Two New Issues -- Punishment & Society + Theoretical Criminology

This month, we have new issues of both Punishment & Society and Theoretical Criminology. P&S offered a special issue on punishment, values, and local cultures. Their tables of contents (TOCs) are below.

The TOC for the new, special issue of Punishment & Society:

Editorial Special issue: Punishment, values and local cultures Hilde Tubex and David A Green

Articles US penal-reform catalysts, drivers, and prospects David A Green US punitiveness ‘Canadian style’? Cultural values and Canadian punishment policy Cheryl Marie Webster and Anthony N Doob Inspector Wallander’s angst, social change and the reconfiguration of Swedish exceptionalism John Pratt and Thomas McLean Penal diversity within Australia Hilde Tubex, David Brown, Arie Freiberg, Karen Gelb, and Rick Sarre Cultural peers and penal policies: A configurational approach toward mapping penal landscapes Susanne Karstedt Punishment, legitimate policies and values: Penal moderation, dignity and human rights Sonja Snacken

The TOC for the newest issue of Theoretical Criminology:

Debating Theoretical Criminology The slow violence of state organized race crime Geoff Ward

Articles The long struggle: An agonistic perspective on penal development Philip Goodman, Joshua Page, and Michelle Phelps Bad jobs and good workers: The hiring of ex-prisoners in a segmented economy Kristin Bumiller Between vigilantism and bureaucracy: Improving our understanding of police work in Nigeria and South Africa Sarah Jane Cooper-Knock and Olly Owen “Obviously, we’re all oil industry”: The criminogenic structure of the offshore oil industry Elizabeth A Bradshaw Ontology, epistemology, and irony: Richard Rorty and re-imagining pragmatic criminology Johannes Wheeldon Towards a Bourdieusian frame of moral panic analysis: The history of a moral panic inside the field of humanitarian aid Arnaud Dandoy

Book reviews Book review: Jonathan Simon, Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America Marion Vannier Book review: Sara Wakefield and Christopher Wildeman, Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality Bryan L Sykes Book review: Lisa Guenther, Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives Sara-Maria Sorentino Book review: Eoin O’Sullivan and Ian O’Donnell (eds), Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents Mary Corcoran Book review: Vicky Conway, Policing Twentieth Century Ireland: A History of An Garda Síochána Aogán Mulcahy Book review: Michael J Coyle, Talking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society Gabrielle Watson