18 research outputs found
Policing Black People In Britain
No Abstract International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 3 (1) 2007 pp. 47-5
Double Injustice, Double Trauma: The Effects of Acquittal of Offenders Upon the Families of Victims of Homicide
Governing Young People: coherence and contradiction in contemporary youth justice
This article explores the burgeoning literature on modes and layers of governance and applies it to the complex of contemporary youth justice reform. Globalized neo-liberal processes of responsibilization and risk management coupled with traditional neo-conservative authoritarian strategies have dominated the political landscape. However, they also have to work alongside or within ânewâ conceptions of social inclusion, partnership, restoration and moralization. These apparently contradictory strategies open up the possibility of multiple localized translations rather than an often assumed dominance of a uniform âculture of controlâ. The ensuing hybridity also suggests that any coherence within contemporary youth justice relies on continual negotiations between opposing, yet overlapping, discursive practices
Conclusion: Comparative Assessment of Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in the Americas
Hierarchies, markets and networks: ethnicity/race and drug distribution
Three modelsâhierarchies, markets, and networksâare used to explore the organization of drug distribution and the place of ethnicity/race in that. These models are well established as conceptual approaches to the coordination of social life. Each of them is employed in the analysis of drug distribution, though not always clearly. This paper aims to elucidate their key features as they bear on questions of ethnicity/race. In doing so, it problematizes the way that ethnicity/race is employed in research and policy circles and challenges naĂŻve assumptions about ethnic sameness and ethnicity/race as bases for organizing drug distribution. Ethnicity may be a useful resource for criminal and legitimate enterprises but both comparisons between the two and details of what is specifically ethnic are generally lacking. Some avenues for future research and simple principles to guide such research are proposed