61 research outputs found
Equity and Quality in Higher Education
No Abstract International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 3 (2) 2007 pp.283-29
Green Criminology Before âGreen Criminologyâ: Amnesia and Absences
Although the first published use of the term âgreen criminologyâ seems to have been made by Lynch (Green criminology. Aldershot, Hampshire, 1990/2006), elements of the analysis and critique represented by the term were established well before this date. There is much criminological engagement with, and analysis of, environmental crime and harm that occurred prior to 1990 that deserves acknowledgement. In this article, we try to illuminate some of the antecedents of green criminology. Proceeding in this way allows us to learn from âabsencesâ, i.e. knowledge that existed but has been forgotten. We conclude by referring to green criminology not as an exclusionary label or barrier but as a symbol that guides and inspires the direction of research
Born radicals? Prevent, positivism, and ârace-thinkingâ
In the contemporary Western climate, counter-terrorism discourse dealing with so-called Islamic extremism appears to be obsessed with trying to understand the motives behind what prompts somebody to turn to terrorism. This paper will argue that attempts to locate extremist motives in such a way can be seen to reinforce earlier iterations of positivist criminology and race-thinking. Through a critical examination of the works of criminologist Cesare Lombroso, this paper will tease out the interconnections between his âcriminal typesâ thesis, and the British governmentâs current Prevent policy that seeks to identify âextremist types.â By developing a rich critique of these positivist approaches, the paper will go on to question how we might think beyond the essentialism, reductivism, and racism/Islamophobia inherent within such frameworks. In this way, the paper raises a series of conceptual implications for criminology and terrorism studies, while at the same time, develops a contribution to critical race and ethnicity studies
Dear British criminology: Where has all the race and racism gone?
In this article we use Emirbayer and Desmondâs institutional reflexivity framework to critically examine the production of racial knowledge in British criminology. Identifying weakness, neglect and marginalization in theorizing race and racism, we focus principally on the disciplinary unconscious element of their three-tier framework, identifying and interrogating aspects of criminologyâs âobligatory problematicsâ, âhabits of thoughtâ and âposition-takingâ as well as its institutional structure and social relations that combine to render the discipline âinstitutionally whiteâ. We also consider, briefly, aspects of criminologyâs relationship to race, racism and whiteness in the USA. The final part of the article makes the case for British criminology to engage in telling and narrating racisms, urging it to understand the complexities of race in our subject matter, avoid its reduction to class and inequality, and to pay particular attention to reflexivity, history, sociology and language, turning to face race with postcolonial tools and resolve
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