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Theoretical Criminology is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance. Over its lifetime it has published 1,364 papers, which have received 40,441 citations.
| Publisher | SAGE |
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| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Theoretical Criminology, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Crime Patterns and Interventions Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses Policing Practices and Perceptions |
| ISSN | 1362-4806 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.55 |
| h-index | 107 |
| i10-index | 572 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Toronto |
| Journal website | tcr.sagepub.com |
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The article takes its point of departure in one limited and consciously selected aspect of Michel Foucault's use of Jeremy Bentham's concept of `Panopticon': in his book Discipline and Punish, the aspect of surveillance, and the emphasis on a fundamental change and break which presumably occurred in the 1800s from social and theatrical arrangements, where…
The article traces the main themes of the `governmentality' literature, as developed by Michel Foucault and subsequent writers, and outlines a series of related ideas about `the social' as a realm of government; statistics and bio-power; actuarial forms of reasoning; and government-at-a-distance. It goes on to illustrate the criminological value of these ideas by means…
This article is intended as an attack on Jock Young’s use of the term ‘left idealism’—that distillation of every 1960s hysteria and radicalchic inanity—to describe and to castigate the moral, political and intellectual assumptions of the emergent ‘paradigm’ of radical criminology in Britain of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Young’s synopsis, I shall argue,…
American schools increasingly define and manage the problem of student discipline through a prism of crime control. Most theoretical explanations fail to situate school criminalization in a broader structural context, to fully explain its spatio-temporal variations, and to specify the processes and subjectivities that mediate between structural and legal forces and the behavior of school…
Conventionally, crime is regarded principally as harm or wrong and the dominant ordering practices arise post hoc. In the emerging pre-crime society, crime is conceived essentially as risk or potential loss, ordering practices are pre-emptive and security is a commodity sold for profit. Though this dichotomy oversimplifies a more complex set of changes, it captures…
