We publish our research in academic articles, in the popular press, and in periodic research updates. When possible we provide links to open access versions of these publications.
Mackenzie, S. (2009) ‘The seductions of conformity: the criminological importance of a phenomenology of exchange’, in Arrigo, B.A. and Milovanovic, D. (eds.) Existentialist criminology. London: Routledge-Cavendish, pp. 197–221. Available on
Mackenzie, S. (2008) ‘Second‐chance punitivism and the contractual governance of crime and incivility: New Labour, old Hobbes’, Journal of Law and Society, 35(2), pp. 214–239. Abstract: The growing application of
Mackenzie, S., Yates, D., Hübschle, A. and Bērziņa, D. (2024) ‘Irregularly regulated collecting markets: antiquities, fossils, and wildlife’, Crime, Law and Social Change. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10611-024-10171-9
Bērziņa, D. (2024) ‘Human–object hybrid in our lives and crime’, Deviant Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2024.2376862 Abstract: The material turn with its emphasis on the role objects play in shaping human experiences
Yates, D. and Peacock, E. (2024) ‘T. rex is fierce, T. rex is charismatic, T. rex is litigious: Disruptive objects in affective desirescapes’, International Journal of Cultural Property. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739124000055
Yates, D. and Peacock, E. (2024) ‘The artification of fossils in commercial art spaces: Dinosaurs in a desirescape’, Journal of Material Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/135918352412482
Berzina, Diana (2024) Between Crime and Commemoration: Human–Object Relationships in the Treasure Hunting for World War II Objects. Critical Criminology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-023-09738-0
Yates, D. and Graham, S. (2023) ‘Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities, provenance, and hidden crime’, International Journal of Heritage Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2284740
Yates, D. and Brodie, N. (2023) ‘The illicit trade in antiquities is not the world’s third-largest illicit trade: a critical evaluation of a factoid’, Antiquity, First View, pp. 1–13.
Yates, D. and Bērziņa, D. (2023) ‘Affective atmosphere in an art fair jewel heist’, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research.
Graham, S., Yates, D. and Yates, D. (2023) ‘Investigating antiquities trafficking with generative pre-trained transformer (GPT)-3 enabled knowledge graphs: A case study [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]’, Open
Graham, S., Yates, D., El-Roby, A., Brousseau, C., Ellens, J. and McDermott, C. (2023) ‘Relationship prediction in a knowledge graph embedding model of the illicit antiquities trade’, Advances in Archaeological
