International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

🌏Voices from Oceania - examples of contemporary Indigenous transnational autonomy across the Pacific, demonstrating that communities are reinstating control of their traditional lands and waters #SpeciesJustice #GreenCrimonology @elliotdoornbos.bsky.social
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🆕Latest issue - how mainstream and Māori news portrayed the Māori-led “Protect Ihumātao” environmental justice movement, shaping public understandings 🌏 #IndigenousMedia #GreenCrimonology
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🌏In latest issue - considering the question of #ClimateMigration through a victimological lens to disentangle and discuss dynamics, identifying the victimization and empowerment processes for Pacific Islanders #GreenCrimonology
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Head shot of Dr Danielle Watson - new editor IJCJSD

🔷New Editor🔷
A warm welcome to Danielle Watson
Danielle's research focuses on #Pacific regional and border security, #policing, police/community relations, policing culturally diverse communities and plural regulatory systems in the Caribbean & Pacific
🔗 www.crimejusticejournal.com/daniellewatson

In latest #OpenAccess special issue, Rob White examines the history of #GreenCriminology in the Oceania region and identifies the wide set of local and global challenges that will shape its future development #Australasia #EnvironmentalCrime #Oceania
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John Whitehead and my new article, "Indigenous Transnational Environmental Justice: The Case of Aotearoa" is now available here: www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view...

A huge thank you to the editing team and reviewers for all the help and support it was all sincerely appreciated!!

Special issue #OpenAccess
Green Criminological Dialogues: Voices from Oceania.
Editors: David Goyes, Nigel South, Antje Deckert
#EnvironmentalCrime #SpeciesJustice #ClimateMigration #IndigenousMedia #ClimateChange #Aotearoa #Māori #RestorativeJustice
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Practitioner training, knowledge, and perceptions in relation to child sexual exploitation (CSE) of young people in residential care - the results of a quantitative survey of residential care practitioners from Queensland, Australia #ProfessionalEducation
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International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, blind peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about...

Call for Abstracts | Gendering Postcolonial Punishment - Special Issue in @crimjustjournal.bsky.social - guest edited by Lucia Bracco and me: www.crimejusticejournal.com/genderingpos...

🆕New article #OpenAccess
Should people in prison be appropriately remunerated for their participation in research? Advocating for a more consistent, equitable approach to research remuneration across all Australian states and territories #CorrectiveServices #Prisons
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🆕New article, Online First and #OpenAccess
How the illegalisms of the powerful, perpetrated by financial actors in the Global North, inflict significant social harm on peripheral economies operating with legal and social impunity #Argentina #EnergySector
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🆕New article, Online First and #OpenAccess
the need for a gender-sensitive approach to sentencing women – particularly mothers – who are in conflict with the law - the sentencing frameworks of South Africa and Australia
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🔊Call for Abstracts for a special issue
🔸Gendering Postcolonial Punishment – Guest Editors @lynseyblack.bsky.social Lucia Bracco
#prisons #incarceration #patriarchy #gender #sexuality#GlobalSouth #criminology
🔸Abstract submission deadline: 30 March 2026
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🆕New article, Online First and #OpenAccess
Livestock Theft in the Media: Quantitative Reporting Trends Across South African Provinces #veediefstal @johngscott.bsky.social #SouthAfrica
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🆕New article, Online First and #OpenAccess
Organised crime in Latin America – Gonzalo Croci and a mid-range analytical framework to explain trends, linking criminal group fragmentation, institutional weakness and illegal market dynamic
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👏At the end of 2025, we would like to acknowledge and thank the Editorial team, the International Editorial Board, the authors and the Journal reviewers for their significant and valuable contributions throughout the year #criminology #OpenAccess
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A critical criminological lens to examine penal discrimination – an analytical approach that remains under-developed in South African criminological scholarship #SouthAfrica #CriminalJustice #discrimination
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🆕New article, Online First and #OpenAccess
Open Disclosure - recommendations to improve harm recognition, embed meaningful apology, and strengthen systemic accountability in custodial settings in Australia #YouthJustice #NT #watchhouse @johngscott.bsky.social
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🏆 Congratulations to KuoRay Mao and Zhong Zhao - winners of the 2025 Rosa del Olmo Prize for Best Paper
Recipient announcement at www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view...

🆕New #OpenAccess issue – includes:
#GlobalSouth #equity #publishing #DigitalActivism #JusticeForRGKar #DomesticViolence #IPV #policing #MentalHealth #GreenCrimonology #WildlifeHarm #IllegalTrade #Trauma #exploitation #DeathPenalty #SouthEastAsia
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New article Online First #OpenAccess examining police reforms through a meta-relational framework: Focusing on active listening in police training
#policing #PoliceReform #abolitionism
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Who Owns our Knowledge?
This week (20-26 October) is International Open Access Week
The theme asks a pointed question about the present moment and how, in a time of disruption, communities can reassert control over the knowledge they produce #OAWeek2025
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New article Online First #OpenAccess
Resisting “Manufactured” Vulnerability: Discretionary Policing and Migrant Sex Workers’ Resistance Strategies in Malta #policing #SexWork @johngscott.bsky.social
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Kate Rossmanith and Ian Freckelton review the concept of “closure” in death investigations - the experiences of bereaved families and #JusticeSystem professionals, and on inquests undertaken by #coroners under the Anglo-Canadian-Australasian model
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The Northern Territory (NT), Australia has expanded its mandatory sentencing regime in respect of assaults on frontline workers – Stephen Enciso discusses the entrenchment of trauma, poverty and criminalisation in #Indigenous communities calling for reform #CLP
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🟣From latest issue
#OpenAccess article - the unique cultural context of policing #rape in metropolitan India #SexualViolence @drgemmahamilton.bsky.social
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📝15-19 September is #PeerReviewWeek #PRW2025 Acknowledging - and thanking - the Journal’s peer reviewers who play a vital role in supporting research integrity – critical in #ScholComm #ResearchIntegrity #PeerReviewWeek #OpenAccess #AI @peerreviewweek.bsky.social @johngscott.bsky.social

🆕Online First #OpenAccess:
A multi-modal Australian study examining informants perceptions and experiences of hoon drivers, why they do it, and the harms associated with it #NusianceDriving #AntiSocialBehaviour #BoyRacer @clarefarmer.bsky.social @emmagretgrix.bsky.social
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🟣In latest issue
The disparate and idiosyncratic implementation of the protection order (PO) process at magistrates’ courts in #SouthAfrica and the impact on survivors of #DomesticViolence
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In latest issue
#OpenAccess: Calculating the degree of ethno-religious over-representation in the US no-fly list #RacialDiscrimination #NoFlyList
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