Pub Date : 2021-11-13DOI: 10.1177/14624745211041845
A. Pfingst, Wangui Kimari
From the beginning of its colonial settlement in Kenya, the British administration criminalized Kenyans. Even now, colonial modes of punishment, incarceration, closure, interrogation, curfew, confiscation, separation, displacement, and detention without trial are deeply embedded in the spatial and ideological arrangements of post-colonial Kenya. Initially assumed to herald a rupture from colonial modes of criminalization and punishment, the post-colonial period instead normalized them. Through ethnographic, scholarly, and visual encounters, the paper engages five interconnecting structures that engendered the legacy of a seamless system of control, containment, and punishment evident in the ‘afterlives’ of empire. These are settler colonialism, violence, racism, colonial corporeality, and capitalism. The paper attends to the violence and brutality that endures in the very geographies that were the urban targets of colonial siege and links the carceral practices of settler colonialism and the everyday post-colonial governance of Nairobi’s poor neighbourhoods, encounters with the debris and ruination of empire found in the material and spatial fabric of Mathare. We take up a critical encounter with colonial files to both discern the continuity and lineage of carceral practices and to disrupt the authorial totality and continuity the colonial archive files assembled. The paper includes archival and authored photographs:
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Pub Date : 2021-11-06DOI: 10.1177/14624745211056146
Paul Kaplan
As the concept of mass incarceration has matured into a broad reference for the consequences of neoliberal punitiveness that overtook the US in the 1980s, the details of its origins and growth are important to know. During a time when ‘defunding the police’ is taken seriously, it is important to remember how the police got funded in the first place. Paul M. Renfro’s book Stranger Danger analyzes one branch in the roots of mass incarceration by focusing on the cultural, political, and legal ramifications of high profile ‘missing and exploited children’ cases from the 1980s. These cases spawned a moral panic that Renfro calls ‘the child safety regime’ (p. 9) that had a significant impact on criminal justice policy from the early 1980’s through the 2000’s. The first part of Stranger Danger revisits a handful of high-profile cases from the 1980’s, such as those of Adam Walsh and Etan Patz, two six-year-old boys who disappeared from public places (a department store in Florida and a street in New York City) and were later found dead, victims of homicide. Adam Walsh’s story was soon eclipsed by his father John’s notoriety as host of the TV show America’s Most Wanted, although John Walsh’s celebrity is not Renfro’s primary focus. Rather, Stranger Danger investigates the racialized and heteronormative concept of ‘endangered childhood,’ which overtly refers to the physical safety of kids but also implies a moral threat to white, heterosexual children. This moral dimension comes into focus through Renfro’s analysis of the cultural impact of widely distributed photographs of Etan Patz and others (some of which are included in the book). The gist is that these images of missing and ostensibly photogenic white boys resonated with people in the cultural center of the US: white, heterosexual, family-types with middle-class aspirations. Etan Patz’s father, Stanley, summed up this idea in a revealing quote unearthed by Renfro:
由于大规模监禁的概念已经成熟，成为上世纪80年代取代美国的新自由主义惩罚性后果的广泛参考，了解其起源和发展的细节非常重要。在“削减警察资金”被认真对待的时候，重要的是要记住警察最初是如何获得资金的。保罗·m·伦弗洛(Paul M. Renfro)的书《陌生人的危险》(Stranger Danger)通过关注20世纪80年代备受瞩目的“失踪和被剥削儿童”案件的文化、政治和法律后果，分析了大规模监禁根源的一个分支。这些案件引发了一种道德恐慌，伦弗洛称之为“儿童安全制度”(第9页)，这种制度对20世纪80年代初到21世纪初的刑事司法政策产生了重大影响。《陌生人的危险》的第一部分回顾了20世纪80年代的一些引人注目的案件，比如亚当·沃尔什和伊坦·帕兹的案件，两个六岁的男孩在公共场所(佛罗里达州的一家百货商店和纽约市的一条街道)失踪，后来被发现死亡，是谋杀案的受害者。亚当·沃尔什的故事很快就被他父亲约翰·沃尔什作为电视节目《美国头号通缉犯》主持人的名声所掩盖，尽管约翰·沃尔什的名声并不是伦弗洛关注的主要焦点。相反，《陌生人的危险》调查了种族化和异性恋化的“濒危童年”概念，它公开指的是孩子的人身安全，但也暗示了对白人异性恋儿童的道德威胁。通过伦弗洛对广为流传的埃坦·帕兹和其他人的照片(其中一些收录在书中)的文化影响的分析，这一道德维度得到了关注。要点是，这些失踪的、表面上很上镜的白人男孩的照片引起了美国文化中心人群的共鸣:白人、异性恋、有中产阶级抱负的家庭类型。伊坦·帕兹的父亲斯坦利用伦弗洛发现的一段发人深省的话总结了这个想法:
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Pub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/14624745211055167
J. Sexton
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Pub Date : 2021-10-25DOI: 10.1177/14624745211053598
Chrysanthi S. Leon, M. Buckridge
References Bagaric M, Hunger D and Svilar J (2021) Prison abolition: From naïve idealism to technological pragmatism. J Crim Law Criminol 111(2): 351–406. Gladwell M (2021) ‘My writing had better have changed. Or I’m a failure’. Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/aa0ecdf0-5be5-4dc8-80ca-150e12c25104 Millie A (2021) Criminology and Public Theology: On Hope, Mercy and Restoration. Bristol: Bristol University Press. Sullivan W (2009) Prison Religion: Faith-Based Reform and the Constitution. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-22DOI: 10.1177/14624745211045652
Jennifer E. Cobbina-Dungy, D. Jones-Brown
The repeat use of fatal force against unarmed people of color has driven global protests against police violence and fueled criticism of policing as a mechanism for public safety. In the US, calls to abolish, transform, or reform policing have reemerged with a primary focus on the elimination of structural racism. In this essay, we contend that a two-tier policing problem exists. The first is the continued use of policing to enforce racial dominance through policing practices labeled as “proactive”. The second is contemporary “warrior-style” police training that normalizes the expectation of unquestioned compliance with police directives and authorizes police to use physical force in its absence. This dangerous combination results in over-policing the public generally and Black members of the public specifically. Select incidents are provided to support these claims. We conclude by expressing support for the call to reallocate portions of policing budgets toward other government and community-based structures that function to enhance the ability of people to survive and thrive rather than operate as mechanisms of pre-adjudication punishment and state-sanctioned coercion.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-16DOI: 10.1177/14624745211045344
P. Thomas
strain, tell their stories of how they recovered from such trauma and later organized to both bring light to discriminatory social policies and empower their communities. By including these descriptions, Boyles offers a change in the narrative of the Black community in Ferguson, as protesters did not begin their work to destroy their neighborhoods (for example, by looting) but actually began their work to rebuild and revitalize (protect and serve) their neighborhoods in the absence of equitable law enforcement. A unique aspect of the book, which should be considered a strength, is the author’s framing of the work akin to a screenplay where readers can “fade in” or “lap dissolve” to exact moments of direct action around the city. Such visualization aids give extra life to the work. Providing a cinematic vibe brings the reader closer to the events and closer to the realities that Boyles witnesses and participates in. Some images discussed in the book are difficult: picturing “front-liners” bearing the brunt of tear gas and rubber bullets to protect other protesters, and envisioning residents’ trauma as they stand by blood on the pavement at the outer crime scene. However, these images are necessary to understand the full impact of the critical event and its resultant direct action and the need to create stronger neighborhood social bonds. Another strength of the book is a discussion of Black feminism and its relation to informal social ties in Ferguson. The author describes “othermothers,” a group whose actions have meaningful and historical roots. These women conduct outreach and wellbeing checks, engage in shared parenting responsibilities with relatives and others in the community, and give advice to younger activists. This look at intersectionality shows that Black women’s role in fostering order is complex and also provides a much-needed form of social and political activism to benefit their communities. Boyles’s book is engaging and will inspire other activists and scholars alike. It is a true contribution to the race and social justice literature in sociology and criminology due to its multifaceted ethnographic techniques and its deep examinations of what it is like to be on the ground when trying to reorder one’s social environment. Her positionality and immersion in the movement offer a necessary exploration of Black collective action. This work proves that Black Lives Matter.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1177/14624745211047873
Eleonora Di Molfetta
In the last decades, western countries have developed a set of policies and practices aimed both at crime prevention and social reassurance. Within this trend, the old-fashioned sanction of banishment has regained prominence. Banning orders, in particular, are widely used to remove from public spaces individuals who are deemed a threat to public safety and urban decorum. This article investigates the use of banning orders towards foreign defendants without a valid residence permit in an Italian criminal court. Based on empirical material collected during a one-year period of courtroom ethnography in Turin, this article sheds light on the rationales and objectives behind the use of banning orders. The interviews with courtroom actors reveal how banning orders have lost much of their preventive dimension to become an instrument of socio-urban control towards immigrants. This article invites future research to consider the role that urban management practices might play in the field of global mobility.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1177/14624745211051320
A. Aliverti
This article reassesses the relationship between state authority and violence in the context of border controls. Drawing on empirical research conducted with immigration and police officers in the UK, I show that the use of force in this context give rise to distinctively complex ethical questions which shape institutional and individual practices, and is entangled with the legally and politically fragile authority wielded by frontline staff. Faced with a morally, socially and politically controversial mandate, these officers devise a range of strategies to either minimize or conceal the use of violence. In doing so, they sometimes fall into oxymorons and euphemisms that at once evidence the shady line between coercion and consent, and shed light on the some of the profound moral dilemmas they encounter in doing border work. These dilemmas, I conclude, speak of broader challenges to the exercise of state coercive power, and the negotiated, contingent and provisional nature of state authority in a globalized, postcolonial and profoundly unequal world. I also argue for the social and intellectual urge to integrate the study of immigration enforcement in contemporary debates of state penality.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1177/14624745211043543
Ashley T Rubin
Although the study of penal changes throughout history is central to punishment studies, the field has taken little from historical institutionalists’ theories of institutional change. One of the most relevant such theories is path dependence. This article outlines path dependence frameworks’ most fruitful elements for studying penal change. Drawing on foundational political science and historical sociology texts, as well as several punishment scholars’ works, this article highlights the advantages of thinking through stasis and change, mechanisms of inertia such as feedback effects, and exogenous shocks. While path dependence offers a powerful framework, it can also be an unsatisfying explanation at times, particularly when path dependence is itself a seemingly uphill battle, when apparent stasis hides ongoing change, or when institutions survive hypothesized mechanisms of change. This paper closes by discussing some ways in which punishment scholars can strengthen the path dependence framework by blending it with recent theoretical developments in the punishment studies field.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-07DOI: 10.1177/14624745211052780
M. Craig
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