The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Publication date:
- 2021-02-01
- ISBN:
- 2059-1098
Issue Number
- No. 59-4, December 2020
- No. 59-3, September 2020
- No. 59-2, June 2020
- No. 59-1, March 2020
- No. 58-4, December 2019
- No. 58-3, September 2019
- No. 58-2, June 2019
- No. 58-1, March 2019
- No. 57-4, December 2018
- No. 57-3, September 2018
- No. 57-2, June 2018
- No. 57-1, March 2018
- No. 56-4, December 2017
- No. 56-3, September 2017
- No. 56-2, June 2017
- No. 56-1, March 2017
- No. 55-4, December 2016
- No. 55-3, September 2016
- No. 55-1-2, May 2016
Latest documents
- Organisational Justice and Police Job Involvement in Haryana, India
High job involvement has been shown to result in many favourable outcomes, including higher job satisfaction, increased work performance, and improved life satisfaction. Organisational justice, which includes the concepts of distributive and procedural justice, refers to the perception that the employing organisation treats employees in a fair and just manner. This study used survey data from 827 police officers from the Indian state of Haryana to explore how distributive and procedural justice affect job involvement. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis indicated that both components of procedural justice (promotions and evaluations) were positively related to, and significant predictors of, job involvement; however, distributive justice did not have a significant effect in the multivariate analysis. We examine the policy implications of these findings towards achieving the ends of improved organisational performance.
- Unpacking Harm: Correctional Officer Framing of Sex Offenders and Protective Custody
The experiences of persons convicted or charged with sex‐related offences are informed by trends in how the sex offender population in society is defined and understood. I draw on data from in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with 100 Canadian provincial correctional officers to explore the harms tied to the framing of sex offenders in prison, including those embedded in institutional structures. I conceptualise how correctional officers understand sex offenders and how the structures in place to ‘protect’ those labelled as sex offenders are, unintentionally, harmful in their own right. I argue that officers rely on evolving strategies of risk mitigation that they must understand, develop, and learn in the prison context. Emphasis is placed on possible policy or needs that may assist in recognising how ‘protective custody’ may simply be lip service to further stigmatise an already marginalised population.
- Canada's ‘Open Prisons’: Hybridisation and the Role of Halfway Houses in Penal Scholarship and Practice
This article analyses the role, form, and function of halfway houses (often referred to as re‐entry centres) in contemporary Canadian punishment. Building on studies of Nordic ‘penal exceptionalism’ and open prisons, I argue that criminologists can usefully study and conceive of halfway houses as a form of open prison. Thinking of halfway houses as open prisons (rather than re‐entry centres or post‐prison institutions), I suggest, is not only more reflective of these houses’ workings and dynamics but is also more productive. Conceptually, it positions halfway houses in opposition to walled prisons, thereby redirecting attention from the post‐prison stage to how halfway houses could present a real existing alternative to closed or walled prisons.
- Solitary Confinement: Effects, Practices, and Pathways Toward Reform J. Lobel and P. Scharff Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020) 377pp. £75.00hb ISBN 978019094792I
- Using A Culturally Safe Creative Writing Programme to Empower and Heal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Men in Prison
Interviews with 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male prisoners who attended a culturally safe creative writing programme entitled ‘Dreaming Inside: Voices from the Junee Correctional Centre’, are used to explore how (re)connecting to culture can help improve social and emotional well‐being, and how the power of being heard and being able to express feelings and thoughts through poetry and storytelling, can help heal deep‐seated emotional trauma and grief. This article addresses a gap in research and theory regarding what types of prison programmes may be of greatest benefit for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners.
- Authenticity, Coherence, and Power Shifts: A Framework for Assessing Community Engagement Across the Criminal Justice System
Criminal justice agencies increasingly use community engagement practices in efforts to improve public safety and garner legitimacy. While crime rates can be measured, improved legitimacy is harder to gauge. This article provides a framework to assess the influence of community engagement practices in the criminal justice system on legitimacy in three areas: authenticity, coherence in structure, and shifts in power dynamics. We explore each component through case studies of community policing, consent decrees, and community courts, respectively. We propose that this framework could be used to assess or build the capacity of community engagement to repair relationships with marginalised communities.
- Female Imprisonment: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement C. Frois. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2017) 231pp. £109.99hb ISBN 978‐3‐319‐63684‐9
- Citizenship, Crime and Community in the European Union S. Coutts. Oxford: Hart (2019) 264pp. £70.00hb ISBN 9781509915361
- Young Men's Experiences of Long‐Term Imprisonment: Living Life R.R. Tynan. Abingdon: Routledge (2019) 186pp. £120.00hb, £36.99pb ISBN 9781315208299
- The Arts, Rehabilitation or Both? Experiences of Mentoring Artists in Prison and Beyond
Mentoring within the criminal justice system plays an important role in rehabilitative and desistance processes. The experiences of arts‐based mentors are scarcely documented. This study discloses the narratives of eleven trained arts mentors who support ex‐offenders in continuing their artistic engagement. Findings show a number of benefits and challenges for those who mentor ex‐offenders, and their experiences convey a message to new recruits. Reasons for becoming a mentor, limitations and constraints, and mentee‐focused factors are discussed.
Featured documents
- Probation and Politics: Academic Reflections from Former Practitioners M. Vanstone and P. Priestley (Eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2016) 412pp. £89.99hb ISBN 978‐1‐137‐59556‐0
- Prisoner Reentry at Work: Adding Business to the Mix M. Delgado. London: Lynne Rienner (2012) 241pp. £47.50hb ISBN 978‐1‐58826‐818‐1
- Forging Selfhood: Social Categorisation and Identity in Arizona's Prison Wildfire Programme
This article examines the expressions of identity for participants in the Inmate Wildfire Program (IWP), a skilled prison labour programme in the US state of Arizona. The identity of imprisoned individuals is deleteriously shaped by the penal regime's construction of the social category ‘criminal’. ...
- ‘It's as if you're not in the Jail, as if you're not a Prisoner’: Young Male Offenders’ Experiences of Incarceration, Prison Chaplaincy, Religion and Spirituality in Scotland and Denmark
This article explores Scottish and Danish young male offenders’ experiences of incarceration, prison chaplaincy, religion and spirituality. The findings from in‐depth face‐to‐face semi‐structured interviews (n = 15) suggest that although Scotland and Denmark are increasingly secular countries, the...
- American Bail and the Tinting of Criminal Justice
This article analyses the history of bail in the United States in an effort to situate this institution within the general narrative of criminal justice transformation during the 19th and 20th Centuries. We identify core characteristics of American bail (commercialisation, risk assessment, and...
- Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World Peter K. Enns. New York: Cambridge University Press (2016) 192pp. £24.99pb ISBN 978‐1‐107‐13288‐7, 178‐1‐316‐50061‐3
- The Experience of Electronic Monitoring and the Implications for Effective Use
Understanding how electronic monitoring (EM) is experienced may helpfully inform implementation to support effective compliance, crime prevention and rehabilitation. This study thematically synthesised the findings of six publications (based on five empirical studies) on EM experience. Eleven...
- The Role of Prison in Europe: Travelling in the Footsteps of John Howard (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology) T. Vander Beken. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2016) 243pp. £79.99hb ISBN 978‐3‐319‐29387‐5
- Evaluation of Crime Prevention: Escaping the Tunnel Vision on Effectiveness
Within the field of crime prevention we have for decades already been provided with numerous research projects that study the effectiveness of crime prevention measures. Effectiveness is, without a doubt, a crucial element when evaluating these measures. Unfortunately, other important aspects of...
- The Context and Impact of Being Wrongly Accused of Abuse in Occupations of Trust
In recent years, there has been rising concern that allegations of sexual abuse, particularly non‐recent abuse, have not received an appropriate response. From this has emerged a new determination to correct past and prevent further injustices, with police operations focusing considerable resources ...