Pub Date : 2022-05-03DOI: 10.1177/13624806221089676
R. Sparks
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Pub Date : 2022-04-26DOI: 10.1177/13624806221092214
F. Vecchio
{"title":"Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz","authors":"F. Vecchio","doi":"10.1177/13624806221092214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221092214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"517 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41661471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-29DOI: 10.1177/13624806221089669
K. Martensen
{"title":"Book review: Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko (eds), Latinas in the Criminal Justice System: Victims, Targets and Offenders","authors":"K. Martensen","doi":"10.1177/13624806221089669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221089669","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"351 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65826365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1177/13624806221076422
Gail Super, Ana Ballesteros-Pena
This article examines expulsions in and around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla and in informal settlements in former black townships in South Africa. These violent bordering processes expose the violent injustices that constitute the boundaries of lawful (liberal) law, and the violence that sovereigns use to secure territories. Drawing on Walter Benjamin we make three main theoretical arguments. First, that the bordering processes in our case studies are instances of law (and State) preserving violence. Second, that absence and responsibilization are central techniques for invisibilizing the role of violence in preserving law, and that abdication of jurisdiction is key to the exercise of state sovereignty. Third, that when the State preserves itself through sharing its monopoly over violence the fictitious distinction between law and violence collapses. We use the term ‘borderline lawful violence’ to highlight the precarious nature of the boundary between lawful and unlawful violence.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1177/13624806221082094
Michael Gibson-Light
Research traditionally suggests that men incarcerated in the USA regard horizontal surveillance—that is, monitoring the behaviors of other prisoners—as antithetical to notions of masculinity behind bars. Yet, following an 18-month ethnography in a US prison for men, this article reveals that the imprisoned may in fact embrace prisoner-on-prisoner monitoring tied to labor. It details how participants in this institution sought out peer surveillants who had the power to grant referrals to more desirable jobs. Within prison worksites, individuals further policed peers’ production and service quality. Labor-based horizontal surveillance was integral to performances of masculinity related to employment status and work ethic. Drawing on labor scholarship as well as studies of surveillance in other penal settings, this article reveals how supervision maps onto gendered beliefs about work, offending, and contemporary American corrections in ways that contribute to carceral agendas and broader systems of control.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1177/13624806221081504
Thomas Guiney, S. Farrall
In this article we argue that a tendency to treat populism as a ubiquitous, mechanistic characteristic of contemporary penality has impeded systematic theoretical discussion of how populist ideologies find contingent expression within national penal systems. Drawing upon an agonistic perspective we seek to show that the intersection between populism and punishment must be understood as a structured process that is shaped by struggle between actors with different types, and amounts, of political power. We illustrate these claims with reference to a historical case study of the 1981 British Conservative Party Conference; a political calendar ritual that facilitated symbolic conflict and provided an institutional point of entry for populist movements seeking to disrupt the prevailing liberal consensus on crime and secure substantive policy concessions from government.
{"title":"Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference","authors":"Thomas Guiney, S. Farrall","doi":"10.1177/13624806221081504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221081504","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we argue that a tendency to treat populism as a ubiquitous, mechanistic characteristic of contemporary penality has impeded systematic theoretical discussion of how populist ideologies find contingent expression within national penal systems. Drawing upon an agonistic perspective we seek to show that the intersection between populism and punishment must be understood as a structured process that is shaped by struggle between actors with different types, and amounts, of political power. We illustrate these claims with reference to a historical case study of the 1981 British Conservative Party Conference; a political calendar ritual that facilitated symbolic conflict and provided an institutional point of entry for populist movements seeking to disrupt the prevailing liberal consensus on crime and secure substantive policy concessions from government.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"147 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49397271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-31DOI: 10.1177/13624806211060867
Veronica L. Horowitz, T. Gowan
Drug courts are widely praised as a therapeutic alternative to mass incarceration. Using ethnographic discourse analysis, our intersectional comparison of a Midwestern court demonstrates how gender and race create differentiated and unequal rehabilitative projects. Striking differences in treatment, sanctions, and requirements demonstrate the lasting power of long-standing historical addiction tropes. Our primarily white and African-American site re-inscribed the historical polarization between “white slaves” and “drug zombies”, between the (traumatized female) “involuntary addict” and the dangerous agency of the (racialized) male “criminal addict”. The explicit gender differentiation between therapy for women and work for men was thus cross-cut by race, with talk therapy for white women and neuro-scientific medicalization for white men set against deep racio-cultural reform for African-Americans. While Black women were encouraged to take on intensive mothering, Black men were subjected to the highest surveillance and suspicion, their struggles in the labor and housing markets misrecognized as cultural deficiency.
{"title":"Feminized need and racialized danger: Punitive therapeutics and historical addict tropes in a Midwestern drug court","authors":"Veronica L. Horowitz, T. Gowan","doi":"10.1177/13624806211060867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211060867","url":null,"abstract":"Drug courts are widely praised as a therapeutic alternative to mass incarceration. Using ethnographic discourse analysis, our intersectional comparison of a Midwestern court demonstrates how gender and race create differentiated and unequal rehabilitative projects. Striking differences in treatment, sanctions, and requirements demonstrate the lasting power of long-standing historical addiction tropes. Our primarily white and African-American site re-inscribed the historical polarization between “white slaves” and “drug zombies”, between the (traumatized female) “involuntary addict” and the dangerous agency of the (racialized) male “criminal addict”. The explicit gender differentiation between therapy for women and work for men was thus cross-cut by race, with talk therapy for white women and neuro-scientific medicalization for white men set against deep racio-cultural reform for African-Americans. While Black women were encouraged to take on intensive mothering, Black men were subjected to the highest surveillance and suspicion, their struggles in the labor and housing markets misrecognized as cultural deficiency.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"23 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45154728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-21DOI: 10.1177/13624806211056766
Marta-Marika Urbanik
{"title":"Book review: Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy","authors":"Marta-Marika Urbanik","doi":"10.1177/13624806211056766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211056766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"178 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41722424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-21DOI: 10.1177/13624806211070146
M. Schinkel
ing hate speech, will find plenty in this book to support their agendas. Perhaps this is a cost of shining a light on hate-filled rhetoric that has increasingly found its way into mainstream politics. Overall, this very timely book offers readers a window into the modern extreme farright movement and can serve as a tool for making sense of how fringe beliefs and conspiracy theories have penetrated modern public discourse. To date, it is the authoritative work on how everyday online and offline spaces can be hijacked in plain sight by perverse and dangerous ideologies rooted in misinformation and fantastical conspiracy theories. This is a must read not only for new students of terrorism, violent extremism, and hate crime, but anyone seeking more information about where fringe far-right beliefs are colliding with mainstream society.
{"title":"Book review: Louise Brangan, The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture","authors":"M. Schinkel","doi":"10.1177/13624806211070146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211070146","url":null,"abstract":"ing hate speech, will find plenty in this book to support their agendas. Perhaps this is a cost of shining a light on hate-filled rhetoric that has increasingly found its way into mainstream politics. Overall, this very timely book offers readers a window into the modern extreme farright movement and can serve as a tool for making sense of how fringe beliefs and conspiracy theories have penetrated modern public discourse. To date, it is the authoritative work on how everyday online and offline spaces can be hijacked in plain sight by perverse and dangerous ideologies rooted in misinformation and fantastical conspiracy theories. This is a must read not only for new students of terrorism, violent extremism, and hate crime, but anyone seeking more information about where fringe far-right beliefs are colliding with mainstream society.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"349 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47516160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-19DOI: 10.1177/13624806211073694
C. Davis
The contemporary policing landscape is challenging traditional, hierarchical working arrangements as the police respond to new and more complex demands. Scholars have long recognized police occupational culture as a barrier to organizational change. Rank-centric cultural conventions conflict with alternative, democratic forms of working. This article introduces the concept of Rank-Neutral Space to describe an emerging practice where police officers navigate the hierarchical-laden culture to bring about change. In theorizing Rank-Neutral Space, I bring together perspectives from the sociology of space and findings from a qualitative study of police leadership, to define the space as a site of resistance and conformity, to capture the complexity of reform in the police as both processes of change and continuity.
{"title":"Revisiting police reform: Rank-Neutral Space as resistance and conformity","authors":"C. Davis","doi":"10.1177/13624806211073694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211073694","url":null,"abstract":"The contemporary policing landscape is challenging traditional, hierarchical working arrangements as the police respond to new and more complex demands. Scholars have long recognized police occupational culture as a barrier to organizational change. Rank-centric cultural conventions conflict with alternative, democratic forms of working. This article introduces the concept of Rank-Neutral Space to describe an emerging practice where police officers navigate the hierarchical-laden culture to bring about change. In theorizing Rank-Neutral Space, I bring together perspectives from the sociology of space and findings from a qualitative study of police leadership, to define the space as a site of resistance and conformity, to capture the complexity of reform in the police as both processes of change and continuity.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"126 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43487806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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