Happy New Year from Criminology & Criminal Justice! Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and readers for your critical thinking, hard work, and support throughout 2025. Here’s to a 2026 filled with sharper questions, deeper debates, and continued contributions to criminology

Season’s Greetings from CCJ! 🎄 Wishing all our authors, reviewers, and readers a restful holiday season and a new year filled with critical insights, bold ideas, and meaningful scholarship. 📚 We’ll be back in 2026 with more to read, think, and challenge.

(2/2)⚖️ Why do probation staff stay—or leave? This study applies the EVL-N framework to unpack emotional burnout, muted voice, and vocational commitment in a service under pressure. 📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1748... #Probation #Criminology

(1/2)📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice “Constrained voice and complicated loyalty: Understanding reasons to leave or stay working in the probation service” By Nicola Carr, Harry Annison, Gwen Robinson & colleagues

(2/2)This article explores its promise, limits, and the need for more empirical research. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/1748... #RestorativeJustice #Mediation #Criminology #CCJJournal

📄(1/2) New in Criminology & Criminal Justice “Beyond face-to-face: Exploring the restorative potential of shuttle mediation” By Masahiro Suzuki 🕊️ When direct meetings aren't possible, can shuttle mediation still achieve the goals of restorative justice?

(2/2)📉 This article examines how managerialism and responsibilisation undermine peer-led induction in open prisons—muting experiential knowledge and eroding institutional learning. 🔓 Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice “Hollowing out peer support: Knowledge conversion in hostile knowledge environments of open prisons” By Ed Schreeche-Powell (1/2)

🚨 Got bold ideas in criminology or criminal justice? We want to read them. Criminology & Criminal Justice is open for submissions — from the critical to the creative, the empirical to the theoretical. 🖊️ Send us your best work: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ #Criminology

📢 Criminology & Criminal Justice is now accepting papers! We welcome original research that challenges, deepens, or redefines debates in criminology, criminal justice, and beyond. 🖊️ Submit your manuscript: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ

(2/2)This article critically examines how English and Welsh sentencing guidelines frame alcohol-related offending—revealing how intoxication is problematised and linked to increased blame, danger, and culpability. 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2) “Exploring ‘problematisations’ of alcohol intoxication in sentencing” By Carly Lightowlers

(2/2)🕳️ This article explores the post-release experience as a “necropolitical abyss” marked by precarity, stigma, and ontological insecurity—offering a powerful theoretical intervention into re-entry studies. 📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2) “‘Falling from a cliff-face’ into the necropolitical abyss: Experiences of those with sexual convictions leaving prison” By Lynn Saunders, @MJordanBirkhead & Edward J. Wright

(2/2)💻 This article introduces the Canute paradox—highlighting how platform power is often overstated in combating cyberdeviance, and calls for collaborative, system-wide responses to online harm. @DrBleaks 📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

🌊 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2) “Holding back the tides? Applying the Canute paradox to the regulation of cyberdeviance” By @drbleaks.bsky.social.

(2/2)👮‍♀️ This study explores how co-located support services in a UK police station shaped survivor experiences and professional collaboration in domestic abuse response. 📖 Read the article: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice (1/2) “Professional and survivor perspectives on a co-located early domestic abuse intervention in a police station: A qualitative study” Eve ZQ Wang, Grace Carter,Jayne Ross,Rachel Chapman, Tim Healey,Maxine Whelan

Featured topics include: Criminology as a historical explanation Crime control & periodisation Victorian fraudsters & deviance Narrative ownership in victim experiences Women offenders & continuity of care Procedural justice theory revisited journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/19/4

📚 We’re rewinding to 2019… (1/2) Vol. 19, Issue 4 featured a thematic section on: The Uses of Historical Criminology: Explanation, Characterisation and Context Guest contributions explore historical methods, periodisation, and the role of imagination in criminological inquiry.

Topics include: • Queer utopias & carceral protectionism • Gender punitivism & identity politics • Queering prison, desistance & deviance • Sex, drugs & normativity • Homosexual criminalisation & politics of apology Still essential reading in 2025. 📖 journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/20/5

🌈 We’re going back to 2020... (1/2) Criminology & Criminal Justice Vol. 20, Issue 5 📘 Special Issue: Queer Theory and Criminology This powerful issue challenged carceral logics, gender normativity, and the limits of mainstream criminology through a queer theoretical lens.

🔍 Topics include: • U.S. penal exceptionalism • Criminal background checks in the Netherlands • The Qianke system in China • Post-conviction barriers in Canada & Argentina • Normative critiques of post-sentence discrimination 📖 Read more: journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/23/4 #Criminology

📘 Special Issue Reminder(1/2) Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records Criminology & Criminal Justice Vol. 23, Issue 4 🗓️ September 2023 This cross-national issue examines how criminal records impact people’s lives beyond punishment—shaping access to jobs, rights, and inclusion worldwide.

🔹 Prison education & ethics 🔹 Public perceptions of police appearance 🔹 Epistemic injustice & victimisation 🔹 Death penalty support in the Americas 🔹 Judicial decision-making in Hong Kong 🔹 Environmental & space-focused green criminology 📖 Read the full issue: journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/25/4

📢 Don’t miss our current issue! (1/2) Criminology & Criminal Justice Vol. 25, Issue 4 is now live,bringing together global research on: 🔹 Prisoner re-entry 🔹 Restorative justice 🔹 Remote parole hearings 🔹 Professionalisation in criminal justice 📖 Explore the issue: journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/25/4

2/2) Key themes: 🌍 Transnational & localised networks 🧭 Reframing organised crime’s conceptual geography 🏛️ State, corporate & criminal entanglements 📌 Deep, critical case studies from diverse global contexts 📖 Explore the full issue: journals.sagepub.com/toc/crjb/25/1 #Criminology

🧵 Special Issue Spotlight (1/2) 📘 New Geographies of Organised Crime 🗓️ Criminology & Criminal Justice, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (Feb 2025) Guest Editors: Ella Cockbain, Patricio Estévez-Soto & Felia Allum This special issue rethinks how organised crime operates—across borders, sectors, and definitions.

📢 New Series We’re spotlighting the special issues of Criminology & Criminal Justice. Each week, we’ll feature a themed issue that brings together powerful work at the frontlines of criminological research. 🧵 Follow along below. #CCJSpecialIssues #Criminology #CCJJournal

📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice: “The situational character of prison violence: An exploratory qualitative study” By Dante B.C. Hoek, Ard J. Barends, Maarten J.J. Kunst & colleagues 📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1748... #Criminology

📄 New in Criminology & Criminal Justice: “‘It’s not going to be tech that gets us out of it’: Modern slavery and digitisation in fashion supply networks” By Jon Davies, Rose Broad, Michelle Corallo & colleagues 📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1748...

📢 Call for Papers 📢 Criminology & Criminal Justice is now inviting submissions! We’re looking for original research that pushes boundaries, challenges assumptions, and contributes to key debates in criminology and criminal justice. 🖊️ Submit your work: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ

📢 Call for Papers 📢 We’re looking for original research that pushes boundaries, challenges assumptions, and contributes to key debates in criminology and criminal justice. 🖊️ Submit your work: journals.sagepub.com/home/CRJ #Criminology #CriminalJustice #CCJJournal

🚨Got new research in criminology or criminal justice? We’re accepting submissions at Criminology & Criminal Justice. Whether you're exploring theory, policy, or frontline practice—we want to hear from you.

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