The work of Bourdieu has increasingly gained interest in criminology. His theoretical
framework is rich and arguably the most sophisticated approach to social inequality and …

Most of Pierre Bourdieu's work describes struggles over symbolic capital and hierarchies
among the economic and cultural elite. However, his theories and concepts are not …

Bourdieu's key conceptual tools, including the forms of capital and habitus, have recently
come to be deployed with greater frequency in criminological research. Less attention has …

Recent scholarly contributions have sought to integrate Bourdieusian sociology with
criminology, centring for example, on the 'street'field as a symbolic and narrative space …

Anders Behring Breivik carried out two terrorist attacks in Norway in 2011, killing 77 people.
In a 1500-page Manifesto, he justifies the attacks, describes his ideology and presents his …

The awareness of the need for a Handbook of European Criminology emerged during a
board meeting at the European Society of Criminology in Barcelona in May 2009. So, in …

Stories are ubiquitous to ethnographic fieldwork, but their significance is often highly
ambiguous. While undertaking fieldwork in prisons in Ecuador, Jennifer heard that police …

A background in 'ordinary'crime, violence and drug use seems to characterize many
European individuals recently involved in ISIS-related jihadi violence. With its long tradition …

The Netherlands occupies a paradoxical position in the mind of many criminologists. On the
one hand, the country symbolises acumen for creative approaches to social and criminal …

This article engages with existing applications of Bourdieusian (habitus, field and capitals)
theory as applied to 'street'settings. It advocates for the recognition of strategies developed …