I Koch
Biographic Data
| ID | 33748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Koch |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Koch |
| SIGNATURE | KOCH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5016-1625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 247 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Return of the Slave Master: Popular Authoritarianism, Modern Slavery, and the Making of Black Criminality in Contemporary Britain
Popular ideas of crime victimhood have been bound up with imagery of Black criminality. Against this backdrop, the application of Britain’s “modern slavery” policies and law to young people’s involvement in the street-level economy of heroin and cocaine—dubbed county lines—appears as a departure from entrenched forms of punitivism in British criminal justice policy: now, working-class and minoritized boys and young men are discovered as victims, …
Securitizing Vulnerability: County Lines, Multi-Agency Safeguarding, and Pre-Emptive Justice
The rise of vulnerability in criminal justice policy has been seen as indicative of a new paradigm centered on notions of compassion and care. My ethnographic research with professionals who respond to individuals found at risk of ‘criminal exploitation’ in the illicit street-level economy known as ‘county lines’ challenges this narrative. At the front line, professionals engage in ‘multi-agency partnerships’ to respond to those they deem vulnera…
Roxana Willis, A Precarious Life: Community and Conflict in a Deindustrialized Town
Corruption talk' and the politics of class in 21st century Britain
Scholars have diagnosed widespread class disidentification among working-class citizens in contemporary Britain despite high and sustained levels of inequality. Everyday narrations in working-class communities, however, reveal deeply classed accounts of politics and society, even if not expressed in the formal idiom of class. Across our field sites, practices of corruption talk were rife and aided citizens in making sense of their experiences of …
Technomoral Governance: From Techniques of Intervention to Technological Innovation in Politics, Policy and Law
This special issue examines the concept of 'technomoral governance', a framework that describes the intertwining of moral imperatives with technocratic and technological solutions in contemporary political governance. Building on Erica Bornstein and Aradhana Sharma's (2016) notion of 'technomoral politics', which looked at how moral projects become intertwined with legal-technical interventions, we explore how political tactics increasingly rely …
From Criminals to Slaves: Modern Slavery,” Drug Trafficking, and the Cultural Politics of Victimhood in Postcolonial Britain
At a time when Black Lives Matter has brought the legacies of transatlantic slavery to the global headlines, the British state has discovered slavery of a different kind: the evils of "modern slavery." Modern slavery has been defined as an urgent contemporary problem facing domestic citizens on home ground. This is nowhere more evident than in the case of county lines, the name given to the street-level drug economy of heroin and crack cocaine th…
The State of the Welfare State: Advice, Governance and Care in Settings of Austerity
Contemporary attempts to govern 'the state of the welfare state' are as much about moral endeavours as they are about political and economic imperatives. Such is the argument put forward in this Introduction, which focuses on the work that advisers perform in settings of austerity across Europe. Advisers are often the last call for help for their clients/dependents who find themselves increasingly at the mercy of local authorities, immigration re…
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic: Insights from a rapid qualitative study
Dealing with excess death in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the question of a ‘good or bad death’ into sharp relief as countries across the globe have grappled with multiple peaks of cases and mortality; and communities mourn those lost. In the UK, these challenges have included the fact that mortality has adversely affected minority communities. Corpse disposal and social distancing guidelines do not allow a process of mourning …
Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain
This article examines how intensifying inequality in the UK plays out at a local level, in order to bring out the varied ways polarisation takes place 'on the ground'. It brings a community analysis buttressed by quantitative framing to the study of economic, spatial and relational polarisation in four towns in the UK. We distinguish differing dynamics of 'elite-based' polarisation (in Oxford and Tunbridge Wells) and 'poverty-based' polarisation …
The Guardians of the Welfare State: Universal Credit, Welfare Control and the Moral Economy of Frontline Work in Austerity Britain
Ongoing processes of 'austerity localism', including the state's withdrawal from local communities, have created heightened pressures at the frontline. Sitting in local authorities, third sector bodies and community organisations, frontline workers come to act as the de facto guardians of a much-diminished welfare state. Yet, in a situation where needs outweigh resources, they also allocate support based on moral hierarchies of deservingness. Thi…
From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: How welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention
Policymakers seeking to reform social security systems have frequently confronted a central tension: how to reconcile welfare retrenchment with the political challenges of implementing unpopular reforms. One way in which policymakers have responded to this tension is by repurposing existing institutions to serve new ends. We investigate the system of Universal Credit (UC) in the United Kingdom as an example of conversion. UC expands the reach of …
Economies of Advice
Because of academic divisions of labor, anthropologists have come late to the study of the changing landscape of welfare and advice provisions in Euro-America (and beyond). However, this study is crucial to understanding contemporary economies. Attention to the increasing informalization, hybridization, plurality, and complexity of welfare-care-advice provisions in the context of 21st-century austerity in Europe challenges the widely held view of…
Personalizing the State: An Anthropology of Law, Politics, and Welfare in Austerity Britain
Liberal democracy appears in crisis. From the rise of ‘law and order’ and ever tougher forms of means-testing under ‘austerity politics’ to the outcome of Britain’s referendum on leaving the EU, commentators have argued over why democracy has taken an illiberal turn. This book shifts the focus from the ‘why’ to the ‘how’ and the ‘what’: to how citizens experience government in the first place and what democracy means to them. Based on long-term e…
Towards an anthropology of global inequalities and their local manifestations: Social anthropology in 2017
At a time when political, social and environmental inequalities proliferate around the globe, anthropologists need to be equipped to diagnose, analyse and respond. This review of the anthropological research published in European journals in 2017 identifies three sets of tensions for an inquiry into global inequalities: first, between macro political economy processes and their localised workings/effects; second, between institutional processes o…
Turning Human Beings into Lawyers
Does anthropology matter to law? At first sight, this question might seem redundant: of course, anthropology matters to law, and it does so a great deal. Anthropologists have made important contributions to legal debates. Legal anthropology is a thriving sub-discipline, encompassing an ever-increasing range of topics, from long-standing concerns with customary law and legal culture to areas that have historically been left to lawyers, including c…
Political Economy Comes Home: On the Moral Economies of Housing
Struggles over housing are one of the most pressing social, economic and political issues of our time. Yet questions over access to, plus the redistribution and maintenance of secure housing have only recently begun to be considered anthropologically. Drawing on E.P. Thompson's concept of moral economy, this special issue addresses these questions and considers how contemporary moral economies of housing play out. Citizens try to make their deman…
From welfare to lawfare: Environmental suffering, neighbour disputes and the law in UK social housing
Social housing authorities in the UK frequently invoke a language of 'anti-social behaviour' and neighbour nuisance in dealing with disputes between tenants. But this language fails to recognise the poor environmental conditions that cause disputes between tenants in the first place. An ethnographic analysis of neighbour disputes identifies a double move from a politics of welfare to one of lawfare: just as housing providers shift the blame onto …
When politicians fail: Zombie democracy and the anthropology of actually existing politics
While modernist narratives of voter apathy tend to take the individual as their point of departure, recent work in the sociology of care and the anthropology of class has identified alternative understandings of personhood. On a post-industrial English council estate, residents think of politicians as the antithesis of ordinary sociality from whom withdrawal becomes a socially expected response. This is because politicians lack the requisite attr…
What's in a vote? Brexit beyond culture wars: Brexit beyond culture wars
The result of the United Kingdom's EU referendum has been interpreted as evidence of a "culture war" between proponents of liberal cosmopolitanism and defenders of socially conservative values. According to this interpretation, voters on both sides are seen as driven by identity-based politics. But on a council estate (social-housing project) in England, what made the EU referendum different from an ordinary election was that citizens perceived i…
Moving beyond punitivism: Punishment, state failure and democracy at the margins
Recent commentary on the punitive turn has focused on the repressive nature of criminal justice policy. Yet, on a marginalised council estate (social housing project) in England, residents appropriate the state in ways that do not always align with the law. What is more, where the state fails to provide residents with the protection they need, residents mobilise informal violence that is condemned by the state. An ethnographic analysis of persona…
Bread-and-butter politics: Democratic disenchantment and everyday politics on an English council estate
Despite evidence of widespread disenchantment with formal politics among England's impoverished sectors, people on the margins continue to engage with elected representatives on their own terms. On English council estates (housing projects), residents mediate their experiences of an alien and distant political system by drawing local politicians into localized networks of support and care. While this allows residents to voice demands for "bread a…
Brexit Referendum: First reactions from anthropology
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
The state has replaced the man
This article offers an ethnographic analysis of everyday sociality and the welfare state on a council estate in England. Taking the case of means-tested benefits, it investigates how women's encounters with the welfare state come into conflict with their attempts to build and to maintain family homes. It argues that while the current benefit system offers women a minimum safety net, it also comes with a set of expectations about appropriate behav…
Representations and ‘realities’ (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
What's in a vote? Brexit beyond culture wars: Brexit beyond culture wars
The result of the United Kingdom's EU referendum has been interpreted as evidence of a "culture war" between proponents of liberal cosmopolitanism and defenders of socially conservative values. According to this interpretation, voters on both sides are seen as driven by identity-based politics. But on a council estate (social-housing project) in England, what made the EU referendum different from an ordinary election was that citizens perceived i…
Political Economy Comes Home: On the Moral Economies of Housing
Struggles over housing are one of the most pressing social, economic and political issues of our time. Yet questions over access to, plus the redistribution and maintenance of secure housing have only recently begun to be considered anthropologically. Drawing on E.P. Thompson's concept of moral economy, this special issue addresses these questions and considers how contemporary moral economies of housing play out. Citizens try to make their deman…
Bread-and-butter politics: Democratic disenchantment and everyday politics on an English council estate
Despite evidence of widespread disenchantment with formal politics among England's impoverished sectors, people on the margins continue to engage with elected representatives on their own terms. On English council estates (housing projects), residents mediate their experiences of an alien and distant political system by drawing local politicians into localized networks of support and care. While this allows residents to voice demands for "bread a…
Brexit Referendum: First reactions from anthropology
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
The State of the Welfare State: Advice, Governance and Care in Settings of Austerity
Contemporary attempts to govern 'the state of the welfare state' are as much about moral endeavours as they are about political and economic imperatives. Such is the argument put forward in this Introduction, which focuses on the work that advisers perform in settings of austerity across Europe. Advisers are often the last call for help for their clients/dependents who find themselves increasingly at the mercy of local authorities, immigration re…
The state has replaced the man
This article offers an ethnographic analysis of everyday sociality and the welfare state on a council estate in England. Taking the case of means-tested benefits, it investigates how women's encounters with the welfare state come into conflict with their attempts to build and to maintain family homes. It argues that while the current benefit system offers women a minimum safety net, it also comes with a set of expectations about appropriate behav…
The Guardians of the Welfare State: Universal Credit, Welfare Control and the Moral Economy of Frontline Work in Austerity Britain
Ongoing processes of 'austerity localism', including the state's withdrawal from local communities, have created heightened pressures at the frontline. Sitting in local authorities, third sector bodies and community organisations, frontline workers come to act as the de facto guardians of a much-diminished welfare state. Yet, in a situation where needs outweigh resources, they also allocate support based on moral hierarchies of deservingness. Thi…
From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: How welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention
Policymakers seeking to reform social security systems have frequently confronted a central tension: how to reconcile welfare retrenchment with the political challenges of implementing unpopular reforms. One way in which policymakers have responded to this tension is by repurposing existing institutions to serve new ends. We investigate the system of Universal Credit (UC) in the United Kingdom as an example of conversion. UC expands the reach of …
Moving beyond punitivism: Punishment, state failure and democracy at the margins
Recent commentary on the punitive turn has focused on the repressive nature of criminal justice policy. Yet, on a marginalised council estate (social housing project) in England, residents appropriate the state in ways that do not always align with the law. What is more, where the state fails to provide residents with the protection they need, residents mobilise informal violence that is condemned by the state. An ethnographic analysis of persona…
When politicians fail: Zombie democracy and the anthropology of actually existing politics
While modernist narratives of voter apathy tend to take the individual as their point of departure, recent work in the sociology of care and the anthropology of class has identified alternative understandings of personhood. On a post-industrial English council estate, residents think of politicians as the antithesis of ordinary sociality from whom withdrawal becomes a socially expected response. This is because politicians lack the requisite attr…
From welfare to lawfare: Environmental suffering, neighbour disputes and the law in UK social housing
Social housing authorities in the UK frequently invoke a language of 'anti-social behaviour' and neighbour nuisance in dealing with disputes between tenants. But this language fails to recognise the poor environmental conditions that cause disputes between tenants in the first place. An ethnographic analysis of neighbour disputes identifies a double move from a politics of welfare to one of lawfare: just as housing providers shift the blame onto …
From Criminals to Slaves: Modern Slavery,” Drug Trafficking, and the Cultural Politics of Victimhood in Postcolonial Britain
At a time when Black Lives Matter has brought the legacies of transatlantic slavery to the global headlines, the British state has discovered slavery of a different kind: the evils of "modern slavery." Modern slavery has been defined as an urgent contemporary problem facing domestic citizens on home ground. This is nowhere more evident than in the case of county lines, the name given to the street-level drug economy of heroin and crack cocaine th…
Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain
This article examines how intensifying inequality in the UK plays out at a local level, in order to bring out the varied ways polarisation takes place 'on the ground'. It brings a community analysis buttressed by quantitative framing to the study of economic, spatial and relational polarisation in four towns in the UK. We distinguish differing dynamics of 'elite-based' polarisation (in Oxford and Tunbridge Wells) and 'poverty-based' polarisation …
The Return of the Slave Master: Popular Authoritarianism, Modern Slavery, and the Making of Black Criminality in Contemporary Britain
Popular ideas of crime victimhood have been bound up with imagery of Black criminality. Against this backdrop, the application of Britain’s “modern slavery” policies and law to young people’s involvement in the street-level economy of heroin and cocaine—dubbed county lines—appears as a departure from entrenched forms of punitivism in British criminal justice policy: now, working-class and minoritized boys and young men are discovered as victims, …
Technomoral Governance: From Techniques of Intervention to Technological Innovation in Politics, Policy and Law
This special issue examines the concept of 'technomoral governance', a framework that describes the intertwining of moral imperatives with technocratic and technological solutions in contemporary political governance. Building on Erica Bornstein and Aradhana Sharma's (2016) notion of 'technomoral politics', which looked at how moral projects become intertwined with legal-technical interventions, we explore how political tactics increasingly rely …
Representations and ‘realities’ (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The state has replaced the man
This article offers an ethnographic analysis of everyday sociality and the welfare state on a council estate in England. Taking the case of means-tested benefits, it investigates how women's encounters with the welfare state come into conflict with their attempts to build and to maintain family homes. It argues that while the current benefit system offers women a minimum safety net, it also comes with a set of expectations about appropriate behav…
Moving beyond punitivism: Punishment, state failure and democracy at the margins
Recent commentary on the punitive turn has focused on the repressive nature of criminal justice policy. Yet, on a marginalised council estate (social housing project) in England, residents appropriate the state in ways that do not always align with the law. What is more, where the state fails to provide residents with the protection they need, residents mobilise informal violence that is condemned by the state. An ethnographic analysis of persona…
Bread-and-butter politics: Democratic disenchantment and everyday politics on an English council estate
Despite evidence of widespread disenchantment with formal politics among England's impoverished sectors, people on the margins continue to engage with elected representatives on their own terms. On English council estates (housing projects), residents mediate their experiences of an alien and distant political system by drawing local politicians into localized networks of support and care. While this allows residents to voice demands for "bread a…
Brexit Referendum: First reactions from anthropology
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
When politicians fail: Zombie democracy and the anthropology of actually existing politics
While modernist narratives of voter apathy tend to take the individual as their point of departure, recent work in the sociology of care and the anthropology of class has identified alternative understandings of personhood. On a post-industrial English council estate, residents think of politicians as the antithesis of ordinary sociality from whom withdrawal becomes a socially expected response. This is because politicians lack the requisite attr…
What's in a vote? Brexit beyond culture wars: Brexit beyond culture wars
The result of the United Kingdom's EU referendum has been interpreted as evidence of a "culture war" between proponents of liberal cosmopolitanism and defenders of socially conservative values. According to this interpretation, voters on both sides are seen as driven by identity-based politics. But on a council estate (social-housing project) in England, what made the EU referendum different from an ordinary election was that citizens perceived i…
Personalizing the State: An Anthropology of Law, Politics, and Welfare in Austerity Britain
Liberal democracy appears in crisis. From the rise of ‘law and order’ and ever tougher forms of means-testing under ‘austerity politics’ to the outcome of Britain’s referendum on leaving the EU, commentators have argued over why democracy has taken an illiberal turn. This book shifts the focus from the ‘why’ to the ‘how’ and the ‘what’: to how citizens experience government in the first place and what democracy means to them. Based on long-term e…
Towards an anthropology of global inequalities and their local manifestations: Social anthropology in 2017
At a time when political, social and environmental inequalities proliferate around the globe, anthropologists need to be equipped to diagnose, analyse and respond. This review of the anthropological research published in European journals in 2017 identifies three sets of tensions for an inquiry into global inequalities: first, between macro political economy processes and their localised workings/effects; second, between institutional processes o…
Turning Human Beings into Lawyers
Does anthropology matter to law? At first sight, this question might seem redundant: of course, anthropology matters to law, and it does so a great deal. Anthropologists have made important contributions to legal debates. Legal anthropology is a thriving sub-discipline, encompassing an ever-increasing range of topics, from long-standing concerns with customary law and legal culture to areas that have historically been left to lawyers, including c…
Political Economy Comes Home: On the Moral Economies of Housing
Struggles over housing are one of the most pressing social, economic and political issues of our time. Yet questions over access to, plus the redistribution and maintenance of secure housing have only recently begun to be considered anthropologically. Drawing on E.P. Thompson's concept of moral economy, this special issue addresses these questions and considers how contemporary moral economies of housing play out. Citizens try to make their deman…
From welfare to lawfare: Environmental suffering, neighbour disputes and the law in UK social housing
Social housing authorities in the UK frequently invoke a language of 'anti-social behaviour' and neighbour nuisance in dealing with disputes between tenants. But this language fails to recognise the poor environmental conditions that cause disputes between tenants in the first place. An ethnographic analysis of neighbour disputes identifies a double move from a politics of welfare to one of lawfare: just as housing providers shift the blame onto …
Economies of Advice
Because of academic divisions of labor, anthropologists have come late to the study of the changing landscape of welfare and advice provisions in Euro-America (and beyond). However, this study is crucial to understanding contemporary economies. Attention to the increasing informalization, hybridization, plurality, and complexity of welfare-care-advice provisions in the context of 21st-century austerity in Europe challenges the widely held view of…
‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic: Insights from a rapid qualitative study
Dealing with excess death in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the question of a ‘good or bad death’ into sharp relief as countries across the globe have grappled with multiple peaks of cases and mortality; and communities mourn those lost. In the UK, these challenges have included the fact that mortality has adversely affected minority communities. Corpse disposal and social distancing guidelines do not allow a process of mourning …
Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain
This article examines how intensifying inequality in the UK plays out at a local level, in order to bring out the varied ways polarisation takes place 'on the ground'. It brings a community analysis buttressed by quantitative framing to the study of economic, spatial and relational polarisation in four towns in the UK. We distinguish differing dynamics of 'elite-based' polarisation (in Oxford and Tunbridge Wells) and 'poverty-based' polarisation …
The Guardians of the Welfare State: Universal Credit, Welfare Control and the Moral Economy of Frontline Work in Austerity Britain
Ongoing processes of 'austerity localism', including the state's withdrawal from local communities, have created heightened pressures at the frontline. Sitting in local authorities, third sector bodies and community organisations, frontline workers come to act as the de facto guardians of a much-diminished welfare state. Yet, in a situation where needs outweigh resources, they also allocate support based on moral hierarchies of deservingness. Thi…
From social security to state-sanctioned insecurity: How welfare reform mimics the commodification of labour through greater state intervention
Policymakers seeking to reform social security systems have frequently confronted a central tension: how to reconcile welfare retrenchment with the political challenges of implementing unpopular reforms. One way in which policymakers have responded to this tension is by repurposing existing institutions to serve new ends. We investigate the system of Universal Credit (UC) in the United Kingdom as an example of conversion. UC expands the reach of …
The State of the Welfare State: Advice, Governance and Care in Settings of Austerity
Contemporary attempts to govern 'the state of the welfare state' are as much about moral endeavours as they are about political and economic imperatives. Such is the argument put forward in this Introduction, which focuses on the work that advisers perform in settings of austerity across Europe. Advisers are often the last call for help for their clients/dependents who find themselves increasingly at the mercy of local authorities, immigration re…
Roxana Willis, A Precarious Life: Community and Conflict in a Deindustrialized Town
Corruption talk' and the politics of class in 21st century Britain
Scholars have diagnosed widespread class disidentification among working-class citizens in contemporary Britain despite high and sustained levels of inequality. Everyday narrations in working-class communities, however, reveal deeply classed accounts of politics and society, even if not expressed in the formal idiom of class. Across our field sites, practices of corruption talk were rife and aided citizens in making sense of their experiences of …
Technomoral Governance: From Techniques of Intervention to Technological Innovation in Politics, Policy and Law
This special issue examines the concept of 'technomoral governance', a framework that describes the intertwining of moral imperatives with technocratic and technological solutions in contemporary political governance. Building on Erica Bornstein and Aradhana Sharma's (2016) notion of 'technomoral politics', which looked at how moral projects become intertwined with legal-technical interventions, we explore how political tactics increasingly rely …
From Criminals to Slaves: Modern Slavery,” Drug Trafficking, and the Cultural Politics of Victimhood in Postcolonial Britain
At a time when Black Lives Matter has brought the legacies of transatlantic slavery to the global headlines, the British state has discovered slavery of a different kind: the evils of "modern slavery." Modern slavery has been defined as an urgent contemporary problem facing domestic citizens on home ground. This is nowhere more evident than in the case of county lines, the name given to the street-level drug economy of heroin and crack cocaine th…
Securitizing Vulnerability: County Lines, Multi-Agency Safeguarding, and Pre-Emptive Justice
The rise of vulnerability in criminal justice policy has been seen as indicative of a new paradigm centered on notions of compassion and care. My ethnographic research with professionals who respond to individuals found at risk of ‘criminal exploitation’ in the illicit street-level economy known as ‘county lines’ challenges this narrative. At the front line, professionals engage in ‘multi-agency partnerships’ to respond to those they deem vulnera…
The Return of the Slave Master: Popular Authoritarianism, Modern Slavery, and the Making of Black Criminality in Contemporary Britain
Popular ideas of crime victimhood have been bound up with imagery of Black criminality. Against this backdrop, the application of Britain’s “modern slavery” policies and law to young people’s involvement in the street-level economy of heroin and cocaine—dubbed county lines—appears as a departure from entrenched forms of punitivism in British criminal justice policy: now, working-class and minoritized boys and young men are discovered as victims, …
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