The latest issue of International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy  was published on December 1.

Volume 14, Issue 4 publishes a diverse mix of criminology research from the UK, Spain, South Africa, Australia, India, Singapore, Belgium, Sweden and The Netherlands.

Included in this issue: Gregory Breetzke discusses the skewness in regional representation of editorial board membership which is symptomatic of a broader marginalisation of the Global South in academia.  Justice and safety for women in the workplace in India is explored by Tanmay Samanta and Sraya Banerjee. This study examines how social media enabled extensive awareness, solidarity, and collective action among various communities through the analysis of digital activism and the #JusticeForRGKar case.

Ten years on from the legal recognition of coercive and controlling behaviour (CCB) in the UK - Sandra Walklate and Charlotte Barlow explore the challenges translating CCB into criminal justice, legal policy, practice, and legislation.  Briony Anderson,  Clare Farmer and Danielle Tyson discuss findings from a scoping review of scholarly articles, chapters, theses, and other papers which address police-perpetrated DFV. Hayley Boxall, Adelaide Bragias and Emily Corner highlights the empirical and theoretical similarities between perpetrators of grievance-fuelled violence and IPV and IPH

As well, Sean Eickhoff reviews The Compassionate Court? Support, Surveillance, and Survival in Prostitution Diversion Programs by Corey Shdaimah, Chrysanthi Leon, and Shelly Wiecheand, and  Sara Skott reviews Haunting Prison: Exploring the Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution by Tea Fredriksson.

The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world. The Journal is currently indexed in Scopus as a Q1 in the subject category of ‘LAW’. Internationally, the Journal is ranked in the top 50 open access Law journals and is 1st in the Pacific Region.

The Journal publishes four issues per year, has no APCs and uses Creative Commons to licence articles – making criminology research accessible to all.

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John Scott and David Rodríguez Goyes (Chief Editors); Rowena Maguire (Editor); Avi Brisman (Book Editor); Marília de Nardin Budó (Book Editor), and Tracy Creagh (Journal Manager)