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La Coexistencia de La Victimización y la Conducta Problemática en la Vida Juvenil: Una Revisión Sistemática (Scoping Review)’. (Children as Victims and Offenders: A Scoping Review.) (2023)
Journal Article
Birkbeck, C., Hazel, N., & Bailey, L. (2023). La Coexistencia de La Victimización y la Conducta Problemática en la Vida Juvenil: Una Revisión Sistemática (Scoping Review)’. (Children as Victims and Offenders: A Scoping Review.). #Journal not on list, 51-105

Typically, Criminology and Victimology focus on the person either as an offender or as a victim, yet there may be many individuals who have experiences of each within a relatively short period of time. We present the results of a scoping review o... Read More about La Coexistencia de La Victimización y la Conducta Problemática en la Vida Juvenil: Una Revisión Sistemática (Scoping Review)’. (Children as Victims and Offenders: A Scoping Review.).

Moral work in victim–offender meetings (2022)
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Birkbeck, C., & Smith, G. (2022). Moral work in victim–offender meetings. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 24(1), 59-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221095976

Although many studies of restorative justice touch on its moral dimensions, they provide a rather fragmentary view of the moral work that takes place in meetings between victims and offenders. We treat moral work as a discursive phenomenon that emerg... Read More about Moral work in victim–offender meetings.

“You and your laws and us with our laws” : a murderer’s stories navigate conflicting normative domains (2021)
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Birkbeck, C., & Rodríguez, J. (2021). “You and your laws and us with our laws” : a murderer’s stories navigate conflicting normative domains. Dilemas : Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social (Impresso), 14(3), 641-658. https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v14n3.43542

Employing Labov’s structural model of stories and Schönbach’s typology of accounts, we examine an interview with a murderer in Venezuela and compare two stories that were narrated within it: one about the murder and one about his family life. Wh... Read More about “You and your laws and us with our laws” : a murderer’s stories navigate conflicting normative domains.

Victimization, crime propensity and deviance: a multinational test of general strain theory (2019)
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Teijon Alcala, M., & Birkbeck, C. (2019). Victimization, crime propensity and deviance: a multinational test of general strain theory. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 35(4), 410-430. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986219870941

General Strain Theory (GST) identifies victimization as one of the strains most strongly related to crime which, like other sources of strain, is moderated by individual and social factors. Recently, Agnew (2013) extended the theorization of coping s... Read More about Victimization, crime propensity and deviance: a multinational test of general strain theory.

Conducta antisocial adolescente bajo un enfoque integrador de tres teorías criminológicas (2018)
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Morillo, S., & Birkbeck, C. (2018). Conducta antisocial adolescente bajo un enfoque integrador de tres teorías criminológicas. Revista de ciencias sociales (Maracaibo), 23(3), 76-88

In order to test the theories of Differential Association, Social Control and General Crime, the relationship between antisocial behavior and key constructs of the theories was analyzed, namely, “favourable definitions” (differential association), “... Read More about Conducta antisocial adolescente bajo un enfoque integrador de tres teorías criminológicas.

Internationalizing the study of gang membership : validation issues from Latin America (2016)
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Rodriguez, J., Perez Santiago, N., Birkbeck, C., Crespo, F., & Morillo, S. (2017). Internationalizing the study of gang membership : validation issues from Latin America. British Journal of Criminology, 57(5), 1165-1184. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw058

Developing valid measures of gang membership for self-report surveys is a challenging task in comparative cross-national research. In this article we use the Venezuelan case to assess the validity of the Eurogang indicators of gang membership. Based... Read More about Internationalizing the study of gang membership : validation issues from Latin America.

Surveys as cultural artefacts : applying the international self-report delinquency study to Latin American adolescents (2015)
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Rodríguez, J., Pérez Santiago, N., & Birkbeck, C. (2015). Surveys as cultural artefacts : applying the international self-report delinquency study to Latin American adolescents. European Journal of Criminology, 12(4), 420-436. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370815581701

Survey instruments are often watermarked with the language, thought patterns, experience and expectations of their designers’ cultural world. This creates some evident challenges when using surveys in international research projects (for example, in... Read More about Surveys as cultural artefacts : applying the international self-report delinquency study to Latin American adolescents.

Media representations of crime and criminal justice (2014)
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Birkbeck, C. (2014). Media representations of crime and criminal justice. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935383.013.15

To date, criminologists have approached the media from a communications perspective that, directly or indirectly, treats them as a powerful social force. However, systematic research (conducted mainly outside but also within criminology) has failed t... Read More about Media representations of crime and criminal justice.

Imprisonment and internment: Comparing penal facilities North and South (2011)
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Birkbeck, C. (2011). Imprisonment and internment: Comparing penal facilities North and South. Punishment and Society, 13(3), 307-332. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474511404320

Recent references to the ‘warehouse prison’ in the United States and the prisión-depósito in Latin America seem to indicate that penal confinement in the western hemisphere has converged on a similar model. However, this article suggests otherwise.... Read More about Imprisonment and internment: Comparing penal facilities North and South.

Autocontrol y conducta desviada: Una exploración con datos Venezolanos. (Self control and deviant behaviour: An exploration with Venezuelan data) (2011)
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Morillo, S., Birkbeck, C., & Crespo, F. (2011). Autocontrol y conducta desviada: Una exploración con datos Venezolanos. (Self control and deviant behaviour: An exploration with Venezuelan data). Revista - Centro de Investigaciones Penales Criminológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, 30, 171-203

Gottfredson and Hirschi’s self-control theory is tested with adolescent Venezuelan students (n = 2354), examining the relationship between deviant behavior, self-control, age, sex, socioeconomic status, and size of settlement. The hypothesis that “... Read More about Autocontrol y conducta desviada: Una exploración con datos Venezolanos. (Self control and deviant behaviour: An exploration with Venezuelan data).

Prisiones e Internados: Una Comparación de los Establecimientos Penales en América del Norte y América Latina (Prisons and Internment: A Comparison of Penal Facilities in North America and Latin America) (2010)
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America). Caderno CRH (Impresso), 23(58), 129-149

The recent use of expressions such as “warehouse prison” in the U.S. and “concentration camp” in Latin America would seem to indicate that conditions of deprivation of freedom in both regions look more and more alike. The analysis presented here... Read More about Prisiones e Internados: Una Comparación de los Establecimientos Penales en América del Norte y América Latina (Prisons and Internment: A Comparison of Penal Facilities in North America and Latin America).

El desempeño penal y el régimen abierto en las regiones Capital y Andina de Venezuela, 1981-2005. (Penal performance in open prisons in the Capital and Andean regions of Venezuela, 1981-2005.) (2010)
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Birkbeck, C. (2010). El desempeño penal y el régimen abierto en las regiones Capital y Andina de Venezuela, 1981-2005. (Penal performance in open prisons in the Capital and Andean regions of Venezuela, 1981-2005.). Capítulo criminológico, 38(1), 81-107

The penal performance of offenders assigned to halfway houses is examined for a sample of 1,253 residents between 1981 and 2005 in the Capital and Andean Regions of Venezuela. Contrary to the notion of progression outlined in prison legislation, only... Read More about El desempeño penal y el régimen abierto en las regiones Capital y Andina de Venezuela, 1981-2005. (Penal performance in open prisons in the Capital and Andean regions of Venezuela, 1981-2005.).

Venezuela: The Shifting Organizational Framework for the Police (2009)
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Birkbeck, C. (2009). Venezuela: The Shifting Organizational Framework for the Police. Police Practice and Research, 10(4), 295-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/15614260802586293

Recent political polarization in Venezuela has exacerbated longer term tensions over the organization and control of the police. Additionally, there is ongoing and widespread public dissatisfaction with the nature of policing. The patrimonial and au... Read More about Venezuela: The Shifting Organizational Framework for the Police.

Researching the use of force: The background to the international project (2009)
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Stenning, P., Birkbeck, C., Adang, O., Baker, D., Feltes, T., Gabaldón, L., …Waddington, P. (2009). Researching the use of force: The background to the international project. Crime, Law and Social Change, 52(2), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-008-9177-6

This article provides the background to an international project on use of force by the police that was carried out in eight countries. Force is often considered to be the defining characteristic of policing and much research has been conducted on th... Read More about Researching the use of force: The background to the international project.

El funcionamiento de la libertad condicional: un estudio de caso de la región Andina de Venezuela, 1981-2004.” (how parole functions in Venezuela: a case study of the Andean region, 1981-2004) (2009)
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Birkbeck, C. (2009). El funcionamiento de la libertad condicional: un estudio de caso de la región Andina de Venezuela, 1981-2004.” (how parole functions in Venezuela: a case study of the Andean region, 1981-2004). Revista - Centro de Investigaciones Penales Criminológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, 28, 29-67

This article presents the results of a study of 773 cases of parole that were initiated and concluded in the Andean region of Venezuela between 1981 and 2004, with particular attention to the characteristics and determinants of offenders’ different p... Read More about El funcionamiento de la libertad condicional: un estudio de caso de la región Andina de Venezuela, 1981-2004.” (how parole functions in Venezuela: a case study of the Andean region, 1981-2004).