The Criminology Department at the University of Southern Maine is known locally, nationally, and internationally for its critical perspectives and published research on criminological theory, gender, multiculturalism, and green criminology.

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Publications from 2020

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Wildlife Trade and COVID-19: Towards a Criminology of Anthropogenic Pathogen Spillover, Piers Beirne PhD

Publications from 2019

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Animals, Women and Terms of Abuse: Towards a Cultural Etymology of Con(e)y, Cunny, Cunt and C*nt, Piers Beirne PhD

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Introduction: Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe, Dušan I. Bjelić PhD

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Visualizing Feminized International Migration Flows in the 1990s, Diego F. Leal PhD, Ragini Malhotra PhD, and Joya Misra PhD

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The Salience of "Hegemonic Masculinity", James Messerschmidt PhD

Publications from 2018

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Raw, roast or half-baked? Hogarth’s beef in Calais Gate, Piers Beirne PhD

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Osama Bin Laden and His Jihadist Global Hegemonic Masculinity, James W. Messerschmidt PhD

Gender Reckonings: New Social Theory and Research, James W. Messerschmidt, Patricia Yancey Martin, Michael A. Messner, and Raewyn Connell

Books from 2017

Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: Freud’s Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin’s Hashish Mimesis, Dušan I. Bjelić Ph.D.

Publications from 2016

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Gender and Reproductive Labor Migration in Asia, 1960–2000, Joya Misra PhD, Ragini Malhotra PhD, and Diego F. Leal PhD

Books from 2013

Crime as Structured Action: Doing Masculinities, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Crime, James Messerschmidt

Publications from 2009

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Immigrants as the Enemy: Psychoanalysis and the Balkans' Self-Orientalization, Dušan I. Bjelić PhD

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The Balkans: Radical Conservatism and Desire, Dušan I. Bjelić PhD

Publications from 2004

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From Animal Abuse to Interhuman Violence? A Critical Review of the Progression Thesis, Piers Beirne

Publications from 2002

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Criminology and Animal Studies: A Sociological View, Piers Beirne

Publications from 2001

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Horse Maiming in the English Countryside: Moral Panic, Human Deviance, and the Social Construction of Victimhood, Roger Yates, Chris Powell, and Piers Beirne