Theoretical Criminology最新文献

{"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}

{"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}

{"title":"Radical hope and processes of becoming: Examining short-term prisoners’ imagined futures in England & Wales and Norway","authors":"Julie Laursen","doi":"10.1177/13624806211069545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211069545","url":null,"abstract":"Prisoners’ hopes for a life without suffering—without causing and experiencing harm—are embedded in practices of ethical becoming and ideas of transcendence. These hopes are somehow both more banal and complex than the literature on hope generally suggests; they emerge because of lack and are signs of despair, rather than realistic prospects or opportunities. Based on longitudinal interview data (N = 452) with short-term prisoners in Norway and England & Wales, this article shows how hope functions as an orientation through different phases of a prison sentence as well as post-release regardless of whether it materializes. With inspiration from Lear’s idea of ‘radical hope’, I describe prisoners’ hopes as a mode of living with more emphasis on where hope comes from rather than what it leads to, thus following recent prompts to distinguish between hopes derived from opportunities from deeper hopes grounded in despair. I outline prisoners’ pain upon entry into custody and show how their ‘ground projects’—the things without which they would not care to go on with their lives—become clear when they are taken away. In this conceptualization, short-term prisoners’ hopes are in many ways a manifestation of despair fused with ethical deliberations on what kind of person one wishes to become and to whom one owes something.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"48 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46664668","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}

{"title":"Bargaining with criminals: The morality of witness collaboration in Mexico's “war on drugs”","authors":"J. Espindola","doi":"10.1177/13624806211072859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211072859","url":null,"abstract":"Public authorities take considerable and oftentimes controversial steps in their efforts to dismantle criminal organizations involved in drug trafficking and related crimes in Mexico. Among other things, they recruit offenders who abandon their criminal organization and strike a deal with law enforcement agents and prosecutors to share information about their co-perpetrators in exchange for leniency in sentencing as well as of protection from retaliation. This article explores whether the deployment of collaborators is morally permissible in view of the significant risks it exposes them to, most notably retaliatory aggressions. The article examines the underlying philosophical problem regarding the justifiability of deploying collaborators in the social and political circumstances prevailing in the country. The normative framework I advance to explore the Mexican case can be useful in examining the ethical implications of using collaborating witnesses elsewhere.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"5 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46637056","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}

{"title":"The long history of prevention: Social Defence, security and anticipating future crimes in the era of ‘penal welfarism’","authors":"Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Sadi Shanaah","doi":"10.1177/13624806211056313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211056313","url":null,"abstract":"Using a combination of documentary and archival research methods, this article explores the development of Social Defence criminology across the 19th and 20th centuries—highlighting the influence the ‘new’ Social Defence movement had upon the United Nations' and Council of Europe's international crime policy programmes. By exploring the integration of Social Defence within these international programmes, the article is able to challenge several longstanding arguments in Criminology which associate pre-crime and the securitization of criminal justice with the neoliberal era. Social Defence scholars influenced International Organizations to research and disseminate anticipatory mechanisms to identify and reform potential deviants decades earlier than prominent theses suggest. These measures were steeped in the language of security and were oriented towards the prevention of future juvenile crime. The article argues for a reweighing of the influence of Social Defence criminology and against accounts which draw significant divisions between ‘penal welfarism’ and ‘neoliberal penality’.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"357 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45238330","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}

{"title":"Rethinking police procedural justice","authors":"D. Schaap, Elsa Saarikkomäki","doi":"10.1177/13624806211056680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211056680","url":null,"abstract":"While procedural justice theory has become the dominant paradigm in thinking about police legitimacy, it has several important weaknesses. First, procedural justice's conceptually essential distinction between ‘process’ and ‘outcome’ is blurred in reality, which is visible both in empirical operationalizations and in researchers’ understanding of police work. Second, procedural justice theory views society through an implicit consensus lens, making it poorly equipped to address police–citizen conflicts and structural societal inequalities. This is evident in the theory's inability to unpack the dynamics of police–citizen interactions and its reluctance to problematize the police role in contemporary plural societies. To advance our understanding of police legitimacy and police–citizen relations, particularly among marginalized groups, we strongly recommend working toward theoretical renewal and empirical diversification.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"416 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42482198","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}

{"title":"Trajectories of hope/lessness among men and women in the late stage of a life sentence","authors":"S. Wright, Susie Hulley, Ben Crewe","doi":"10.1177/13624806211067770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211067770","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on Snyder's ‘hope theory’ as a conceptual framework, this article examines the hope narratives of men and women at the ‘late stage’ of a life sentence. The article aims to bridge the existing gap between jurisprudence and sociological accounts on hope and life imprisonment by extending this debate to men and women serving reducible life sentences in England and Wales, for whom release is not guaranteed but assumed to be attainable. Through focusing on the individual ways in which the spectre and procedural elements of release shape narratives of hope and hopelessness, this article agrees with Vannier that recent human rights debates have fallen short in terms of subjectively understanding the complex relationship between ‘hope’ and ‘release’ for life-sentenced prisoners. It concludes by highlighting the necessity of procedural legitimacy in reducing uncertainty and promoting and maintaining hope among this group.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"66 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45419338","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}

{"title":"Book review: Armando Lara-Milan, Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity","authors":"Benjamin D. Fleury-Steiner","doi":"10.1177/13624806211056771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211056771","url":null,"abstract":"release from prison, are handed a list of halfway houses and treatment facilities with an order to move into one of them within a day or two of release. The onus of “choosing” a facility is put on the individual who likely finds that facilities no longer exist, do not have room, do not accept people with their particular backgrounds or are located outside the reach of public transportation. The idea of “choice” in these instances exposes the false dichotomy between treatment and punishment. As part of “treatment”, the individual is taught to make so-called better choices. Yet in the absence of real alternatives, the process of choosing leads back to institutions of punishment. This sort of dilemma is built into the system. Looking back, Miller explains that George W. Bush’s “Second Chance Act” passed at a time in which policymakers knew that people with criminal records struggled to find jobs and housing. Yet this Act emphasized personal transformation (and funded programs with that emphasis) rather than addressing the structural conditions that make it impossible for people to obtain decent jobs. Still today, so-called reentry programs rarely lead to good jobs or a meaningful career ladder. Rather, they focus on teaching people “how to cope with their position on the bottom of the social order” (p. 225). Halfway Home is an extraordinarily deep and nuanced exploration of intersectionality of race and class. In future work I would like to read more of Miller’s thoughts about how gender intersects with both race and class. As much as racism drives the over-incarceration of people of color, hegemonic notions of gender define citizenship and personhood. Thus, Miller notes that the criminal legal trajectory for boys includes getting into fights, cutting class, police and incarceration while girls tend to be a bit older when first arrested, most have children and almost all have been sexually assaulted. I’d like to hear more about how these differences play out. Within the carceral landscape, gender segregation is taken for granted, and gendered “pathways into crime” are assumed to be the norm. I especially wanted to learn more about how Black men experience racialized portrayals of sexually insatiable and predatory masculinity. This is not meant as criticism—no one book can do it all. Rather, this is hope that Miller will continue to turn his compassionate and astute eye on additional pieces of the carceral landscape. Halfway Home is a book I will assign to undergraduates, and have already recommended to friends and community activists. Indeed, if I were asked to suggest one book as an introduction to race and incarceration, this is the book I would choose. It is beautifully written, accessible and compellingly personal. Yet it is not simplistic: veterans in the field will gain new insights from the ways in which Miller weaves together law and policy, the history of racial constructions, neighborhood dynamics in Chicago and Detroit, and the politics o","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"175 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47654284","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}

{"title":"A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap","authors":"Ummni Khan","doi":"10.1177/13624806211028274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211028274","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws on governance theory, critical theory and cultural criminology to interrogate how legal, social scientific and feminist discourses converge to construct rap music as a pressing social problem. While each discourse has its own preoccupations, ideologies and internal contestation, the overarching message is that rap music is a potential source of danger that conveys anti-social attitudes. Suspicion is sometimes also cast on musicians themselves. While I compare three overlapping fields, the ultimate purpose is to problematize the supposedly progressive approach to interpreting and mobilizing against songs deemed harmful. Significantly, I argue that much of the social science scholarship and feminist activism that addresses hip hop music perpetuates anti-Black stereotypes and dovetails with repressive state apparatuses. Among other things, social science and feminist criticism of rap hermeneutically support the use of rap lyrics as evidence of criminality—a distinctly non-progressive, racialized legal practice.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"245 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44058407","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}

{"title":"Reimagining access to justice through the eyes of rural domestic violence survivors","authors":"Amy M. Magnus, Frank A Donohue","doi":"10.1177/13624806211035103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211035103","url":null,"abstract":"Access to justice is a theoretical construct and applied principle within the US legal system, centering equity in access to legal services and representation. However, access to justice extends beyond the legal sphere and into the daily lives of vulnerable people. This article contributes to long-standing efforts to reimagine and repurpose the access to justice framework through an ethnographic examination of rural domestic violence. In doing so, there exists significant promise to transform access to justice in a way that comprehensively sees and addresses inequity and injustice. Access to justice can be used in a multitude of ways to make sense of vulnerability at the intersection of rurality, domestic violence, resource accessibility, and activism, expanding the theoretical framework beyond its original scope toward social justice.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"434 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/13624806211035103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45699905","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}