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Harms and the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Political Ecology, Green Criminology and the European Eel

This paper integrates political ecology and green criminology to examine the critical endangerment of the European eel. Using a harms-based approach, our research suggests that the identification of ... our understandings of harms, crimes and social justice as related to wildlife (see Brisman 2017; Cao Ngoc and Wyatt 2013; Sollund 2020, 2022; Wyatt 2022a) and by political ecologists concerned with

Stranger Danger: The Political Debate on Crimmigrants

-right parties in the Nordic countries. This article fuses crimmigration research with studies of political debates, to explore the current parliamentary debate on crimmigrants in Sweden. It looks at how ... , and strangers to danger. The empirical analysis identifies five narrative characters that are discussed in the Swedish political debate on immigrants and crime. The study shows that even firm

Activism or Domestic Terrorism? How the Terrorism Enhancement Is Used to Punish Acts of Political Protest

proven difficult to articulate a definition of domestic terrorism that does not implicate the right to political protest.25 The right to protest is critical to a functioning democracy26 — but so too is the ... ability to live free from a persistent threat of violence.27 It is thus difficult to express when, exactly, we should label an act that is meant to create political pressure as an act of terrorism. This

Reinventing Black Womanhood: Alternative Media and Identity Discourse in the 2019 Chicago Mayoral Race

to examine the multiple identities of Black women and how such identities determine their representation in socio-cultural and political spaces. The findings from this study show that agency is a major ... ., 2019) . Lightfoot eventually emerged as the winner. Lori Lightfoot’s Black woman identity sets a new tone for the city’s political climate as well as the Black community. It showed a vigorous attempt to

Biology and Criminology: Data Practices and the Creation of Anatomic and Genomic Body ‘Types’

crime control, marking is a sensitive and political practice. Since typing is embedded in criminology, our analysis is also a critical engagement with criminology itself. ... their social life. After all, any such typologies are supposed to be used in law enforcement, meaning socio-political practices. ‘Phenotyping’ as a Practice of Marking Visuals, as argued above, are part

Constitution Notwithstanding: The Political Illegitimacy of the Death Penalty in American Democracy

This Comment argues that the death penalty is inconsistent with underlying principles of American democracy and is thus illegitimate as a matter of political philosophy, despite its conceded ... concludes that the death penalty ought to be rejected as a matter of political philosophy and that permanent abolition cannot be achieved through the traditional courtroom attacks. Lasting repeal of death

Transversal Harm and Zemiology: Reconsidering Green Criminology and Mineral Extractivism in Cerro de Pasco, Peru

combines qualitative methods (key informant interviews), a zemiological analysis, and the political ecology of Felix Guattari, we present a reconceptualization of harm inflicted by mineral extractivism in ... on the political ecology of Felix Guattari, and in particular his concept of transversality as employed in his framework of the “three ecologies” (Guattari [1989] 2008) . This form of political

The Multitudinous Racial Harms Caused by Florida’s Anti-DEI and “Stop WOKE” Laws

individual instructors. HB 7’s overarching objective is to disallow course discussions and assignments on systemic and structural analyses of how race and racism have impacted the social, political, and ... of Florida Historian Paul Ortiz describes faculty compliance with stringent new state laws as an example of the political theory concept of “anticipatory obedience,” saying: “The state doesn’t even

Governing Immobility in the COVID-19 Crisis in Italy: Non-conforming Behaviors of Migrants Confronting the New Old Processes of Othering

examination of how power dynamics and people's lives, once deemed sacrificable, continue to be influenced and vulnerable at a social and political level. ... reframe their social and political issues as matters of security, public health and public order. In the examples above, it becomes apparent how institutions in various contexts have prioritized objectives

Prosecution and Polarization

war crimes prosecutions in Ukraine. Second, we live in a time of polarization, both at home and abroad. Cultural and political division is elevated domestically, while the international community ... survey theories of philosophy, psychology, and sociology that show the complexity of social meaning. It argues that this dynamic thus complicates scholarly notions that criminal justice should do

Inauthenticity, Delusion, and Victimization: Interrogating Affective Rhetoric Targeting Trans* Youth

has continued to ground anti-trans* activism in the United States. Gender Affirming Healthcare-as-Sterilizing: A Slippery Slope Broader cultural and political discourses around gender and sex/uality ... with trans* identities, but KP-0401 takes one step further to implicate not just youth, but their parents, into this “drift” and the negative affects it contains (p. 65). The political/social/legal

Parliamentary Debates Concerning the Living Conditions of Pigs in Sweden’s Factory Farms Between 1980–2018

welfare. Political claims of having the best animal welfare legislation in the world are used when arguing for decreasing as well as enhancing the living conditions. ... in the criminological study of harm against animals. My intention with this study is to take the work of Wyatt (2014) and Sollund (2017) a step further and explore the political mechanisms that

Prosecuting the Crisis

). 2. See, e.g., David Alan Sklansky, The Changing Political Landscape for Elected Prosecutors, 14 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 647, 647–49 (2017); Bruce A. Green & Rebecca Roiphe, When Prosecutors Politick ... and political functions.10 Drawing on the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall and criminologist Jonathan Simon, I argue that criminal law and prosecution have come to operate as primary sites of

From Meaning to Ecocide: The Value of Phenomenology for Green Criminology

. Hermeneutic Phenomenology Phenomenology had been a part of philosophy for centuries, but the discipline in its contemporary form was inaugurated by Husserl (1900, 1901) with Logical Investigations. Husserl ... premoral is debatable and one of his students, Levinas (1961) , argued that ethics in fact preceded ontology as philosophy. The more pressing problem is that authenticity is an explicitly amoral concept

Expendable Lives: Race and Segmented Representation in the Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States

public attitudes toward criminal justice which they strategically molded themselves. Drawing in part on political science literature that has as yet been little used within criminology, this article seeks ... Xenakis 0 1 0 Birkbeck, University of London , London , UK 1 London School of Economics and Political Science , London , UK One of the most enduring debates in the study of the evolution of criminal

Introduction to the Special Issue in the Journal of Critical Criminology Mapping Covid Nonconformities

of disinformation and social media censorship, the lack of coherency in political decision making, scientific debate and corporate responsibility fuelled social conflicts, polarization, division, and ... criminological studies explore several cultural, social, and political counter movements that place emphasis on power structures that exclude and marginalize different social groups, as well as how different

Privatization and Political Accountability

This article draws some general connections between privatization and political accountability. Although the main focus of the article is to examine different types of privatization, specifically ... connections between privatization and political accountability. Political accountability is to be understood as the amenability of a government policy or activity to monitoring through the political process

Embracing ‘Abolition Ecology’: A Green Criminological Rejoinder

Recent debates in political ecology have sought to highlight and excavate the complex connectivity between ecological and carceral harms (e.g. Heynen and Ybarra in Antipode 53:21–35, 2021; Pellow ... ) . Recent scholarly debates, particularly in the fields of political ecology and human geography, have sought to emphasise and unearth the complex connectivity between ecological and carceral harms (Pellow

The Political Economy of City Power

. L.J. 91 (2017). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol44/iss1/4 - Article 4 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CITY POWER ... revealed both the entrenched inequities in America’s basic infrastructure and the striking limits of the electoral, economic, and political power of residents living in struggling municipalities.7 This lack

New York City’s Public Housing Preservation Trust: The Case for Cautious Optimism, Necessity, and Racial Justice

opposed to a direct housing provider. Thus, there was a “steady disinvestment, both literal and political, from the commitment to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing through public ownership.” 62 ... During that era, many families that could leave public housing did. As Richard Rothstein noted, “[t]he loss of middle-class tenants also removed a constituency that had possessed the political strength to