“I don't have time for drama”: Managing risk and uncertainty through network avoidance*

IF 4.6 1区 社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY Criminology Pub Date : 2021-03-11 DOI:10.1111/1745-9125.12271
Jamie J. Fader
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This study employs in-depth interviews (n = 45) with men 25–34 years in age who live in a Philadelphia neighborhood heavily impacted by mass incarceration. It asks the following: 1) How do they perceive risk? 2) How do they organize their daily routines in response to it? 3) Are there racial differences in perceptions and adaptations to risk? Nearly all of the men of color in the study reported staying in their houses and avoiding public spaces, viewing them as unpredictable and posing an unacceptable level of risk. They worried about “drama” or the potential for interactions with others to lead to attention by the police. Their practice of “network avoidance” often meant a complete lack of engagement in their community. Network avoidance is a racialized adaptation to the expansion of the criminal legal apparatus and the unpredictable nature of men's interactions with its agents and enforcers. It reproduces the effects of incarceration by essentially turning their homes into prisons. Network avoidance effectively erases young men of color from the public sphere in the same way that incarceration removes them from their communities, with considerable costs for the men themselves and for their neighborhoods.

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“我没有时间玩戏剧”:通过网络规避管理风险和不确定性*
本研究采用深度访谈法(n = 45),调查对象为25-34岁的男性,他们居住在深受大规模监禁影响的费城社区。问题如下:1)他们如何看待风险?2)他们如何组织自己的日常生活以应对它?3)对风险的认知和适应是否存在种族差异?在这项研究中,几乎所有的有色人种男性都表示,他们待在自己的房子里,避开公共场所,认为这些地方不可预测,会带来不可接受的风险。他们担心“戏剧”或与他人的互动可能会引起警方的注意。他们的“网络回避”行为通常意味着完全不参与社区活动。网络回避是一种种族化的适应,以适应刑事法律机构的扩大以及人与其代理人和执法者相互作用的不可预测性。它把他们的家变成了监狱,再现了监禁的影响。网络回避有效地将有色人种年轻人从公共领域中抹去,就像监禁将他们从社区中抹去一样,对他们自己和他们的社区都有相当大的代价。
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Criminology
Criminology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: Criminology is devoted to crime and deviant behavior. Disciplines covered in Criminology include: - sociology - psychology - design - systems analysis - decision theory Major emphasis is placed on empirical research and scientific methodology. Criminology"s content also includes articles which review the literature or deal with theoretical issues stated in the literature as well as suggestions for the types of investigation which might be carried out in the future.
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