Criminology as Epistemic Necropolitics

Kitossa, Tamari

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“…This recognition of the birth of criminology as directly tied to the birth of the prison has contributed to a significant amount of scholarship and interrogation that articulates the discipline's active role in carceral expansion (Cohen, 1998; Hillyard et al, 2004; Jackson, 2020; Muhammad, 2019; Neocleous, 2000; Schept et al, 2014). For many within the discipline, criminology has long been identified as a “science of oppression” (Lynch, 2000: 1) that “thrives on and produces death” (Kitossa, 2020a: 91), and that is “hell-bent on being of utility to the state” (Cunneen and Tauri, 2019: 365). Criminologists—like other violence workers—are “leeches” needing crime for sustenance and survival (Cohen, 1998: 46).…”

Section: The Neoliberal (Carceral) Universitymentioning

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Markers of entanglement: Survival strategies within the neoliberal university and the promise of carceral futures

Mokhtari

2023

Punishment & Society

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Within the neoliberal era, the university's form and function have shifted. These shifts necessitate an unraveling of the synergies of institutions of higher education with carceral institutions. Building from the scholarship of the “college-prison nexus” and the “academic-prison symbiosis,” this paper converges on the criminology department's role within these synergies. Based on an analysis of department websites and the introductory course syllabi of English-speaking criminology departments in Canada (n = 50), I interrogate the methods used to advertise to students. I identify six markers of entanglement that are part of how departments market themselves in the neoliberal era to the student–consumer. These markers include career prospects, field placements, faculty research, pracademics, job training, and dual/bridging degrees. Utilizing these markers as a departure point, I analyze these indicators of relationships that exist between the university and the carceral apparatus. In doing so, I interrogate how these relationships can (re)produce carceral logics and systems and offer the university an articulated pathway of survival through carceral intrenchment.

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Section: The Neoliberal (Carceral) Universitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Markers of entanglement: Survival strategies within the neoliberal university and the promise of carceral futures

Mokhtari

2023

Punishment & Society

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Criminology as Epistemic Necropolitics

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Markers of entanglement: Survival strategies within the neoliberal university and the promise of carceral futures

Markers of entanglement: Survival strategies within the neoliberal university and the promise of carceral futures

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