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....

🗣️ANNOUNCEMENT🗣️ As of today, #TheoreticalCrim will be enforcing a new word count standard for all manuscripts and revisions of 8000 words, +/- 1000 words including notes and references. Any submissions outside of this standard will be returned to the submitting author. Thank you!

Great to see this out in the world! Well worth a read

NEW! Check out Zelia Gallo's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, 'Concepts and conditions of penal moderation: Penal policy, public philosophy, and political ideologies. Theoretical reflections from Italy (2010–2018).' Now available #OpenAccess in OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read Elizabeth Ruth Turner and Mike Rowe's new article 'Beyond ‘police discretion’: The need for a new conceptual vocabulary.' Now available from #TheoreticalCrim in OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Happy New Year from #TheoreticalCrim! Please join us in extending a heartfelt thank you to our longtime co-Editor-in-Chief @mfbosworth.bsky.social, who is stepping down from her work at TC. We are excited to announce Ana Aliverti, who takes over the role of co-Editor-in-Chief in 2025. Welcome, Ana!

NEW! Read @camillalangeland.bsky.social and Thea Myrvang's review of Gabriele Balbi's 'The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology,' now available from #TheoreticalCrim in OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW! Need some perfect holiday reading? Check out Thomas Ugelvik's 'The kindness of strangers: Trust, recognition, and the co-production of desistance,' now available from #TheoreticalCrim: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW! #TheoreticalCrim's fourth issue is now available! Read our 2024 Special Issue, 'Dismantling the Shadow Carceral State,' guest-edited by Gabriela Kirk-Werner, @curlyprofessor.bsky.social & April D. Fernandes, here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcra/28/4. Full article and book review details below. 🧵

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is now on Bluesky! Follow us here for all journal news moving forward.