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{"title":"The past is prologue: Towards a historico-narrative approach at the intersection of historical criminology and narrative criminology","authors":"P. Bleakley","doi":"10.1177/17416590221132730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221132730","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"421 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65489322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Make believe: Police accountability, lying and anti-blackness in the inquest of Sean Rigg","authors":"Carson Cole Arthur","doi":"10.1177/17416590221131552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221131552","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"108 1","pages":"362 - 379"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76271839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Secondary characters in narratives of wrongful conviction","authors":"Janani Umamaheswar","doi":"10.1177/17416590221127291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221127291","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"122 1","pages":"345 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87633507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Culture wars in Brazil: The far-right and their failure to protect cultural heritage","authors":"John Kerr","doi":"10.1177/17416590221115617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221115617","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"50 1","pages":"296 - 313"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84328460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction of a Hungarian prison drawing from 2013","authors":"Gergely Fliegauf","doi":"10.1177/17416590221118881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221118881","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"26 1","pages":"323 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74571681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Surveillance does not equal safety: Police, data and consent on dating apps","authors":"Zahra Stardust, Rosalie Gillett, K. Albury","doi":"10.1177/17416590221111827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221111827","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"51 1","pages":"274 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79832039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“This is what a 13-year old girl looks like”: A feminist analysis of To Catch a Predator","authors":"Courtney D Tabor","doi":"10.1177/17416590221110121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221110121","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"3 1","pages":"233 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89255183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The minutiae of crime-prone human ecologies","authors":"Joshua T. Ellsworth","doi":"10.1177/17416590221111524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221111524","url":null,"abstract":"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).","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":"168 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42935401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Biting back: A green-cultural criminology of animal liberation struggle as constructed through online communiques","authors":"Nathan Stephens-Griffin","doi":"10.1177/17416590221110118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221110118","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"252 - 273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72958641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book review: Lisa Sugiura, The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women","authors":"A. Lindsay","doi":"10.1177/17416590221099078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17416590221099078","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":46658,"journal":{"name":"Crime Media Culture","volume":"18 1","pages":"619 - 621"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45330586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}