Giuliani in Izmir: Restructuring of the Izmir Public Order Police and Criminalization of the Urban Poor

Gönen, Zeynep

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“…However, I argue that an elaboration of the emphasis over individual responsibility is necessary to comprehend the interpretation of actions of Turkey's youth justice professionals. I claim that in Turkey's youth justice system, within which target groups are managed, the individual responsibility of the person as a rational and liberal choice-maker is central to the prosecution process, complementing the profiling and criminalization of the ethno-racially differentiated urban poor (Gönen, 2011(Gönen, , 2017Kurtege-Sefer 2010a, 2010b and silencing of social workers. Once the judiciary notices an individual's failure to keep away from illegal activities on repeated occasions, or involvement in serious crimes involving victims, young defendants are seen as disposable groups of offenders who are individually responsible for their actions.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In relation to this, Gönen (2017) draws attention to the intensification of the 'tough on crime' measures of the police in the early 2000s. Complementing Kurtege-Sefer (2010a, 2010b, Gönen (2011Gönen ( , 2017 claims that these measures rest on a deliberate strategy of profiling and criminalizing the ethno-racially differentiated urban poor. Socio-economic inequalities and ethnic discrimination are disregarded, while the responsibility of the criminal act is individualized.…”

Section: Criminalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Managing Turkey’s Marginalized Youth: ‘Managerialism’ in Turkey’s Youth Justice and Penal Systems

Kavur¹

2023

Youth Justice

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Since the early 2000s, Turkey’s youth justice system has undergone extensive reforms. However, it is centred around high-security remand imprisonment. Based on the research conducted between 2014 and 2015 to comprehend how high-security remand imprisonment has acquired such a central role, this article provides an analysis on the ways in which the system has diverted into a peculiar ‘managerialism’. Certain themes emerged revealing the turn to ‘managerialism’: (1) lack of coordination between different professional units and lack of evidence-based policymaking, (2) prioritization of speed and technology, (3) peripheral role of social work officials and (4) the importance of prisons.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Criminalizationmentioning

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Managing Turkey’s Marginalized Youth: ‘Managerialism’ in Turkey’s Youth Justice and Penal Systems

Kavur¹

2023

Youth Justice

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“…In his work on colonial powers in Puerto Rico, Kelvin Santiago-Valles (1994) demonstrates how racial capitalism and colonialism rested heavily on criminalization and punitive formations in transforming and incorporating Puerto Rico into the systems of exploitation. Similarly, the contemporary police in Turkey adopt Giuliani style zero tolerance strategies (Gönen 2013), and the reform language and tools from core countries (Babül 2017;Akarsu 2020). Supermax prisons were first invented in the United States, and then exported to different parts of the world including Brazil, Turkey, New Zealand, and now El Salvador (Ross 2013).…”

Section: Relationality Of Carceral Power/ Formationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Carceral Power in World Historical Context

Kurti,

Gönen

2024

JWSR

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This paper invites a conversation between world-systems perspective and radical criminology to contribute to a more robust materialist, historical, and global understanding of policing, prisons, and carceral power. We trace the genealogy of these two approaches to the larger transformations of global capitalism in the 1960s and 1970s, including ruling class responses to capitalist crises vis a vis neoliberal restructuring as well as the social struggles waged by antisystemic movements. Both world-systems and radical criminology brought a critical and Marxist perspective to the liberal social sciences, yet dialogue between them has been lacking. On the one hand, world-systems analysis offers a structural explanation of capitalism but often side steps the role that carceral power plays to manage the system’s deepening contradictions. On the other hand, radical criminology focuses on carceral power but often limits its analysis to advanced core countries and not to the entire capitalist system. We argue that bringing these two critical approaches together can offer us a renewed Marxist perspective to the interrelated issues of capitalist crisis and carceral power and thus make possible new lines of inquiry and research best suited for grappling with the major contradictions of capitalism in the twenty-first century.

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“…Since then, the social solidarity networks that had been bridging the gap left by a lack of state‐welfare provision have been weakening (Adaman and Keyder, ) and working‐class neighbourhoods have gradually transformed into places of poverty. In this process, the Turkish media were quick to stigmatize certain working‐class areas as ‘crime havens’ and use racializing language by referring to these places as the ‘Harlems of Istanbul’ (Gönen and Yonucu, ; Gönen, ; ).…”

Section: Criminalization and Depoliticizationmentioning

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Urban Vigilantism: A Study of Anti‐Terror Law, Politics and Policing in Istanbul

Yonucu

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Focusing on the case of young socialist vigilantes who were arrested and imprisoned as ‘terrorists’ in 2007, this article illustrates how vigilantism in working‐class neighbourhoods of Istanbul with a high Alevi population evolved from an unarmed, public and participatory form of vigilantism to an armed one, and discusses the role of the anti‐terror law in this transformation. The article illustrates the ways in which the anti‐terror law, by narrowing the space for civil politics, paved the way for youth engagement in violent forms of extra‐legal security practice in spaces occupied by the historically stigmatized working‐class Alevi population. The article also argues that, over the last decade, Turkey’s ruling elites have used the anti‐terror law to wage a war against the oppositional politics conducted by the country’s historically stigmatized populations (such as Kurds and Alevis). Not only has this war put politically active and respected local figures from these communities behind bars, it also ‘polices’ (à la Rancière) these communities. Accordingly, the article illustrates how the law that considers attempts at self‐governance as a threat to state sovereignty effectively intervenes in local politics and space, leading to the reconfiguration of political space at the local level.

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Giuliani in Izmir: Restructuring of the Izmir Public Order Police and Criminalization of the Urban Poor

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Managing Turkey’s Marginalized Youth: ‘Managerialism’ in Turkey’s Youth Justice and Penal Systems

Managing Turkey’s Marginalized Youth: ‘Managerialism’ in Turkey’s Youth Justice and Penal Systems

Carceral Power in World Historical Context

Urban Vigilantism: A Study of Anti‐Terror Law, Politics and Policing in Istanbul

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