Society, madness, and control

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolas Rose
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
And Control

What role does psychiatry play in contemporary strategies of control? How do psychiatrists and their institutions operate within all those ways of thinking and acting that aim to eliminate, minimize, or manage conduct that authorities consider undesirable? Since the middle of the nineteenth century, two great assemblages for the control of pathological conduct have taken shape in Western societies—the criminal justice system and the psychiatric system. This chapter will explore how these assemblages interact and how those who some now term forensic psychiatrists have claimed, or been given, the task of managing a multiplicity of points of tension, friction, and conflict within this dual logic of control. In doing so, the chapter considers the rise of risk thinking in psychiatry and some social, political, and ethical consequences.

scholarly journals They’re talking about penal abolition: The urgency of re-imagining different paths as alternatives to the criminal justice system

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 444-471
Author(s):  
Jehanne Hulsman ◽  
Diogo Justino
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
And Control

Abstract This article affirms the centrality of the themes of public security and penal populism for the understanding of the current political situation. From this premise, we will demonstrate how these themes dealt with by antagonistic sectors of society. Then, based on the criticism of the prison and control, it will be possible to offer keys for understanding the moment in which we live and responses that oppose punitivism.

The Criminal Justice Response to Policy Interventions: Evidence from Immigration Reform

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 214-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Bohn ◽  
Matthew Freedman ◽  
Emily Owens
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
And Control ◽  
Criminal Justice Response

Changes in the treatment of individuals by the criminal justice system following a policy intervention may bias estimates of the effects of the intervention on underlying criminal activity. We explore the importance of such changes in the context of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Using administrative data from San Antonio, Texas, we examine variation across neighborhoods and ethnicities in police arrests and in the rate at which those arrests are prosecuted. We find that changes in police behavior around IRCA confound estimates of the effects of the policy and its restrictions on employment on criminal activity.

scholarly journals ‘A really hostile environment’: Adiaphorization, global policing and the crimmigration control system

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Bowling ◽  
Sophie Westenra
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Control ◽  
Global Systems

This article examines institutional practices designed to control criminalized migrants in the UK and advances three arguments. First, these practices have evolved, since the early 1970s, into a bespoke ‘crimmigration control system’ distinct from the domestic criminal justice system. Second, this system is directed exclusively at efficient exclusion and control; through a process of adiaphorization, moral objections to the creation of a ‘really hostile environment’ have been disabled. Third, the pursuit of the criminalized immigrant—a globally recognized ‘folk devil’—provides a vital link between domestic and global systems of policing, punishment and exclusion. The UK crimmigration control system is an example of wider processes that are taking place in institutions concerned with the control of suspect populations across the globe.

Experimental Design in the Study of Crime Media and Popular Culture

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara Rabe-Hemp ◽  
John C. Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Epistemological Foundation ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Major Disadvantage ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mediated Images ◽  
And Control

In the study of crime media and popular culture, researchers have a wide range of research methodologies at their disposal. Each methodology or standardized practice for producing knowledge involves an epistemological foundation and rules of evidence for making a claim, as well as a set of practices for generating evidence of the claim. The research methodology chosen is contingent upon the question being studied, as each methodology has strengths and weaknesses. As the most stringent research design, experiments are unique because they are the only methodology able to establish causality. This is because experimental design’s major advantage is that researchers can control the environment, conditions, and variables that are being studied. However, experiments suffer from a major disadvantage as well: the precision and control utilized in experiments make it difficult to apply the findings to the real world, referred to as generalizability. This is especially poignant in crime media and popular culture studies where researchers are often interested in exploring how the criminal justice system, participants, and processes are socially constructed and how the mediated images impact our conceptualization of criminality and appropriate criminal justice system responses.

scholarly journals “A Most Detestable Crime”: Gender Identities and Sexual Violence in the District of Montreal, 1803-1843

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Women Judges

Abstract This paper explores the ambivalent attitudes of the criminal justice system, and indeed of society as a whole, towards crimes of sexual violence in Montreal from 1803-43. Nineteenth-century society acknowledged that rape was a heinous crime deserving of harsh punishment, yet the courts were confronted with a much murkier reality in which drastically different and gendered accounts of the alleged crime were presented by the accuser, the accused, and the witnesses. Female complainants defined rape in terms of personal violation; the accused conceived of it in the context of negotiation of their sexual access to women; judges and juries conceptualized rape in terms of dominant ideas about appropriate gender relations; and medical doctors understood rape in terms of bodily marks and physical signs. The criminal court for the District of Montreal becomes a microcosm in which societal ideas about relationships between men and women were articulated, constructed, resisted, and imposed.

scholarly journals Money Laundering and Deprivation of Illegally Obtained Assets in Brazil: An Overview of the Current National Legislation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Emília Merlini Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Brazilian Legislation ◽  
Long Time ◽  
And Control ◽  
Critical Overview

Abstract The present paper aims to provide a comprehensive yet critical overview of current Brazilian legislation on money-laundering prevention and control. Given that stripping criminals of their illegal profits has for a long time been considered one of the most important measures in the fight against international and organized crime, a part of this paper explores the legal mechanisms that allow for this to take place as a consequence of crime and, especially, in connection with money laundering in the context of the Brazilian criminal justice system.

scholarly journals Crime Victims and Offenders in Mediation: An Emerging Area of Criminology and Correctional Administration

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rangappa N M
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Crime Victims ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Community Organizers ◽  
Conscious Level ◽  
Offending Behaviour ◽  
And Control

Criminologists are playing an increasing role in all fields of life, the mediation of conflict between crime victims and their offenders. By serving as community organizers, program developers and managers, trainers and mediators, Criminologists are affecting criminal justice system. In correction, Criminology not only helps individuals, groups and community to solve problems, but also assists them to prevent offending behaviour and enrich their living. So, the main focus of the Criminology is upon helping people to prevent and control crime. The Criminology usually works with clients on a conscious level, helping them to face realities and solve problems in preventing and controlling offending behaviours. Victim-offender mediation provides an opportunity for crime victims to meet the offender, talk about the offence, express concerns and negotiate a mutually agreeable restitution agreement. A brief overview of mediation process is presented in this paper. The issues related to program development and replication is also identified.

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