{"title":"Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime","authors":"V. Weis","doi":"10.1177/13624806221135598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221135598","url":null,"abstract":"More than 75 million people were killed in wars, dictatorships and civil conflicts in the 20th century alone. To date, states and international organizations have been regarded as the reliable entities for addressing these atrocities. However, these agencies are often perpetrators (or bystanders) that even deny their crimes. Based on a southern criminology approach, the article examines whether challenging atrocities becomes more feasible if organizations led by the victim-survivors themselves take precedence over established state-based or international entities. The key hypothesis is that the degree of effective resistance is directly related to the degree of victims’ involvement in the process. Moreover, this article will go beyond the state of the art (based on victim participation) by advocating a victim-driven model, where victims’ networks play a leading role that is independent from the state and international organizations.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"381 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46883763","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}
Theoretical CriminologyPub Date : 2022-11-01Epub Date: 2022-06-05DOI: 10.1177/13624806221099930
Matthew Light, Anne-Marie Singh, Josh Gold
{"title":"Private security and national security: The case of Estonia.","authors":"Matthew Light, Anne-Marie Singh, Josh Gold","doi":"10.1177/13624806221099930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221099930","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most studies of private security postulate exclusively internal, primarily economic, causes of the industry's growth and regulation. In contrast, based on the case of post-Soviet Estonia, we investigate how a state's external security environment influences private security. Estonia's tense relations with neighbouring Russia and related pursuit of EU and NATO membership have generated several policies through which private security evolved from a lawless, politically contested industry to a modest, lightly regulated one: (1) the exclusion of public police from private security and an effective campaign against organized crime that together enabled an autonomous and non-criminalized security industry to emerge, (2) free-trade policies that permitted western companies to acquire Estonian security firms, and (3) an 'all-of-nation' approach to national security that promotes comprehensive state-civil society security cooperation. Estonia thus clarifies how high politics shapes private security, while also revealing the factors that make the industry relatively uncontentious in most industrialized democracies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 4","pages":"664-683"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/ea/9e/10.1177_13624806221099930.PMC9667076.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40699649","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":"Introduction to Special Issue on comparative criminology: Context, scope and applicability in critical criminological research","authors":"Matthew Light, Anne-Marie Singh","doi":"10.1177/13624806221134310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221134310","url":null,"abstract":"This Special Issue highlights the value of the comparative case study method for theory-building and refinement in criminology. Early figures in criminology, including those in the Chicago School, were aware of the importance of scope and applicability, which refer to the temporal, geographic, or other contextual boundaries of a theory, yet the field as a whole has not always given these issues due attention. While the discipline already deploys comparisons, the contributions in our collection showcase how a more structured and deliberate use of a comparative case study approach engages issues of context, scope and applicability of criminological theory including recent discussions about Anglocentrism and the Global North/South divide.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"525 - 536"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41641563","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 President and the Boss's son: Prosecuting the crimes of America's most powerful","authors":"J. Hagan, B. McCarthy, Daniel Herda","doi":"10.1177/13624806221122610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221122610","url":null,"abstract":"Relatively few theoretical criminologists are recognized for their lasting impact on public policy, and it is therefore instructive to reconsider a scholar whose influence endures. Donald Cressey wrote a theoretically driven Presidential Commission essay that inspired the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). He also advanced a theory of “respectable crime” that explains why this act has more extensively been directed downwards to dismantle ethnically organized criminal groups rather than upwards to prosecute elite political conspiracies led, for example, by Chicago Mayor Richard M Daley and US President Donald J Trump. We present case studies of Daley and Trump that illustrate the continuing relevance and underappreciated potential of Cressey's theoretically driven scholarship.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"357 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49125331","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}
Robert Hallam Tuck, Dorina Damsa, Elizabeth Kullman
{"title":"All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions","authors":"Robert Hallam Tuck, Dorina Damsa, Elizabeth Kullman","doi":"10.1177/13624806221116092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221116092","url":null,"abstract":"Norway, England and Wales, and the USA are among a small number of affluent Western countries to establish ‘all-foreign’ prisons in response to public concerns about the growing threat of foreign-national prisoners. Drawing on collaborative analysis of empirical data collected at all-foreign prisons in these three countries, this article traces the conditions in which all-foreign prisons emerged, the position and function of all-foreign prisons in specific national systems of criminal justice and immigration control, and the operation of all-foreign prisons within each context. The article points to a shared logic, while drawing attention to the local expressions of bordered penality.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"557 - 579"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43721541","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: Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation by Seán Columb","authors":"Matthew Light","doi":"10.1177/13624806221115269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221115269","url":null,"abstract":"Seán Columb ’ s study of Egypt ’ s illicit market in organ transplantation works on many levels. It is simultaneously an empirically rich exploration of the organ trade, a fascinat-ing account of that trade ’ s transformation from a relatively non-violent aspect of the informal economy into a form of violent ‘ organised crime ’ , and a thoughtful re fl ection on the challenges of regulating a highly stigmatised and potentially exploitative economic transaction. The monograph should interest a wide range of audiences within criminology, including scholars wishing to gain additional perspective on related phenomena such as migrant smuggling and the sex trade.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"686 - 688"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45229581","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":"Innocence as burden and resource: Adaptation and resistance during wrongful imprisonment","authors":"Janani Umamaheswar","doi":"10.1177/13624806221112167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221112167","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on theoretical scholarship on adaptation and resistance in prisons, I explore the significance and function of innocence—and the acute sense of non-belonging it triggers in the prison setting—in wrongfully-convicted men's responses to imprisonment. Using in-depth interviews with 15 exonerated men in the United States, I argue that innocence functioned as a double-edged sword for the men as they adapted to their wrongful imprisonment: Innocence represented a social and psychological burden as men adjusted to prison life, but it simultaneously facilitated their resistance to formal and informal penal control. Through a discussion of how the men leveraged their innocence to distance themselves psychologically, socially, and symbolically from the prison world, I highlight how, despite being victims of egregious injustice, wrongfully-convicted men are also agentic resistors of the penal system.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"499 - 516"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43142354","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: Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by Yanilda María González","authors":"Matthew Light","doi":"10.1177/13624806221113636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221113636","url":null,"abstract":"Seán Columb ’ s study of Egypt ’ s illicit market in organ transplantation works on many levels. It is simultaneously an empirically rich exploration of the organ trade, a fascinat-ing account of that trade ’ s transformation from a relatively non-violent aspect of the informal economy into a form of violent ‘ organised crime ’ , and a thoughtful re fl ection on the challenges of regulating a highly stigmatised and potentially exploitative economic transaction. The monograph should interest a wide range of audiences within criminology, including scholars wishing to gain additional perspective on related phenomena such as migrant smuggling and the sex trade.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"684 - 686"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42157119","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 externalization of border control in the global South: The cases of Malaysia and Indonesia","authors":"Maggy Lee","doi":"10.1177/13624806221104867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221104867","url":null,"abstract":"Existing scholarship highlights the novel approaches and the capacity of northern states to control mass mobility by externalizing the border; outsource their control apparatus to migrant sending and transit countries; process and detain irregular arrivals in offshore locations; and expand the reach of sovereign powers extraterritorially. Significantly, the processes and outcomes of externalization are neither homogeneous nor uncontested. This article seeks to provide critical insights into the divergent nature of border externalization and contributes to a de-centring of northern-centric notions of the state’s role in border control by comparing how border control plays out in Malaysia and Indonesia under Australia’s externalization policy agenda. Their different border control outcomes reflect important intervening factors in the two countries’ internal (domestic political and economic realities; attitudes towards migrants and their control) and external (interstate geo-political relations) environment in shaping the situated meanings and the realities of border security building.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":"537 - 556"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48748182","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":"Rehabilitation within pre-crime interventions: The hybrid criminology of social crime prevention and countering violent extremism","authors":"Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Sadi Shanaah","doi":"10.1177/13624806221108866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806221108866","url":null,"abstract":"Criminological literature frequently argues that the rehabilitative penological paradigm of the 20th century (‘penal welfarism’) has been replaced by pre-crime, risk-based, ‘new penology’. Under the conditions of social and economic neoliberalism, it is claimed, the commitment to rehabilitating individuals has been withdrawn. In this article, we explore the curious persistence of rehabilitation—enacted within crime prevention and countering-violent-extremism programmes. We show that rather than ‘new penology’ replacing ‘penal welfarism’, the history of social crime prevention programmes demonstrates the presence of a ‘hybrid penology’. Here, rehabilitation was brought into the pre-criminal space and practised upon pre-delinquents. This pre-emptive rehabilitation of at-risk subjects pervaded preventive policy in both Western Europe and the socialist Former Yugoslavia. In both case studies, this logic of pre-crime rehabilitation then transferred into the counterterrorism sector—with ideological dissidence identified as the threshold for reform-oriented intervention. Rehabilitation remains with us, warped by the turn to pre-emption.","PeriodicalId":47813,"journal":{"name":"Theoretical Criminology","volume":"27 1","pages":"183 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44589265","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}