Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1177/17416590221132730
P. Bleakley
There is great scope for narrative criminology and historical criminology to come together and, in collaboration, find ways for the practices of each to strengthen the other. Ultimately, both have a shared focus: the stories (past and present) that we use to make sense of crime, and the criminal justice system. This article argues for a historico-narrative approach to criminological research, wherein the research conducted by historical criminologists can be augmented by the types of subjective analysis that are central to narrative criminology. Similarly, the analysis of ‘stories’ that is the core business of narrative criminologists can only be advanced by a greater engagement with the concept of historical time.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-28DOI: 10.1177/17416590221131552
Carson Cole Arthur
In 2008, Sean Rigg, a 40-year-old Black British man died in England and Wales police custody. It was not until 4 years later at the inquest that it transpired one of the police officers involved, the custody sergeant, PS Paul White gave false information. White had claimed he saw Rigg in the van upon his arrival however CCTV footage demonstrated this did not happen. Following a deconstructive approach this paper examined the inquest transcripts to explore how belief and the possibility of being mistaken was integral to the account White provided. It is the ambiguity of truth/fiction that is significant in legal investigations for it comes to produce the justifications for the deaths of Black people in England and Wales.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1177/17416590221127291
Janani Umamaheswar
Research on wrongful convictions has focused mainly on the relationships and interactions among wrongfully-convicted persons and state actors, perpetuating an overly-simplistic understanding of the harms of wrongful conviction. In this article, I analyze narratives of wrongful conviction obtained through in-depth interviews with 15 exonerated men in the U.S. to shift attention toward these stories’ “secondary characters”—those individuals who were neither the main protagonists nor the key antagonists in participants’ narratives, but who nonetheless significantly shaped how the men made sense of their experiences of harm and their journeys from victimhood to vindication. Drawing on research in narrative victimology, I argue that focusing on the secondary characters in wrongful conviction stories facilitates a more nuanced understanding of how the injustice of wrongful conviction is experienced and processed—one that avoids reproducing the binary logic of the criminal legal system, which too often reduces wrongful conviction cases to one-dimensional stories of innocent people versus the state.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-11DOI: 10.1177/17416590221115617
John Kerr
Far-right politicians in Brazil are attacking and censoring cultural heritage and enacting policies that go far beyond cultural heritage. These politicians are also dismantling the structural frameworks that protect, secure, encourage and enable cultural heritage at a time when it is experiencing serious and systematic crime threats. This is despite legal obligations in the Brazilian Constitution to protect it. In addition, these politicians are missing opportunities in the sector from which they could benefit hugely, as could the Brazilian population and the cultural heritage. Instead of waging ‘culture wars’, politicising security, and failing to adequately protect cultural heritage, a viable alternative is to govern the cultural economy.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-11DOI: 10.1177/17416590221118881
Gergely Fliegauf
Introduction In 1992, I started my work in a prison as a trainee in several positions. I was 19 years old, and a couple of months later, I became a student at the then Police Academy in Budapest. Altogether, I was a prison officer for almost 25 years. Between 2005 and 2014 I worked at the Hungarian National University of Public Service, I was a lecturer of psychology and sociology to prison officer undergraduates. In the Hungarian education system, prison officer undergraduates are part of the prison staff, that is, they do not arrive to university from the street, and already have some practical experience beforehand. Education was a full-time job, students attended lectures during the semesters and spent their practical service in prisons in the summer. During this period, they were given assignments by their professors. Prison psychology was my subject, and during the summer break the students had to collect prison drawings. These drawings were obtained strictly with the permission of the prison governors, mostly from places where it was impossible to identify who had made them. These places were the libraries of the institutions, art workshops or social workers’ offices. Some drawings were signed, in which case I anonymised them using a photo editing software. Over the years I have collected thousands of drawings, I have published some of them and analysed them online.1 The main objective of the analysis was to observe and identify the symbols in the drawings and to try to place them in a social, cultural and criminological context. Analysing some of the drawings in this way, yielded very interesting results. For example, I was able to identify traits of Roma identity on some drawings. Sometimes I presented the drawings in workshops with expert groups. These meetings were mostly attended by friends with common interest like psychologists, sociologists, lawyers, anthropologists, artists, photographers and exinmates, university students, activists, as well as police officers, prison guards and criminologists. In some cases, the drawings were projected in moderated focus group sessions, in other cases through Q&A sessions or open discussions. Out of the large number of drawings, about 20 drawings were selected that could contain unique or general symbols of recent Hungarian prison life in a way that could be described as iconic.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-10DOI: 10.1177/17416590221111827
Zahra Stardust, Rosalie Gillett, K. Albury
As dating apps continue to receive pressure from civil society, media and governments to address a range of safety concerns, technology companies have developed and deployed a spate of new safety features. Taken together, these features rely upon increased surveillance and partnerships with both technology start-up companies and law enforcement agencies proposed as responses to sexual harassment and abuse. In this article, we draw on empirical accounts of app use – and popular media reporting – to problematise commonsense assumptions about dating apps, safety, technology, policing and surveillance. Where so-called safety features involve increased surveillance and techno-carceral solutionism, there is potential to make users less safe – particularly for app users who are marginalised or stigmatised on the basis of their race, sexuality, gender, health status, employment or disability. Instead of the impetus to ‘datafy’ consent by documenting evidence of sexual transactions, or to monitor users by sharing data with police, we argue that a more effective approach to safety must extend the notion of ‘consent culture’ to encompass a consent-based approach to collecting, storing, and sharing user data – including seeking consent from users about how and whether their data is sold, monetised or shared with third parties or law enforcement.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1177/17416590221110121
Courtney D Tabor
Through archival research and an intersectional thematic analysis, this paper examines three key episodes of early-2000s sensation To Catch a Predator and situates them within crime media and journalism literature. The paper analyzes themes of journalistic integrity and the subjugation of women and girls by a television program that claimed to use the former to stop the latter. Based on the analysis, To Catch a Predator engages in forensic journalism as demonstrated by the treatment of women and girls as bait, claims of ownership over women and girls’ bodies, lack of nuance in reporting, and the liberties taken in their journalistic practices. Ultimately, this paper shows how To Catch a Predator acts as a spectacle of vigilantism, by creating the child pornography it claims to fight and by glorifying punishment, contributing to the ongoing moral panic around child exploitation.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1177/17416590221111524
Joshua T. Ellsworth
The image depicts an accumulation of discarded cigarettes, which had been collected by a woman experiencing homelessness on the streets of San Francisco. Here, I focus on the criminological importance of antecedents to interpersonal violence. This image references subjective appraisals of the concepts of commodity and desirability as precursors to victimization (see Ellsworth, 2021).
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Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1177/17416590221110118
Nathan Stephens-Griffin
This article conceptualises animal liberation direct action in green-cultural criminological terms. To do this, it draws on Johnston and Johnston’s methodological approach and undertakes qualitative content analysis of animal liberation communiqués published on the website, Bite Back. Whilst a significant body of scholarly literature has discussed animal liberation struggles, this article develops an understanding of these often-criminal acts and events within a cultural criminological context. Findings from this analysis reveal three themes. First, activists variously resist and embrace the state and media’s ‘terrorisation’ and discursive delegitimating of animal liberation struggle. Activists wilfully play on the framing of themselves as terrorists. Second, activists are also able to re-contextualise what might otherwise be seen as minor, apolitical events into a much broader liberation struggle. Third, animal liberation activism is frequently and explicitly connected to other emancipatory struggles. To conclude, the article argues that animal liberation activists engage in direct action on a local level, and strategically promote hyper localised instances of direct action globally through online communiqués. In doing so, animal liberation activists engage in a ‘prefigurative integration’ of what might otherwise be dismissed as isolated hyper local ‘petty events’ within a global struggle against violence, exploitation and oppression.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-17DOI: 10.1177/17416590221099078
A. Lindsay
and led by Black women (including Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Mariame Kaba), abolitionism challenges a variety of interlocking oppressive institutions, from chattel slavery to the modern Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) (p. 91). Rather than advocate for “best practice” and “fairer outcomes” to improve policing, abolitionists seek to defund, disarm, disband, and disempower policing altogether (p. 84). In its place, abolitionists promote an “infrastructure of care, welfare and community support” (p. 93). While often viewed as “naive, utopian, fanciful, idealistic and unrealistic” (p. 79), abolitionist practices remain prominent. During the Black Lives Matter (BLM) uprisings of 2020, protesters drew connections between structural racism and police, housing, and healthcare. In rallies, attendees provided hand sanitizer, masks, food and water, and physical protection, creating safety and support without—and against—the police. In concluding, the authors recommend maintaining safety without police; promoting organizations against state and police violence; and conducting “research on not for the police” (p. 111). Policing the Pandemic is succinct, accessible, and informative for students and professionals alike. It is, of course, a timely piece, as just over 6 million people have died from COVID-19 at the time of this writing. Analyzing the police’s role in exacerbating the crisis by treating “the public as the virus” is critical (p.1). Even as COVID-19 rates begin to decline and restrictions lift, the pandemic reveals the vast scope of police power. To that, I would have liked to see a bit more engagement with police practices and technologies used to enforce COVID-19 protocols, including the development of immunity passports, implementation of aerial drones to enforce lockdowns, or spit hoods ostensibly meant to protect police from cough and spit attacks but have also been used as a restraint method. Nevertheless, the broader historical analysis of policing, public order, and public health is invaluable; indeed, it allows for connections to be made between police power and a variety of public health crises. I am reminded of police carrying naloxone (Narcan) for opioid overdose reversal or social workers meant to assist police for crisis intervention. In this, Policing the Pandemic is key for imagining an abolitionist present and future that promotes care, community, and safety disentangled from policing’s security and order.
在黑人女性（包括Sojourner Truth、Harriet Tubman、Ida B.Wells、Angela Davis、Ruth Wilson Gilmore和Mariame Kaba）的领导下，废奴主义挑战了各种相互关联的压迫制度，从动产奴隶制到现代监狱工业综合体（PIC）（第91页）。废奴主义者没有提倡“最佳实践”和“更公平的结果”来改善治安，而是寻求完全取消治安的资金、解除武装、解散和权力（第84页）。取而代之的是，废奴主义者提倡“护理、福利和社区支持的基础设施”（第93页）。废奴主义的做法虽然经常被视为“天真、乌托邦、幻想、理想主义和不切实际”（第79页），但仍然突出。在2020年黑人生命攸关（BLM）起义期间，抗议者将结构性种族主义与警察、住房和医疗保健联系起来。在集会中，与会者提供了洗手液、口罩、食物和水，以及人身保护，在没有警察和反对警察的情况下创造了安全和支持。最后，提交人建议在没有警察的情况下维持安全；促进反对国家和警察暴力的组织；以及进行“关于不为警察服务的研究”（第111页）。对学生和专业人士来说，疫情管理简洁、易懂、信息丰富。当然，这是一篇及时的文章，因为在撰写本文时，已有600多万人死于新冠肺炎。通过将“公众视为病毒”来分析警察在加剧危机中的作用至关重要（第1页）。尽管新冠肺炎发病率开始下降，限制措施解除，但这场大流行揭示了警察权力的巨大范围。为此，我希望看到更多地参与警方用于执行新冠肺炎协议的做法和技术，包括开发豁免护照、使用空中无人机执行封锁，或者表面上是为了保护警察免受咳嗽和吐口水攻击，但也被用作一种约束方法。然而，对治安、公共秩序和公共卫生进行更广泛的历史分析是非常宝贵的；事实上，它允许在警察权力和各种公共卫生危机之间建立联系。我想起了携带纳洛酮（Narcan）用于阿片类药物过量逆转的警察，或者旨在协助警察进行危机干预的社会工作者。在这方面，《大流行病的警务》是想象一个废奴主义者的现在和未来的关键，它促进了从警务的安全和秩序中解脱出来的护理、社区和安全。
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