The Routledge Handbook on International Police Violence, 2018
This chapter makes the case that the violence associated with police militarization is not "sense... more This chapter makes the case that the violence associated with police militarization is not "senseless"; rather, it is a crucial component of a rational and robust political-economic and racial project. This analysis examines the foundational role that CJ economic forces assert in driving state violence, and the threat thereof, particularly as it relates to police militarization.
Within Criminal Justice/Criminology, “theory” is generally assumed to be concerned with crime and... more Within Criminal Justice/Criminology, “theory” is generally assumed to be concerned with crime and crime rates. Studying criminal justice is tacitly, and sometimes explicitly, relegated to the narrow role of evaluative and descriptive scholarship. This article explores the reasons for our field’s failure to recognize the importance of developing an accessible and well-recognized theoretical infrastructure not about crime, but criminal justice and crime control phenom- ena. It examines the complexity of our object of study when theorizing criminal justice and the efficacy of organizing criminal justice theory using multiple “theoretical orientations.” The conclusion stresses the essentiality of criminal justice theory, with particular emphasis on academic credibility, quality research, informed practices, and sound pedagogy.
Illicit steroid and human growth hormone use by professional athletes has received significant me... more Illicit steroid and human growth hormone use by professional athletes has received significant media and political attention in the last five years. The resulting political pressure has compelled federal law enforcement to prosecute serious new control initiatives. To date, no academic research inquiring into the nature of this illicit industry exists. This study fills this void through the mixed methods approach—employing both ethnographic field research and quantitative content analysis. The ethnographic data demonstrate a fascinating late-modern trafficking scheme where the central informant established an apartment-based manufacturing operation, converting raw steroid chemical compounds ordered off the Internet into injectable solutions. Content analysis of 186 websites that supply anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) demonstrates that these grounded findings are indicative of a much larger phenomenon. Our final analysis examines the broader theoretical relevance of the ethnographic findings through contex- tualizing them within macro-structural (supply) and macro-cultural (demand) social forces.
This work examines the blurring distinctions between the police and military institutions and bet... more This work examines the blurring distinctions between the police and military institutions and between war and law enforcement. In this article, the author asserts that understanding this blur, and the associated organizing concepts militarization and militarism, are essential for accurately analyzing the changing nature of security, and the activity of policing, in the late-modern era of the 21st century.
Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 1998
... Question cluster 3, presented in Table II, steers audience interpretation away from a politic... more ... Question cluster 3, presented in Table II, steers audience interpretation away from a political-economically based understanding of policing to a scientific focus; an interpretation not based on traditional legal actions or activities but on the imaged products of policing. ...
Résumé/Abstract Ce commentaire souligne les difficultés actuelles rencontées en matière de concep... more Résumé/Abstract Ce commentaire souligne les difficultés actuelles rencontées en matière de conceptualisation, de recherche et de traitement du crime d'Etat. L'absence de consensus quant à la définition d'un crime d'Etat, ainsi que les réticences de la part des services relevant de l'Etat expliquent en partie certains blocages. Il fournit également une série de recommandations pour favoriser l'acceptation de la recherche sur le crime d'Etat dans le champ de la criminologie et de la justice criminelle. La résistance populaire aux ...
The Routledge Handbook on International Police Violence, 2018
This chapter makes the case that the violence associated with police militarization is not "sense... more This chapter makes the case that the violence associated with police militarization is not "senseless"; rather, it is a crucial component of a rational and robust political-economic and racial project. This analysis examines the foundational role that CJ economic forces assert in driving state violence, and the threat thereof, particularly as it relates to police militarization.
Within Criminal Justice/Criminology, “theory” is generally assumed to be concerned with crime and... more Within Criminal Justice/Criminology, “theory” is generally assumed to be concerned with crime and crime rates. Studying criminal justice is tacitly, and sometimes explicitly, relegated to the narrow role of evaluative and descriptive scholarship. This article explores the reasons for our field’s failure to recognize the importance of developing an accessible and well-recognized theoretical infrastructure not about crime, but criminal justice and crime control phenom- ena. It examines the complexity of our object of study when theorizing criminal justice and the efficacy of organizing criminal justice theory using multiple “theoretical orientations.” The conclusion stresses the essentiality of criminal justice theory, with particular emphasis on academic credibility, quality research, informed practices, and sound pedagogy.
Illicit steroid and human growth hormone use by professional athletes has received significant me... more Illicit steroid and human growth hormone use by professional athletes has received significant media and political attention in the last five years. The resulting political pressure has compelled federal law enforcement to prosecute serious new control initiatives. To date, no academic research inquiring into the nature of this illicit industry exists. This study fills this void through the mixed methods approach—employing both ethnographic field research and quantitative content analysis. The ethnographic data demonstrate a fascinating late-modern trafficking scheme where the central informant established an apartment-based manufacturing operation, converting raw steroid chemical compounds ordered off the Internet into injectable solutions. Content analysis of 186 websites that supply anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) demonstrates that these grounded findings are indicative of a much larger phenomenon. Our final analysis examines the broader theoretical relevance of the ethnographic findings through contex- tualizing them within macro-structural (supply) and macro-cultural (demand) social forces.
This work examines the blurring distinctions between the police and military institutions and bet... more This work examines the blurring distinctions between the police and military institutions and between war and law enforcement. In this article, the author asserts that understanding this blur, and the associated organizing concepts militarization and militarism, are essential for accurately analyzing the changing nature of security, and the activity of policing, in the late-modern era of the 21st century.
Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 1998
... Question cluster 3, presented in Table II, steers audience interpretation away from a politic... more ... Question cluster 3, presented in Table II, steers audience interpretation away from a political-economically based understanding of policing to a scientific focus; an interpretation not based on traditional legal actions or activities but on the imaged products of policing. ...
Résumé/Abstract Ce commentaire souligne les difficultés actuelles rencontées en matière de concep... more Résumé/Abstract Ce commentaire souligne les difficultés actuelles rencontées en matière de conceptualisation, de recherche et de traitement du crime d'Etat. L'absence de consensus quant à la définition d'un crime d'Etat, ainsi que les réticences de la part des services relevant de l'Etat expliquent en partie certains blocages. Il fournit également une série de recommandations pour favoriser l'acceptation de la recherche sur le crime d'Etat dans le champ de la criminologie et de la justice criminelle. La résistance populaire aux ...
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