War and Normative Visibility: Interactions in the Nomos

2021

Journal of Criminology

The purpose of this paper is to foreground the gendered crime consequences of the global pandemic and to raise questions emanating from them for the future(s) of criminology. The paper reviews some of the criminological response to the pandemic offered during 2020. The global pandemic was constituted by some as providing the opportunity for a natural experiment in which criminological theories and concepts could be tested in real time and by others as an opportunity to further raise the profile of crimes more hidden from view, particularly domestic abuse. For the former, domestic abuse is constituted as an exception to what might be learned from this experimental moment. For the latter, gendered violence(s) are central to making sense of this moment as ongoing, mundane and ordinary features of (women’s) everyday lives. This paper makes the case that the evidence relating to the gendered consequences of Covid-19, renders it no longer possible for the discipline to regard feminist informed work (largely found within the latter view above) as the stranger, outside of, or an exception to, the discipline’s central concerns. It is suggested that the future(s) of criminology lie in rendering that stranger’s voice, focusing as it does on the continuities of men’s gendered violence(s) in all spheres of life, as the discipline’s central problematic.

Section: The Global Pandemic As An Internality: Experimenting With Crmentioning

confidence: 99%

Criminological futures and gendered violence(s): Lessons from the global pandemic for criminology

2021

Journal of Criminology

“…Both Morrison (2015) and Young (2011) are particularly concerned with the bounded intellectual imperial imperatives lying behind much criminological work. This is referred to by Morrison as the 'nomos' of criminology and discussed by Young in terms of the discipline's 'nomothetic impulse'.…”

Section: Seeing From a Different Placementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite the apparent simplicity involved in this way of seeing resistance to starting in this different place is profound. This resistance is embedded within the ‘nomos’ of criminology (Morrison, 2015).…”

Section: Seeing From a Different Placementioning

confidence: 99%

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‘Seeing’ gender, war and terror

Criminology & Criminal Justice

2018

This article explores the questions posed for criminology when war and terror are seen through a gendered lens. Following Barberet this lens demands blurring the boundaries between peacetime, wartime and post-conflict situations. These boundaries frame the nomos of criminology and once challenged the connections to be made between the 'callousness' of femicide and the 'callousness' of environmental destruction are exposed. Using photographs as the vehicle through which such a challenge can be maintained, the gendered analysis that follows poses conceptual and methodological questions for the discipline which ultimately demands a reimagining of the contribution of criminology and victimology to understanding gendered violence(s).

“…The second part considers the possibilities of thinking differently about risk informed by the challenge posed for Northern theorising in the work of Connell (2007) and others. This challenge requires recognising the imperialism endemic in criminology's liberal nomothetic impulse (Morrison 2015;Young 2011) and the presence of that imperialist impulse in risk assessment practices. The third part discusses the transference of the lacunae of Northern theorising into the practices of risk assessment and the consequences this has for responses to intimate partner violence.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Criminology, Gender and Risk: The Dilemmas of Northern Theorising for Southern Responses to Intimate Partner Violence

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

2018

Criminology's unitary, unifying and gendered embrace of risk is rooted in Northern theorising. This understanding of risk not only takes its toll on the discipline; it also has consequences for the practices associated with risk: risk assessment. Such practices reflect a range of different assumptions that silence women's everyday experiences of violence, silence culture, and contribute to the construction of all women as fearing and vulnerable subjects. In particular the policies and practices of risk and risk assessment as responses to violence against women continue to travel across the globe with scant regard for the shaky foundations on which they are based and, by implication, their relevance for other settings. This paper explores the nature of the shaky conceptual foundations of risk assessment to reflect on the problems and possibilities for more locally nuanced and culturally sensitive responses to violence against women demanded by the agenda of Southern criminology.