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Boukli, Avi; Kotzé, Justin

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“…A social harm approach (see Pemberton 2015 ; Boukli and Kotzé 2018 ) provides us with a range of useful instruments with which to examine the many regular, and often perfectly legal practices that have become normalised under neoliberalism and are now embedded into the structure of our contemporary labour markets (Davies 2018 ; Scott 2017 ). In this way, the approach can facilitate the expansion of criminology’s analytical reach well beyond the scope of criminal wrongdoing and the administration of justice (Hillyard et al 2004 ).…”

Section: A Harm-based Approachmentioning

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No Time for Rest: An Exploration of Sleep and Social Harm in the North East Night-Time Economy (NTE)

Bushell

2022

Crit Crim

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This article explores the problem of sleep deprivation amongst migrant workers in North East England’s night-time economy (NTE). After first outlining some of the physical and psychological effects of sleep loss, the narrative then focuses on primary accounts drawn from unstructured interviews ( n = 16) and short vignettes with migrant workers. The article uses a framework grounded in social harm to explicate the declining recognition afforded to sleep and recuperation among night workers, constructing this as a socially corrosive outcome of neoliberal economic relations and the cultural injunctions that accompany it. The forfeiture of sleep among workers can also form an important point of departure for exploring a nexus of harms that suffuse the nocturnal service industry for low-paid migrant workers. These can have far-reaching consequences for well-being, as they expose the fraying of labour relations in the NTE and act as an affront to the possibility of human flourishing.

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Section: A Harm-based Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

No Time for Rest: An Exploration of Sleep and Social Harm in the North East Night-Time Economy (NTE)

Bushell

2022

Crit Crim

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“…The term 'zemiology', derived from the Greek word zemia or zemίa/ζημία (damage or harm), emerged to describe the project of expanding the remit of inquiry from legally defined harm and crimes to looking beyond the mere violations of criminal law into a wider range of socially injurious forms of behaviour. 65 In the context of environmental pollution, a social harm approach helps to understand the broader social impact of certain acts, omissions, or conditions 'at the individual and community levels', as well as the broader social processes that generate certain acts. 66 Hence, zemiological threads of inquiry would extend descriptions of how structures or networks or cultures perpetuate harm to questions of how avoidable harm against the environment, and human and non-human animals, becomes embedded in 'existing varieties of capitalism'.…”

Section: Beyond Crime: the Social Harm Approachmentioning

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Transversal Harm, Regulation, and the Tolerance of Oil Disasters

Kotsakis

Boukli

2022

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Law – through regulation, criminalization and litigation – provides key mechanisms for mitigating the harmful effects of oil disasters. At the same time, these mechanisms also enable the perpetuation of oil disasters under an extractivist imperative. This disaster tolerance is the point of departure for this article's examination of the legal response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster over the last decade. Based on a methodology that combines a social harm approach with the political ecology of Felix Guattari, we firstly present a reconceptualization of harm inflicted by oil corporations across three registers: environment, society, and subjectivity. We subsequently introduce the concept of transversal harm, which allows us to move beyond the criminal and civil damage of corporate crime and negligence and to capture the collective and continuous impact of oil extractivism, as opposed to the exceptional impact of oil disasters. Transversal harm opens new avenues for assigning corporate responsibility and reducing disaster tolerance as the by-product of environmental law.

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“…A zemiologia permite aos estudiosos ir além do cânone criminológico, e articular uma diversidade de danos, colocando-se assim fora dos discursos convencionais sobre o crime e os limites do direito penal. Consequentemente, a zemiologia concentra-se nos danos sociais causados pelos estados, organizações e indivíduos (Boukli & Kotzé, 2018). No contexto de um programa como Arrow, a zemiologia é útil para analisar o atrativo do vigilantismo porque os vigilantes podem ser vistos como uma força que reduz os danos sociais (que são abundantes ao longo da série), mesmo que a sua prática seja ilegal.…”

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“…No contexto de um programa como Arrow, a zemiologia é útil para analisar o atrativo do vigilantismo porque os vigilantes podem ser vistos como uma força que reduz os danos sociais (que são abundantes ao longo da série), mesmo que a sua prática seja ilegal. Assim, a resposta dos vigilantes ao crime não estaria relacionada com os polos legal-ilegal mas sim com o pragmatismo com que os danos sociais são abordados e a forma como a justiça é servida -curiosamente, a zemiologia tenta reiterar prioridades para a justiça social (Boukli & Kotzé, 2018). Outra ligação entre a abordagem dos danos sociais e o vigilantismo pode ser encontrada na ideia zemiológica de que o sistema de justiça criminal é ineficaz (Hillyard & Tombs, 2004), que é uma das razões por detrás de Arrow.…”

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Crime, Hooded Crusaders, and (Private) Justice: Arrow and the Exoneration of Vigilantism in Contemporary Popular Media

Jiménez-Varea

Pineda

2022

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As a form of extralegal crimefighting, vigilantism involves relevant questions about crime, justice, and law enforcement, and it is a staple of popular media. In the 1980s, several popular culture products took a critical approach to vigilantism as a part of the deconstruction of the superhero genre, which included a critical reflection on the psychological and political implications of the motivations behind private justice enforcers’ behavior. In this context, this paper focuses on the representation of vigilantism within the popular television show Arrow, and analyzes how it depicts, rationalizes, and ultimately exonerates vigilantism as a response to criminal activity. The empirical analysis focuses on the various rhetorical strategies used by Arrow to justify vigilantism, such as the representation of legal and governmental institutions as corrupt and inefficient, the multiple rationales whereby vigilantism is practiced, and the sanctioning of private crimefighting by institutions. The analysis indicates that the show delivers an apology for the vigilante ethos: Arrow mirrors superheroes’ dark turn in the 1980s and their reflection of societal fears about crime. However, in the show’s worldview, these fears can only be appeased by private vigilantes. By portraying the state as inefficient and/or corrupt, the show boosts ideologies of individualism and anti-government neoliberalism.

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Introduction

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

No Time for Rest: An Exploration of Sleep and Social Harm in the North East Night-Time Economy (NTE)

No Time for Rest: An Exploration of Sleep and Social Harm in the North East Night-Time Economy (NTE)

Transversal Harm, Regulation, and the Tolerance of Oil Disasters

Crime, Hooded Crusaders, and (Private) Justice: Arrow and the Exoneration of Vigilantism in Contemporary Popular Media

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