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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

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

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

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

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

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

Pakistani healthcare professionals’ perceptions of communication with patients and their relatives about hereditary breast cancer: a qualitative study in a LMIC

highlighted the need for interventions to support intrafamilial communication about HBC. Much research and political support are needed to address patient, social, and systemic-level barriers to facilitate ... BRCA 1 and 2 genes for BC patients and their first-degree relatives, but only via private health services. Political intervention is needed to provide equitable access to genetic testing for all patients

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

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

How Far does Prison Punishment Extend? Re-entry Processes in the Digitalised Society

approaches social control from a humanistic criminological perspective where the person is at the centre. However, even in putting people in the centre, Christies’ analytical approach in his philosophy of ... threshold for interpersonal conflict resolution is higher, and the limit to inflicting pain on each other is lower (Christie 1972) . Both Deleuze’s theory of control societies and Christie’s philosophy of

Editorial 31(3)

.:(012314563789) - Welcome to the new issue of Critical Criminology: An International Journal. It appears in a global context of deepening socio-economic inequalities, heightened political anxiety and staggering ... looking on either complicit in the rush towards extinction or standing paralyzed, lacking the will to resist the usual cast of corporate extractivists and their political proxies. Into this asymmetrical

Academics Versus Athletics? The Protection and Prioritization of College Athletics in an Era of Neoliberal Austerity

loss. Here, drawing on Thompson’s (2005: 23) conceptualization of neoliberalism as an “ethic, a set of political imperatives, and a cultural logic,” the protection of college athletics over academics ... athletics and academics by the neo-liberal university. Drawing on Thompson’s (2005: 23) conceptualization of neoliberalism as an “ethic, a set of political imperatives, and a cultural logic,” I will utilize

Discourses of Political Policing in Post-patten Northern Ireland

This article critically examines discourses of political policing in contemporary Northern Ireland (NI). Recognising the post-conflict and post-reform climate that policing now occurs within, it ... policing now occurs within, it argues that these environmental factors have conditioned discourses of policing that are directly tied to how legitimate political opposition to the political status quo in

Governing Queer Histories and Futures: A Critical Place-Based Analysis of State Apology

a critical place-based analysis of the Tasmanian apology that is attentive to the specificities of the region’s political, social, and cultural context. We argue that the parliament’s attempts to ... repealed in May 1997, years after similar laws had been repealed across the mainland Australian states. Fierce political opposition to the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in Tasmania saw activists

“Missing the Community for the Dots”: Newspaper Crime Maps, Territorial Stigma and Visual Criminology

) . For example, crime maps that spatially represent alleged ‘hotspots’ of crime contribute to providing an ideological backdrop of ‘tough on crime’ political rhetoric and policing tactics, despite the well ... producing specific spatial knowledges and, crucially, what social and political consequences such representations might have for residents of depicted communities? For example, various studies have shown how

Ethics of artificial intelligence in prenatal and pediatric genomic medicine

. For some, public and political concern about AI, plus its fast pace and relative novelty, could heighten distrust and simultaneously increase the desirability of transparency and openness in high-stakes ... responsibility gaps with artificial intelligence: why they matter and how to address them . Philosophy & Technology 34 ( 4 ): 1057 - 1084 . https://doi.org/10. 1007/s13347-021-00450-x Scott IA , Carter SM , Coiera

Kettle Logic

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 that the kettle reveals nothing ... then gains some momentum in the seventeenth century. In political texts, such as Hobbes’s Leviathan, the move from the state of nature to the political state is a mechanism to contain every person

Young People, Antisocial Behavior and Unemployment: Toward a Trans-Disciplinary Analysis of Criminalization

. 267 - 288 ). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Tomlin , P. ( 2013 ). Extending the Golden Thread? Criminalisation and the Presumption of Innocence . Journal of Political Philosophy , 21 ( 1 ), 44 ... criminalization lacks social and political legitimacy. In current everyday parlance, “to criminalize” generally refers to the act of prosecuting an individual or making an activity illegal. But in much academic