External Intimacy: Community-based Intervention Concerning Crime and the Integral State in Quebec

IF 1.4 2区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Social & Legal Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI:10.1177/09646639221076089

Eduardo González Castillo

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Abstract

This article deals with the contradictory way in which community-based intervention concerning crime relates to political domination and to the institutions of the State in Quebec, Canada by exploring the pertinence of the Gramscian conception of civil society. Surprisingly, although Antonio Gramsci offers an interesting set of concepts for the study of the relationship between civil society and government institutions, his ideas have rarely been used to understand community intervention in general and that related to public security in particular. Gramscian concepts such as civil society, political society, hegemony, and the integral State strike us as particularly useful in this regard. In our opinion, they offer a much more comprehensive view of the current relationship between community action (civil society) and the criminal justice system (the government) than narratives that insist on the alleged autonomy of civil society and on the weakening of the State. To show the utility of these concepts, we used them to understand community tensions related to racially discriminatory practices by police officers in the multiethnic borough of Montréal-Nord in Montreal.

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外部亲密:基于社区的干预对犯罪和整体国家在魁北克

本文通过探索葛兰西公民社会概念的相关性，探讨了基于社区的犯罪干预与政治统治和加拿大魁北克国家机构之间的矛盾方式。令人惊讶的是，尽管安东尼奥·葛兰西为研究公民社会和政府机构之间的关系提供了一套有趣的概念，但他的思想很少被用来理解一般的社区干预，特别是与公共安全有关的干预。我们认为，公民社会、政治社会、霸权和整体国家等葛兰西的概念在这方面特别有用。在我们看来，它们对社区行动(公民社会)与刑事司法系统(政府)之间的当前关系提供了比坚持所谓的公民社会自治和削弱国家的叙述更为全面的看法。为了展示这些概念的效用，我们用它们来理解蒙特利尔多民族区montrsamal - nord警察的种族歧视做法所导致的社区紧张局势。

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