Intrusions of violence: Afro-pessimism and reading social death beyond solitary confinement

Chavez, Ernest K

doi:10.1177/1362480619846132

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“…Many articles do not define criminology per se but do claim to be doing criminology in their research (or are printed in criminology journals). Broadly, we found research in this category centered on race and incarceration (Chavez, 2019;Dugan & Chenoweth, 2020), effects of incarceration on employment (Pager, 2007;Sugie et al, 2019), crime as a social phenomenon (Gruenewald, 2015;Messerschmidt, 2015), intersectional studies of crime (Messerschmidt & Beirne, 2015;Adler, Laufer, & Mueller, 2018;Benson et al, 2020), and geographical and neighborhood effects (Papachristos & Bastomski, 2018;Levi, Phillips, & Sampson, 2020).…”

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“…First, there is a body of literature on the relationship between race and victimization of crime. For instance, Chavez (2019) explores the connection between present day anti-blackness and Afro-pessimism, and how that condition of society has contributed to racial violence. Along the same lines, Dugan and Chenoweth ( 2020) analyze Blalock's (1967) intergroup/minority threat theory in context of political threat and hate crimes, generating two sub-theories: (i) the political threat hypothesis which suggests positive government attention towards groups leads to more hate crime against them, and (ii) the emboldenment hypothesis, which suggests that negative government attention towards specific groups leads to more hate crime violence against them.…”

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Reestablishing the Foundations: Investigating the Theoretical and Practical Boundaries of Criminology

Hawks¹,

Mcdonald-Lopez²

2021

IJSSR

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Symbolic boundaries are essential to social functioning and, more narrowly, to the social functioning of academia. Yet the boundaries of the field of Criminology remain deeply ambiguous. What are the parameters of the field? What is agreed upon as foundational theory? What are the core research agendas? This lack of clarity and consensus hampers internal dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and constrains efforts to meaningfully address critical societal ills. As such, with this review we seek to promote cohesion in the field and improve our ability to understand crime as a social phenomenon. To accomplish this, a team of researchers conducted a thorough review of criminology textbooks and top journals in the field. We first examine explicit and implicit definitions of criminology and next identify the major avenues of current research. We further highlight major avenues and oversights of research, making recommendations for further study to promote productive cohesion amongst criminologists. Finally, we combine theoretical conceptions of criminology with current research to offer a new, comprehensive definition: Criminology is the theoretically informed scientific study—and the resulting body of knowledge—of crime broadly understood as a socially constructed and embedded phenomenon as well as its causation and prevention.

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Reestablishing the Foundations: Investigating the Theoretical and Practical Boundaries of Criminology

Hawks¹,

Mcdonald-Lopez²

2021

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“…Como se pudo observar en los datos expuestos previamente, el joven que muere y el que es lesionado siguen, en términos estadísticos, las mismas tendencias demográfi cas, de vulnerabilidad y exclusión del sistema educativo y laboral. Sin embargo, el que queda vivo debe ahora lidiar y construirse en una capa adicional de vulnerabilidad generando una serie de dinámicas que devienen en una especie de "muerte social" (Patt erson, 1982;Guenther, 2013;Chávez, 2021). Eso es lo que denomino juvenicidio encarnado.…”

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“…Así, lo que propongo es que el juvenicidio, como concepto, no se limite exclusivamente a la muerte física focalizada de jóvenes en situación de precariedad y vulnerabilidad, sino que también pueda encontrarse encarnado, marcado en los cuerpos de las víctimas, que logran sobrevivir a heridas ocasionadas por balas de armas de fuego, y por ende, empiezan a vivir en un limbo entre la vida y la muerte, en donde la persona pierde "signifi cado social" (Guenther, 2013;Chávez, 2021).…”

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El juvenicidio encarnado: jóvenes lesionados por armas de fuego en México

Chávez¹

2022

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La violencia es parte de la cotidianidad de México, siendo los jóvenes varones de contextos precarios sus principales víctimas mortales y no mortales. En este artículo se presenta evidencia cuantitativa y cualitativa que dimensiona y aprehende esta dinámica, en donde estos son construidos como el enemigo a combatir por el Estado, constituyendo al juvenicidio (Valenzuela, 2016). Se propone que el juvenicidio va más allá de la muerte; se encarna en la víctima (objetiva y subjetivamente), ya que la lesión por bala intensifica la situación de indefensión al generar una muerte social. Complementando el concepto de necropolítica (Mbembe, 2011), va más allá de la determinación sobre la vida y la muerte, también se determina quién vive y de qué manera merece vivir.

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“The COVID-19 Murders”: Prison death-worlds and the fatal convenience of crisis

Lackey,

Loblack,

Murphy

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Punishment & Society

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Since the eruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. correctional facilities have reported more than half a million positive cases and nearly 3000 deaths. The carceral regime's unconscionable response to COVID-19 has been accepted as a mere “failure” by observers. We question this reading given the dispossessing purpose of carceral punishment, instead reframing prisons as necropolitical death-worlds that weaponize crisis to advance their repressive capacities. We draw from 132 texts authored by 68 incarcerated witnesses and published by the American Prison Writing Archive to assess how incarcerated individuals experience and interpret both the COVID-19 pandemic and the mitigation efforts enacted by prison administrations. Rather than prisons struggling, sincerely, to slow the spread of COVID-19, witnesses call attention to how prisons constrict and evolve punishment under the guise of care. Sampled writings detail alarming changes, including the excessive application of already harmful practices like solitary confinement. Our findings speak to the “inside,” lived implications of disaster-response by death-worlds, where the necropolitical order practices and perfects its violence with little external protest. Scholars of carceral punishment should more deliberately consider the impact of crises like the pandemic, as it is certainly not the last disaster that the prison order will appropriate.

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Intrusions of violence: Afro-pessimism and reading social death beyond solitary confinement

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Reestablishing the Foundations: Investigating the Theoretical and Practical Boundaries of Criminology

Reestablishing the Foundations: Investigating the Theoretical and Practical Boundaries of Criminology

El juvenicidio encarnado: jóvenes lesionados por armas de fuego en México

“The COVID-19 Murders”: Prison death-worlds and the fatal convenience of crisis

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