Archived Editions
Vol 18 2026
Vol 17 2025
Vol 16 January/Feburary 2024
The inauthenticity of policing: Obedience and oblivion (1-14)
Daniel Gyollai, University of Copenhagen
Tracing proactive and reactive criminal thinking back to their historical roots: A "history of the present" analysis
Glenn Walters, Kutztown University (15-31)
Book Review:
Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform (32-33)
John Pfaff, Fordam University School of Law
Basic Books
ISBN: 978-0465096913
Reviewed by: Matthew Loeslie, Minnesota State University, Mankato
July/August
Rousseau and Becker on the Problem of Recognition: A Comparative Analysis (34-46) James Hardie-Bick, University of Sussex, UK
"Stick time": On the Role of Emotional and Symbolic Rewards in the Etiology of Police Violence (47-63)
Timothy Brezina & Thaddeus L. Johnson, Georgia State University
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VOL 15: January/ February 2023
"The incommensurability of Matza's theory of drift with a sense of injustice with juvenile delinquents" (1-16)
Phil Shon, Ontario Tech University
Romanies as social control targets in a European school grouping-
"You (Pailhos) complicate everything!" (17-38)
Tiago A. Lobo-Dos-Santos, University of Kentucky
Raquel Wilson Montenegro, Faculty of Law, University of Porto
Enactivism and Correctional Practice: An Analysis of Agency in a Neoliberal Climate (39-51) Samuel Samora O'Neil, Victoria University of Wellington
Tony Ward, Victoria University of Wellington
VOL 14: January/ February
"Without limit of time" Living as a restricted patient in Scotland: An interpretative phenomenological analysis (1-32)
Vivienne Barnett, NHS Grampian, Scotland
Kenneth MacMahon, University of Edinburgh &NHS Ayrshire & Arran, Scotland
Karen Allan, NHS Grampian, Scotland
Ethel Quayle, University of Edinburgh
Susanne O'Rourke, University of Edinburgh
Featured Text:
Police Use of Excessive Force against African Americans (Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century)
Robertson, Ray Von; Chaney, Cassandra D.
Lexington Books.
Contributing discussants:
Review: Blackness and Policing (33-35)
Chidike I. Okeem, Western New England University
Review (36-38)
Adeyemi Doss, Indiana State University
Special Topic Edition
Old Ideas, Still Valuable... (For a Destructive 21st Century)
A Few Introductory Notes (39-43)
Ronnie Lippens, Keele University (UK)
'Circulus Vitiosus Deus': The Death Drive Now and Then (44-60)
Mark Featherstone, Keele University (UK)
On Friedrich Nietzsche: Nihilism and the 21st Century (61-73)
Patrick Van Calster, Bournemouth university (UK)
Restoring Equilibrium (type II): Physiological Lessons for
the 21st Century from Dr. Guislain's (1795-1860) Art of
Healing (74-91)
Ronnie Lippens, Keele University
Book review
Bodies in Evidence/; Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault
Adjudication (92-94)
Heather R. Hlavka & Sameena Mulla
New York University Press
Reviewed by Haley Gilke
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November Special Edition
FEATURED TEXT:
A Criminology of Narrative Fiction
Rafe McGregor
Bristol University Press
978-1-5292-0805-4
A Synopsis: A Criminology of Narrative Fiction
Rafe McGregor, Edge Hill University (92-98)
Fiction, Knowledge and Cinematic Realism
Mario Slugan, Queen Mary, University of London (99-110)
Fictional Realities and Criminology: Apprehending
Social Reality Through Narrative Fiction
Jon Frauley, University of Ottawa (111-125)
Valuing Crime Fiction: Aesthetic Appreciation or
Criminological Data
Karen Simecek, University of Warwick (126-135)
Reflections on A Criminology of Fiction by
Rafe McGregor
Rosalchen Whitecross, University of Sussex (136-147)
Response to Frauley, Simecek, Slugan and Whitecross
Rafe McGregor, Edge Hill University (148-157)
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Vol 13: January/ February
Western Criminology vis-a-vis Nigerian Criminology
Chijioke Nwalozie, De Montfort University, UK (1-10)
Victimization, Perceived Organizational Support and Perceived Danger Among Police Officers (11-28) Paul D. Reynolds, University of North Texas, Dallas
Richard Helfers, University of Texas, Tyler
Janiece Upshaw, University of North Texas, Dallas
Corporate Criminal Careers: Thinking about Organizational Offending (29-44)
Ben Hunter, University of Greenwich & Royal Naval College
Policing-networks: Reassembling the cultural
Elaine Campbell, Newcastle University (45-63)
An Essay: Punitiveness and resentment (64-91)
Don Crewe, Leeds Becket University
October Special Edition Featuring:
A Criminology of Narrative Fiction
Rafe McGregor, Edge Hill University
Bristol University Press
VOL 12 January 2020
Narratives of Crime: Narrative Psychology and the Integral Theory Perspective (p.p. 1-17)
David R. Champion, Slippery Rock University
Randy Martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey W. Cohen, University of Washington-Tacoma
Criminological Fiction: What is it Good For? (18-36)
Rafe McGregor, Edge Hill University
Modernizing and Activating Beccaria's Proportionality (p.p. 37-51)
Sanjay Marwah, University of California Eastbay
Jerry Joplin, Guilford College
Revisting Reasons & Kaplan 1975: Toward an Open Wall Approach to Rehabilitative Prisons (p.p. 52-67)
Roger Schaefer, Central Washington University
Danielle Neal, The Donor Motivation Program, Kansas City, MO
Madison Kneadler, Heritage Law Office Cle Elum, WA
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August:
Crime as an assemblage (68-79)
Phil Crockett Thomas, University of Glasgow
Reconsidering the response to mass violence: Meaning,
choice and human truth (80-97)
Michael DeValve, Bridgewater State University
On Criminogenic grit and theoretical criminology (98-115)
Chidike I. Okeem, Western New England University
In their own words: A qualitative exploration of Agnew's
storylines among imprisoned offenders (116-137)
Amanda Howerton-Orcutt, Gina Curcio, Jeb Booth, Salem State University
Richard Byng, University of Plymouth
John Campbell, University of Exeter
Following Foucault's continuum between war and law
in Kosovo: 'Hybrid policing' and selective criminalization in
international policing (138-152)
Teresa Degenhardt, Queen's University Belfast
Special Edition:
Problematizing Peacemaking: A Conversational Inquiry and
Philosophical Critique (153-170)
Don Crewe, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Bruce Arrigo, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
David Polizzi, Indiana State University, USA
Responsive Categorization and Accusation (171-187)
George Pavlich, Professor and H.M. Tory Chair,
Department of Sociology, University of Alberta
Between Athens and Jerusalem in Peacemaking Criminology: The Importance of Weak and Marginal Positions (188-199)
Aaron Pycroft, University of Portsmouth, UK
Response to Pavlich and Pycroft (200-206)
Don Crewe, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Vol 11: February, 2019
Blame, Responsibility, and Peacemaking
Don Crewe Leeds Beckett University, UK. (1-17)
Witnessing riot: a political ecology of digital things
Elaine Campbell, Newcastle University (18-37)
Staging sovereignty: Punitivity, xenophobia, and the frail society
Victor L. Shammas, Oslo Metropolitan University (38-51)
Special Edition July 2019
SPECIAL TOPICS EDITION: Terrorism in the 21st Century
Connectivity, ambivalence and terror: Adlerian speculations on the great refusal to submit
Ronnie Lippens, Keele University
A Cosmopolitian response to the 'war on terror'
Shamila Ahmed, University of Westminster
"Cubs of the caliphate": ISIS speciticale of violence
Weeda Mehran, Georgia State University
August
What is Realist about Ultra-Realist Criminology? A Critical Appraisal of the Perspective, p.p. 95-114
Mark Wood, University of Melbourne
The Embracement of Risks: How to make sense of 'resilience' for safety and security management?, p.p. 115-132
Juul Gooren, The Hague University of Applied Sciences
A Qualitative Study of an Environmental Justice Fight in a Freedman Community:A Content Analysis of Sand Branch, Texas, p.p. 133-158
Paul D. Reynolds, University of North Texas at Dallas
Janiece Upshaw, University of North Texas at Dallas
Theodore Larson, University of North Texas at Dalllas
Integrating General Strain Theory and the Gender Strain Paradigm:
Initial Considerations, (159-186)
Amanda L.C. Fontaine, University of New Hamsphire
The natural history of street-level criminality: Self-perceptions of "vincibility" and a persistant offender's motive for desistance (p.p. Joshua Ellsworth, Indiana University, Bloomington (187-204)
Vol 10: February, 2018
Consciousness in rather than of: Advancing modest claims for the development of phenomenologically informed approaches to complexity theory in criminology (1-20)
Aaron Pycroft, Portsmouth University, UK
Radicalisation and beheadings: Philosophy of transgressions in terrorist violence (21-33)
Elise Impara, Kingston University, UK
The little things: Deconstructing Christian doctrine and theorizing a loving justice (34-52)
Michael DeValve & Sara Brightman, Fayetteville State University
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July
The phenomenological psychology of stopping an active shooter
Rodger E. Broomé & Eric J. Russell, Utah Valley University
Applying contextual anomie and strain theory to recent acts of corporate deviance
Matthew Robinson and Ms. Jessica Rogers, Appalachian State University
Vol 9: February 2017
What are the barriers to recovery perceived by people discharged from a medium-secure forensic mental health unit? An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Simon R. Stuart, NHS Lanarkshire, Scotland
Louise Tansey, NHS Lothian, Scotland
Ethel Quayle, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Dialogical Nature of Transferential Processes: Tacit Moral Frameworks
Kevin Glenn, MSC, LAC & Paul McCormick Utah Valley University
Social Structure and Sociobiology: A Radical-Political Economic Reinterpretation
Michael J. Lynch, University of South Florida
Paul B. Stretesky Northumbria University
Criminology and Violence: Reflections on Elliott Currie’s The Roots of Danger
Don Crewe, Leeds Becket University
The Roots of Danger Elliott Currie Commentary
Steve Hall, Tesside University, UK
Response to Crewe and Hall
Elliott Currie, University of California, Irvine, and Queensland University of Technology
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August
Forget ‘Moral Panics’
Mark Horsley, Teesside University, U.K.
Going inside crime and punishment: the oranges of anti-rehabilitative justice
Anna King, Georgian Court University
Epistrophe: desideratum for a loving justice
Michael DeValve, Fayetteville State University
VOL 8: February 2016
Synthesizing Structure and Agency: A Developmental Framework of Bourdieu's Constructivist Theory
Tricia Johnston, Georgia State University
Other Theories of Justice
Anthony Amatrudo, Middlesex University
Medieval Violence and Criminology: Using the Middle Ages to Understand Contemporary Motiveless Crime
Elise Impara, Kingston University
Economic Nomads: A Theoreticak Deconstruction of the Immigration Debacle
Brian Sellers, Eastern Michigan
Bruce A. Arrigo, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Understanding Cyber-Vigilantism: A Conceptual Framework
Joshua Smallridge, Fairmont State University
Philip Wagner, University of Wisconsin--Parkside
Justin N. Crowl, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
July
Policing and its Spatial Imaginaries
Elaine Campbell, Newcastle University, UK
The Descent of Nature: Constructing the "Other" in Historucal Newspapers
Ethan Higgans, & Kristin Swartz
The Noble Cause Corruption of Frank Castle
Aryeh Halevy, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Jonathon A. Cooper, University of Pennslvania
Civilian United States Support for Military and Imperial State Crime
Joshua Klein, Iona College
Inmate' Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison: Rewriting Personal Histories through Cognitive Behavioral Programs
Jennifer Schlosser, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Routledge
Lydia Littlejohns & Tony Ward, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Prison-based Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Programs--A Mechanism of Panoptic Control
Commentary of Jennifer A. Schlosser's (2015) Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison:
Rewriting Personal Histories through Cognitive-Behavioral Programs
Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Seattle University
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the Cost of Collective Humanity: Commentary on Discursive Discipline in Prisons--Schlosser
Roger L. Schaefer, Central Washington University
Author's Response
Jennifer A. Schlosser, Colorado State University--Pueblo
Vol 7: 2 August, 2015
Vol 7: 1 February, 2015
Rethinking Subculture and Subcultural Theory in the Study of Youth Crime – A Theoretical Discourse
Chijioke J. Nwalozie, New College, Stamford, U.K.
Vol 6: January, 2014
July:
Vol 5: January, 2013
Conceptualization, Operationalization,Construct Validity, and Truth in Advertising
in Criminological Research
Randy Martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Jeffrey W. Cohen, University of Washington-Tacoma
David R. Champion, Slippery Rock University
Hospitality and the Homeless: Jacques Derrida in the Neoliberal City
Bryan Hogeveen,University of Alberta
Joshua Freistadt, University of Alberta
Can One Paint Criminology?
Ronnie Lippens, Keele University
Interviewed by James Hardie-Bick, Keele University
Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society
The Author’s Response to the Commentary of Toward a Unified Criminology:
Robert Agnew, Department of Sociology, Emory University
Book Reviews:
A Theory of African American Offending: Race, Racism, and Crime
James D. Unnever, University South Florida
Shaun L. Gabbidon, Penn State Harrisburg
Routledge
ISBN: 978-0-415-88358-0
ReviewDavid Polizzi, Indiana State University
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July
Quantum Holographic Critical Criminology
Dragan Milovanovic, Northeastern Illinois University
The overlap between war and crime: unpacking Foucault and
Agamben’s studies within the context of the war on terror
Teresa Degenhardt, Queen’s University, Belfast
Actors of genocide and processes of deviantization: a Weberian ideal typical formulation
Kenneth Hemmerechts, Free University Brussels
Social Capital and Collective Efficacy: Resource and OperatingTools of Community Social Control
Sami Ansari, Salem State University
Trayvon Martin: The Unsettling Symbol, the Irreplaceable Son
Joy Simmons Bradley
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Vol. 4 January, 2012
Social Control on Public Buses
David Patrick Connor & Richard Tewksbury, University of Louisville
Future Scholars: Student Papers:
WikiLeaks and Realpolitik
Kevin F. Steinmetz, Sam Houston State University
Special Edition
Special Edition Topic:
Does Evolutionary Psychology Have a Place in Criminology?
Editor's Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief, Associate Professor Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice Indiana State University
Featured Article:
The Role of Evolutionary Explanations in Criminology
Russil Durrant, Victoria University of Wellington & Tony Ward, Deakin University
Commentary:
Barak Responds to Durrant and Ward on Evolution and Crime
Gregg Barak, Eastern Michigan University
Once More into the Breach: Revisiting the Metaphor of Mechanism in Evolutionary Psychological Explanations
Edwin E. Gantt & Jeffrey L. Thayne, Brigham Young University
Expanding Our Thinking on Theorizing Criminology and Criminal Justice? The Place of Evolutionary Perspectives in Integrative Criminological Theory
Stuart Henry, San Diego State University
The Evolutionary Psychology of Crime
By David M. Buss, University of Texas, Austin
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Vol. 3 (2) August, 2011
2011 Editor's Statement
David Polizzi, Editor in Chief,
Associate Professor
Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice Indiana State University
Liberated Voices: Juvenile Offenders? Perceptions of the Therapeutic Relationship
John S. Ryals, Jr., Department of Juvenile Services, Jefferson Parish, LA
Is Capital Punishment Just? Assessing the Death Penalty Using Justice Theory
Matthew Robinson, Government & Justice Studies, Appalachian State University
Book Review: Essential Criminology 3rd Edition
Roger Schafer, Washington State University
July
Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society
New York University Press, 2011
Robert Agnew, Emory University
The Challenges of Integrating Criminology:A Commentary on Agnew?s Toward a Unified Criminology:
The Power Of One?: Reflections On Agnew?s Unified Theory Of Crime
Stuart Henry, San Dirgo State University
The Perversion of Criminology
Matthew Robinson, Appalachian State University
The Power Of One?: Reflections On Agnew?s Unified Theory Of Crime
James D. Unnever, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manate
Toward a Unified Criminology: Integrating Assumptions about Crime, People, and Society: A Commentary
Avi Brisman, Eastern Kentuck University
In Search of the Ethical in Criminal Justice Practice
David Polizzi, Indiana State University
Michelle Brown, University of Tennessee
What's A Just War Theorist?
Aleksander Jokic, Portland St. University
Just War, Genocide, or Necessity: A Critical Response to Jokic
David Polizzi, Indiana State University
Gadd, D., & Jefferson, T. (2007). Psychosocial criminology: An introduction. Los Angeles, CA: Sage
Review by Roger Schaefer, Washington State University
Alexander, M. (2010). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New York, NY: The New Press
Review by: Justin Grinage, University of Minnesota
Vol. 3 January, 2011
Editor's Statement
Justice-Rendering Schemas: A Typology for Forms of Justice and a Prolegomenon for Transformative Justice
By Dragan Milovanovic, Justice Studies Department, Northeastern Illinois University
Democratic Criminology: The Place of Criminological Expertise in the Public Sphere
By Aaron Fichtelberg and Aaron Kupchik, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware
Filling in the Gaps in Culture-Based Theories of Organizational Crime
By Adam Trahan, University of North Texas, Department of Criminal Justice
Knowledge Reifying Force-Intention-Harm K(F+I+H): The Nature and Structure of Crime: A Multidimensional Theoretical Model
By Ehor Boyanowsky & Jonathan Yasayko, Simon Fraser University
Inmate Mental Health, Solitary Confinement, and Cruel and Unusual Punishment: A Preliminary Response To Commentators
By Heather Y. Bersot, M.S., and By Bruce A. Arrigo, Ph.D.*, UNC Charlotte
Book Review: "Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race" (George Yancy)
By David Polizzi, Ph.D., Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice Indiana State University
Book Review: "Been a Heavy Life: Stories of Violent Men" (Lois Presser)
By Laura King
Book Review: "Criminology: An Integrated Approach" (Gregg Barak)
By Joshua Smallridge
Book Review: "A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Criminology." (Ronnie Lippens)
August
Special Feature: Student Articles
Guest Editor, Roger Schaefer, Washington State University
Guest Associate Editor, Heather Pruss, Indaina University
Guest Editor's Statement
Roger Schaefer, Washington State University, Criminal Justice Program
Understanding Others? Experience: Phenomenology and/Beyond Violence
Joshua Freistadt, University of Alberta
Redefining Genocide: The International Criminal Court?s Failure to Indict on the Darfur Situation
Simeon Sungi, Indiana University
Conflict In Darfur: Calculation And Inadequate International Response
Bob Zaremba, Eastern Michigan University
Liberated Voices: Juvenile Offenders? Perceptions of the Therapeutic Relationship
John S. Ryals, Jr., Department of Juvenile Services, Jefferson Parish, LA
Is Capital Punishment Just? Assessing the Death Penalty Using Justice Theory
Matthew Robinson, Government & Justice Studies, Appalachian State University
Book Review: Essential Criminology 3rd Edition
Roger Schafer, Washington State University
Vol. 2 January, 2010
A Foucaultian Analysis of ?Tripping? on Death Row
Sandra McGunigall-Smith, Matthew R. Draper, Kayla Birmingham, David Durtschi; Utah Valley University
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The Mediated Body as the Site for Contested Agencies: MS-13 as a Case Stud
Heather Pruss, Indiana University
The Symbolic Capital of Capital Punishment: A Scholarly Reflection
Jennifer Grimes, Indiana State University
Epidemiological Criminology (EpiCrim): Definition and Application
Mark M. Lanier, PhD
The Emergence of Habitual Criminals in 19th Century Britain: Implications for Criminology
George Pavlich, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Alberta
July
Editor?s Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief
The Interstitial And Creativity: Bergson And Fitzpatrick On The Emergence Of Law
By Ronnie Lippens, Keele University, UK
Power: The Supposed Definitions Revisited
By Dr Don Crewe, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Wrongful Incarceration: A Foucauldian Analysis
By Eric Dunning, University Of Alabama
A ?Morphological Sphinx?: On The Silence Of The Assassin Leon Czolgosz
By Cary Federman, Montclair State University
In Search Of The Human In The Shadows Of Correctional Practice: A Theoretical Reflection
David Polizzi, Indiana State University
Shadd Maruna, Queen's University, Belfast
December
Arguing the 8th Amendment for the Mentally Ill: Can Aristotle Help?
By Annalise Acorn, University of Alberta
Inmate Mental Health, Solitary Confinement, And Cruel And Unusual Punishment: An Ethical And Justice Policy Inquiry
By Heather Y. Bersot, M.S., UNC Charlotte and
By Bruce A. Arrigo, Ph.D.*, UNC Charlotte
Commentary on "Inmate Mental Health," Solitary Confinement, And Cruel And Unusual Punishment: An Ethical And Justice Policy Inquiry.
By Terry A. Kupers, M.D., M.S.P.
Care for Convicts
By Lois Presser, The University of Tennessee and
By Beth Easterling, The University of Tennessee
Dignity, Virtue, and Punishment: The Ethical Justification of Disciplinary Segregation in Prisoners
By Tony Ward Victoria University of Wellington
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Vol. 1 January, 2009
Editor's Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief
Kill Method: A Provocation
Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University
Quantitative versus Qualitative Methods: Understanding Why
Quantitative Methods are Predominant in Criminology and Criminal Justice
George E. Higgins, University of Louisville
Qualitative versus Quantitative Methods: Understanding Why
Qualitative Methods are Superior for Criminology and Criminal Justice
By Richard Tewksbury, University of Louisville
Inescapable Morality: Responding to the Qualitative versus
Quantitative Issue
By Matthew R. Draper, Utah Valley University
Fear of Crime and Punishment
By Annalise Acorn, University of Alberta
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July
Editor's Statement
By David Polizzi, Editor in Chief
Beyond Agency and Structure: Methodological Considerations for
Researching the Use of Restrictive Physical Intervention Against
Children in Jail
Don Crewe PhD, Roehampton University, London
Macro-Micro Theoretical Integration: An Unexplored Theoretical Frontier
Lisa R. Muftic, Georgia State University
Radio Frequency Identification Technology & the Risk Society: A Preliminary Review & Critique for Justice Studies
Brian Sellers, M.S., Department of Criminology University of South Florida
Bruce A. Arrigo, Ph.D., Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Critical Discourse: Criminology and the Social Sciences
Phenomenology, Postmodernism, and Philosophical Criminology:
A Conversational Critique
By David Polizzi, Indiana State University Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, and Bruce A. Arrigo, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology