Technological linkages between justice and law enforcement agencies are radically altering
criminal process and access to justice for prisoners. Video links, integral to an increasingly …

This book explores practical examples of co-production in criminal justice research and
practice. Through a series of seven case studies, the authors examine what people do when …

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of
institutions, so too does their potential to bring into focus once marginalised and neglected …

This study examines interactional management practices and narrative co-construction in
lawyer-asylum seeker consultations in Flanders, Belgium. Drawing upon linguistic …

Narratives are powerful emtional devices. They can trigger our curiosity and make us
suspicious, compassionate, empathic or even horrified. In this article, I focus on how Italian …

In most common-law jurisdictions world-wide, an offender's remorse is a well-settled
mitigating factor in sentencing, with judges obliged to take it into account when formulating …

In New South Wales, people serving less than five months in prison can be eligible for the
Short Sentence Intensive Program (SSIP), a custody-based intervention featuring …

Narrative criminology is an emerging approach which seeks to understand how offenders,
victims, and policy makers represent crime through spoken and visual mediums. The author …

That the presence or absence of remorse is central to sentencing is now well established.
Most scholarship has focused on normative questions of whether and how remorse ought to …

The existing literature has shown that in Western penal systems there is often an official
demand for narrative rehabilitation during treatment programs, and has criticized the …