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

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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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This episode investigates the nature and extent of victim and perpetrator misidentification, particularly concerning policing responses to coercive and controlling behaviour (CCB) in England and Wales.

It looks at an academic research paper called "Who is the victim? Exploring the complexities of misidentification" by Charlotte Barlow and Sandra Walklate published in Criminology & Criminal Justice

https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958251355378

Key words : Coercive Control, Victim, Perpetrator, Police Response, Criminology

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