Indigenous People, Organized Crime and Natural Resources: Borders, Incentives and Relations
Indigenous People, Organized Crime and Natural Resources: Borders, Incentives and Relations Abstract This article explores the relationship between the Emberá–Wounaan and Akha Indigenous people and organized crime groups vying for…
Southern Green Cultural Criminology and Environmental Crime Prevention: Representations of Nature Within Four Colombian Indigenous Communities
Southern Green Cultural Criminology and Environmental Crime Prevention: Representations of Nature Within Four Colombian Indigenous Communities Abstract This exploratory study develops a “southern green cultural criminology” approach to the prevention…
Decolonizing Southern Criminology: What Can the “Decolonial Option” Tell Us About Challenging the Modern/Colonial Foundations of Criminology?
Decolonizing Southern Criminology: What Can the “Decolonial Option” Tell Us About Challenging the Modern/Colonial Foundations of Criminology? Abstract Southern criminology has been recognized as a leading theoretical development for attempting…
Resistance and the Radical Imagination: A Reflection on the Role of the Critical Criminologist in Social Movements
Resistance and the Radical Imagination: A Reflection on the Role of the Critical Criminologist in Social Movements Abstract At times of global unrest and the emergence of a wide range…
Kettle Logic
Kettle Logic Abstract This article unearths the political logic of the police kettle. Rather than add to the mundane debate about civil liberties or models of policing, this article argues…
“It Often Feels Like You Are Talking to a Wall”: Police and Private Security Responses to the Campaign to Protect Pont Valley Against Opencast Coal Extraction
“It Often Feels Like You Are Talking to a Wall”: Police and Private Security Responses to the Campaign to Protect Pont Valley Against Opencast Coal Extraction Abstract Conflict between police,…
Essential Crimes? Essential Punishments? Rethinking Essentiality in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Essential Crimes? Essential Punishments? Rethinking Essentiality in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic Abstract The phrases, “essential businesses” and “essential jobs,” emerged at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, raising…
Rediscovering the Relative Deprivation and Crime Debate: Tracking its Fortunes from Left Realism to the Precariat
Rediscovering the Relative Deprivation and Crime Debate: Tracking its Fortunes from Left Realism to the Precariat Abstract This article revisits the concept of relative deprivation and asks whether it is…
The Urban Zemiology of Carnival Row : Allegory, Racism and Revanchism
The Urban Zemiology of Carnival Row : Allegory, Racism and Revanchism Abstract This article makes the case for the zemiological value of Fredric Jameson’s (2019) model of fourfold allegory. Zemiological…
Zero-Tolerance in Catalonia: Policing the Other in Public Space
Zero-Tolerance in Catalonia: Policing the Other in Public Space Abstract Recent studies have argued for more nuanced understandings of zero tolerance (ZT) policing, rendering it essential to analyze the significance…
Exploring Violent Cosmologies From a “Radical Interactionist” Approach
Exploring Violent Cosmologies From a “Radical Interactionist” Approach Abstract This article advances a theoretical perspective on violent crime, using interviews with male prisoners in Italy who had perpetrated violence. By drawing…
In the Shadow of the Monster: Gothic Narratives of Violence Prevention
In the Shadow of the Monster: Gothic Narratives of Violence Prevention Abstract This article examines narratives by professionals working on preventing gender-based violence in Sweden through a Gothic lens. It…