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Open Call for Associate Editors for the European Journal of Criminology
In recent years the European Journal of Criminology has seen a steep rise in submissions, which cover a wide range of topics relating to crime and criminal justice. To support an effective and efficient peer review process, Associate Editors (AEs) have become a key asset of our Editorial Team. We ar...
Calls and Applications for the ESC Awards, Fellowships and Board Candidates (Deadline: 31 March)
Calls and Applications for the ESC Awards, Fellowships and Board Candidates (Deadline: 31 March)
Is Spain a socially exclusionary country for criminal offenders?
Social exclusion as an effect of criminal policy has not been questioned in academic debates, although they mostly focus on punitiveness as an essential feature of contemporary criminal policy. However, the use of this guiding criterion in the study of comparative criminal policy shows a set of theo...
ESC Awards: Nominatons sought
The ESC is seeking nominations for the ESC European Criminology Award, the ESC Young Criminologist Award, the ESC Book Award, as well as the ESC Distinghuished Services Award. All nominations shall be sent to the Executive Secretary by no later than the 31 March 2022.

Covid 19 and Organized Crime. An opportunity for connecting reliable data with policies
It is almost impossible to say with the data available today whether the pandemic has opened space to new forms of organized crime and/or has accelerated existing trends. An answer could be relevant to focus on existing policies based on a more focused knowledge of organized crime groups structures ...