Mathieu Deflem
Biographic Data
| ID | 106134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mathieu Deflem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mathieu |
| FAMILY NAME | Deflem |
| SIGNATURE | DEFLEM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9616-5496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 14 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Becoming a mental health activist: The learning of Naomi Osaka
Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times
Theoretically and methodologically diverse, Volume 28 of Sociology, Crime, Law and Deviance addresses important questions of crime, punishment, policing, social control, and law in relation to COVID-19.The pandemic has brought about a wide number of analyses from various viewpoints, but what role has the study of crime, deviance, and social control played?A timely contribution that tackles a variety of related topics and brings together authors f…
Maine, (Sir) Henry (1822–1888)
The work of the British legal scholar Sir Henry Maine is reviewed in its intellectual and social context as a contribution to the development toward the social‐scientific study of law. Maine introduced important ideas on the historical evolution of law as influenced by nonlegal social conditions. Seeking to contribute to the jurisprudence of his day, Maine's work served explicitly practical purposes, yet thereby he also relied on scientific princ…
Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies
Celebrity activism on racial justice during Covid-19: The death of George Floyd, the rise of Naomi Osaka, and the celebritization of race in pandemic times
This paper examines the development of celebrity activism on racial justice in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Extending from efforts to provide support in relief efforts, celebrity activism during the first year of the pandemic dramatically turned to matters of racial justice in the wake of the video-taped police killing of George Floyd. Based on a constructionist perspective of celebrity, I analyze the patterns and dynamics of t…
The Continuity of the Social Sciences During Covid-19: Sociology and Interdisciplinarity in Pandemic Times
The Right to Teach in a Hyper-Digital Age: Legal Protections for (Post-)Pandemic Concerns
Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization
The fifteen chapters in this volume of Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance discuss a number of issues researchers in the fields of sociology, criminology, and criminal justice theorize, conceptualize, and measure racialization and counter-radicalization.
Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research
The eleven chapters in this volume of Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance discuss a variety of issues of methodological significance in research in the fields of criminology and criminal justice studies. As scholarly work on various aspects of crime, deviance, criminal justice, and social control has progressed tremendously in recent decades, both in terms of scope as well as with respect to theoretical approaches, the employed methods of invest…
The Handbook of Social Control
Homicide and Violent Crime
This volume of "Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance" addresses a variety of issues and concerns involved with the study of violent crime and homicide in the contemporary world. The chapters are conceived against the background of the enduring nature of violence and killing in the modern age, despite trends towards increased levels of civilization and the protection of rights. Whilst it is clear that the world of today is, in many respects, a bet…
The Handbook of Social Control
M erton, R obert K
Among the most influential sociologists of the modern era, Robert K. Merton is best known for his theoretical contributions concerning the idea of the social structure and his critique of functionalism. Seeking to extend sociology beyond the confines of both conflict theories and consensus perspectives, Merton's method of structural analysis is oriented at revealing the central ambiguities, possibilities, and limitations of the location of social…
Social Control
Social control refers to the foundation of social order as well as to the definition of and response to crime and/or deviance. The concept was initially introduced in sociology to refer broadly to the foundations of social order, especially in societies that were undergoing rapid social change and exhibited an increasingly individualist values system. Subsequently, the concept was redefined in critical‐sociological terms to refer to the coercive …
Legal Profession
The legal profession refers to all occupational roles oriented toward the administration and maintenance of the legal system. Encompassing lawyers, judges, notaries, mediators, paralegals, counselors, as well as experts of legal education and scholarship, the legal profession has been the subject of considerable reflection in sociology. This sociological interest parallels the enormous attention devoted to the legal profession in various strands …
Anomie
The sociological concept of anomie can generally be defined as the lack or ineffectiveness of normative regulation in society. The term traces its roots as far back as Greek antiquity, religious traditions associated with the Christian Bible, and late‐nineteenth‐century French philosophy. In ancient Greek, the term ‘anomia’ was used to denote a lack or deregulation of norms and law. Discussed at a time generally marked by societal disturbances, t…
Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame: The Rise of a Pop Star in an Age of Celebrity
This book investigates the stardom of Lady Gaga within a cultural-sociological framework. Resisting a reductionist perspective of fame as a commodity, Mathieu Deflem offers an empirical examination of the social conditions that informed Lady Gaga's rise to fame
Sociologists in a Global Age: Biographical Perspectives
Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime, and Terrorism
Anomie: History of the Concept
Policing
Terrorism and Counterterrorism Today
This volume contains chapters dealing with a variety of issues related to terrorism and counterterrorism and the study thereof, especially in relation to crime, criminal justice, law, and social control. The book gathers chapters involving a variety of issues and multiple theoretical approaches and methodological orientations. The topics include, amongst others, lone-wolf terrorism, the policing of terrorism, radicalization, suicide terrorism, to…
The Fear of Counterterrorism: Surveillance and Civil Liberties Since 9/11
Punishment and Incarceration: A Global Perspective
This volume in the series Sociology of crime, law, and deviance deals with aspects of punishment, including sentencing, incarceration, and prison conditions, in a variety of settings at local, national, and/or regional levels. The book brings together some 14 scholars to contribute their respective chapters, each of the authors drawn from various parts of the world, thus ensuring a global perspective. The chapters in this volume address specific …
Music and Law
"The chapters in this volume present social-science and legal perspectives on various conditions and implications of the connection between music and law. In view of recent developments in internet technology and changes in the music industry, the legal issues posed by music as a form of artistic expression have become more urgent to be addressed than ever before. The chapters deal with a multitude of legal issues of music, including copyright vi…
Ritual, Anti-Structure, and Religion: A Discussion of Victor Turner's Processual Symbolic Analysis
This paper offers a systematic outline and discussion of Victor Turner's anthropology of religion and ritual. Along with an examination of Turner's theoretical stance, an account of his personal life history is presented. Attention is paid to Turner's initial functional analysis, the development of his methodological frame and processual mode of analysis, and his conception of anti-structure. This account will serve to elaborate on some important…
The Sociology of the Sociology of Money: Simmel and the Contemporary Battle of the Classics
I offer a discussion of Simmel's Philosophy of Money in comparison with the analyses of money in the writings of Marx, Weber and Durkheim. Based on this analysis, I argue that Simmel's ambiguous status as a classic can be accounted for by some of the characteristics of his approach as well as the historical (non-)reception of his work. Simmel's relative neglect in sociology for the better part of the century as well as his recent revival with the…
Bureaucratization and Social Control: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation
I employ a theoretical framework developed on the basis of the writings of Max Weber to analyze historical developments in the formation of international police organizations. I rely on a comparative analysis of selected cases of international police networks and centrally focus on the most famous and enduring of such structures, the International Criminal Police Commission, the forerunner of the organization since 1956 known as "Interpol." Using…
The Myth of Postnational Identity: Popular Support for European Unification
The study of popular support for unification of Europe raises issues about the role of identification with national interests versus support for postnational identity in determining attitudes across countries and over time. It also raises issues about the roles of traditional cleavages in class position and partisan ideological views versus differences in postmaterialist values in determining support for unification. Using data for individuals sa…
Georg Simmel on Philosophy and Culture: Postscript to a Collection of Essays
The Structural Transformation of Sociology
Social control and the policing of terrorism: Foundations for a sociology of counterterrorism
Public Sociology, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet
Public sociology is neither public nor sociology. Public sociology does not and cannot have an epistemology. Speaking only for and to itself, public sociology has no public. There is no debate with public sociology. Instead, public sociology has been successfully advertised and widely embraced among sociologists. Public sociology has consumers. Public sociology is the fast-food of social science. The influence of public sociology is visible and r…
Anomie and Strain: Context and Consequences of Merton's Two Theories
Robert Merton presented two, not always clearly differentiated theories in his seminal explorations on the social-structure-and-anomie paradigm: a strain theory and an anomie theory. A one-sided focus on Merton's strain theory in the secondary literature has unnecessarily restricted the power and effectiveness of Merton's anomie theory. For although structural strain is one way to explain why deviance occurs in the context of anomie, it is not th…
Terrorism as Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond
Ferdinand Tönnies on crime and society: An Unexplored Contribution to Criminological Sociology
I offer a discussion of the criminological sociology of Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936). While Tönnies is generally well known for his theory of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, his elaborate contributions to the sociological study of crime have been almost entirely neglected in the history of sociology. Situated within Tönnies’ general theoretical perspective, I present the central themes of Tönnies’ study of crime and discuss its conceptual and met…
Global Rule of Law or Global Rule of Law Enforcement? International Police Cooperation and Counterterrorism
With increasing vigor since the events of September 11, 2001, police institutions across the globe have proliferated their counterterrorism strategies, including participation in international police organizations such as the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol). This article discusses some of these developments in light of the prospects of the development toward a global rule of law. Based on the theory of police bureaucratizati…
Celebrity activism on racial justice during Covid-19: The death of George Floyd, the rise of Naomi Osaka, and the celebritization of race in pandemic times
This paper examines the development of celebrity activism on racial justice in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Extending from efforts to provide support in relief efforts, celebrity activism during the first year of the pandemic dramatically turned to matters of racial justice in the wake of the video-taped police killing of George Floyd. Based on a constructionist perspective of celebrity, I analyze the patterns and dynamics of t…
From anomie to anomia and anomic depression: A sociological critique on the use of anomie in psychiatric research
Governing Through Globalised Crime: Futures for International Criminal Justice
Policing Post-War Iraq: Insurgency, Civilian Police, and the Reconstruction of Society
We present an analysis of the ongoing dynamics of civilian police reform in Iraq since an end to major hostilities was declared in the Spring of 2003. Analyzing the development of Iraq's new police forces since the fall of the Ba'ath regime, our study particularly focuses on the Iraqi police as a preferred target of insurgent attacks. Theoretically, we rely on sociological perspectives on the transformation of the police function in the process o…
The Logic of Nazification: The Case of the International Criminal Police Commission("Interpol")
The evolution of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC), the police organization today known as Interpol, is investigated in the period when the organization came under control of the Nazi regime and when, at roughly the same time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) became the Commission's official U.S. representative. Confronting some of the prior historical literature on Interpol, this article draws out the conflicting motiv…
The Character of Harms: Operational Challenges in Control
The Continuity of the Social Sciences During Covid-19: Sociology and Interdisciplinarity in Pandemic Times
Warfare, Political Leadership, and State Formation: The Case of the Zulu Kingdom, 1808-1879
The origin and evolution of the nineteenth-century Zulu Kingdom are used to examine two competing state formation theories: Robert Carneiro's circumscription theory and Elman Service's theory of institutionalized leadership. Both theories partly clarify Zulu political developments: Carneiro's explains the origin and territorial expansion of the Zulu empire, while Service's can account for the beginning differentiation of political roles in the Zu…
Corruption, law, and justice: A conceptual clarification
The Fear of Counterterrorism: Surveillance and Civil Liberties Since 9/11
Governmentality and the War on Terror: FBI Project Carnivore and the Diffusion of Disciplinary Power
Introduction: Law in Habermas's theory of communicative action
L'A. expose les tenants de la theorie de Habermas sur l'action communicative dans le cadre de ses conceptions du droit moderne vu comme rationalisation de la loi et du cadre de vie de la societe
Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society
The editors examine the influential writings of Fromm (his 100th Anniversary is in 2000) as they apply to criminology, showing how his humanist perspective can make for a more effective and humane way of dealing with crime and criminals
From anomie to anomia and anomic depression: A sociological critique on the use of anomie in psychiatric research
Ritual, Anti-Structure, and Religion: A Discussion of Victor Turner's Processual Symbolic Analysis
This paper offers a systematic outline and discussion of Victor Turner's anthropology of religion and ritual. Along with an examination of Turner's theoretical stance, an account of his personal life history is presented. Attention is paid to Turner's initial functional analysis, the development of his methodological frame and processual mode of analysis, and his conception of anti-structure. This account will serve to elaborate on some important…
Introduction: Law in Habermas's theory of communicative action
L'A. expose les tenants de la theorie de Habermas sur l'action communicative dans le cadre de ses conceptions du droit moderne vu comme rationalisation de la loi et du cadre de vie de la societe
Habermas, modernity and law: A bibliography
Introduction - Mathieu Deflem Law in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action How Is Valid Law Possible? A Review of /f003Between Facts and Norms/f001 by J[um]urgen Habermas - David M Rasmussen Approaching the Production of Law through Habermas's Concept of Communicative Action - Pierre Guibentif Discourse Ethics and Human Rights in Criminal Procedure - Peter Bal On Reconstructive Legal and Political Theory - Bernhard Peters Postscript to /f003B…
Corruption, law, and justice: A conceptual clarification
A Theory About Control
The Myth of Postnational Identity: Popular Support for European Unification
The study of popular support for unification of Europe raises issues about the role of identification with national interests versus support for postnational identity in determining attitudes across countries and over time. It also raises issues about the roles of traditional cleavages in class position and partisan ideological views versus differences in postmaterialist values in determining support for unification. Using data for individuals sa…
Georg Simmel on Philosophy and Culture: Postscript to a Collection of Essays
The Boundaries of Abortion Law: Systems Theory from Parsons to Luhmann and Habermas
This article examines competing hypotheses on law derived from the theories of Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmann, and Jürgen Habermas in light of the recent history of U.S. abortion law, specifically the Supreme Court's rulings on abortion over the past two decades. The evidence I advance suggests that Luhmann's theory cannot explain how abortion law since 1973 has developed with the influence of certain nonlegal contexts. The perspectives of Parso…
Ferdinand Tönnies on crime and society: An Unexplored Contribution to Criminological Sociology
I offer a discussion of the criminological sociology of Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936). While Tönnies is generally well known for his theory of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, his elaborate contributions to the sociological study of crime have been almost entirely neglected in the history of sociology. Situated within Tönnies’ general theoretical perspective, I present the central themes of Tönnies’ study of crime and discuss its conceptual and met…
Warfare, Political Leadership, and State Formation: The Case of the Zulu Kingdom, 1808-1879
The origin and evolution of the nineteenth-century Zulu Kingdom are used to examine two competing state formation theories: Robert Carneiro's circumscription theory and Elman Service's theory of institutionalized leadership. Both theories partly clarify Zulu political developments: Carneiro's explains the origin and territorial expansion of the Zulu empire, while Service's can account for the beginning differentiation of political roles in the Zu…
The Future of Anomie Theory
Bureaucratization and Social Control: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation
I employ a theoretical framework developed on the basis of the writings of Max Weber to analyze historical developments in the formation of international police organizations. I rely on a comparative analysis of selected cases of international police networks and centrally focus on the most famous and enduring of such structures, the International Criminal Police Commission, the forerunner of the organization since 1956 known as "Interpol." Using…
Erich Fromm and Critical Criminology: Beyond the Punitive Society
The editors examine the influential writings of Fromm (his 100th Anniversary is in 2000) as they apply to criminology, showing how his humanist perspective can make for a more effective and humane way of dealing with crime and criminals
The Logic of Nazification: The Case of the International Criminal Police Commission("Interpol")
The evolution of the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC), the police organization today known as Interpol, is investigated in the period when the organization came under control of the Nazi regime and when, at roughly the same time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) became the Commission's official U.S. representative. Confronting some of the prior historical literature on Interpol, this article draws out the conflicting motiv…
The Sociology of the Sociology of Money: Simmel and the Contemporary Battle of the Classics
I offer a discussion of Simmel's Philosophy of Money in comparison with the analyses of money in the writings of Marx, Weber and Durkheim. Based on this analysis, I argue that Simmel's ambiguous status as a classic can be accounted for by some of the characteristics of his approach as well as the historical (non-)reception of his work. Simmel's relative neglect in sociology for the better part of the century as well as his recent revival with the…
Anomie and Strain: Context and Consequences of Merton's Two Theories
Robert Merton presented two, not always clearly differentiated theories in his seminal explorations on the social-structure-and-anomie paradigm: a strain theory and an anomie theory. A one-sided focus on Merton's strain theory in the secondary literature has unnecessarily restricted the power and effectiveness of Merton's anomie theory. For although structural strain is one way to explain why deviance occurs in the context of anomie, it is not th…
Policing World SocietyHistorical Foundations of International Police Cooperation: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)
This book offers a sociological analysis of the history of international police cooperation in the period from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II. It is an exploration of international cooperation strategies involving police institutions from the United States and Germany as well as other European countries. The study provides an empirical account of many dimensions in the history of international policing, including the…
Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: Criminological Perspectives
These papers bring out the distinct contribution criminologists and criminological sociologists have to offer in the study of counter-terrorism from theoretical, methodological, and substantive viewpoints. It looks at terrorism in relation to hate crimes, state crimes, civil liberties, punishment, transnation crime and the international court
Social control and the policing of terrorism: Foundations for a sociology of counterterrorism
A Global Perspective on Globalization
The US Library of Congress presently (January 2005) holds 609 books that begin with the word “globalization.” More than 5,000 books are listed that mention globalization as a keyword. From this perspective, too many books may have been written about globalization. But, so it goes with interesting topics that incite new thinking. Among this multitude of books, however, are a certain number that contain genuinely influential or inspiring ideas and …
Public Sociology, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet
Public sociology is neither public nor sociology. Public sociology does not and cannot have an epistemology. Speaking only for and to itself, public sociology has no public. There is no debate with public sociology. Instead, public sociology has been successfully advertised and widely embraced among sociologists. Public sociology has consumers. Public sociology is the fast-food of social science. The influence of public sociology is visible and r…
Governmentality and the War on Terror: FBI Project Carnivore and the Diffusion of Disciplinary Power
Sociological Theory and Criminological Research
This volume highlights the value of sociological theorizing in various strands of criminological research and reveals the breadth and depth of criminological sociology in its explicit and informed reliance on insights from sociological theory. It offers a range of perspectives, and theories of criminal behavior and perspectives of social control.
Policing Post-War Iraq: Insurgency, Civilian Police, and the Reconstruction of Society
We present an analysis of the ongoing dynamics of civilian police reform in Iraq since an end to major hostilities was declared in the Spring of 2003. Analyzing the development of Iraq's new police forces since the fall of the Ba'ath regime, our study particularly focuses on the Iraqi police as a preferred target of insurgent attacks. Theoretically, we rely on sociological perspectives on the transformation of the police function in the process o…
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