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Prof Muzammil Quraishi's Outputs (14)

Composite Critical Criminology & Collective Stewardship (Khalifa): a theoretical exploration of preventing environmental crimes in Malaysia (2024)
Journal Article

This paper identifies and
interrogates a novel theoretical lens to address
environmental ‘crime’ understood as a ‘composite
critical criminological’ approach (Quraishi, 2020:90)
incorporating three main conceptual strands:
1)Evaluating pert... Read More about Composite Critical Criminology & Collective Stewardship (Khalifa): a theoretical exploration of preventing environmental crimes in Malaysia.

Defining and Illustrating “Extremism” Using the Largest Investigation into Islam in Prison (2023)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, M. L. N., & Quraishi, M. (2023). Defining and Illustrating “Extremism” Using the Largest Investigation into Islam in Prison. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610x.2023.2247620

In the context of a damaging absence of clarity, we define “Islamist Extremism” as: the absolutely divided and antagonistic Worldview of the “Us”-true-Muslim “in-group” who must strive to live in an “Islamic” State versus “Them”-non-Muslim’ and “wron... Read More about Defining and Illustrating “Extremism” Using the Largest Investigation into Islam in Prison.

‘ Oh you’re on our side, you’re my brother’: occupational ontology and challenges for Muslim prison officers in Europe (2023)
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Quraishi, M., & Wilkinson, M. (2023). ‘ Oh you’re on our side, you’re my brother’: occupational ontology and challenges for Muslim prison officers in Europe. Contemporary Islam, 17(3), 411-431. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-023-00526-9

Filling a significant gap in prisons research, this paper articulates the experiences and perspectives of a group of Muslim prison officers interviewed as part of an international study examining Islam in prison. These Muslim prison officers occupied... Read More about ‘ Oh you’re on our side, you’re my brother’: occupational ontology and challenges for Muslim prison officers in Europe.

La prison comme expérience liminale du changement religieux: Une analyse des trajectoires religieuses de personnes détenues de confession musulmane (2022)
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Purdie, M., Wilkinson, M., Quraishi, M., & Irfan, L. (2022). La prison comme expérience liminale du changement religieux: Une analyse des trajectoires religieuses de personnes détenues de confession musulmane. Criminologie, 55(1), 139-165. https://doi.org/10.7202/1089732ar

Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les prisons européennes font face à une augmentation significative de personnes détenues de confession musulmane au point que dans certains établissements, celles-ci représentent parfois plus de la moitié des prisonnier... Read More about La prison comme expérience liminale du changement religieux: Une analyse des trajectoires religieuses de personnes détenues de confession musulmane.

The primacy of ontology: a philosophical basis for research on religion in prison (2021)
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Irfan, L., Quraishi, M., Schneuwly Purdie, M., & Wilkinson, M. (2022). The primacy of ontology: a philosophical basis for research on religion in prison. Journal of Critical Realism, 21(2), 145-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2021.2007463

This paper suggests philosophical foundations for mixed methods research based on the philosophy of critical realism. In particular, it suggests that the critical realist idea of the primacy of ontology helps bridge the apparent paradigmatic gap betw... Read More about The primacy of ontology: a philosophical basis for research on religion in prison.

Building on the shoulders of Bhaskar and Matthews: a critical realist criminology (2021)
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Wilkinson, M., Quraishi, M., Irfan, L., & Schneuwly Purdie, M. (2022). Building on the shoulders of Bhaskar and Matthews: a critical realist criminology. Journal of Critical Realism, 21(2), 123-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2021.1992736

Building on the insights of the late Roy Bhaskar and the late Roger Matthews, as well as some recent developments in ultra-realist criminology, this article introduces and delineates some core intellectual contours of a Critical Realist Criminology (... Read More about Building on the shoulders of Bhaskar and Matthews: a critical realist criminology.

Doing ‘judgemental rationality’ in empirical research : the importance of depth-reflexivity when researching in prison (2021)
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Quraishi, M., Irfan, L., Schneuwly Purdie, M., & Wilkinson, M. (2022). Doing ‘judgemental rationality’ in empirical research : the importance of depth-reflexivity when researching in prison. Journal of Critical Realism, 21(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2021.1992735

Critical realist thought has theorised convincingly that ontological realism is constellationally embedded in epistemic relativism which in turn necessitates judgemental rationality. In social science, judgemental rationality involves acting upon pla... Read More about Doing ‘judgemental rationality’ in empirical research : the importance of depth-reflexivity when researching in prison.

Living Islam in prison : how gender affects the religious experiences of female and male offenders (2021)
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Schneuwly Purdie, M., Irfan, L., Quraishi, M., & Wilkinson, M. (2021). Living Islam in prison : how gender affects the religious experiences of female and male offenders. Religions, 12(5), e298. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12050298

Addressing a significant gap in the knowledge of female Muslim prisoners’ religiosity, this paper describes and explains the gendered impact of incarceration on the religiosity of Muslim female and male offenders. Based on quantitative and qualitativ... Read More about Living Islam in prison : how gender affects the religious experiences of female and male offenders.

Prison as a site of intense religious change : the example of conversion to Islam (2021)
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Wilkinson, M., Irfan, L., Quraishi, M., & Schneuwly Purdie, M. (2021). Prison as a site of intense religious change : the example of conversion to Islam. Religions, 12(3), e162. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12030162

Based on the findings of mixed-methods research conducted with 279 Muslim prisoners in 10 prisons in England, Switzerland and France, this paper argues that contemporary European prisons are sites of intense religious change, in which many people bor... Read More about Prison as a site of intense religious change : the example of conversion to Islam.

Optimising rigour in focus group analysis : using content/thematic and form/structural approaches to understand British Somali's experiences of policing in London (2017)
Journal Article
Ahmed, A., Quraishi, M., & Abdillahi, A. (2017). Optimising rigour in focus group analysis : using content/thematic and form/structural approaches to understand British Somali's experiences of policing in London. International social science review, 93(2), 1-31

There is evidence that focus groups are useful to explore issues with socially marginalised groups, notably when participants have shared particular experiences. Focus groups have the methodological potential to highlight group norms and processes, a... Read More about Optimising rigour in focus group analysis : using content/thematic and form/structural approaches to understand British Somali's experiences of policing in London.

Negotiating apostasy : applying to “Leave Islam” in Malaysia (2014)
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Samuri, M., & Quraishi, M. (2014). Negotiating apostasy : applying to “Leave Islam” in Malaysia. Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 25(4), 507-523. https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2014.907054

In Malaysia, freedom of religion has apparent limitations, especially when the applicant is a Muslim applying to leave Islam, where he may presently find it difficult to get the relief he desires. However, there is one Sharia legal provision in the S... Read More about Negotiating apostasy : applying to “Leave Islam” in Malaysia.

Delinquency and the juvenile justice systems in the non-Western world (book review) (2007)
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Quraishi, M. (2007). Delinquency and the juvenile justice systems in the non-Western world (book review). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsl.2006.11.001

This text seeks to contextualise comparative criminological enquiry beyond black-letter law comparisons by emphasising extra-legal elements such as culture, custom and religion across different non-western juvenile justice systems. The editors are we... Read More about Delinquency and the juvenile justice systems in the non-Western world (book review).