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Read hand-picked articles from the last five decades of BJC

The British Journal of Criminology turned 50 in 2010 and in order to celebrate this milestone, the editors hand-selected five articles – one from each of the decades – and made them freely available. For access to these, simply click through.

From the 2000s:
Setting Standards for Restorative Justice
John Braithwaite

From the 1990s:
The Limits of the Sovereign State: Strategies of Crime control in Contemporary Society
David Garland

From the 1980s:
Radical Criminology in Britain: The Emergence of a Competing Paradigm
Jock Young

From the 1970s:
Conflicts as Property
Nils Christie

From the 1960s:
Is Criminal Behaviour Deviant Behaviour?
Richard Quinney