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Ride to die: masculine honour and collective identity in the motorcycle underworld
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature and extent of violent practice in the motorcycle underworld. It does this by considering the murder of Gerry Tobin, and then uses the biography of the founding member of the Hell ’s Angels motorcycle club (HAMC) for a critical analysis. The authors are interested in understanding the role of masculine honour and collective identity, and its influences in relation to violence – namely, fatal violence in the motorcycle underworld. The authors argue that motorcycle gangs ar e extreme example...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - November 2, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Co-producing digitally-enabled courses that promote desistance in prison and probation settings
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out an approach to innovation in criminal justice settings that gives service users a “voice” through the co-production of digital content designed for services that promote desistance. The authors describe the benefits and challenges of involving service users in co-creating mediated digital content within a co-production framework. Design/methodology/approach This paper prese nts a new methodology for developing desistance-oriented programmes. The authors draw on a distinctive co-production exemplar ...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - November 2, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

The Life in Custody Study: the quality of prison life in Dutch prison regimes
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, Ahead of Print. Purpose The Life in Custody (LIC) Study is a nationwide prospective cohort study examining the quality of prison life in the Netherlands. The purpose of this paper is to describe Dutch prisoners ’ perceptions of prison climate, as well as differences across regimes. Design/methodology/approach The target population of the study consisted of all male and female adult prisoners in the Netherlands who were incarcerated in various regimes in a total of 28 prisons, between January and April 2017. An intensive and personal recruitment strategy was emplo...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - November 2, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Treatment of psychopathy: a conceptual and empirical review
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, Ahead of Print. Purpose For decades, psychopathy has been thought to be untreatable. Yet, conceptualisations, and indeed its assessment, have deviated away from viewing the disorder as personality pathology towards a behavioural focus where the core underlying deficits in cognition and affect have been ignored. Interventions have followed suit leading to a premature discounting of the role of therapy in adjusting psychopathic traits. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The review critically evaluates the conceptual and empirical evid...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - October 4, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Intimate partner violence: gender issues and the adjudication of homicide and other cases
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of gender in intimate partner violence (IPV) and, based upon the author ’s experience as an expert witness, 25 years of clinical experience working with IPV perpetrators and victims, and a review of the relevant scholarly literature, provide judges, attorneys, mental health professionals and expert court witness suggestions for the adjudication of cases involving IPV in homicide and other cases. Design/methodology/approach The author reviewed the extant general domestic violence research lit...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - October 4, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Personality disordered offenders ’ experiences of completing social skills treatment
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, Ahead of Print. Purpose Although support exists for the effectiveness of treatment for personality disordered offenders there is limited knowledge about the processes underlying the therapeutic change. The purpose of this paper is to explore the treatment experiences of six male psychopathic offenders who attended a social skills treatment component implemented within a high-secure personality disorder treatment service. Design/methodology/approach Interview transcripts were analysed by the lead researcher (first author) using interpretative phenomenological analys...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - September 13, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Sexual offender treatment outcomes among psychopathy subtypes
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine sexual offender treatment responses as a function of psychopathy subtype. Design/methodology/approach Measures of sexual violence risk, treatment change and outcome variables were coded retrospectively on a sample of 86 high Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) scoring sexual offenders. Psychopathy subtypes were identified through cluster analysis of PCL-R facet scores. Findings Two subtypes were identified labeled classic and aggressive. They were comparable in their level of risk and need and did n...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - September 6, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Minority threat, community disadvantage and sentencing
This study contributes to a growing body of literature that exami nes the social context of punishments by using several community level measurements of threat and disadvantage, while modeling the two-step sentencing outcome of imprisonment and sentence length. (Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice)
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - July 16, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research

Encounters between the police and the public: seize the day or practice avoidance?
Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice,Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 148-160, June 2018. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of encounters on police legitimacy and levels of trust in the police in the Monash Local Government Area in the state of Victoria, Australia. Monash was chosen as it had experienced declining results in the official National Survey of Community Satisfaction with Policing in relation to police legitimacy and trust. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study comprising 18 interviews and six focus groups with community representatives from Monash is empl...
Source: Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice - June 29, 2018 Category: Criminology Source Type: research