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Place, Race and Politics presents an integrated analysis of the
social and political processes that combined to construct a
media-driven 'crisis' concerning African youth crime in the city of
Melbourne, Australia. Combining original research and analysis
alongside published sources, the authors carefully dissect the
anatomy of a racialized and politicized public discourse and delve
into the profound impact of this on African-Australian communities
in Melbourne. Drawing on political and media analysis and
community-based research, the authors investigate how South
Sudanese Australians in Melbourne came to be identified,
supposedly, as a unique threat to community safety, the role played
by the media, state and federal politics, the policing and
perceptions of race in this process, and the physical and emotional
impacts on affected communities of the law and order crisis
concerning 'African crime'. While deeply rooted in local
conditions, the book resonates with similar examples of the
criminalization and othering of racialized communities, the
surveillance and exclusion of 'crimmigrants', and with popular
punitivism and the rise of far-right politics globally in response
to deeply felt anxieties about rapid social, economic and cultural
change.
The Emerald Handbook of Crime, Justice and Sustainable Development
brings together a diverse and international collection of essays to
critically examine issues relating to crime and justice in the
United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The United
Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides an
important global framework for advancing human rights, social
justice and environmental sustainability. A number of the Agenda's
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address issues relating to
crime, justice and security, and implicit in the 2030 Agenda is the
assumption that members of the international community 'including
traditional development actors and the myriad international,
non-governmental, private, state and local organizations and actors
that collectively contribute to the global governance of crime'
must work together to enhance the capacities of both developing and
developed countries to achieve this vision. Against this backdrop,
this volume analyses and interrogates the SDGs from different
theoretical and ideological standpoints originating from within and
beyond criminology, illustrating the complex and politically
contentious nature of these issues and providing insight into the
different possibilities that exist for realising the SDGs and
mitigating the risk that initiatives meant to realise the SDGs, may
in fact contribute to harmful and counterproductive policies and
practices. This book will be essential reading for scholars and
students within criminology, criminal justice, socio-legal studies,
international relations and development studies.
This collection presents a diverse set of case studies and
theoretical reflections on how criminologists engage with
practitioners and policy makers while undertaking research. The
contributions to this volume highlight both the challenges and
opportunities associated with doing criminological research in a
reflexive and collaborative manner. They further examine the
ethical and practical implications of the 'impact' agenda in the
higher education sector with respect to the production and the
dissemination of criminological knowledge. Developed to serve as an
internationally accessible reference volume for scholars,
practitioners and postgraduate criminology students, this book
responds to the awareness that criminology as a discipline
increasingly encompasses not only the study of crime, but also the
agencies, process and structures that regulate it. Key questions
include: How can criminal justice policy be studied as part of the
field of criminology? How do we account for our own roles as
researchers who are a part of the policy process? What factors and
dynamics influence, hinder and facilitate 'good policy'?
Speaking Truths to Power: Policy Ethnography and Police Reform in
Bosnia and Herzegovina presents a rigorous analysis of the effects
of globalisation on local policing, drawing on data generated from
two ethnographic case studies conduscted in 2011 in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. By examining structures, mentalities, and practices,
it situates the phenomenon of 'glocal policing' in relation to the
convergence of development and security discourses, and raises
important questions about the purpose and value of criminological
engagements with transnational policing fields. The idea of
'speaking truths to power' (as opposed to a single 'truth') is
illustrated by the author's fieldwork, covering active police
capacity building projects implemented by international development
agencies. Both studies illustrate that global power inequalities
affect police reform projects, but also that nodal opportunities
exist for seemingly disempowered stakeholders, specifically
international development workers and rank-and-file police officers
to mediate their effects. This mediatory role is analysed through
the conceptual lens of 'policy translation', providing an
innovative framework for interpreting how policy meaning and
content are altered as a result of their transmission between
contexts. Through detailed and persuasive investigation, Speaking
Truths to Power argues that it is time for criminologists to look
beyond the established structural critiques of transnational
policing power in order to ensure that this growing body of
research reflects the diverse interests, experiences, and
understandings of the agents and institutions who collectively
populate these fields of policy and practice. Conceptually
sophisticated and thematically ambitious, the book will be of
interest to scholars in the fields of criminology, sociaology,
international relations and socio-legal studies as well as those
who are researching and studying transnational policing, police
reform, and the global governance of crime.
Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus offers the first
criminological account of the relationship between international
development, crime, and security in nearly thirty-five years. It
historically situates and critiques the assumption that crime
represents both a significant threat to economic development and a
consequence of underdevelopment. The book acknowledges evidence of
a heightened risk of experiencing crime and violence for residents
of many ‘developing’ countries but challenges the uncritical
embrace of this empirically and theoretically problematic discourse
by proponents of a post-neoliberal development agenda. It is argued
that many of the reforms advocated for are structurally
criminogenic and that these prescriptions for economic
liberalisation and securitisation fundamentally prioritise the
economic interests and security needs of those who stand to profit
from further incursions by neoliberal globalisation rather than the
economic and security needs of local residents and communities. To
confront this dynamic, the book concludes that international
institutions like the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime
(UNODC) along with major international donors should shift their
attention towards the structural causes of crime and embrace
alternative development approaches, including those informed by
feminist and post-colonial perspectives, in order to address the
major drivers of crime, violence and exploitation in the global
South.
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