The Palgrave Critical Criminological Perspectives book series aims to showcase the
importance of critical criminological thinking when examining problems of crime, social harm …

Violence risk assessment tools are used around the world with people who have committed
crimes to determine the risk factors that may have contributed to their offending. These tools …

Contemporary social scientific scholarship is being transformed by the challenges
associated with the changing nature of, and responses to, questions of crime, security and …

This paper discusses the concerns associated with the introduction of, and increased
reliance on, actuarial risk tools in sentencing in order to:(1) stimulate cross-disciplinary …

Gender-based approaches to security classification ought to be responsive to qualitative
and quantitative research that demonstrates the gendered socio-cultural histories and …

This article develops a sociological analysis and critique of including socioeconomic factors
such as education, employment, income and housing in risk assessment tools that inform …

The application of common risk assessment measures, such as the Level of Service
Inventories (LSI), to Aboriginal offenders has been a criticized practice. The belief that …

Innovations in digital government are changing state–citizen interactions. While often seen
as means to increase government efficiency and reduce compliance costs for citizens, a …

Race still matters in Canada, and in the context of crime and criminal justice, it matters a lot.
In this book, the authors focus on the ways in which racial minority groups are criminalized …

In this article, we examine the conceptual importance of integrating risk and intersectionality
theory for the study of how risk and various forms of inequality intersect and are mutually …