Pub Date : 2023-02-27DOI: 10.1177/17416590231156211
Lwando Scott
{"title":"Book Reviews: Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa","authors":"Lwando Scott","doi":"10.1177/17416590231156211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590231156211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"491 - 495"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65488916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1177/17416590231153077
Busra Yalcinoz-Ucan, Hande Eslen‐Ziya
Recent scholarship considers digital platforms’ potential to serve as sites for feminist counter-spaces. ‘Speaking out’ or disclosing gender-based violence online allows survivors to give voice to their experiences and create a political arena for seeking informal forms of justice. What is significant in these instances is not a shift away from formal justice mechanisms but how the alternative ones take a survivor-focused approach to meet their needs and interests. The survivors who choose to disclose publicly – by describing their experiences in their own words – seek validation and solidarity and hold their perpetrators responsible for the harm they caused. Based on a multilevel justice approach, this research studies how – or whether – digital platforms enable community recognition and awareness regarding gender-based violence in Turkey. By exploring the experiences of six women from Turkey who were subjected to gender-based violence and disclosed online, we ask what justice means for our participants, why they chose to disclose digitally, and for what purposes. We consider their reasons for and experiences of such online disclosures and examine the extent to which these meet their justice needs. While it is evident that online spaces can function as sites of informal justice, it is vital to ask for whom and in which contexts justice can be achieved online. The data is analysed concerning the anti-gender resistance and the recent decline in human rights and judicial justice in Turkey.
{"title":"Online disclosure, a mechanism for seeking informal justice?","authors":"Busra Yalcinoz-Ucan, Hande Eslen‐Ziya","doi":"10.1177/17416590231153077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590231153077","url":null,"abstract":"Recent scholarship considers digital platforms’ potential to serve as sites for feminist counter-spaces. ‘Speaking out’ or disclosing gender-based violence online allows survivors to give voice to their experiences and create a political arena for seeking informal forms of justice. What is significant in these instances is not a shift away from formal justice mechanisms but how the alternative ones take a survivor-focused approach to meet their needs and interests. The survivors who choose to disclose publicly – by describing their experiences in their own words – seek validation and solidarity and hold their perpetrators responsible for the harm they caused. Based on a multilevel justice approach, this research studies how – or whether – digital platforms enable community recognition and awareness regarding gender-based violence in Turkey. By exploring the experiences of six women from Turkey who were subjected to gender-based violence and disclosed online, we ask what justice means for our participants, why they chose to disclose digitally, and for what purposes. We consider their reasons for and experiences of such online disclosures and examine the extent to which these meet their justice needs. While it is evident that online spaces can function as sites of informal justice, it is vital to ask for whom and in which contexts justice can be achieved online. The data is analysed concerning the anti-gender resistance and the recent decline in human rights and judicial justice in Turkey.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47394041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1177/17416590231155384
Kevin Hearty
This article undertakes a victimological critique of media coverage, social media commentary and parliamentary debate on the prosecution of former British soldier Dennis Hutchings for the death of an unarmed and vulnerable adult in Northern Ireland in 1974. It argues that a careful reframing of events and actors by the media, politicians and veterans’ movement has obfuscated perceptions of victimhood by creating a climate that favours the perpetrator rather than the victim. While this victimological reframing may reflect the natural sympathy felt towards aged and ailing defendants, it also speaks to the ability to manipulate coverage of the case so that it serves current interests: on the one hand it fits with the UK Government’s socio-political interests in how historic state violence in the North of Ireland should be ‘dealt with’, while on the other hand it also reflects longstanding cultural sensitivities that the British ‘imagined community’ has about its military veterans. This has seen Hutchings being framed less as an ‘ideal offender’ who targeted an unarmed and vulnerable person and more as an elderly victim of a politicised ‘witch hunt’ against military veterans.
{"title":"When ideal victims don’t make ideal offenders: The (re)framing of legacy case prosecutions against elderly perpetrators of state violence","authors":"Kevin Hearty","doi":"10.1177/17416590231155384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590231155384","url":null,"abstract":"This article undertakes a victimological critique of media coverage, social media commentary and parliamentary debate on the prosecution of former British soldier Dennis Hutchings for the death of an unarmed and vulnerable adult in Northern Ireland in 1974. It argues that a careful reframing of events and actors by the media, politicians and veterans’ movement has obfuscated perceptions of victimhood by creating a climate that favours the perpetrator rather than the victim. While this victimological reframing may reflect the natural sympathy felt towards aged and ailing defendants, it also speaks to the ability to manipulate coverage of the case so that it serves current interests: on the one hand it fits with the UK Government’s socio-political interests in how historic state violence in the North of Ireland should be ‘dealt with’, while on the other hand it also reflects longstanding cultural sensitivities that the British ‘imagined community’ has about its military veterans. This has seen Hutchings being framed less as an ‘ideal offender’ who targeted an unarmed and vulnerable person and more as an elderly victim of a politicised ‘witch hunt’ against military veterans.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43856499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1177/17416590231153276
R. McGregor
message that these behaviours are unacceptable. They make an attempt to problematise sexual harassment by touching on structural invisibility and inequalities such as for example McDonald’s female employees and how the intersection of race, social class and income have made them and their experiences more ‘invisible’ (certainly more so than Hollywood actresses). This section is rather short and would have possibly benefitted from further elaboration. In the final chapters Kantor and Twohey focus on the case of Professor Christine Blasey Ford, who was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh in High school. They detail her fears about coming forward and the lasting impact of her public testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In the Epilogue we have the chance to read about the impact sharing their stories with the world had on the women who went on the record; they talk about empowerment, growth, redefining their lives but also paying a price in terms of their well-being, reputation (their names irrevocably connected to the names of the perpetrators), receiving death threats or being treated with disbelief. Notwithstanding the need for further critical analysis on the socio-cultural contexts that enable Weinsteinian types of behaviour, this book contributes to our understanding of the layered and endemic sexual abuse that women had endured for many years in Hollywood. It sheds light onto one of the biggest sexual violence scandals in the history of the US movie industry in an honest, detailed and at times intimate and compassionate manner. It acutely conveys the tensions, dilemmas and dangers involved in investigating a story with high stakes for all parties involved. All in all, with this book Kantor and Twohey prove that they were not merely chasing the story but cared for these women and wanted to hold Weinstein accountable for the harms he caused. They are urging us to speak up and call the shots, which means identifying and naming abuse when we witness it because, as Professor Ford defiantly proffered, it is our civic duty. And because, as Judd in her Dean’s Scholar Award essay wrote ‘something is waiting on the other side’ (pp. 35–36). I believe she means something less bleak and more hopeful, for the sake of all women, and men.
{"title":"Book review: Marianne Colbranne, Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK","authors":"R. McGregor","doi":"10.1177/17416590231153276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590231153276","url":null,"abstract":"message that these behaviours are unacceptable. They make an attempt to problematise sexual harassment by touching on structural invisibility and inequalities such as for example McDonald’s female employees and how the intersection of race, social class and income have made them and their experiences more ‘invisible’ (certainly more so than Hollywood actresses). This section is rather short and would have possibly benefitted from further elaboration. In the final chapters Kantor and Twohey focus on the case of Professor Christine Blasey Ford, who was sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh in High school. They detail her fears about coming forward and the lasting impact of her public testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In the Epilogue we have the chance to read about the impact sharing their stories with the world had on the women who went on the record; they talk about empowerment, growth, redefining their lives but also paying a price in terms of their well-being, reputation (their names irrevocably connected to the names of the perpetrators), receiving death threats or being treated with disbelief. Notwithstanding the need for further critical analysis on the socio-cultural contexts that enable Weinsteinian types of behaviour, this book contributes to our understanding of the layered and endemic sexual abuse that women had endured for many years in Hollywood. It sheds light onto one of the biggest sexual violence scandals in the history of the US movie industry in an honest, detailed and at times intimate and compassionate manner. It acutely conveys the tensions, dilemmas and dangers involved in investigating a story with high stakes for all parties involved. All in all, with this book Kantor and Twohey prove that they were not merely chasing the story but cared for these women and wanted to hold Weinstein accountable for the harms he caused. They are urging us to speak up and call the shots, which means identifying and naming abuse when we witness it because, as Professor Ford defiantly proffered, it is our civic duty. And because, as Judd in her Dean’s Scholar Award essay wrote ‘something is waiting on the other side’ (pp. 35–36). I believe she means something less bleak and more hopeful, for the sake of all women, and men.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"32 1","pages":"319 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89790244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.1177/17416590231155337
Jenny Korkodeilou
further jailbreaks and riots, and sustained efforts to connect political struggle within the jail to those in the streets of New York and around the world. As a history of New York City narrated through the dizzying expansion of its jail system over the last 70 years, Captives at once draws on and partakes in these disparate traditions of research within and on the jail. Shanahan thoughtfully counterposes the city’s official archives with the literature and testimony of the captives who moved through Rikers to unflinchingly expose the brutality of New York’s jails. However, Captives does not simply condemn the jails on humanitarian grounds. In contrast to those who, horrified by the grim conditions at Rikers, have sought to “improve” carceral infrastructures, Shanahan’s critical appraisal of the material conditions of the jails undermines the reformist position by showing how, for the better part of a century, “reform” has simply meant bigger budgets to lock up more people. Most importantly, though, Captives offers ample material for thinking about the relationship of study and struggle for the diverse activists and organizers steadily gathering under the “abolition” big tent in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd Rebellions. In conversation with the tradition of militant prisoners who learned from inside of the jail to get beyond it, Captives takes its place alongside the archive of prison literature it draws on as a model for the kind of study we must undertake for our present struggle against prisons, policing, and the capitalist order that they uphold.
{"title":"Book review: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement","authors":"Jenny Korkodeilou","doi":"10.1177/17416590231155337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590231155337","url":null,"abstract":"further jailbreaks and riots, and sustained efforts to connect political struggle within the jail to those in the streets of New York and around the world. As a history of New York City narrated through the dizzying expansion of its jail system over the last 70 years, Captives at once draws on and partakes in these disparate traditions of research within and on the jail. Shanahan thoughtfully counterposes the city’s official archives with the literature and testimony of the captives who moved through Rikers to unflinchingly expose the brutality of New York’s jails. However, Captives does not simply condemn the jails on humanitarian grounds. In contrast to those who, horrified by the grim conditions at Rikers, have sought to “improve” carceral infrastructures, Shanahan’s critical appraisal of the material conditions of the jails undermines the reformist position by showing how, for the better part of a century, “reform” has simply meant bigger budgets to lock up more people. Most importantly, though, Captives offers ample material for thinking about the relationship of study and struggle for the diverse activists and organizers steadily gathering under the “abolition” big tent in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd Rebellions. In conversation with the tradition of militant prisoners who learned from inside of the jail to get beyond it, Captives takes its place alongside the archive of prison literature it draws on as a model for the kind of study we must undertake for our present struggle against prisons, policing, and the capitalist order that they uphold.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"33 1","pages":"316 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74498855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.1177/17416590231154962
Jane Komori
{"title":"Book review: Jarrod Shanahan, Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage","authors":"Jane Komori","doi":"10.1177/17416590231154962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590231154962","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"314 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88310822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1177/17416590221148448
A. Lavorgna, Pamela Ugwudike, M. Tartari
Sharenting – the digital sharing of sensitive information of minors by parents or guardians – has not yet been investigated from a criminological perspective. However, there are reported concerns regarding its criminogenic potential amidst fast-growing media interest in sharenting practices, particularly in relation to the perceived crime risks. This article offers an exploratory analysis of cases where such practices led to the victimisation of minors, evidencing the gap between media reports about crime risks and actual victimisation. The paper also demonstrates that sharenting is a more complex phenomenon than generally recognised. By exploring these issues, the paper advances criminological understanding of the practice and demonstrates the divergences between media-reported crime risks and victimisation associated with sharenting. Although the paper highlights media exaggerations of such crime victimisation which can heighten public fear and anxiety, the article also provides new insights on the nature of actual victimisation, to raise awareness and aid preventative intervention.
{"title":"Online sharenting: Identifying existing vulnerabilities and demystifying media reported crime risks","authors":"A. Lavorgna, Pamela Ugwudike, M. Tartari","doi":"10.1177/17416590221148448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221148448","url":null,"abstract":"Sharenting – the digital sharing of sensitive information of minors by parents or guardians – has not yet been investigated from a criminological perspective. However, there are reported concerns regarding its criminogenic potential amidst fast-growing media interest in sharenting practices, particularly in relation to the perceived crime risks. This article offers an exploratory analysis of cases where such practices led to the victimisation of minors, evidencing the gap between media reports about crime risks and actual victimisation. The paper also demonstrates that sharenting is a more complex phenomenon than generally recognised. By exploring these issues, the paper advances criminological understanding of the practice and demonstrates the divergences between media-reported crime risks and victimisation associated with sharenting. Although the paper highlights media exaggerations of such crime victimisation which can heighten public fear and anxiety, the article also provides new insights on the nature of actual victimisation, to raise awareness and aid preventative intervention.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"472 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65488882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-04DOI: 10.1177/17416590221142762
A. Dodge
Legal remedies in response to technology-facilitated violence and bullying (TFVB) have often overshadowed the creation of alternative responses. While the framing of law as the most impactful remedy can result in the false belief that this issue has been adequately dealt with through legal regulation, in practice legal options are not utilized by the majority of those harmed by TFVB, do not provide many of the core supports that targets of TFVB seek to access, and offer limited possibilities for prevention and culture change. Responding to growing demands for alternative responses to TFVB, this article provides an analysis of the province of Nova Scotia’s CyberScan unit—a government enforcement unit offering alternative supports and responses to TFVB—to explore the efficacy of implementing alternative responses to TFVB in practice.
{"title":"Looking beyond the law to respond to technology-facilitated violence and bullying: Lessons learned from Nova Scotia’s CyberScan unit","authors":"A. Dodge","doi":"10.1177/17416590221142762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221142762","url":null,"abstract":"Legal remedies in response to technology-facilitated violence and bullying (TFVB) have often overshadowed the creation of alternative responses. While the framing of law as the most impactful remedy can result in the false belief that this issue has been adequately dealt with through legal regulation, in practice legal options are not utilized by the majority of those harmed by TFVB, do not provide many of the core supports that targets of TFVB seek to access, and offer limited possibilities for prevention and culture change. Responding to growing demands for alternative responses to TFVB, this article provides an analysis of the province of Nova Scotia’s CyberScan unit—a government enforcement unit offering alternative supports and responses to TFVB—to explore the efficacy of implementing alternative responses to TFVB in practice.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"455 - 471"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65488871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1177/17416590221139904
Daniel Mitchell
that occur beyond the visual – that the book really achieves a (re)focusing of criminological attention and thinking. This has benefits as the descriptions provided on the page are much more palpable and therefore help transport the reader into the environment under examination. For instance, the book hosts various forms of creative writing, such as vignettes, short stories and music lyrics, which are extremely effective mediums with which to communicate the respective penal landscapes. Other significant methodological challenges are discussed, including issues of integrity and accountability – how researchers navigate ethnographic research which necessities a sensorial embodiment of spaces which conflict with and/or mute ethical and political positionalities (Chapters 6 and 9). Despite penal reform agendas appearing in different international contexts in recent years, insights uncovered throughout the book show how these top-down policies often contradict operational practices in penal sites. By focusing on the minutiae of environments and processes within spaces of social control, and specifically the embodied experiences of punishment, we see how these spaces continue to be painful (Chapters 5 and 8). Indeed, the textured narratives in this collection allow the reader to encounter an array of carceral spaces in different geographical contexts and cultures. It was striking to see how the disregard for (some) human life was depicted in so many of the chapters, reinforcing questions concerning the purpose and practice of punishment. We are reminded that state-sanctioned violence occurs each and every day across the globe through, for instance, the continued use of incarceration (Chapters 2, 11 and 13). Albeit this violence manifests in different ways, and to varying degrees, it remains present in our contemporary ‘humane’ societies. This text moves us away from more traditional narratives about punishment and penalty that rely on the visual, and while this may cause some ‘academic discomfort’ (Herrity, Schmidt, Warr, p. xxix), I agree with the editors that this is ‘necessary’ for a new sensory epistemology to blossom. However, readers of this book will feel some discomfort as it will prompt them to think about their own positionality and practice; from their epistemological stance to their previous and/or forthcoming methodological choices, analytical processes and reflexive practices. Even if readers come to the decision that this is ‘touchy feely’ or otherwise an unscientific way of conducting criminological research, it will have encouraged a form of self-interrogation – and this, so rarely a part of our criminological training, is one of the achievements of this edited collection. As such, it is without doubt that the editors’ aim to ‘invigorate a conversation about the role of sensory experience in the production of knowledge’ (p. xxi), has been met. If, like me, readers find themselves agreeing with the editors and can appreciate how ‘penal
{"title":"Book review: Alex Simpson, Harm Production and the Moral Dislocation of Finance in the City of London: An Ethnography","authors":"Daniel Mitchell","doi":"10.1177/17416590221139904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221139904","url":null,"abstract":"that occur beyond the visual – that the book really achieves a (re)focusing of criminological attention and thinking. This has benefits as the descriptions provided on the page are much more palpable and therefore help transport the reader into the environment under examination. For instance, the book hosts various forms of creative writing, such as vignettes, short stories and music lyrics, which are extremely effective mediums with which to communicate the respective penal landscapes. Other significant methodological challenges are discussed, including issues of integrity and accountability – how researchers navigate ethnographic research which necessities a sensorial embodiment of spaces which conflict with and/or mute ethical and political positionalities (Chapters 6 and 9). Despite penal reform agendas appearing in different international contexts in recent years, insights uncovered throughout the book show how these top-down policies often contradict operational practices in penal sites. By focusing on the minutiae of environments and processes within spaces of social control, and specifically the embodied experiences of punishment, we see how these spaces continue to be painful (Chapters 5 and 8). Indeed, the textured narratives in this collection allow the reader to encounter an array of carceral spaces in different geographical contexts and cultures. It was striking to see how the disregard for (some) human life was depicted in so many of the chapters, reinforcing questions concerning the purpose and practice of punishment. We are reminded that state-sanctioned violence occurs each and every day across the globe through, for instance, the continued use of incarceration (Chapters 2, 11 and 13). Albeit this violence manifests in different ways, and to varying degrees, it remains present in our contemporary ‘humane’ societies. This text moves us away from more traditional narratives about punishment and penalty that rely on the visual, and while this may cause some ‘academic discomfort’ (Herrity, Schmidt, Warr, p. xxix), I agree with the editors that this is ‘necessary’ for a new sensory epistemology to blossom. However, readers of this book will feel some discomfort as it will prompt them to think about their own positionality and practice; from their epistemological stance to their previous and/or forthcoming methodological choices, analytical processes and reflexive practices. Even if readers come to the decision that this is ‘touchy feely’ or otherwise an unscientific way of conducting criminological research, it will have encouraged a form of self-interrogation – and this, so rarely a part of our criminological training, is one of the achievements of this edited collection. As such, it is without doubt that the editors’ aim to ‘invigorate a conversation about the role of sensory experience in the production of knowledge’ (p. xxi), has been met. If, like me, readers find themselves agreeing with the editors and can appreciate how ‘penal","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"164 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49091118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.1177/17416590221135561
E. Hannerz
During the last 10 years, the mobile phone and the emergence of websites, such as Youtube, which facilitate user-generated content, have enabled an explosion of pictures and video clips posted on the internet by civilians documenting the activities of authority figures. This “sousveillance” is a kind of inverse surveillance, reciprocal to surveillance, where members of the grassroots monitor those in power. Initially, sousveillance was primarily seen as an inverse form of surveillance in which citizens monitor their surveillors in order to challenge the surveillance state. The individuals filmed were originally thought to be aware of being sousveilled by others, and it was assumed that every watcher would voluntarily give free access to all information recorded. This article, drawing from an analysis of selfdocumented graffiti videos, aims to further the understanding of sousveillance through showing how graffiti writers—the supposed target of surveillance—use documentation of surveillance in order to present themselves as superior in terms of control and knowledge. Through analyzing the narrative structure and composition of these videos, I will demonstrate that sousveillance, for the graffiti writer, becomes less a matter of resistance and more a means for the symbolic representation of subcultural emotions, activities, and identities. The documentation and dissemination of the movements and activities of anti-graffiti officers, as well as the graffiti writers’ successful attempts to outsmart them, are analyzed as a part of a subcultural play, centered on the establishment of an equilibrium or a dance where key roles and rules are assigned.
{"title":"Playing in the yard: The representation of control in train-graffiti videos","authors":"E. Hannerz","doi":"10.1177/17416590221135561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221135561","url":null,"abstract":"During the last 10 years, the mobile phone and the emergence of websites, such as Youtube, which facilitate user-generated content, have enabled an explosion of pictures and video clips posted on the internet by civilians documenting the activities of authority figures. This “sousveillance” is a kind of inverse surveillance, reciprocal to surveillance, where members of the grassroots monitor those in power. Initially, sousveillance was primarily seen as an inverse form of surveillance in which citizens monitor their surveillors in order to challenge the surveillance state. The individuals filmed were originally thought to be aware of being sousveilled by others, and it was assumed that every watcher would voluntarily give free access to all information recorded. This article, drawing from an analysis of selfdocumented graffiti videos, aims to further the understanding of sousveillance through showing how graffiti writers—the supposed target of surveillance—use documentation of surveillance in order to present themselves as superior in terms of control and knowledge. Through analyzing the narrative structure and composition of these videos, I will demonstrate that sousveillance, for the graffiti writer, becomes less a matter of resistance and more a means for the symbolic representation of subcultural emotions, activities, and identities. The documentation and dissemination of the movements and activities of anti-graffiti officers, as well as the graffiti writers’ successful attempts to outsmart them, are analyzed as a part of a subcultural play, centered on the establishment of an equilibrium or a dance where key roles and rules are assigned.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"438 - 454"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65488862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：