Reflections on Convict Criminology

Convict Marriages

Sir,?Major YVoolley's excellent article on Convict marriages in the Andamans in your March number does not appear to have aroused the comment?favourable or the reverse?which I anticipated and which it deserved. It is, however, of great interest to all those who have at heart the improvement of the criminal in the present and his disappearance in the future. As lie says, it is rather a shock to ...

Critical Ethnographic Reflections from Baltimore and Ferguson: Contextualizing the Absence of Criminology By,

While using the criminological imagination and intersectionality as analytical frameworks, this paper will highlight preliminary ethnographic findings from fieldwork in Baltimore and Ferguson following the untimely deaths of Freddie Gray and Michael Brown. The paper will underscore some of the author’s intimate field notes and thoughts as well as themes found in data collected. In addition, the...

Computational Criminology

In this report, we present our work done in spring 2011 on the UK crimes dataset. This dataset was first released in December 2010, and contains reports of crimes committed in England and Wales, with their type and location. We first perform some exploratory analysis on this data, by looking at the correlation of crime rates with some independent variables, such as the population density or the...

Reflections on Reflections

The graduate student workshop ''Buddhist Art: Objects and Contexts'' was an unusual event. Like Reflections of the Buddha, the exhibition it addressed, it was in constant dialogue with its physical setting, the singular Tadao Ando ¯ building home to the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, as the four sessions moved through the four galleries in changing light. The event was also distinguished by ...

Psychiatry and Criminology