{"title":"Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi by Zoha Waseem","authors":"Amber Lakhani","doi":"10.1177/13624806231169312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806231169312","url":null,"abstract":"to understanding the dynamics between Sinn Fein, a plethora of dissident groups wedded to violence, nationalist/republican communities and the state. Dissidents characterize the IRA’s peace as the ultimate betrayal—by a treacherous leadership—of physical force republican principles. Ongoing attempts by the security service to recruit informers have been exploited by dissidents to fortify their self-reinforcing belief that nothing has changed. Appropriating the discourse of ‘underground penality’ allows them to also proclaim the right to punish traitors in their midst as well as criminal elements in nationalist communities. Sinn Fein claims that dissident groups are a malignant presence, infiltrated and in effect run by sinister elements within the British securitate. Appeals by Sinn Fein for nationalist/republican communities to actively co-operate with the police are, for dissidents, the final turn of the treacherous screw. These appeals also conflict with anti-informing and anti-police norms that are being generationally renewed within nationalist/republican communities. The realignments resultant from the struggle to control the ‘who is a traitor’ narrative within present day Irish republicanism, are for Dudai, the most headspinning aspects of the ‘war to peace’ transitioning process. Dudai is to be applauded for developing a persuasively structured analytical framework that enables us to understand how the demonization and punishment of informers has served a variety of shifting functions in the Northern Ireland context. This framework, which also contributes to the development of a wider understanding of penality, can also be the basis for researching ‘governing through informers’ in other contexts of prolonged political violence.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"524 - 526"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46325089","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 boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military incarceration","authors":"Smadar Ben-Natan","doi":"10.1177/13624806231163109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806231163109","url":null,"abstract":"This article extends the study of carceral expansion—currently encompassing criminal, civil, and immigration enforcement—by examining the role of military (and, within that, extraterritorial) incarceration. Drawing on the case of military incarceration of civilians in Israel/Palestine, which since 1967 has accounted for between one-third and one-half of the entire prisoner population, it demonstrates the consolidation of a single carceral apparatus that normalizes military detention and incorporates non-citizens detained in extraterritorial locations. Involving both institutional and spatial dimensions, the article illuminates how the boundaries of the carceral state are relatively independent of formal sovereign borders, legal categories, and institutional arrangements, identifying the military as a carceral state agency. The study thus suggests a framework for an integrated study that accounts for the actual scope of the carceral state and its paradoxical modes of exclusionary inclusion.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135383205","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: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning","authors":"Ergun Cakal","doi":"10.1177/13624806231166495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806231166495","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"519 - 521"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45877119","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 capitalization of crime in the city of real estate","authors":"Eilat Maoz, Meirav Aharon Gutman","doi":"10.1177/13624806231161595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806231161595","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how the relationship between crime and property values is reshaped by the transformation of houses into investible assets. Departing from neoclassical economics of crime, we introduce the notion of “capitalization of crime” to illustrate how crime is utilized to generate forward-looking financial expectations and shape housing markets in gentrifying neighborhoods. The study, based in Haifa, Israel, combines quantitative and qualitative data to demonstrate how investors and renters each play a role in constructing the value of crime by capitalizing crime in opposite directions. First, using a geographic information system to map crime alongside real-estate prices, we show that the effect of crime on property values is offset by prospects of future gentrification, thereby contributing to housing speculation. Second, using digital ethnography, we show how renters use “crime” to dampen investor expectations, reduce rents, and delay their displacement. Thus, our study adds to the established body of critical criminology, which examines the manipulation of crime for economic and political gains. It further contributes to emergent debates in urban criminology by explicating how the financialization of rental housing is remaking urban politics of crime and criminalization.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47167248","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":"Penal duress in (post)colonial Myanmar","authors":"Andrew M. Jefferson, Tomas Max Martin","doi":"10.1177/13624806231162602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806231162602","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the notion and nature of penal duress, illustrated through analysis of martial, penal practice in Myanmar. We examine prison labour and pone-san (a demeaning, defamatory and coercive control of prisoners’ bodies) to show how these two enduring practices of domination, subjection and constraint – understood, drawing on Ann Laura Stoler, as relations of duress – animate penal practice in powerful, productive and problematic ways. Resisting the urge to view imperial forms through a peripheralising northern lens, or solely in terms of continuity and discontinuity, we pursue an understanding of penal duress as a ubiquitous, yet distinctly situated and relational phenomenon that has taken form through local colonial experiences and their afterlives. In sum, we attend to ‘processes of partial inscriptions, modified displacements and amplified recuperations’ to discuss how relations of penal duress are endured and enduring in Myanmar today.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"538 - 554"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43479497","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":"Dirty money and financial inequality in North Philadelphia","authors":"Jack C. Smith","doi":"10.1177/13624806231162608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806231162608","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1984 and 2016, Philadelphia prosecutors seized over US$86 million dollars, most of it in the form of cash taken from Black and Latinx Philadelphians. These seizures of dirty money were realized through civil forfeiture, which has the unique capacity to enrich municipal law enforcement agencies while dispossessing alleged participants in the drug trade. As a civil intervention into the illicit narcotics trade, cash forfeiture is characteristic of the carceral state's increasing use of non-criminal sanctions. In this essay I argue that Philadelphia police and prosecutors mobilize cash forfeiture to assert social control over the interfaces between licit and illicit economies in Philadelphia's poorest and most racially segregated neighborhoods. Drawing from historical accounts of the racial capitalist state's disciplinary oversight of the monetary system, I show how cash forfeiture operates through a racializing framework of socio-moral remediation that reproduces the harms associated with longstanding financial inequality in these neighborhoods.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44944475","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":"Gendering the carceral web: Public sector reform, technology and digital (in)justice","authors":"G. Birkett","doi":"10.1177/13624806231151657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806231151657","url":null,"abstract":"The UK government's Transforming Our Justice System agenda represents an emerging system of penal governance. Its cumulative impact, manifested through the mainstreaming of virtual hearings, a system of automatic online convictions and the Single Justice Procedure is a story yet to tell, with the potential impact on marginalised women simply a footnote. Such women, well-documented victims of the legal aid cuts as well as the digital divide, must comply with and negotiate the requirements of the carceral web alone. Pursuance of the reforms, representing the next instalment in the neo-liberal justice agenda, exposes another example of life at the penal–welfare nexus. This precarious territory has burgeoned since government-imposed austerity, with implications for self-criminalisation, net-widening and social justice. Reforms couched in the language of ‘efficiency’ and ‘common sense’ are likely to run in direct opposition to what marginalised women might need (or respond well to) and may jeopardise official reductionist strategies.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"439 - 456"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42742561","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":"Irreducibly Social: Why Biocriminology's Ontoepistemology is Incompatible with the Social Reality of Crime.","authors":"Callie H Burt","doi":"10.1177/13624806211073695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211073695","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Professing interactionist bio + social terminology, contemporary biocriminology asserts a break from its biologically essentialist past. Assurances notwithstanding, whether biocriminology has undergone a decisive paradigm shift rejecting notions of biological criminals and bad brains remains uncertain. Unfortunately, discussions of biocriminology's assumptions are mired in politics, obscuring important scientific issues. Motivated to clarify misunderstanding, I address the ontoepistemology of biocriminology from a scientific realist perspective. Drawing on familiar notions of crime as a social construction, I explain how and why biocriminology's ontoepistemology is inconsistent with the social reality of crime for scientific not ideological reasons. I explain that recognizing crime is a social construction does not imply that crime is not real or objective and cannot be studied scientifically. On the contrary, the irreducibly social nature of crime requires that scientific realists reject assumptions of 'biological crime' as well as the biologically reductionist epistemology on which biocriminology depends.</p>","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"85-104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10062522/pdf/nihms-1783662.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9636840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude","authors":"I. Loader","doi":"10.1177/13624806221136445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221136445","url":null,"abstract":"Van Houte (2020), for example, uncovered significant differences among European state policies and in their underlying interests and capacities. A better developed macrolevel perspective would have enabled Aliverti to situate her ethnographic findings within this landscape, and tease out not only the universal aspects of border policing, but also its national uniqueness and particularities. This should not be seen as a detraction from the overall quality of the book, but rather an invitation to further discussion, one which is already under way.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"170 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44697965","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":"Gestalt contexture and contested motives: Understanding video evidence in the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager.","authors":"Patrick G Watson","doi":"10.1177/13624806211073696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211073696","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article is situated in ongoing discussions about the influx of images of police violence. To date, much scholarship has centred on Foucauldian notions of knowledge-power and <i>sousveillance</i>. Alternatively, I attend to how video evidence produces understanding of police violence in court through a case study of the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager who shot and killed Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina. While audio and video <i>direct</i> evidence of the moments leading up to Slager's decision to shoot was presented, cross-examination focused more explicitly on post-shooting conduct as <i>circumstantial</i> evidence. This approach highlights an issue for video evidence, that what is to be settled at trial may not be directly re-presented in video. Gurwitsch's notion of <i>Gestalt</i> and Garfinkel's adaptation thereof are proposed as an alternative means of interrogating video evidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"105-125"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/91/81/10.1177_13624806211073696.PMC9900682.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10679745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}