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A Perspective on Crime - Exploring contemporary research in criminology.

A Perspective on Crime - Exploring contemporary research in criminology.

By: Shane Tanner
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A weekly podcast that profiles and examines recently published work in the field of criminology.


The aim is to provide an insight into exciting new research that is challenging the way we think about crime and offering solutions to some of societies most intractable issues.

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Episodes
  • Episode Six - How does a burglar choose a target?

    Episode Six - How does a burglar choose a target?
    Nov 7 2025

    In this week’s episode, I explore one of criminology's central puzzles: How does an offender choose their target?

    A recent US study approached this challenge by working with 160 incarcerated burglars using Virtual Reality. Researchers immersed participants in a virtual neighborhood, using a "think-aloud protocol" to capture their real-time thought processes.


    The study in question is called How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities by William P. McClanahan, Daniel S. Nagin, Marco Otte, Peter Wozniak, and Jean-Louis van Gelder, published in the journal Criminology.


    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-9125.12401


    If you’ve read some research you think others should know about, drop me a message via the link in the show notes.

    And, if you yourself have new work coming out and would like it covered, please, get in touch.


    https://linktr.ee/APerspectiveOnCrime

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    16 mins
  • Episode Five - Incels in the UK

    Episode Five - Incels in the UK
    Oct 30 2025

    How did the term "incel" transform from a supportive blog in 1997 into a platform for violent, misogynistic extremism?

    This week, we dive into the complex and troubling phenomenon of involuntary celibacy (incel) extremism and the real threat it poses to the UK by looking at new research by Jonathan Jackson, Katie Oxley, Daniel Sefton in The International Journal of Criminology and Policing Education


    DOI: 10.70386/ijcpe.v1i1.17


    To get in touch, follow the link below

    https://linktr.ee/APerspectiveOnCrime

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    23 mins
  • Episode Four - Prison as Criminal Ecosystem

    Episode Four - Prison as Criminal Ecosystem
    Oct 23 2025

    Prisons are meant to be an antidote to crime; a place where those who commit crimes are sent to break there cycle of offending. The assumption is that at least while behind bars, they can't be up to no-good. A new paper in by Kate Gooch, Matt Hopkins, and James Treadwell, published in the journal Criminology & Criminal Justice challenges this idea.


    Titled Prisons as ecosystems of organised and entrepreneurial crime: Developing a theoretical and empirical understanding it turns this thinking on it's head and explores whether prisons in England and Wales are in fact incubators for criminal organisations.


    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17488958251348051


    Key Words: Prison, Organised Crime, Ecosystems,


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    17 mins
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