More than two decades after the publication of Cornish's seminal work about the script-
theoretic approach to crime analysis, this article examines how the concept has been …

This review, published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Code of the Street
(1999), considers the legacies of Elijah Anderson's groundbreaking analysis of the …

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Scholars have long argued that inmate behaviors stem in part from cultural belief systems
that they “import” with them into incarcerative settings. Even so, few empirical assessments …

As JW Ironmonger's 2012 novel The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder opens, the
protagonist Max is lying face up, dead, on his own front room dining table. On his 21st …

Gang members have been found to engage in more delinquent behaviors than comparable
nongang youth. Few empirical attempts have been made to identify the group processes …

We use 16 characterizations of crews, codes, and contexts to determine if offender
subcultures (code of the street, convict code, street and prison gangs) converge …

The current paper examines the extent to which the pursuit of status, the social construction
of masculinity and violence are linked. The main argument suggests that in a world where …

Considerable theoretical and empirical inquiry has focused on the role codes for violence
play in generating crime. A large part of this work has examined the attitudes and codes …

I recently watched the video-recorded interrogation of Jermaine, 1 a young black man who
had shot and killed a young white man during a robbery in Washington, DC. I wanted to see …