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Collective Morality and Crime in the Americas (Hardcover)
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Collective Morality and Crime in the Americas (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
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This study examines the ways in which the moral community is
"talked into being" in relation to crime, and the objects of
concern that typically occupy its attention. It maps the imagined
moral universe of the virtuous and the criminal and charts the
relations between these two groups in the "history of the present."
It examines the calls to action which symbolically endow the moral
community with power. And it looks at the character and content of
collective moralizing. The source materials are commentaries about
crime and criminal justice appearing in selected newspapers across
the Americas. The moral "talk" found there is stylized, routine,
trivial and occasionally dramatic. It looks nothing like the
weightier renderings of morality that derive from the
reconstruction of a particular "ethic" or from the systematic
probing of values and moral reasoning. And its fuzzy, offhand,
unexceptional and frequently unsystematic nature makes it a
difficult candidate for explaining either stability or change in
crime policies. But moral talk has intrinsic importance as the
creator and sustainer of an imagined moral community, a community
that symbolizes the existence and vigor of morality itself and
confers a crucially important identity on its self-proclaimed
members. And moral talk reveals inherent intersections between
normative, empirical and technical discourses, highlighting the
relationships between morality, science and social engineering.
Thus, a prosaic, instrumental, model of morality is particularly
strong in North America, but only found in a more abstract form in
Latin America, where it sits alongside a stirring vision of
morality, more directly anchored in virtue. Research on social
problems, moral panics and the sociology of morality has largely
overlooked the type of moral discourse studied here. While
emphasizing the culturally contingent nature of the findings, the
conclusion reflects on their significance for understanding the
nature of moralizing, the artifacts of talk and the construction of
identity.
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