George Pavlich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Pavlich |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Pavlich |
| SIGNATURE | PAVLICH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1300-1507 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Thresholds of Accusation
This critical socio-legal history probes pretrial accusations through which colonial criminal law forged social orders for settler-colonialism across western Canada, focusing on Alberta, 1874–1884. Following military intelligence, a Northwest Mounted Police force was established to compel Dominion law. That force began by deploying accusatory theatres to receive information about crimes, arrest suspects, and decide via preliminary examination who…
Plaguing Segregations
Power, while fundamental to sociality, might be exercised with haphazard ferocity or more judiciously in legally constrained ways. Such constraint requires us first to understand how ruling paradigms work, and the effects of their powers, before entertaining suitable forms of legal limitation. Transposing Kuhn’s famous concept, this paper examines a ruling paradigm of biopolitical sovereignty at the Cape of Good Hope through two examples: the 189…
Interrupting the Legal Person
Reframing Colonial Law’s Criminally Accused Persons
This chapter studies a political rationale by which colonial law forged socially assigned individuals as criminally accused persons. Focussing on archived documents of a preliminary examination that took place in 1883 in the North West Territories (now Alberta), it highlights how an accused person was moulded as a culpable individual. Arranged by a justice of the peace, and member of the North West Mounted Police, the investigation in this case r…
Myth and concealment at colonial law's foundations
This paper provides an engagement with, and highlights the depth of, Peter Fitzpatrick's careful examination of myths that grounded modern law and its colonial instances. That grounding is shown to be premised on a concealment of basic contradictions behind fictions of a unified law, even though it only appears through negations of others. Intersecting patterns of marginalisation are shown to be constitutive of modern and colonial law, so it is n…
Deconstruction
At first blush, placing a term like “deconstruction” in a sociology encyclopedia seems entirely incongruous. The word encyclopedia derives from the Greek prefix en “in” and kúklos “circle,”, both conjoined with paideia , connoting education. Together, the implication is this: encyclopedias encircle education by gathering general, but definitive, discussions on particular topics between the covers of one reference work. This activity undoubtedly r…
Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime
This title was first published in 2000: Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime develops a unique line of thought in contemporary criminology, re-examining an under-researched dimension of radical discourse. In particular, it focuses attention on the distinguishing feature of radical discourses, their allegiance to various visions of critique. The book reassesses the genres of critique evident in previous forms of radical criminology, formulates…
Accusation
The punitive effects of accusations that lead to criminalization have received considerable attention. Less well documented is the actual role, process, and meaning of accusation per se. This collection of essays sets out the terms of a new debate about a largely overlooked but foundational dimension of criminalizing justice; namely, accusation. Criminal accusation, however, does more than define the outer borders of criminal justice institutions…
Avowal and Criminal Accusation
George Pavlich Collapsing Scales and Justice
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Occupied Cape Judges and Colonial Knowledge of Crime, Criminals, and Punishment
This article returns to a colonial discourse on crime, criminals, and punishment that the court of justice enunciated and followed during an 8-year British occupation of the Cape of Good Hope in the latter part of 1795. Tapping unusually frank juridical discussions on criminality and punishment in the context of sovereignty politics, it examines three key matters. Commencing with a description of the Cape colony’s inquisitorial criminal procedure…
Governing Paradoxes of Restorative Justice
Restorative justice is the policy of eschewing traditional punishments in favour of group counselling involving both victims and perpetrators. Until now there has been no critical analysis of governmental rationales that legitimize restorative practices over traditional approaches but Governing Practices of Restorative Justice fills this gap and addresses the mentalities of governance most prominent in restorative justice. The author provides com…
Criminal Justice and Cape Law’s Persons
Expansive criminal justice arenas have for centuries been marked by tenaciously unequal representations of the race, class, ethnicity and gender of the subjects they capture and punish. Although the phenomenon has been analysed in several ways, this article focuses on the influence of criminal justice in an eclipsed dimension of colonial settings, namely, the political logic deployed to enunciate legal persons that simultaneously defined criminal…
Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony
This paper shows how law enables right-based versions of the sovereign to take root by studying how British sovereignty was fashioned over the Cape of Good Hope since its occupation in 1795. Challenging notions that sovereignty is predicated on an ability to except itself from law, the analysis shows how the emerging Cape sovereign was authored into being through its active insertion into crime-focused legal practices
The Politics of Responsible Sovereigns
How might one read a collection of transcriptions—such as The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1—that exemplifies how to read other texts deconstructively? In the spirit of Derrida’s text, a response to this question remains radically undecided; however, it certainly does not imply the absence of exegesis through the course of a particular reading. On the contrary, the event of a reading fixes itself out of specific interpretative horizons and tra…
Legal Judgment and Cape Colonial Law
Judgment is a complex matter, with particular nuances in the context of juridical decision-making. The following commentary explores legal judgment at a particular juncture via a Cape colonial case in 1798 and through Foucault’s often overlooked essay, “Truth and Juridical Forms.” Noting the legacy of the test and the inquiry as knowledge formations that have significantly influenced judgment in European and colonial law, this discussion highligh…
The subjects of criminal identification
This article analyses two late 19th-century technologies that sought to identify criminals with scientific accuracy: Alphonse Bertillon's techniques for measuring bodies and Francis Galton's composite portraits of criminal types. It analyzes the regulatory environment in England in which their ideas achieved considerable prominence, emphasizing crucial differences in the visions of `science' embraced by the two men. By highlighting their differen…
Deconstruction
At first blush, placing a term like deconstruction in a sociology encyclopedia seems entirely incongruous. The word encyclopedia derives from the Greek prefix en (in) and kúklos (circle), both conjoined with paideíã , connoting education (Ayto 1990: 201). Together, the implication is this: encyclopedias encircle education by gathering general, but definitive, discussions on particular topics between the covers of one reference work. This activity…
Experiencing Critique⋆
Justice in The Risk Society
Journal Article Justice in The Risk Society: Challenging and Re-Affirming Justice in Late Modernity. By Barbara Hudson (London: Sage Publications, 2003, 258pp. £17.98) Get access George Pavlich George Pavlich University of Alberta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2005, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azi010 Published: 01 March 2005
Critical Genres and Radical Criminology in Britain
Analyses highlighting the genres of critique engaged by radical criminologists are comparatively rare. The few exceptions tend to associate radical criminological thinking with a grammar of critique that (i) establishes universal criteria, (ii) judges (con)texts against these and (iii) prescribes paths of action accordingly. This is an unfortunate tendency since it ties radical thought to an increasingly anachronistic genre of critique, and does …
Just Promises
Criticism and Criminology
Although the new criminology held a mandate to advance novel critical genres, it developed a radical program at the expense of studying the bases of its critique. In this article, I argue that by overlooking the latter, influential strands of radical criminology (e.g. left realism) have inadvertently succumbed to the lure of an insubstantial critical pragmatism. Here, critique claims legitimacy either on the basis of an ability to secure universa…
Political logic, colonial law and the ‘land of the long white cloud’
The Power of Community Mediation
Recent "alternatives" to law assume diverse forms and include various community mediation programs. Proponents see these programs as a triumph of empowered individuals and communities over the state. By contrast, early critics-in their various ways-view such programs as an expansion and intensification of state control. Against both, and working with "new informalist" insights, this article focuses on the political logic of community mediation pr…
The Power of Community Mediation
Recent "alternatives" to law assume diverse forms and include various community mediation programs. Proponents see these programs as a triumph of empowered individuals and communities over the state. By contrast, early critics-in their various ways-view such programs as an expansion and intensification of state control. Against both, and working with "new informalist" insights, this article focuses on the political logic of community mediation pr…
The subjects of criminal identification
This article analyses two late 19th-century technologies that sought to identify criminals with scientific accuracy: Alphonse Bertillon's techniques for measuring bodies and Francis Galton's composite portraits of criminal types. It analyzes the regulatory environment in England in which their ideas achieved considerable prominence, emphasizing crucial differences in the visions of `science' embraced by the two men. By highlighting their differen…
Criticism and Criminology
Although the new criminology held a mandate to advance novel critical genres, it developed a radical program at the expense of studying the bases of its critique. In this article, I argue that by overlooking the latter, influential strands of radical criminology (e.g. left realism) have inadvertently succumbed to the lure of an insubstantial critical pragmatism. Here, critique claims legitimacy either on the basis of an ability to secure universa…
Experiencing Critique⋆
Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony
This paper shows how law enables right-based versions of the sovereign to take root by studying how British sovereignty was fashioned over the Cape of Good Hope since its occupation in 1795. Challenging notions that sovereignty is predicated on an ability to except itself from law, the analysis shows how the emerging Cape sovereign was authored into being through its active insertion into crime-focused legal practices
Contemplating a Postmodern Sociology
As its title suggests, this paper explores certain directions a specifically postmodern sociology (rather than say a sociology of postmodernism) might take. It reinterprets Gouldner's prescient warnings of a crisis in 'academic' sociology as an expression of despair within modern sociology. In particular, three important 'contradictions' are examined as possible points of departure for a postmodern sociological discourse. Foucault's genealogical …
Avowal and Criminal Accusation
The Politics of Responsible Sovereigns
How might one read a collection of transcriptions—such as The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1—that exemplifies how to read other texts deconstructively? In the spirit of Derrida’s text, a response to this question remains radically undecided; however, it certainly does not imply the absence of exegesis through the course of a particular reading. On the contrary, the event of a reading fixes itself out of specific interpretative horizons and tra…
Critical Genres and Radical Criminology in Britain
Analyses highlighting the genres of critique engaged by radical criminologists are comparatively rare. The few exceptions tend to associate radical criminological thinking with a grammar of critique that (i) establishes universal criteria, (ii) judges (con)texts against these and (iii) prescribes paths of action accordingly. This is an unfortunate tendency since it ties radical thought to an increasingly anachronistic genre of critique, and does …
Political logic, colonial law and the ‘land of the long white cloud’
Re-evaluating Modernisation and Dependency in Lesotho
The Kingdom of Lesotho is a small country, an enclave of South Africa, occupying 30,350 square kilometres of highland, ranging from 1,500 metres above sea-level at its lowest point to 3,300 metres at its highest. Although only about 13 per cent of the total area is arable, the majority of thede jurepopulation of 1·5 million are predominantly rural.1While the climatic conditions of this elevation are not alwaysfavourable to agricultural production…
Contesting social limits
Contemplating a Postmodern Sociology
As its title suggests, this paper explores certain directions a specifically postmodern sociology (rather than say a sociology of postmodernism) might take. It reinterprets Gouldner's prescient warnings of a crisis in 'academic' sociology as an expression of despair within modern sociology. In particular, three important 'contradictions' are examined as possible points of departure for a postmodern sociological discourse. Foucault's genealogical …
The Power of Community Mediation
Recent "alternatives" to law assume diverse forms and include various community mediation programs. Proponents see these programs as a triumph of empowered individuals and communities over the state. By contrast, early critics-in their various ways-view such programs as an expansion and intensification of state control. Against both, and working with "new informalist" insights, this article focuses on the political logic of community mediation pr…
Political logic, colonial law and the ‘land of the long white cloud’
Criticism and Criminology
Although the new criminology held a mandate to advance novel critical genres, it developed a radical program at the expense of studying the bases of its critique. In this article, I argue that by overlooking the latter, influential strands of radical criminology (e.g. left realism) have inadvertently succumbed to the lure of an insubstantial critical pragmatism. Here, critique claims legitimacy either on the basis of an ability to secure universa…
Just Promises
Critical Genres and Radical Criminology in Britain
Analyses highlighting the genres of critique engaged by radical criminologists are comparatively rare. The few exceptions tend to associate radical criminological thinking with a grammar of critique that (i) establishes universal criteria, (ii) judges (con)texts against these and (iii) prescribes paths of action accordingly. This is an unfortunate tendency since it ties radical thought to an increasingly anachronistic genre of critique, and does …
Justice in The Risk Society
Journal Article Justice in The Risk Society: Challenging and Re-Affirming Justice in Late Modernity. By Barbara Hudson (London: Sage Publications, 2003, 258pp. £17.98) Get access George Pavlich George Pavlich University of Alberta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 45, Issue 2, March 2005, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azi010 Published: 01 March 2005
Experiencing Critique⋆
Deconstruction
At first blush, placing a term like deconstruction in a sociology encyclopedia seems entirely incongruous. The word encyclopedia derives from the Greek prefix en (in) and kúklos (circle), both conjoined with paideíã , connoting education (Ayto 1990: 201). Together, the implication is this: encyclopedias encircle education by gathering general, but definitive, discussions on particular topics between the covers of one reference work. This activity…
The subjects of criminal identification
This article analyses two late 19th-century technologies that sought to identify criminals with scientific accuracy: Alphonse Bertillon's techniques for measuring bodies and Francis Galton's composite portraits of criminal types. It analyzes the regulatory environment in England in which their ideas achieved considerable prominence, emphasizing crucial differences in the visions of `science' embraced by the two men. By highlighting their differen…
Legal Judgment and Cape Colonial Law
Judgment is a complex matter, with particular nuances in the context of juridical decision-making. The following commentary explores legal judgment at a particular juncture via a Cape colonial case in 1798 and through Foucault’s often overlooked essay, “Truth and Juridical Forms.” Noting the legacy of the test and the inquiry as knowledge formations that have significantly influenced judgment in European and colonial law, this discussion highligh…
The Politics of Responsible Sovereigns
How might one read a collection of transcriptions—such as The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1—that exemplifies how to read other texts deconstructively? In the spirit of Derrida’s text, a response to this question remains radically undecided; however, it certainly does not imply the absence of exegesis through the course of a particular reading. On the contrary, the event of a reading fixes itself out of specific interpretative horizons and tra…
Governing Paradoxes of Restorative Justice
Restorative justice is the policy of eschewing traditional punishments in favour of group counselling involving both victims and perpetrators. Until now there has been no critical analysis of governmental rationales that legitimize restorative practices over traditional approaches but Governing Practices of Restorative Justice fills this gap and addresses the mentalities of governance most prominent in restorative justice. The author provides com…
Criminal Justice and Cape Law’s Persons
Expansive criminal justice arenas have for centuries been marked by tenaciously unequal representations of the race, class, ethnicity and gender of the subjects they capture and punish. Although the phenomenon has been analysed in several ways, this article focuses on the influence of criminal justice in an eclipsed dimension of colonial settings, namely, the political logic deployed to enunciate legal persons that simultaneously defined criminal…
Sovereign Force and Crime-focused Law at the Cape Colony
This paper shows how law enables right-based versions of the sovereign to take root by studying how British sovereignty was fashioned over the Cape of Good Hope since its occupation in 1795. Challenging notions that sovereignty is predicated on an ability to except itself from law, the analysis shows how the emerging Cape sovereign was authored into being through its active insertion into crime-focused legal practices
Occupied Cape Judges and Colonial Knowledge of Crime, Criminals, and Punishment
This article returns to a colonial discourse on crime, criminals, and punishment that the court of justice enunciated and followed during an 8-year British occupation of the Cape of Good Hope in the latter part of 1795. Tapping unusually frank juridical discussions on criminality and punishment in the context of sovereignty politics, it examines three key matters. Commencing with a description of the Cape colony’s inquisitorial criminal procedure…
Accusation
The punitive effects of accusations that lead to criminalization have received considerable attention. Less well documented is the actual role, process, and meaning of accusation per se. This collection of essays sets out the terms of a new debate about a largely overlooked but foundational dimension of criminalizing justice; namely, accusation. Criminal accusation, however, does more than define the outer borders of criminal justice institutions…
Avowal and Criminal Accusation
George Pavlich Collapsing Scales and Justice
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime
This title was first published in 2000: Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime develops a unique line of thought in contemporary criminology, re-examining an under-researched dimension of radical discourse. In particular, it focuses attention on the distinguishing feature of radical discourses, their allegiance to various visions of critique. The book reassesses the genres of critique evident in previous forms of radical criminology, formulates…
Deconstruction
At first blush, placing a term like “deconstruction” in a sociology encyclopedia seems entirely incongruous. The word encyclopedia derives from the Greek prefix en “in” and kúklos “circle,”, both conjoined with paideia , connoting education. Together, the implication is this: encyclopedias encircle education by gathering general, but definitive, discussions on particular topics between the covers of one reference work. This activity undoubtedly r…
Myth and concealment at colonial law's foundations
This paper provides an engagement with, and highlights the depth of, Peter Fitzpatrick's careful examination of myths that grounded modern law and its colonial instances. That grounding is shown to be premised on a concealment of basic contradictions behind fictions of a unified law, even though it only appears through negations of others. Intersecting patterns of marginalisation are shown to be constitutive of modern and colonial law, so it is n…
Interrupting the Legal Person
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