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The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society is one of the world's top criminology journals. It publishes work of the highest quality from around the world and across all areas of criminology.
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BJC prize winning articles
The Editors of BJC have awarded the 2024 Radzinowicz Prize.
Congratulations to Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann, and Theo Kindynis for their paper, "Ghost Criminology: A Framework for the Discipline’s Spectral Turn".
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BJC Virtual Issues
Sustaining Futures: Remaking Criminology in an age of Global Injustice
The Conference Organising Committee
Reimagining Criminological Futures: New Criminologies in a Changing World
Francesca Menichelli, Giulia Berlusconi
BJC through the decades
Past and present editors of BJC
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High Impact Research
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BJC Headline Hitting Research
Sexual violence as a sexual script in mainstream online pornography
Fiona Vera-Gray, Clare McGlynn, Ibad Kureshi, Kate Butterby
Hate in the Machine: Anti-Black and Anti-Muslim Social Media Posts as Predictors of Offline Racially and Religiously Aggravated Crime
Matthew Williams, Pete Burnap, Amir Javed, Han Liu, Sefa Ozalp
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