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Criminological Futures Dangerous Knowledge & Innovation. Presentations: The ‘trailer’ for your final project. How you are evaluated: Limit of 5-6 minutes (per presentation) What was interesting about your observations related to one or two concepts? Engaging – Prepared (practice...) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Criminological Futures Criminological Futures Dangerous KnowledgeDangerous Knowledge
& Innovation& Innovation
Presentations: The ‘trailer’ for your final project
How you are evaluated:• Limit of 5-6 minutes (per
presentation)• What was interesting about your
observations related to one or two concepts?
• Engaging – Prepared (practice...)• Can be a video (trailer),
performance, visual ‘essay’ w/music, etc
Techno Tips...• Expect everything to fail– PREZI never works as well
as people hope it will– Consider saving files to
Dropbox as backup– No more than 5 slides (ppt)
• Non-techno presentations are always welcome
Avoid...
Alternative Final Projects
The assignment guidelines apply to all projects.
Rule of thumb: 3/5ths of the document
dedicated to demonstrating your understanding of theoretical concepts...
Cultural Crim Recap...
It is a theoretical frameworkIt is a theoretical framework• Critical perspective (Marx..)• Symbolic Interactionism & Structure (Mills...)
Assumptions: Power is performed culturally. By moving between the level of analysis (Micro-Meso-Macro) we can access the relationship between the individual & the social (Merton)
It is a theoretical frameworkIt is a theoretical framework• Critical perspective (Marx..)• Symbolic Interactionism & Structure (Mills...)
Assumptions: Power is performed culturally. By moving between the level of analysis (Micro-Meso-Macro) we can access the relationship between the individual & the social (Merton)
Crime & CultureCrime & Culture
Interrogating ‘crime’ through the lens of culture
• Emotion/Excitement– Heroic fantasies– Ultimate meaning
• Subterranean Values• Reaction to larger
cultural institutions....
Late Modernity...A way to speak about the present
without defining it as pre/post modern
(issue: autonomy)• Ontological Insecurity– Sensation Gatherers– Edgework– Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion– Commodification of resistance
Contemporary Consumer CultureWe are caught up in a cycle
of consuming identities as a response to anxieties, creating endless needs & markets.
Conspicuous Consumption (Veblin)– Waste is built into
capitalism– Seduction of ignorant
consumption
Phenomenology of Crime…(65-70)Phenomenology of Crime…(65-70)
Cultural phenomena is part of the process of collective meaning
• Situational dynamics of emotionSituational dynamics of emotion• Sites of contested performanceSites of contested performance• Cultural practice as livedCultural practice as lived– EmbodiedEmbodied– EmotionalEmotional
Politics of transgressionPolitics of transgression
Mardi GrasMardi Gras Banality of Evil (Arendt)Subterranean Values (Mardi Gras)Carnival of Crime (Presdee)Commodification of CrimeVocabularies of MotivesPolitics of ViolenceOntological Insecurity• Hyperpluralism • Defamiliarity
Criminology of the State (p.75)The Colonization of
Everyday Life HabermasHedgemonic mediaReliance on Image
Image manipulation
Theoretical Response• Ahistorical approachesAhistorical approaches• Positivist Criminology Positivist Criminology
(anti-humanism)(anti-humanism)• Theoretically vapid Theoretically vapid
analysisanalysis
Dangerous Knowleges?Dangerous Knowleges?• Crime & treesCrime & trees• Youth gangsYouth gangs• Gun runnersGun runners• Rap music...Rap music...
Critiques...RomanticismRomanticism
““we don’t focus on crimes we don’t focus on crimes that disturb the that disturb the comfort of the comfort of the powerful”powerful”
Understanding humansUnderstanding humans
Without an Without an understanding of understanding of people & culture, we people & culture, we will never have good will never have good policy. policy.
Critical Research
How you look at something, shapes your response to it:“Can I speak with you about youth gangs?”
(p.196)
Inverted Criminal Inquiry:• How is crime ‘institutional’?• Why don’t we all transgress?• Who defines ‘crime’ or ‘crime stats’?• Subcultures as innovation? Reaction? Representations?
Research & KnowledgeResearch & KnowledgeChicago School
1920s & 30s
Depression & ‘Red Scares’‘Book length’ sociologyEthnography*Positivistic approaches to
urban life
Research & KnowledgeResearch & Knowledge
North AmericaNorth America late 40s & 50slate 40s & 50s
Post-War Economy & Post-War Economy & American DreamAmerican DreamCorporate Corporate
Management Management PracticesPractices
Promises of SciencePromises of ScienceSurvey Research Survey Research
Research & KnowledgeResearch & Knowledge
1950s & 60sSubcultural ethnographiesUnorthodox methodologies
70s & 80s‘Neo-liberal’ shift
GovernmentalityPromises of ObjectivityCuring Nations of Crime
Irony of Ethics….Conflicts between ethics and law:
‘law must always prevail’?
EthnographiesEthnographies• Liquid (activism)Liquid (activism)• Instant (emotion)Instant (emotion)
Writing from belowWriting from below• Appreciating the Appreciating the
tensions : creativity tensions : creativity & harm& harm
Methods of Cultural Methods of Cultural CriminologyCriminology
Visual Visual CriminologyCriminology
• Degradation Ceremonies• Spectacle of Crime• Politics of inclusion &
exclusion (see index p.235)
• Culture Jamming...
Environmental Criminology
Civic Criminology
Such criminologists need their objects of study more than the objects need them, and in the face of strong expressions of subjectivity, attributions of subjectivity from without become totally inappropriate.
Ruggiero critique
Resistance....Wobblies, Dada and
Mobs...
“Resistance is everywhere...”
What will you resist?