About the Journal

(De)constructing Criminology: International Perspectives (DCIP) is an international journal which publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, and open access works in criminology and its adjacent disciplines.

The journal provides a broad forum to deconstruct criminology, its established power structures, and the dominant understandings of criminology and its adjacent disciplines.

DCIP welcomes research and scholarship in criminology that extends beyond the global west and north, or to extend understandings of decolonization, or to advance discussions or critiques of issues in crime, law, offending, victimisation, criminalisation, and our justice systems. DCIP also welcomes research and scholarship that speaks to how we create knowledge, transfer knowledge, and how it intersects with pedagogical approaches, practice, or research within criminology and its adjacent disciplines. 

DCIP is committed to removing barriers to publication and dissemination and to increasing access to knowledge for scholars, students, and practitioners. Thus, DCIP will be particularly valuable for new and emerging scholars, students, as well as established scholars.

Current Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): Voices from the margins
Vanderwerff, M.M. (2023). White Swan sky. [photograph].

We are proud to deliver issue two - Voices from the Margins for(De)Constructing Criminology: International Perspectives.  These four articles tackle an array of complex issues that are not mainstream. These publications deconstruct and reimagine criminology and are explorations that demand our attention. Crossing Vulnerability explores the lived experiences of young people who experience structural, psychological, and physical violence as they cross borders; Reintegration of Sexual and Violent Offenders includes practitioners’ voices about what hinders and aids rehabilitation and reintegration of sexual and violent offenders; It’s Just Men Taking an Interest provokes us to consider how women often unknowingly adapt their lives through unrecognised elements of coercive control; and HIV Non-Disclosure reveals how despite advancements in medicine and law, criminalisation continues and disproportionately impacts the marginalised.

Issue image: "White Swan Sky" by M. M. Vanderwerff [photograph]. ©M. Vanderwerff. This open-access work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0 license.

Published: 20-06-2025

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