NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's second issue of 2026 is now available! Check out our latest collection of articles as we continue our celebration of 30 years of Theoretical Criminology in print and online 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/30/2

NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim! 'Bourdieusian criminology ‘from off the map’: Violence and symbolic capital in the streets of Naples' by Mario Trifuoggi is now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW! Check out this new article by Anne K. Johnson. '“Significant bodily intrusions”: A theoretical exploration of law enforcement phlebotomy and the creation of the patient/suspect' is now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Our deadline for proposals for our 2028 special issue is fast approaching! If you are interested in guest-editing for #TheoreticalCrim, submit your proposal by this Wednesday, April 15th. Guidelines here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

#TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce our first #EditorsChoice pick of 2026: @anaaliverti.bsky.social and Simon Tawfic's 'Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing.' Read it in our #OpenAccess collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim. 'Discursive constructions of masculinity in campaigns addressing gender violence in London' by @sarah-steele.bsky.social and @tylershores.bsky.social is now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 #TheoreticalCrim is currently accepting proposals for our 2028 Special Issue. If you are interested in guest editing for Theoretical Criminology, submit your proposal before APRIL 15. Submission guidelines here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2026 is now available! Celebrate 30 years of Theoretical Criminology by checking out our latest collection of articles and book reviews online🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/30/1

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is currently accepting proposals for our 2028 special issue! Check out our guidelines here and submit your proposal before April 15! journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim: 'Pharmaceutical pacification: Racialized superhumanization and low-intensity social war' by Travis Linnemann and Corina D. Medley is now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is pleased to announce the 2025 Best Article Prize has been awarded to Samuel Singler for his article 'Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control.' Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Are you interested in guest-editing for Theoretical Criminology? #TheoreticalCrim is now accepting proposals for our 2028 special issue! Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2026. Find our full criteria here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm....

NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim! Read 'Making victims, making offenders: County lines, modern slavery and the criminal law,' by @simonflacks.bsky.social. Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW! Check out Steffen Jensen and Mette-Louise E. Johansen's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices.' Now available in #OnlineFirst here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

NEW! Check out Valeria Ruiz Pérez's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Administrative co-evolution: Penality and welfare in Colombia's child protection system.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW! Check out "Criminalizing solidarity, regulating the enemy: Analyzing the criminalization of migrant solidarity through ‘enemy under-criminalization’ in Greece," a new article by Filippos Kourakis. Now available from #TheoreticalCrim in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#TheoreticalCrim is happy to name our 4th and final #EditorsChoice article of 2025: Sean Columb's, 'Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route.' Check out this article and this growing #OpenAccess collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's fourth and final issue of 2025 is now available! Check out our latest collection of articles and book reviews in print and online 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/4

NEW! Check out this new article by Caitlin S. Ducate, Sarah R. Bostrom, K. Ryan Proctor and @reniemeyerphd.bsky.social for #TheoreticalCrim: 'The theory crisis in criminology: Causes, consequences, and solutions.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW! Check out this new article by Irit Ballas and Netanel Dagan for #TheoreticalCrim: 'The remorseful enemy' is now available in #OnlineFirst. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Thank you, @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social! What an honour. The article is part of our on-going study of the knowledge foundation of criminal justice policy and practice, which you can read more about here: www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english...

#TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce our 3rd #EditorsChoice article of 2025, 'Outsourcing the brains: The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice' by Katja Franko & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social! Read this & the growing #OpenAccess collection here: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim! Lorena Avila and Andres F. Rengifo's 'The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts' is now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW! Check out @daria-przblsk.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety.' Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW! Check out this new article for #TheoreticalCrim: 'Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression' by Mark Walters. Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's third issue of 2025 is now available! Check out our Special Issue, "Private Economies of Knowledge in Criminal Justice," guest-edited by Katja Franko and @heidimorklomell.bsky.social here 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/3

NEW! Check out Elena Vasiliou's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory.' Now available #OpenAccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW! Read Hayley Boxall, Jason Payne, Lorana Bartels and Anthony Morgan's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Who defines desistance? Exploring the perspectives and experiences of female victim–survivors of intimate partner violence.' Now available #openaccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW! Check out Eleonora Di Molfetta's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency." Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW! Read @kategooch.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'The new debtors' prison: Conceptualising the relationship between prisoner debt, prison violence and prisoners crisis.' Now available #openaccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW! Read Sara K. Thompson, Ajay Sandhu, & Claudia Koziol's article,"‘History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings’: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility." Available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW! Check out @drconorwilson.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X." Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW! Check out Gabreélla Friday, Joshua Price, and Nicola Satchell's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Temporicide: Waiting, punishment, and (social) death.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This made my day when I saw it. My article 'Gendering Postcolonial Penality', on the religious detention of women in post-independence Ireland, drawing on how Magdalen laundries and other sites were a shadow penal system in a process of nation formation with a new domestic enemy - women.

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce its 2nd Editors' Choice article of 2025, 'Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland,' by @lynseyblack.bsky.social! Read this article & the growing #EditorsChoice collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's second issue of 2025 is now available in print and online! Check out our latest collection of articles and book reviews here 🧵: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/2

NEW! Read @alexisrowland.bsky.social, @joannedecaro.bsky.social, and @kerametr.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'The securitization of research ethics: Navigating the ethics of engaging criminalized voices.' Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨CHECK IT OUT🚨 Our deadline for proposals for our 2027 Special Issue is right around the corner! If you are interested in guest-editing for #TheoreticalCrim, check out our special issue proposal guidelines and submit yours by April 15: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

Happy April from #TheoreticalCrim! We are still accepting proposals for our 2027 Special Issue. If you are interested in guest editing for us, you have just two more weeks to submit your proposal. Please submit by April 15 using the guidelines found here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

🚨 We are currently accepting proposals for our 2027 Special Issue 🚨 Interested in guest-editing for #TheoreticalCrim? Submit a proposal by April 15 for consideration. We look forward to reading yours! Guidelines for special issue proposals can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

Thrilled that my article 'Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics' has been selected as Editors' Choice in the latest issue of @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social "for its innovative analysis and approach to criminology" Read it below 👇 @cahr-york.bsky.social @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️Starting in 2025, #TheoreticalCrim will feature one article per issue as the ‘Editors’ Choice’ for its innovative analysis and approach to criminology. The articles will be #OpenAccess for one year after they are added to the page: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

🚨 We are currently accepting proposals for our 2027 Special Issue 🚨 Interested in guest-editing for #TheoreticalCrim? Submit a proposal by April 15 for consideration. We look forward to reading yours! Guidelines for special issue proposals can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/PD...

NEW! Check out Alex Black and @drvickyheap.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state.' Now available #openaccess in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2025 is now available online and in print! Check out our latest collection of articles and book reviews as we welcome our new co-Editor-in-Chief, @anaaliverti.bsky.social, here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/29/1

NEW! Check out @anaaliverti.bsky.social and Simon Tawfic's new article for #TheoreticalCrim! Read 'Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing,' now available #openaccess in #OnlineFirst here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Interested in guest editing for #TheoreticalCrim? We are now accepting proposals for our 2027 Special Issue! Check out our full guidelines for special issue proposals and submit yours by April 15: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim would like to congratulate Irene Vega and Maartje van der Woude, winners of our 2024 Best Article Prize! Read 'Colourblindness across borders: The de-racialized logics of Dutch and American border agents,' available #openaccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Great book launch and seminar for @mfbosworth.bsky.social's new book, Supply Chain Justice, about the UK's detainee escorting system. You can buy the book here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

NEW! Check out @faithmdeckard.com's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "'A good client gets arrested a lot': Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance," now available through OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....