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14 March 2019

The Fight Against Impunity for Sexual Violence in Conflict: Penal Humanitarianism Par Excellence?

6 March 2019

Penal Humanitarianism and Sovereign Power

11 February 2019

Prosecuting Victims of Trafficking in the UK: The Difference between Law and Practice

23 April 2018

Penal Policymaking and the Prisoner Experience: A Comparative Analysis

1 March 2018

Guilt through Punishment: Border Spectacles, State Violence and Public Attitudes towards Refugees and Displaced People

30 September 2016

Book Review: Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement

15 June 2015

Crime, Justice and Migration

30 April 2015

‘A Recession-Proof Industry’: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and the Birth of the Neoliberal Security State

17 April 2015

Gender, Race, and Immigration Detention

15 December 2014

Can Prisons Be Humane?

10 November 2014

When it Comes to US Punishment, Noncitizens May be the New Face of Legal Inequality

24 October 2014

Deporting Foreign National Offenders

18 April 2014

Penal Boundaries Workshop: Considering the Excesses, Limits, and the Production of Inequality

9 April 2014

Punishment, Citizenship and Identity: Reflections on Foreign National Prisoners

28 February 2014

Wrongly Convicted Asylum Seekers: Whose Responsibility?

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20 October 2026

EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: a massive expansion of immigration detention

by: Galatea Scotti, Chiara Catelli

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11 September 2026

Lharba at the border: Escape, rumours, and the making of the 2026 Ceuta crossings

by: Rachid Benharrousse

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6 October 2026

Out of sight, out of mind? How a colonial past shapes the Italy-Libya migration partnership

by: Diana Volpe

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16 October 2026

University entanglement with carceral border institutions: Medical Education, dual loyalty and complicity in Italy-Albania detention centres

by: Nicola Cocco, Kristina Millona, Patrizia Borsellino, Vittorio Agnoletto, Antonello D’Elia, Lara Tavoschi, Francesca Cimino, Fabio Perocco, Francesca Esposito, Chiara Montaldo, Camilla Ponti

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23 October 2026

EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: ‘Alternatives to detention’ and the expanded toolbox for control, surveillance and coercion

by: Galatea Scotti, Chiara Catelli

Border Criminologies Blog

The Fight Against Impunity for Sexual Violence in Conflict: Penal Humanitarianism Par Excellence?

Penal Humanitarianism and Sovereign Power

Prosecuting Victims of Trafficking in the UK: The Difference between Law and Practice

Penal Policymaking and the Prisoner Experience: A Comparative Analysis

Guilt through Punishment: Border Spectacles, State Violence and Public Attitudes towards Refugees and Displaced People

Book Review: Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement

Crime, Justice and Migration

‘A Recession-Proof Industry’: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and the Birth of the Neoliberal Security State

Gender, Race, and Immigration Detention

Can Prisons Be Humane?

When it Comes to US Punishment, Noncitizens May be the New Face of Legal Inequality

Deporting Foreign National Offenders

Penal Boundaries Workshop: Considering the Excesses, Limits, and the Production of Inequality

Punishment, Citizenship and Identity: Reflections on Foreign National Prisoners

Wrongly Convicted Asylum Seekers: Whose Responsibility?

Top blogs posts this month

1)

EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: a massive expansion of immigration detention

2)

Lharba at the border: Escape, rumours, and the making of the 2026 Ceuta crossings

3)

Out of sight, out of mind? How a colonial past shapes the Italy-Libya migration partnership

4)

University entanglement with carceral border institutions: Medical Education, dual loyalty and complicity in Italy-Albania detention centres

5)

EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: ‘Alternatives to detention’ and the expanded toolbox for control, surveillance and coercion

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Border Criminologies Blog

The Fight Against Impunity for Sexual Violence in Conflict: Penal Humanitarianism Par Excellence?

Penal Humanitarianism and Sovereign Power

Prosecuting Victims of Trafficking in the UK: The Difference between Law and Practice

Penal Policymaking and the Prisoner Experience: A Comparative Analysis

Guilt through Punishment: Border Spectacles, State Violence and Public Attitudes towards Refugees and Displaced People

Book Review: Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement

Crime, Justice and Migration

‘A Recession-Proof Industry’: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and the Birth of the Neoliberal Security State

Gender, Race, and Immigration Detention

Can Prisons Be Humane?

When it Comes to US Punishment, Noncitizens May be the New Face of Legal Inequality

Deporting Foreign National Offenders

Penal Boundaries Workshop: Considering the Excesses, Limits, and the Production of Inequality

Punishment, Citizenship and Identity: Reflections on Foreign National Prisoners

Wrongly Convicted Asylum Seekers: Whose Responsibility?

Top blogs posts this month

1)

EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: a massive expansion of immigration detention

2)

Lharba at the border: Escape, rumours, and the making of the 2026 Ceuta crossings

3)

Out of sight, out of mind? How a colonial past shapes the Italy-Libya migration partnership

4)

University entanglement with carceral border institutions: Medical Education, dual loyalty and complicity in Italy-Albania detention centres

5)

EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: ‘Alternatives to detention’ and the expanded toolbox for control, surveillance and coercion

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