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188 gap statements mined from Decadence, Literature, and Society papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,916 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • The paper suggests that future research should focus on systematically comparing the Italian model with other European cases. The paper proposes that future research should aim to develop more advanced analytical instruments for capturing the ecological interaction between fluid youth aggregations and structured adult criminal economies.

    Youth gangs and mafia-type organisations in Italy: a two-dimensional typology beyond the evolutionary paradigm · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need for new approaches to understanding and resisting control, including disobedience, refusal, and perversion. The book argues that prior work has not fully considered the implications of algorithmic misrecognitions and the proliferation of AI technologies.

    Review of Stagliano’s Disobedient Aesthetics: Surveillance, Bodies, Control · 2026 · DOI

  • One conceptual framework for clinical uncertainty divides it into 2 types: (1) epistemic uncertainty, which refers to uncertainty resulting from limited knowledge and mitigated by additional information and (2) aleatoric uncertainty, which is due to “inherent randomness” of disease presentations and response to therapy, cannot ever be eliminated, and must be accepted in clinical practice.

    Granuloma Drama · 2026 · DOI

  • It also highlights the lack of understanding of the intellectual strategies and concrete operations used to collect, represent, and fetishize the tattooed body. The study fills this gap by exploring the history of tattoos in Colombia and analyzing the collection of dissected tattoos gathered by José María Garavito Baraya.

    Un museo de pieles humanas: La colección de tatuajes de José María Garavito Baraya. Colombia, 1890–1970 · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research could explore the long-term impact of the campaigns on the relationship between the police and the Black community of Hackney. Further research could examine the role of grief and anger in shaping political activism and community mobilization.

    The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late Twentieth-Century Britain · 2025 · DOI

  • The sociological dimensions of Reiss's research have not been adequately observed or valorized. There is a need to explore Reiss's work from a sociological perspective.

    Always contemporary messages of Archibald Reiss - Uroš V. Šuvaković, R. A. Reiss: Neutrality is not possible in the face of crime. Novi Sad: Matica srpska, Archives of Vojvodina: Faculty of Education of the University of Belgrade, 2024, 145 pp · 2025 · DOI

  • The primary sources for this study are comprised of selections from Spain's national and provincial press: the documentation of these episodes in the national newspapers helped guide further research into the provincial publications that corresponded to the location of each crime and provided additional information about these crimes.

    “Muerta por su marido”: communal rejection of violence against women in Spain (1890–1936) · 2025 · DOI

  • Particular attention is paid to the hitherto understudied themes of the political production of middle-class support for punitive penal policies under conditions of neoliberal capitalism, and the crucial role played in this process by the privileged position accorded to violent street crime in the public domain.

    Neoliberal capitalism and middle-class punitiveness: Bringing Erich Fromm’s ‘materialistic psychoanalysis’ to penology · 2013 · DOI

  • Future research can build on the paper's findings to further explore Tarde's criminology. The study's results can inform the development of new penal strategies. The paper's conclusions can contribute to the ongoing debates about the nature of crime and punishment.

    BETWEEN CLASSICISM AND POSITIVISM: CRIME AND PENALITY IN THE WRITINGS OF GABRIEL TARDE* · 1987 · DOI

  • The study highlights the need to explore Tarde's concept of imitation and its significance in explaining crime.

    BETWEEN CLASSICISM AND POSITIVISM: CRIME AND PENALITY IN THE WRITINGS OF GABRIEL TARDE* · 1987 · DOI

  • The book identifies a need for a systematic approach to understanding radical criminology. It highlights the importance of considering community alternatives to formal justice system processing.

    Book Review: A Primer on Radical Criminology · 1986 · DOI

  • The impact of psychiatric theories on the system of criminal jurisdiction in New South Wales has not been fully examined. The influence of psychiatric ideas on legal professionals and the administration of justice has not been fully analyzed.

    The Rise of the Therapeutic State: Psychiatry and the System of Criminal Jurisdiction in New South Wales, 1890–1940 · 1986 · DOI

  • Further studies should examine the relationship between alcohol intoxication, alcohol abuse, and mental disease in criminal homicide cases in other regions. Research should investigate the effectiveness of strategies for reducing the incidence of violent crimes.

    Criminal homicide in Northern Sweden 1970–1981: Alcohol intoxication, alcohol abuse and mental disease · 1986 · DOI

  • There is a need to examine the relationship between alcohol intoxication, alcohol abuse, and mental disease in criminal homicide cases. Previous studies have shown inconsistent results regarding the prevalence of mental disease in criminal cases.

    Criminal homicide in Northern Sweden 1970–1981: Alcohol intoxication, alcohol abuse and mental disease · 1986 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the development of feminist criminology, including its failure to critically examine the discipline itself. It highlights the need for further research in this area.

    Women and crime: the dark figures of criminology · 1986 · DOI

  • It highlights the need to re-examine the decline of homicidal violence before 1800.

    THE HISTORY OF VIOLENCE IN ENGLAND: SOME OBSERVATIONS · 1985 · DOI

  • The legitimacy of pro-active law enforcement techniques is a topic of debate. The paper highlights the need for careful consideration of the potential consequences of using such techniques.

    The serpent beguiled me and i did eat: Entrapment and the creation of crime · 1985 · DOI

  • The paper suggests that the proposed typology is preliminary and requires further development.

    Youth gangs and mafia-type organisations in Italy: a two-dimensional typology beyond the evolutionary paradigm · 2026 · DOI

  • Coroner's inquests were limited to establishing the facts of a person's death, without the possibility of opening up the contexts of such deaths. Inquests involving deaths after contact with the police or in police custody rarely clarified the true circumstances of a person's death.

    The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late Twentieth-Century Britain · 2025 · DOI

  • The paper argues that the commission's actions were a result of a desire for control.

    A 20thCentury Witch Hunt:A Feminist Critique of the Grange Royal Commission into Deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children · 1987 · DOI

  • The author argues that traditional notions of authenticity are problematic and in need of revision.

    The dominant and the deviant: a violent dialectic · 1986 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the study of HIV/AIDS activism in late twentieth-century England, particularly in the context of trade union activism and voluntary work.

    Radical acts: HIV/AIDS in late twentieth-century England. George J. Severs · 2026 · DOI

  • Drawing on a rich variety of approaches, the book principally aims, as stated in the Introduction to the volume by Cheliotis and Xenakis, to fill in an important gap in the literature by providing a systematic, but not necessarily exhaustive, introduction to issues of crime and punishment in contemporary Greece.

    Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives ed. by Leonidas K. Cheliotis and Sappho Xenakis (review) · 2013 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in understanding the patterns of executions and death row populations - The implications of these patterns are not well…

    Compulsive killers: The story of modern multiple murder · 1987 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the representation of men and sexuality in literature. The paper highlights the significance of Stevenson's novel in filling this gap.

    Psychopathia sexualis: Stevenson's Strange Case · 1986 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) The paper suggests that future research should focus on systematically comparing the Italian model with other European cases (“Youth gangs and mafia-type organisations in Italy: a two-dimensional typology…”, 2026); (2) It also highlights the lack of understanding of the intellectual strategies and concrete operations used to collect, represent, and fetishize the tattooed body (“Un museo de pieles humanas: La colección de tatuajes de José María Garavito…”, 2026); (3) Further research could explore the long-term impact of the campaigns on the relationship between the police and the Black community of Hackney (“The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late…”, 2025); (4) There is a need to explore Reiss's work from a sociological perspective (“Always contemporary messages of Archibald Reiss - Uroš V. Šuvaković, R. A.”, 2025); (5) Future research can build on the paper's findings to further explore Tarde's criminology (“BETWEEN CLASSICISM AND POSITIVISM: CRIME AND PENALITY IN THE WRITINGS OF…”, 1987). 188 gap statements have been mined from Decadence, Literature, and Society papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,916 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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