Presentation for Literary Skills module

1. Crime, Horror and
Morality
Rebecca James, James McLeish and Abby
Whittall

2. OUR CHOSEN SOURCES
Journals and Websites

3. About the Journal:
• Part of SOLON
• The managing editor is Samantha Pegg
• Originally Crimes and Misdemeanours; Deviance
and the law in historical perspective
• Interdisciplinary journal which looks at the law
and crime from a variety of different perspectives
which is reflected in the group who are on the
editorial board
Law, Crime and History

4. About the Journal
• Francis and Taylor Online
• Published by Routledge
• Senior Editor is A. Dirk Moses
• Official journal of the International Network of
Genocide Scholars
• The organisation itself professes impartiality
Journal for Genocide
Research

5. About the Journal:
• New Criminal Law Review: An International and
Interdisciplinary Journal
• Published by University of California Press, and
online by Jstor
• The editor-in-chief is Roger J. R. Levesque
• Previously Buffalo Criminal Law Review
• associate editors are found from the University of
London, of Toronto, of Zurich and of Melbourne
emphasising its ‘international’ range.
• Focused on crime and punishment
New Criminal Law Review

6. About the Website:
• Project to get proceedings online
• Published by HRI Online Publications
• Project manager: Dr Sharon Howard
• Used by multiple academics for multiple journals
• Funded by Arts and Humanities Research
Council (in 2000 and 2005), the Big Lottery
Fund (2001) and the Economic and Social
Research Council
The Old Bailey Online

7. About the website
• Part of the Harvard Law School Library
• The target audience of this site is varied
• Site is incomplete
• Calling for funding; the last time that the Harvard
Law School Library updated the collection was
in 2011.
Nuremberg Trials Project

8. OLD AND NEW ISSUES
The Journals

9. • New title solidified identity
• Increase in the breadth of articles, both in terms
of content and types of articles
• Terrorism in Australia to The Historical
Foundations of the Adversarial Criminal Defence
Lawyer
• Street Disorder in the Metropolis to Women,
Petty Crime and Power in Later Sixteenth
Century Aberdeen
• Size increased seriously
Law, Crime and History

10. • Started with a lot to do with the Holocaust
• Articles that handle the legal issues of genocide
have grown in quantity recently.
• reveal an interest in looking closer at areas that
are less ‘mainstream’ in discussions of genocide.
• Thinking about what constitutes as a genocide
• Missing articles on Western related genocides
Journal for Genocide
Research

11. • Strong themes lead each issue
• First focused heavily on the federal criminal code
• Renamed form has an emphasis on the ‘new’ -
pushing for innovation
• They expand their horizons from solely law
• Subjects such as the death penalty or the prison
system recur, but are kept up to date
• Has maintained its place as a current and
pioneering journal
New Criminal Law Review