A Perspective on Crime - Exploring contemporary research in criminology.
Shane Tanner
- 18
- Episodes
- 2025
- First episode
About A Perspective on Crime - Exploring contemporary research in criminology.
A weekly podcast that profiles and examines recently published work in the field of criminology. The aim is to provide an insight into exciting new research that is challenging the way we think about crime and offering solutions to some of societies most intractable issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Shane Tanner
- Category
- education · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Oct 2025
- Latest episode
- 14 May 2026
Latest episodes
18 episodes in the feed.
14 May 2026
Episode Seventeen - Rape Myths
Why are victims of rape and serious sexual assault highly unlikely to receive justice? It's clear that they are failed by the criminal justice system, but are the reasons we assume for that failing dictated by fact or fiction? The research we are looking at in this episode is called "Rape Trials: Bridging the Gap Between Myth and Reality" by Dr. Candida Saunders. It was published in Criminal Law Review in 2025. Dr Saunders Podcast is Rape on Trial. https://www.criminaljusticeinaction.com/ . To contact A Perspective on Crime follow the link below https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
10 Mar 2026
Episode Sixteen - The Paradox of Polite Online Grooming
However disturbing the thought online grooming of children and young people is, we reconcile ourselves that we know at least how these predators behave. They’ll manner their interactions down to a victim’s level. They’ll use age-appropriate language to seem accessible. They’ll draw upon the power dynamic of age. Right? Through a new piece of research by Beata Pienczykowski & Pauline Madella called "I was so Afraid All You Wanted from Me Was Sex’: A Corpus Assisted Study in the Pragmatics of Manipulation in Online Child Sexual Groomers" we see how online perpetrators flip this script entirely. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41701-025-00218-0 How victims are manipulated to believe they are the ones with all the power and that what is abuse, is in fact a relationship of equals. To contact A Perspective on Crime, follow the link below https://linktr.ee/APerspectiveOnCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
24 Feb 2026
Episode Fifteen - Suicide Within the Police Family
The subject of mental health and suicide is belatedly moving from the shadows into the public conversation. Within policing - a service which by definition is exposes those within it to the extremes of human experience - do the provisions exist to provide adequate support to officers and staff? Do Forces even have aware of the unique risks it's employees are exposed? Do the official statistics even tell an accurate story? The research we are looking at in this episode is called Lives on the Line of Duty: Preventing Suicide Among Police Officers and Staff by Marina Hasan and Lewis Leeming from Leeds Trinity University. It was published in International Journal of Criminology and Policing Education . DOI: https://doi.org/10.70386/ijcpe.v1i1.27 (https://doi.org/10.70386/ijcpe.v1i1.27) To contact A Perspective on Crime follow the link below https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW (https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
11 Feb 2026
Episode Forteen - Is it a "scam" or is it a "fraud"?
What's the difference between a scam and a fraud? Do you have the same reaction when told someone has been scammed as you would if you'd been told they'd been the victim of fraud? That's the question we look at in this week's episode as we look at a paper entitled "More than splitting hairs: Exploring trivialisation and harmful narrative distortion in the synonymous use of ‘scam’ and ‘fraud’". It is authored by Elisabeth Carter, Jack Mark Whittaker, and Tim Day, and published in the journal Crime Media Culture. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17416590251393960 To contact A Perspective on Crime follow the link below https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
5 Feb 2026
Episode Thirteen - Is Now The Time To Call The Police?
When faced with a potentially dangerous situation, at what point do the public think it's right to call the police? Do different demographics asses risk differently and what are the triggers that motivate dialling 999? The title of the work is "Should I Call the Police?’ Exploring Public Views on Whether to Invoke Police in Incidents Involving People with Vulnerabilities". The authors are David Rowlands, Christine A. Weirich, Ben Bradford and Adam Crawford published in The British Journal of Criminology in 2025. https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azaf118/8407384 (https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azaf118/8407384) To contact A Perspective on Crime follow the link below https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW (https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
28 Jan 2026
Episode Twelve - Trying To Predict Police Misconduct
Our expectations of how the police behave are rightly high. Forces have those expectations too and use a variety of methods to identify officers who are at risk of behaviour incompatible with their role as upholders of the law. This week's episode looks at research which questions whether the current frameworks for monitoring officers misses a major cohort of miscreants. The paper is called "Fire Without Smoke: Understanding Spontaneous Career Ending Police Misconduct." It was authored by Timothy I. C. Cubitt, Morven Brown, and Matthew Bland, and published in the journal Police Quarterly. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10986111251414963 To contact A Perspective on Crime follow the link below https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
28 Jan 2026
Episode Eleven - Gangs and Governance
Criminal gangs have been part of our society since well before we had a police force. In most cases, they limit their role in communities to simply providing illicit services. Some though go further and start to act as informal systems of governance. They play a role which in normal circumstances would be the preserve of the state. In this week's episode we look at a paper called , "Criminal governance in a large European city: The case of gangs in London." It’s written by Paolo Campana, Federico Varese, and Cecilia Meneghini, and published in the European Journal of Criminology. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14773708251315581 To contact A Perspective on Crime follow the link below https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
15 Jan 2026
Episode Ten - Can Football Keep A Clean Sheet?
At one time, brown envelopes were the method by which illicit money moved through football. With the game now global, has it's scale opened it up to significant risk of falling prey to far more malign forces. In this week's episode we look at recent report titled "Staying Onside – English Football, Illicit Finance, and the Incoming AML Regime" by Dr Peter Duncan and Professor Nicholas Lord. https://pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/1667911388/DuncanLord_2025_Football_ownership_report.pdf To contact A Perspective on Crime follow the link below https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
9 Jan 2026
Episode Nine - The Moral Weight Of Murder
In todays episode we look a new piece of research which explores how young people convicted of murder process their actions, frame their own blameworthiness and interpret the context of their crimes. What impact do these three insights have a young person convicted of murder and how do they impact any hope of rehabilitation? It's a paper called The Moral Weight of Murder by Dr Susie Hulley and is published in the British Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaf089 To contact A Perspective on Crime follow the link below https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
19 Dec 2025
Episode Eight - International Money Laundering
The National Crime Agency estimate that £100 billion of criminal cash passes through the UK financial markets every year. There may be a vast network of global obligations in place to prevent money laundering, but is the system fit for purpose? The research discussed today is "How Well Does the Money Laundering Control System Work?". It was authored by Mirko Nazzari and Peter Reuter, and you can find it published in the journal Crime and Justice. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/735665?journalCode=cj To contact A Perspective on Crime follow the link below https://tr.ee/Ymb5yiqRUW Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
10 Dec 2025
Episode Seven - Dogs and DNA Transfer
In this week’s episode, I explore how the DNA of a perpetrator can be transferred by and to our four legged friends. The paper in this episode is called "Investigation of human DNA transfer during mock dog- napping: and was authored by Heidi Monkman, Roland A.H. van Oorschot, Volgin Luke and Mariya Goray. It was published in the journal Forensic Science International https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379073825003688 If you’ve read some research you think others should know about, drop me a message via the link in the show notes. And, if you yourself have new work coming out and would like it covered, please, get in touch. https://linktr.ee/APerspectiveOnCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
7 Nov 2025
Episode Six - How does a burglar choose a target?
In this week’s episode, I explore one of criminology's central puzzles: How does an offender choose their target? A recent US study approached this challenge by working with 160 incarcerated burglars using Virtual Reality. Researchers immersed participants in a virtual neighborhood, using a "think-aloud protocol" to capture their real-time thought processes. The study in question is called How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities by William P. McClanahan, Daniel S. Nagin, Marco Otte, Peter Wozniak, and Jean-Louis van Gelder, published in the journal Criminology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-9125.12401 If you’ve read some research you think others should know about, drop me a message via the link in the show notes. And, if you yourself have new work coming out and would like it covered, please, get in touch. https://linktr.ee/APerspectiveOnCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
30 Oct 2025
Episode Five - Incels in the UK
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 To get in touch, follow the link below https://linktr.ee/APerspectiveOnCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
23 Oct 2025
Episode Four - Prison as Criminal Ecosystem
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, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
14 Oct 2025
Episode Three - Coercive Control
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 (https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958251355378) Key words : Coercive Control, Victim, Perpetrator, Police Response, Criminology Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
14 Oct 2025
Episode Two - Restorative Justice
In this episode, we explore the role of restorative justice in addressing historical clerical child sexual abuse at Blackrock College, a prominent school in Dublin, Ireland. The discussion is grounded in the academic research paper: Empowering Victims/Survivors or Restorative Washing? Institutional and Clerical Sexual Abuse of School Children and Restorative Justice by David O’Mahony and Michelle Butler, published in the British Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaf055 (https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaf055) The RTE podcast mentioned in the episode. https://www.rte.ie/radio/doconone/1333550-blackrock-boys (https://www.rte.ie/radio/doconone/1333550-blackrock-boys) Keywords: restorative justice, clerical abuse, child sexual abuse, Blackrock College, Dublin, institutional abuse, survivor empowerment, criminology, restorative washing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
14 Oct 2025
Episode One - Rural Youth Crime
This analysis interrogates the key findings of research focusing on the profound and often contradictory experiences of young people serving community sentences in rural England. The discussion is grounded in the academic research paper Rurality and Crime: A Qualitative Study Exploring Young People’s Experiences in a Region of England Sarah Lavinia Joseph , Hannah Marshall , Joel Harvey, Caroline Lanskey , Abbie McKennan and Juliette H. Lanskey published in The Journal of Youth Justice. https://doi.org/10.1177/14732254251340553 (https://doi.org/10.1177/14732254251340553) Keywords : Rural, Countryside, Youth Justice, Criminology, Community Sentencing, The Archers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
13 Oct 2025
Trailer - Launches 16th October 2025
A Perspective on Crime is a podcast that explores contemporary research in Criminology. The show launches on 16th October 2025 and will run weekly... new episodes arriving every Thursday. To suggest a piece of research you've read or are about to publish, don't hesitate to drop me a line. peaktruecrime@protonmail.com (mailto:peaktruecrime@protonmail.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
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