Intellectuals for Law and Order

Platt, Tony; Takagi, Paul

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-16588-9_3

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Integrating Chemical Security into Chemistry Degree Programs in Argentina through an Interactive One-Day Course Addressing Illicit or Harmful Applications of Chemistry Knowledge

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The commitment and responsibility of new chemists is key for a world free of chemical weapons and illicit drugs, and for the development of ecofriendly technologies and a healthy environment. However, with a tight academic schedule for undergraduate and postgraduate students, it is difficult to find room for an appropriate discussion and debate about the dual use of the chemical sciences. Encouraged by the initiatives of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on education about the prevention of illicit purposes of chemistry, we have developed a one-day workshop, called the Itinerant Lecture, that covers theoretical aspects combined with activities to promote critical thinking among students. The main topics are presented in an engaging way that is open to discussion and includes activities such as fictional case analyses and roleplaying, which allow students to consider the problematic aspects of their roles as scientists. This workshop has been running for the last 5 years, with apparently very high acceptance by students and teachers in the chemistry field. The use of videos, role-playing, and an active-learning strategy for the topics becomes an excellent approach to introduce chemistry students and teachers to concepts such as professional responsibility and dual use of knowledge in the sciences and their implications in the production of chemical weapons and other illegal uses.

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“…In the USA, a couple of first generation critical criminologists (Chambliss, 1994(Chambliss, , 1995(Chambliss, , 2000Platt, 1996; but also see Zatz, 1987) started this trend with their concerns about increasingly high levels of African American imprisonment and related police harassment in urban areas. Other scholars have pursued a similar theoretical trajectory in other empirical fields, for example drugs and violence (Chiricos, 1996), presidential rhetoric (Hawdon, 2001), crime expertise (Welch et al, 1997(Welch et al, , 1998 and wilding (Welch et al, 2002).…”

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Doran

2008

Theoretical Criminology

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A generation ago, Hall et al.'s (1978) work Policing the Crisis gave a sophisticated analysis of the British media's mundane ability to 'encode' events so as to help produce a moral panic about mugging. Although this work remains relatively neglected in its home country, it has begun to be utilized for empirical analysis in North America. This article suggests, however, that Hall et al.'s analysis remains a poor import. This is not, however because of its age or cultural specificity. Instead Policing the Crisis fails, quite simply because it repeats in its own analysis the same 'ideological practices' (albeit at a higher logical level), which it discovered in its empirical investigation of the British media.

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“…8 8 Our selection of these six issues was based upon on our reading of media coverage, the Congressional hearings, and subsequent scholarly analysis and commentary on the bill (cf. Platt 1994). Prevention referred to any discussion of social programs that were interventional or preventative in nature.…”

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Midnight Basketball and The 1994 Crime Bill Debates: The Operation of a Racial Code

Wheelock

Hartmann

2007

The Sociological Quarterly

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This study examines the symbolic politics associated with the adoption of the omnibus $30 billion federal crime bill of 1994. Based upon critical race theory and close readings of Congressional hearings and print media coverage, we argue that race was the key to midnight basketball's prominence in the legislative debates and that its introduction ultimately reduced prevention-oriented provisions included in the final legislation. The central empirical contribution is a content analysis that specifies how racially coded references to midnight basketball exerted their impact on the political process through the discursive framing of the bill. We find that while midnight basketball directly increased attention to race in the debates, its real impact was more indirect, serving to heighten fears of crime and produce images of criminals that made prevention appear misguided. In contrast to bottom-up theoretical approaches, these discursive shifts worked at the level of elite decision makers, the legislators themselves. The article concludes by drawing out the implications of this case study for theories of how the politics of race operate in the contemporary American political arena, especially those concerning crime control.

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Intellectuals for Law and Order

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Integrating Chemical Security into Chemistry Degree Programs in Argentina through an Interactive One-Day Course Addressing Illicit or Harmful Applications of Chemistry Knowledge

Integrating Chemical Security into Chemistry Degree Programs in Argentina through an Interactive One-Day Course Addressing Illicit or Harmful Applications of Chemistry Knowledge

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Midnight Basketball and The 1994 Crime Bill Debates: The Operation of a Racial Code

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