Interest in legal innovations, particularly in the criminal law realm, often centers on an
innovation's emergence, but not its subsequent diffusion. Typifying this trend, existing …

Sex crime laws seemingly have proliferated recently as part of a national “get tough” shift in
criminal justice policy. However, to date, there exists no systematic account of these state …

Recently, government officials, policy makers, and practitioners are taking a closer look at
present day sentencing and corrections approaches. State policy decisions have in large …

Globalization changed the comparative gaze and enterprise in criminology. The dialectics
between global convergence and domestic divergence are nowhere more visible but in the …

In recent years, many states have adopted policies to ensure students are reading
proficiently by third grade. This kind of policy transfer across states is not a unique …

Despite a decline in crime rates, the 1990s witnessed extensive media coverage of several
high‐profile stranger abductions and murders of children. State legislators' swift response to …

Abstract Der Beitrag eruiert das Potenzial der Forschung über urban policy mobilities (UPM)
für die Analyse städtischer Neoliberalisierung. Das Konzept UPM erfüllt eine wertvolle …

Several studies have described and analyzed the development and diffusion of hate crime
laws in the United States, but none specifically examined state-level differences in protected …

This paper draws from the literature on security networks and policy transfer to examine the
privatization of social control in the downtown of Winnipeg, Manitoba. We show how a …

Policing and security provision are subjects central to criminology. Yet there are newer and
neglected forms that are currently unscrutinised. By examining the work of community safety …