Avram Bornstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avram Bornstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avram |
| FAMILY NAME | Bornstein |
| SIGNATURE | BORNSTEIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Antisemitism
Anthropology and Palestine
Tell It to the Judge
Based on direct observation inside and outside the courts and on interviews with one hundred residents and two hundred previous offenders, this article examines the performance of procedural justice in a community court in the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Results show that the community court is widely praised compared to the downtown Brooklyn courts and in sharp contrast to police enforcement. The content of this praise suggests …
Institutional Racism, Numbers Management, and Zero‐Tolerance Policing in N ew Y ork City
Institutional racism is a concept that has gotten into a muddle. Ubiquitous in policing in the UK, but relegated to the margins of discussion in the US, this important and useful idea has been misunderstood on both sides of the Atlantic as a pervasive form of unconscious or cultural bias. This article argues that a clearer distinction is needed between cognitive bias and institutional racism especially with regard to the racial disparities in the…
Battle of Seattle
In the “Battle of Seattle” tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of that city to oppose the “Millennium Round” of trade talks of the World Trade Organization (WTO) starting November 30, 1999. The talks ended in failure partly because of the protests, but largely because of opposition within the meetings from governments opposed to backroom deals made between the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Japan (Smith 2002: 20…
Critical Race Theory Meets the Nypd
This research describes and assesses Critical Race Theory (CRT) pedagogy in a higher education ethnic studies course for police officers. CRT pedagogy aims to help students overcome “color-blind” thinking, which minimizes awareness of racism, by raising their critical understanding of racism and framing it as a pervasive and institutionalized reality that everyone has a responsibility to change. Using the Color Blind Racial Awareness (COBRA) Scal…
Palestinian prison ontologies
Postcolonial Disorders . Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good , Sandra Teresa Hyde , Sarah Pinto , Byron J. Good
N30 + 10
In-betweenness and crumbled hopes in Palestine
Globalization in Rural Mexico
Military Occupation as Carceral Society
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories have been subject to increasing confinement, starting with prisons in the 1970s and 1980s and growing into a regime of checkpoints and walls that encircle entire towns and villages. After a historical review of the incremental stages of this incarceration, the article examines the overall impact of prisons, checkpoints, and walls, based on observations garnered from more than a dozen research trips over tw…
Imagined Differences
Imagined Differences: Hatred and the Construction of Identity. Günther Schlee, ed. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 280 pp
Antiterrorist Policing in New York City after 9/11
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, there was a significant redeployment of law enforcement in the United States, especially in New York City, which included: greater public displays of weapons; increased suspicion, surveillance, registration, detention and deportation of Arab and Muslim immigrants; the prevention of bias crimes against those same people; training for first response to future disasters; and greater investigation co-operation…
Frontiers and Ghettos
Anthropologists Tackle Shooting and Homicides in Brooklyn
Anthropologist as Middle East Expert
Borders and the Utility of Violence
■ The geopolitical border is a uniquely modern form of social and economic control. When marked and functional, one usually finds military or police personnel who stop, search, turn back, detain and sometimes beat or kill people trying to cross. This article describes how border enforcement on the Green Line, between the West Bank and Israel proper, contributes to the under-development of the West Bank and the intensified exploitation of Palestin…
Border Enforcement in Daily Life
Changing procedures at the border between the West Bank and Israel burdened the lives of many Palestinians. By tracing the intersections between these state practices the demands of capital and the local behavior of individuals this article describes the impact of the border on those who work in Israeli construction and those sub-contracting garment assembly from Israeli clothing manufacturers. The border struggle fundamental to the Palestinian-I…
Dancehall Ethnography in Jamaica
Book Review| September 01 2001 Dancehall Ethnography in Jamaica Avram Bornstein Avram Bornstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 183–185. https://doi.org/10.1215/-5-2-183 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Avram Bornstein; Dancehall Ethnography in Jamaica. Small Axe 1 September 2001; 5 (2): 183–185. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-5-2-183 Download citation file:…
Cultures under Siege
Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma. Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Marcelo M. Sudrez-Orozco. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 285 pp
Death Squad
Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror. Jeffrey A. Sluka. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 260 pp
Ethnography and the Politics of Prisoners in Palestine-Israel
Between 1987 and 1994, well more than one hundred thousand Palestinians were incarcerated as "security" prisoners by Israeli occupation forces. The experiences of these men presented particular problems of representation. While the author tried to empathetically write about their human experiences of suffering, he discovered that trauma can be appropriated by different groups and invested with different emotional and political meanings. During th…
Borders and the Utility of Violence
■ The geopolitical border is a uniquely modern form of social and economic control. When marked and functional, one usually finds military or police personnel who stop, search, turn back, detain and sometimes beat or kill people trying to cross. This article describes how border enforcement on the Green Line, between the West Bank and Israel proper, contributes to the under-development of the West Bank and the intensified exploitation of Palestin…
Ethnography and the Politics of Prisoners in Palestine-Israel
Between 1987 and 1994, well more than one hundred thousand Palestinians were incarcerated as "security" prisoners by Israeli occupation forces. The experiences of these men presented particular problems of representation. While the author tried to empathetically write about their human experiences of suffering, he discovered that trauma can be appropriated by different groups and invested with different emotional and political meanings. During th…
Tell It to the Judge
Based on direct observation inside and outside the courts and on interviews with one hundred residents and two hundred previous offenders, this article examines the performance of procedural justice in a community court in the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Results show that the community court is widely praised compared to the downtown Brooklyn courts and in sharp contrast to police enforcement. The content of this praise suggests …
Imagined Differences
Imagined Differences: Hatred and the Construction of Identity. Günther Schlee, ed. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 280 pp
Border Enforcement in Daily Life
Changing procedures at the border between the West Bank and Israel burdened the lives of many Palestinians. By tracing the intersections between these state practices the demands of capital and the local behavior of individuals this article describes the impact of the border on those who work in Israeli construction and those sub-contracting garment assembly from Israeli clothing manufacturers. The border struggle fundamental to the Palestinian-I…
Dancehall Ethnography in Jamaica
Book Review| September 01 2001 Dancehall Ethnography in Jamaica Avram Bornstein Avram Bornstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 183–185. https://doi.org/10.1215/-5-2-183 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Avram Bornstein; Dancehall Ethnography in Jamaica. Small Axe 1 September 2001; 5 (2): 183–185. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-5-2-183 Download citation file:…
Cultures under Siege
Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma. Antonius C. G. M. Robben and Marcelo M. Sudrez-Orozco. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 285 pp
Death Squad
Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror. Jeffrey A. Sluka. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. 260 pp
Ethnography and the Politics of Prisoners in Palestine-Israel
Between 1987 and 1994, well more than one hundred thousand Palestinians were incarcerated as "security" prisoners by Israeli occupation forces. The experiences of these men presented particular problems of representation. While the author tried to empathetically write about their human experiences of suffering, he discovered that trauma can be appropriated by different groups and invested with different emotional and political meanings. During th…
Anthropologist as Middle East Expert
Borders and the Utility of Violence
■ The geopolitical border is a uniquely modern form of social and economic control. When marked and functional, one usually finds military or police personnel who stop, search, turn back, detain and sometimes beat or kill people trying to cross. This article describes how border enforcement on the Green Line, between the West Bank and Israel proper, contributes to the under-development of the West Bank and the intensified exploitation of Palestin…
Anthropologists Tackle Shooting and Homicides in Brooklyn
Antiterrorist Policing in New York City after 9/11
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, there was a significant redeployment of law enforcement in the United States, especially in New York City, which included: greater public displays of weapons; increased suspicion, surveillance, registration, detention and deportation of Arab and Muslim immigrants; the prevention of bias crimes against those same people; training for first response to future disasters; and greater investigation co-operation…
Frontiers and Ghettos
Imagined Differences
Imagined Differences: Hatred and the Construction of Identity. Günther Schlee, ed. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 280 pp
Military Occupation as Carceral Society
Palestinians in the Occupied Territories have been subject to increasing confinement, starting with prisons in the 1970s and 1980s and growing into a regime of checkpoints and walls that encircle entire towns and villages. After a historical review of the incremental stages of this incarceration, the article examines the overall impact of prisons, checkpoints, and walls, based on observations garnered from more than a dozen research trips over tw…
Postcolonial Disorders . Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good , Sandra Teresa Hyde , Sarah Pinto , Byron J. Good
N30 + 10
In-betweenness and crumbled hopes in Palestine
Globalization in Rural Mexico
Palestinian prison ontologies
Critical Race Theory Meets the Nypd
This research describes and assesses Critical Race Theory (CRT) pedagogy in a higher education ethnic studies course for police officers. CRT pedagogy aims to help students overcome “color-blind” thinking, which minimizes awareness of racism, by raising their critical understanding of racism and framing it as a pervasive and institutionalized reality that everyone has a responsibility to change. Using the Color Blind Racial Awareness (COBRA) Scal…
Battle of Seattle
In the “Battle of Seattle” tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of that city to oppose the “Millennium Round” of trade talks of the World Trade Organization (WTO) starting November 30, 1999. The talks ended in failure partly because of the protests, but largely because of opposition within the meetings from governments opposed to backroom deals made between the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Japan (Smith 2002: 20…
Institutional Racism, Numbers Management, and Zero‐Tolerance Policing in N ew Y ork City
Institutional racism is a concept that has gotten into a muddle. Ubiquitous in policing in the UK, but relegated to the margins of discussion in the US, this important and useful idea has been misunderstood on both sides of the Atlantic as a pervasive form of unconscious or cultural bias. This article argues that a clearer distinction is needed between cognitive bias and institutional racism especially with regard to the racial disparities in the…
Tell It to the Judge
Based on direct observation inside and outside the courts and on interviews with one hundred residents and two hundred previous offenders, this article examines the performance of procedural justice in a community court in the Red Hook neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Results show that the community court is widely praised compared to the downtown Brooklyn courts and in sharp contrast to police enforcement. The content of this praise suggests …
Antisemitism
Anthropology and Palestine
Sociology (16 works) · Law (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Criminology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works)