To mark the UK’s National Hate Crime Awareness week this included Chris Allen’s new blog: COVID-19: Blaming Britain’s Muslim Communities, which highlights the scapegoating of Britain’s Muslims during the pandemic:

Sam Cooper’s examination of the impact of the pandemic on front-line prison staff in COVID-19 in our prisons: who protects the protectors?

Keir Irwin-Rogers, Joseph de-Lappe and Jo Phoenix’s examination of the adverse effects of public spending cuts and regressive reforms in England and Wales in: Antisocial shifts in social policy and serious youth violence between young people: evidence from the cross-party youth violence commission.

Additionally, the journal has published two new book reviews.

Dev Maitra reviews Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons by David Pyrooz and Scott. Based on the authors’ Lonestar Project, the book provides: “a longitudinal study looking at several aspects of prison gang membership, prison gang member characteristics and re-entry.”

Anton Roberts reviews The Criminology of Boxing, Violence and Desistance by Deborah Jump – “a fascinating exploration into the exciting and, at times, contradictory world of pugilism.”