Davies / Wyatt Crime and Power

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-57314-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This textbook makes a concerted effort to expose crimes committed by those wielding unfettered personal power and crimes by corporations, business and states, crimes against human and non-human species and the environment. It examines an increasingly complex interplay of issues which surely should be at the heart of any criminology programme. This text adopts a fresh and innovative approach to exposing the crimes of the powerful, situating and understanding crimes and victimisations as it does within a framework where questions of structural and personal power in society are key. 

Fourteen case studies are threaded throughout the book and this methodology is used as a teaching resource for studying and uncovering the crimes of the powerful. The first three chapters comprehensively contextualise the problems of crime and power and establish the importance of power to understanding crime and victimisation in society. The chapters within Part I and Part II of the book then explore individual and group power respectively. Each of these chapters explore a case study or case examples followed by ‘Pause for Thought’ questions. Bigger ‘Go Further’ study questions are posed at the close of these chapters challenging students to engage in their own case study research to investigate the dynamics of crime and power. 

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Pamela

Wyatt, Tanya

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Authors
Acknowledgements
1. Crime and Power: IntroductionCrime and PowerWhy Power is ImportantUseful TerminologyThe Case Study ApproachWhat is a case study?The case for the case study in criminological research Our case studiesThe LayoutReferences
2. What is Power and Who are the Powerful?IntroductionWhat is Power? Power is relational Power is about decision-makingPower is about having agencyPower is economicPower is about resourcesPower is structuralPower can be positivePower is visible and invisibleSummaryWho has Power? Frank Pearce’s (1976) Crimes of the PowerfulIndividual and Group PowerWhere is the Power?How is Power used and Why?Summary: How are power, harm, and crime connected?Pause for ThoughtReferences
3. The Invisibility of Crimes of the PowerfulIntroductionThe Seven Features of InvisibilityNo knowledge No statistics No theory No research No control No politics No panic! The Media SummaryPause for ThoughtThe Seven Spatial Typologies of Invisible CrimesThe BodyThe HomeThe StreetThe SuiteThe EnvironmentThe StateThe VirtualPause for ThoughtSummaryReferences
Part 1: Individuals and Power DynamicsIntersectionalitiesPart 1: Chapters 4-8Questions to PonderReferences
4. Class, Status and ElitesIntroductionCrime and the ‘Lower’ ClassesWhat is class?Crime, statistics, and povertyDefinitions of CrimeWhite-collar CrimeThe scattered effects of white-collar crimeThe trend away from a criminal justice system response to corporate crimeCharacteristics of the perpetratorsThe limitations of white-collar crimePause for ThoughtMore than just White-collar CrimeCase Study – Harvey WeinsteinCase Study Discussion: Hiding in Plain SightPause for ThoughtElitism and CrimeGo FurtherReferences
5. Race and EthnicityIntroductionThe Political Economy of Colonisation Case Study – Black Lives MatterPause for ThoughtPolice shootings in the United StatesSlavery and Civil RightsContemporary Racial Profiling  The Impact of Zero-tolerance PolicingControl and Adaptations to ControlConnections to the pastPunishment and surveillance in the modern eraSummaryGo FurtherReferences
6. ReligionIntroductionCase Study 1 - Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries: Historical background and contemporary developments and discourseCase Study 2 - Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in TuamMagdelenism and the Role of the StateThe Catholic Church and the new moralityPause for ThoughtThe All Powerful Total Institution: ContainmentDiscipline and PunishSilence and DenialPower and Activism Pause for ThoughtSummaryGo FurtherReferences
7. GenderIntroductionThe Sex/Gender Dichotomy and Binarism Gender, Power and FeminismsThe Gender Order and Social Structural PowerPatriarchyThe ‘Man’ QuestionGender and Individual PowerCase Study 1: The Sauvage CasePause for ThoughtCoercive PowerDiscussion Gender, Culture and Economic PowerCase Study 2: Saudi Arabia Women’s Driving BanPause for ThoughtSummary Go FurtherReferences
8. AgeIntroductionConstructing Age as a Social CategoryDefining ‘Old’ and ‘Young’Criminal ResponsibilityBox 8.1: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the ChildAge, Crime and Victimisation in ContextTable 8.1: Age of Criminal Responsibility around the WorldBox 8.2 ‘Youth Justice’ Figure 8.1: Age-Crime CurveCase Study 1 – The Murder of James BulgerPause for ThoughtPower, Powerlessness, and VulnerabilityCase Study 2 – Exploring Elder Abuse in AustraliaPause for ThoughtIdeal Victims and AgePopular Representations and VisibilitySummaryGo FurtherReferences
Part 2: Groups, Power and CriminalityQuestions to PonderReferences
9. CorporationsIntroductionWhat is a Corporation and What is Corporate Crime? Corporate crimeWhy are Corporations Criminogenic?Finance CrimesIllegal share dealings and mergersTax evasionIllegal accountingBriberyOffenses Against ConsumersCase Study 1 Volkswagen’s Defeat DevicePause for ThoughtCrimes Against EmployeesEnvironmental OffensesCase Study 2 Carbofin the Italian Shipping CompanyPause for thoughtThe Consequences of Corporate PowerControlTrends in controlAlternatives to current approachesPower through invisibility No knowledgeNo statistics No control No politics No panic! No theory  and no researchSummaryGo FurtherReferences
10. Organised CrimeIntroductionWhat is Organised Crime and What are Organised Crime Groups?How is Organised Crime Explained?What Crimes are Committed by Organised Groups?Case Study 1 – The Sinaloa Drug Cartel in Mexico Pause for ThoughtCase Study 2 – The Camorra in ItalyPause for ThoughtControlPower in Plain SightSummaryGo FurtherReferences
11. The StateIntroductionWhat is a State?State CrimeTypes of State CrimesNegligencePolice CrimeCollusionCorruptionState terrorCase Study 1 – Crisis in Ukraine and Russia’s Invasion (2013-2014)A Crime of AggressionPause for ThoughtWar CrimeTortureGenocideCase Study 2 – the Rohingya people in MyanmarPause for ThoughtSummaryGo FurtherReferences
12. Militias and InsurgentsIntroductionWhat are insurgents?Harms and Crimes of InsurgentsVictims of InsurgentsCase Study 1: Boko Haram – the Chibok School Kidnapping 2014Pause for ThoughtIntersectionalities – Gender, Age, and ReligionCase Study 2: The Shining Path in Peru – Sendero LuminosoPause for ThoughtThe Global CommunitySummaryGo FurtherReferences
13. Crime and Power: ConclusionIntroductionInvisibility, Politics and PowerMethodsPolitics and PowerPause for ThoughtCrime and PowerSpatial TypologiesIntersectionalitiesPause for ThoughtThe FutureIncome InequalityThe Global North versus the Global SouthEnvironmental InjusticeSolutionsFinal Pause for ThoughtClosingReferences

Über Autor(innen)

Pamela Davies is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University, UK. She is a criminologist whose research focuses on gender, harm, crime and victimization. 

Tanya Wyatt is Professor of Criminology, Northumbria University, UK