Pub Date : 2022-05-13DOI: 10.1177/17416590221091851
T. Klein, Quincy Hodges
Building on ethnic blame discourse, the social threat hypothesis, and media bias theories, this article makes a quantitative interreality comparison between homicide news coverage and homicide statistics in Baton Rouge, Louisiana—a city with one of the highest homicide rates in the United States of America. Findings reveal that Whites made up 2% of homicide victims in 2018 in Baton Rouge, but represented almost 40% of homicide victims in the news. Press releases issued by local law enforcement also overrepresented White homicide victims, as did follow-up stories. Findings on homicide suspects showed that Whites and Latinos were overrepresented, and Blacks were underrepresented.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-02DOI: 10.1177/17416590221091056
Kevin Revier
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Pub Date : 2022-04-14DOI: 10.1177/17416590221088730
Isabel Flory
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Pub Date : 2022-04-14DOI: 10.1177/17416590221088810
Steven Kohm, Katharina Maier
In September 2018, there was a surge of news stories about liquor store theft in Winnipeg, Canada that resulted in public and political calls for action, and ultimately led to the introduction of a range of new security and surveillance measures at government owned liquor stores. This brief news cycle provided opportunities for various social actors, politicians, and authorities to make claims about the nature of crime and society more broadly. This article analyzes recent news media coverage of liquor store theft in Winnipeg, Canada and the social construction of an ostensibly new crime trend in the city: “brazen” liquor store thefts. We employ a qualitative content analysis of news articles about liquor store theft published in local Winnipeg news media between 2018 and 2020 (n = 147). Drawing on the social constructionist paradigm, and Fishman’s conceptualization of “crime waves,” we argue that the framing of liquor theft via news media reflects longstanding cultural tropes and myths about crime, as well as hinting at but never fully confronting, deeply engrained colonial and racialized stereotypes. This paper contributes to our understanding of the ways putative social problems are made intelligible in the media. We demonstrate how “crime waves” are shaped by and shape dominant tropes about crime, safety, and citizenship. We argue that something as mundane as liquor theft reveals much about the historical, colonial and social roots of crime in local and national contexts.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-14DOI: 10.1177/17416590221088792
A. Millie
This article considers guerrilla gardening that involves taking on other people’s land for gardening, usually without their permission. It is a practice that is overlooked largely by criminology, yet it can tell us something about attitudes to law and land ownership and challenges the approved aesthetic order of where we live. It can soften the look and feel of the city, leading to a different emotional and affective interaction with urbanity. Evidence is presented from a qualitative study of guerrilla gardeners from the North West of England. The discussion is informed theoretically by work on aesthetic criminology, do-it-yourself and temporary urbanism and the idea of urban commons. In this study, guerrilla gardening is found to be a normalised form of law-breaking that, despite not necessarily being to everyone’s taste and the gardeners having an autocratic view of property, is a form of urban intervention that is broadly accepted and welcomed, even by those who enforce the law.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-11DOI: 10.1177/17416590221081166
Silje Anderdal Bakken, Sidsel Kirstine Harder
In this paper we argue that legal and technological shifts in cannabis marketing has a gendered impact, which research so far has ignored. Despite high variations in national criminal laws, US-based social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter play a huge role in enforcing certain social and political standpoints on a global scale. One example being the recent legalization and commercialization of cannabis in various states in the US. Young men with dark, anonymous profiles illegally dealing cannabis on social media are no longer the only visible traders, as today’s marketing of trademarked legal cannabis products also features women influencers, who post images exhibiting light colors, desirable environments, and beautiful landscapes. To understand this diversity, we compared 60 Instagram profiles of illegal Swedish cannabis sellers to 70 US-based cannabis influencers’ Instagram profiles. By applying theories and research from media scholars on influencing, we highlight various changes in the way cannabis is being presented and professionalized by a new group of actors. Our findings show that cannabis influencers on Instagram are changing the stereotypical characteristics of illegal cannabis culture as being almost entirely dominated by men, to one where cannabis is represented as a desirable accessory in certain feminine lifestyles. Influencers’ role in transforming cannabis culture to become more mainstream and acceptable for women could potentially effect cannabis cultures globally, as well as ongoing legalization debates.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1177/17416590221086543
Haley Pauls, Kevin Walby, J. Piché
There are dozens of public police museums located across Canada that memorialize the country’s history of law enforcement and criminalization. Drawing from fieldwork at these sites, we explore the representational devices used to curate police museum displays. Invoking Stuart Hall’s work on representation and Othering, we examine how gun displays at Canadian police museums are organized to minimize the harm that police interventions with guns cause. Arguing these displays are made intelligible through a regime of representation that naturalizes the distinction between police officers and the “criminal” Other, we examine how these museums position weaponry including the gun as an esthetic object and a force of social good when in the hands of police. Analyzing curatorial strategies such as the arrangement of weapons, mannequin placement, dress, and level of humanization, as well as the rhetoric and narratives espoused on accompanying placards, we show how the curatorial approach in these spaces ratify an ideological framework that normalizes police violence and criminalization. We then assess what our analysis contributes to literatures on police museums and policing myths.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/17416590221086377
Ophir Sefiha
What is it about the pugilistic endeavor that so captures the academic’s imagination? Despite significant decline in popularity, boxing remains a compelling topic across social science disciplines. Indeed, both academic and popular studies of the “sweet science” have produced considerable insights into race, social class, gender, and commercialization. The most insightful works are successful in large part because the authors convey and reflect upon the deeply embodied experience at the core of pugilism, which is quite simply the experience of hitting and being hit, a form of ritualized, sanctioned assault unique in “civil” society. Of course, one needn’t box to study boxing, although it’s unlikely coincidental that many of the best works involve some measure of participant ethnography. The embodied athletic experience is central in Victoria E. Collins new book, Fighting Sports, Gender and the Commodification of Violence: Heavy Bag Heroines (Lexington Books), wherein Collins draws from her experiences as a boxer to explore larger issues of violence against women, self-defense, commodification, and health and fitness. Collins rightly observes that often absent from pugilist ethnographies is an in-depth analysis of the sport from the point of view of women, particularly novice women. Given that boxing remains perhaps the most stereotypically masculine of masculine sports—a journalist once referred to the heavyweight champion as the “emperor of masculinity”—it’s unsurprising that Collins and other feminist ethnographers find a rich topic to unpackage issues of gender and physicality. Specifically, Collins is interested in the ways in which increased female participation across multiple forms of combat and cardio activities is changing mainstream ideas around femininity and challenging the “natural” link between boxing and masculinity. Collins trains her gaze broadly on three key concepts; issues of gender, commercialism, and commodification, and how these concepts play out in her life and those of her participants. Throughout the book, Collins wrestles with the tension between boxing as empowering women while also upholding gender stereotypes and stoking consumerism, all while observing the disparate ways these tensions are manifest on different types of women. Collins articulates her motivations for entering the gym as the desire and challenge of getting in shape. Her forthright and candid discussion of the social pressures and messages that women in our culture absorb ingratiates herself to the reader and we are inspired by her. Collins describes her entrée into the gym environment and the gradual intensification of her participation and immersion into the local fight community. She interacts with boxers of all levels, from cardio-only to experienced MMA fighters, as well as trainers and coaches. She is keenly reflexive throughout 1086377 CMC0010.1177/17416590221086377Crime Media CultureBook Review book-review2022
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/17416590221086536
Nicolas Carrier
Despite gaining significant cultural and academic currency, penal abolitionism remains unable to radically problematize the punishment of individuals found responsible of exceptionally disturbing acts of criminalized violence. Through an empirical examination of a recent Canadian controversy over penal governance articulated to the transfer of a “monster” to a correctional healing lodge, the article makes legible our difficulties in communicating about appropriate responses to exceptional criminalized incidents which would forgo the use of afflictive sanctions as retaliatory harms. Engaging penal abolitionism empirically, theoretically and normatively, the article notably suggests that the limits of penal abolitionism can be explicated by the fact that its critique is premised on an instrumentalist conception of penalty which neglects the communicational function of punishment.
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