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Marxism and Criminology
Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity, Valeria Vegh Weis rehabilitates the contributions and the methodology of Marx and Engels to analyze crime and punishment through the historical development of capitalism (15th Century to the present) in Europe and in the United States. The author puts forward the concepts of over-criminalization and under-criminalization to show that the criminal justice system has always been selective. Criminal injustice, the book argues, has been an inherent element of the founding and reproduction of a capitalist society. At a time when racial profiling, prosecutorial discretion, and mass incarceration continue to defy easy answers, Vegh Weis invites us to revisit Marx and Engels’ contributions to identify socio-economic and historic patterns of crime and punishment in order to foster transformative changes to criminal justice. The book includes a Foreword by Professor Roger Matthews of Kent University, and an Afterword written by Professor Jonathan Simon of the University of California, Berkeley.
Memory as Power
Featuring a collection of works by scholars from across a variety of disciplines, this book outlines the principles of a critical historical criminology. For historical criminologists, this book provides a framework of how to engage with historical material in a way that is critical in its interrogation, instructive in terms of how the past impacts upon our current (and future) practice, and attentive to the dangers of presentism. For critical criminologists, this book highlights the potential benefits of looking to the past to inform our understanding of the critical issues we face in the current social, cultural, and political context in a purposeful, historically sensitive way. This remar...
The Bastille Effect
The sacred and the profane -- In search of signs -- Diagrams of power -- Technologies of power -- Performing memory.
From Fear to Hate
This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the social phenomenon of migration from various legal-linguistic perspectives. Migration has become a global phenomenon and a burning issue provoking social conflict and political instability in modern societies all over the world. The question of dealing with migrants and asylum seekers has dominated political discourse. It has given rise to national and international legislation on emigration and immigration, some of them including discriminatory provisions, pressed laws against immigration (Acts of exclusion) and prompted anti-migration rhetoric and hate speech against migrants. Important efforts have been made in both common law and civil law jurisdictions to protect migrants' fundamental rights to dignity and equality.
A delação premiada no Estado Democrático de Direito
O assentamento na legislação processual penal brasileira, no início da década de 1990, de modelos de justiça criminal negocial, em especial, do instituto da delação premiada, instiga a investigar o tema, a partir das premissas norteadoras do Estado Democrático de Direito. A proposta da autora se concentra em demonstrar que o instituto da delação premiada está sendo estruturado em um poder discricionário e seletivo do Ministério Público, sem critérios definidos, em total desconformidade com o modelo constitucional de processo. Ao longo da obra, propõe-se demonstrar que a aplicação da delação premiada no sistema jurídico nacional é resultado da influência do discurso efi...
Prison Writing of Latin America
What happens inside Latin American prisons? How does the social organisation of prisoners relate to the political structures beyond the walls? Is it possible to resist corrupt penal regimes? In Prison Writing of Latin America, Joey Whitfield turns to those best placed to answer these questions: people who have been imprisoned themselves. Drawing on a century of material produced by Latin American prisoners from Mexico, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, Whitfield weaves readings of novels, memoirs and testimonial texts with social and political analysis. Rather than distinguishing between dictatorial and democratic periods of government, he shows that from the point of view of the prisoner, all states are authoritarian in nature. In the face of oppression, however, prisoners both 'political' and 'criminal' have found ways not only to resist but also to create alternative communities both real and imagined, sometimes in collaboration with each other.
Criminology and Democratic Politics
Criminology and Democratic Politics brings together a range of international leading experts to consider the relationship between criminology and democratic politics. How does criminology relate to democratic politics? What has been the impact of criminology on crime and justice? How can we make sense of the uses, non-uses, and abuses of criminology? Such questions are far from new, but in recent times they have moved to the centre of debate in criminology in different parts of the world. The chapters in Criminology and Democratic Politics aim to contribute to this global debate. Chapters cover a range of themes such as punishment, knowledge, and penal politics; crime, fear, and the media; democratic politics and the uses of criminological knowledge; and the public role of criminology. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, and politics and all those interested in how criminology relates to democratic politics in modern times.
Processo Penal
Os manuais de processo penal geralmente se concentram nas regras e nos princípios que as fundamentam. No entanto, é crucial ir além e adentrar aos alicerces filosóficos subjacentes aos princípios. A escolha do paradigma filosófico a ser adotado pode ter implicações significativas no sistema de Justiça, afetando o papel do juiz e a postura das partes na produção de provas. Quando se adota uma abordagem filosófica centrada na linguagem, isso fortalece o contraditório e a ampla defesa e cria um ambiente mais propício para uma reavaliação imparcial das provas pelo juiz. Seguindo essa premissa, Rodrigo Chemim ainda enfatiza a necessidade de se promover interseções entre o direit...
Michel Foucault. Derecho y poder
Este libro es uno de los pocos estudios que se han realizado sobre la específica conceptualización del derecho en la obra de Foucault, así como de la relación de algunos de sus conceptos, como el poder disciplinario, la biopolítica y la gubernamentalidad, con el mismo derecho. Lo valioso, lo que permite aprender de los estudios que integran este volumen es que no necesariamente cuestionan al “derecho” o a la ley, sino que se plantean problemas específicos. Y en ello se reflejan como textos “foucaulteanos” ya que al dar cuenta del término “problematización”, Foucault pretendía evitar la reproducción de la misma visión que se puede y debe cuestionar, y para ello hay que ...
