CrimeTalk

An educational resource for students and staff studying the sociology of crime, deviance and social censure, criminology, sociology of law and socio-legal studies;  the intriguing stuff that made the subject fascinating in the first place. So much of this has now become political that we also discuss politics.

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Censure and motivation: re-balancing criminological theory Jun 2014 Written by Mark Horsley 18127
Welfare to social control: a neo-liberal transformation Apr 2014 Written by Tom Boland 15273
National Socialist Law and the Censuring of Modernist Culture, Art and Literature May 2013 Written by Anthony Amatrudo and Fritz Wefelmeyer 16785
Power, Crime, and Society: Internal Issues Facing Contemporary Criminology Jan 2013 Written by Johannes Wheeldon and Craig Harper 13096
Power, Crime and Society: External Issues facing Contemporary Criminology Oct 2012 Written by Johannes Wheeldon and Craig Harper 17071
Securities fraud, Goldman Sachs and critical criminology USA Sep 2012 Written by Matthew G. Yeager 11667
Early interventions, troubled youth and labelling Jun 2012 Written by Ros Burnett 16287
Restorative justice, restorative approaches and schools Jun 2012 Written by Carol Hayden 12763
Probation, economic insecurity and justice reform: the Arab Spring and lessons from Latvia Jun 2012 Written by Johannes Wheeldon 11385
Predicting young criminals Jun 2012 Written by Sean Creaney 19148
Wall Street Crimes II: Dodd-Frank and the limits of regulatory reform May 2012 Written by Gregg Barak 10042
Nino, Part 6: Prison, criminal culture and the possibility of change Apr 2012 Written by Amedeo Cottino 9992
Financially Respectable Crimes of Wall Street Mar 2012 Written by Gregg Barak 12115
Nino Part 5: family values, military culture and vendettas Feb 2012 Written by Amedeo Cottino 9233
UIGEA and the rise and rise of gaming and gambling in the UK Jan 2012 Written by James Banks and David Moxon 31636
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Malice in Wonderland by Colin Sumner. 2020. 3-part essay on the criminality of our Tory government and its ideological origins.

Media, Policing and Politics by Colin Sumner. 2012. 3-part essay on this increasingly crucial relationship, as they 'hold people to account' in the UK.

Bhopal: Flowers at the Altar of Profit and Power by Frank Pearce & Steve Tombs. 2011. 6 parts, on the world's biggest 'industrial accident' in India.

Nino: Journey into the Heart of Darkness by Amedeo Cottino. 2011. 6 parts, interviews with a no-regrets 'hitman' or clan 'soldier'  from Catania, Italy.