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New Issue | Volume 14(4) 2025

2025-12-01

The latest issue publishes a diverse mix of criminology research from the UK, Spain, South Africa, Australia, India, Singapore, Belgium, Sweden and The Netherlands.

Included in this issue: Gregory Breetzke discusses the skewness in regional representation of editorial board membership which is symptomatic of a broader marginalisation of the Global South in academia.  Justice and safety for women in the workplace in India is explored by Tanmay Samanta and Sraya Banerjee. This study examines how social media enabled extensive awareness, solidarity, and collective action among various communities through the analysis of digital activism and the #JusticeForRGKar case.

Ten years on from the legal recognition of coercive and controlling behaviour (CCB) in the UK - Sandra Walklate and Charlotte Barlow explore the challenges translating CCB into criminal justice, legal policy, practice, and legislation.  Briony Anderson,  Clare Farmer and Danielle Tyson discuss findings from a scoping review of scholarly articles, chapters, theses, and other papers which address police-perpetrated DFV. Hayley Boxall, Adelaide Bragias and Emily Corner highlights the empirical and theoretical similarities between perpetrators of grievance-fuelled violence and IPV and IPH

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Current Issue : Vol. 14 No. 4 (2025)

Published: 2025-12-01

Rosa del Olmo Prize

  • Authors:David R Goyes, Marya Al-Hindi, Avi Brisman, Laura Gutiérrez, Annette Hübschle, Omar Phoenix Khan, Nigel South, John Scott, Tracy Creagh

Articles

  • Authors:Shannon Dodd, Matthew Morgan, Bridget Weir, Jordan Bowyer
  • Authors:Alison Hutchinson, Aitor Ibáñez Alonso, Monica Pons-Hernandez
  • Authors:Mya Ballin, Kelly Humphries, Antonina Lewis, Gregory Rolan, Carol Ronken

Book Reviews

The Journal invites 6-8000 word original submissions. Authors are asked to register, read the author guidelines, and agree to the ethics statement before submission. Peer review is usually 4-6 weeks.

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Chief Editors:

Professor John Scott, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia and Dr David Rodríguez Goyes, University of Oslo, Norway

Editor:

Professor Rowena Maguire, Centre for Justice, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

Book Reivew Editors: Professor Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentucky University, United States and Professor Marília de Nardin Budó, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC, Brazil

Journal Manager: Tracy Creagh, Office for Scholarly Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Australia