This book provides a practical, pedagogical perspective on conducting qualitative interviews
with children and young people. From designing and choosing the type of interview through …

This article considers the relevance of the policing literature to the work of prison officers. It
explores the role of discretion in the distribution of privileges in prison, the results of an …

We analyse how men incarcerated in Helsinki Prison managed, through talk, their
stigmatized identities as prisoners. Three strategies are identified:'appropriation'of the label …

This article examines motivations behind participation in education based on interviews with
Irish prisoners. It begins by considering the relationship between education and …