Safer Communities: Volume 17 Issue 2

The legitimacy of offender management programmes in a post-TR landscape

Michael Rowe, Adele Irving, Sarah Soppitt

The purpose of this paper is to explore the under-considered perspectives of service users engaged in various community sentences based on a “strengths-based” approach to…

Gendered assisted desistance: a decade from Corston

Una Mairead Barr

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of assisted desistance from the perspective of women involved in the criminal justice system. It focusses on two community…

The patchwork of alcohol-free zones and alcohol-prohibited areas in New South Wales (Australia)

Daren G. Fisher, Phillip Wadds, Garner Clancey

Developing policies to curb public alcohol consumption is a priority for governments. In the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), local governments have introduced…

Gangs, music and the mediatisation of crime: expressions, violations and validations

Craig Pinkney, Shona Robinson-Edwards

The way in which criminologists understand, contextualise and theorise around the mediatised world has raised some critical new questions. The purpose of this paper is to report…

Social network use and youth well-being: a study in India

Jehangir Bharucha

The youth in present day India is the first generation to grow up within a world of pervasive technology. While several writers applaud these social network sites (SNSs) for…