David C Brotherton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Brotherton |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Brotherton |
| SIGNATURE | BROTHERTON D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Notes from the Empire
The Dialectics of Migration
Following the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 New York City has undergone challenges to its status as a refuge to the teeming masses of the globe. Based on recent research in New York City, we trace the policing of its migrant communities as the US state has resorted to punitive measures to regulate non-citizens regarded as deportable aliens. While the city has resisted the exclusionary pressures of the securit…
The Social Processes and Integrated Theory of the Credible Messenger
The phenomenon of the credible messenger (CM) in anti-violence interventions in the United States has expanded greatly during the last decade or more. While the number of CMs has mushroomed along with their roles, there has been little attention paid to the agency of the subjects that makes these projects possible. In 2023–24, I led an evaluation study of such an intervention in New York City. Using an inductive analysis to discover emergent them…
Tribute to John Hagedorn
Between the Sea and a Hard Place
Introduction
Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies
Ethnographic research about gang-exit processes and formers’1 identity transformation gives rise to the emancipatory question of how research can make a difference in practice. This chapter proposes social practice ethics as a way of reflecting on the difference research can make in, for and to practice, situating ethics in relation to the meanings and consequences of research for social practice. The chapter illustrates how to practice situated …
Social Control and the Gang
Fighting for Dignity
Deported Americans
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
This book takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at immigration enforcement. It connects neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to recast deportation, detention, and border-control policies in the United States and worldwide in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.”
"Social banishment and the US "Criminal alien
Cet article mobilise les données issues d'un travail d'observation participante au sein d'audiences d'expulsion de migrants dans le nord-est des États-Unis en se focalisant sur deux thématiques : (i) l'émergence d'un régime de déportation et ses mécanismes de violence structurelle et (ii) les normes de la violence dans les espaces de ce régime de déportation. Par régime de déportation, nous faisons ici référence aux systèmes et pratiques institut…
Crime, Punishment and Migration
Youth Street Gangs
Gangs have been heavily pathologized in the last several decades. In comparison to the pioneering Chicago School's work on gangs in the 1920s we have moved away from a humanistic appraisal of and sensitivity toward the phenomenon and have allowed the gang to become a highly plastic folk devil outside of history. This pathologization of the gang has particularly negative consequences for democracy in an age of punishment, cruelty and coercive soci…
The Social Order of the Underworld
Cultural criminology and its practices
Jock Young and the Criminological Imagination as a Life Force
The work of the incomparable Jock Young has had an enormous impact on the development of critical criminology and of criminology more generally. In this important volume I discuss the impact of his latter works (principally his trilogy) on the development of my own research in subfields that have become virtual industries in the global praxes of contemporary criminal (in)justice: gangs and deportation. I draw on my extensive experience with ethno…
Jock Young and social bulimia
The Social Bulimia of Forced Repatriation
This chapter analyzes the immigration/deportation process through the concept of social bulimia. Drawing on life history interviews with Dominican deportees conducted in the Dominican Republic and the United States during the years 2002–2010, as well as in situ field observations of deportees and archival research related to Dominican deportation and the settlement of that community, the chapter focuses on three stages of the bulimic cycle: the s…
Outside Justice
Outside Justice: Undocumented Immigrants and the Criminal Justice System fills a clear gap in the scholarly literature on the increasing conceptual overlap between popular perceptions of immigration and criminality, and its reflection in the increasing practical overlap between criminal justice and immigration control systems.  Drawing on data from the United States and other nations, scholars from a range of academic disciplines examine the im…
Displacement and stigma
The phenomenon of forced repatriation for non-citizens has grown exponentially since the passing of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 and the Patriot Act of 2001. This development is the `natural' result of the three wars on the globalized `other': the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, and the war on the immigrant (see Brotherton and Kretsedemas, 2008). Based on five years of ethnographic study (2002—7) wit…
Beyond social reproduction
Researchers and theorists have described violent street gang subcultures in the USA as a response to the intersecting forces of marginalization inflicted on minority communities. Most gang scholars agree that the urban youth street gang is the quintessential example of social reproduction at work. While evidence can be mustered to defend such a position, it is important to consider how street gangs may constitute counter-hegemonic forms of both i…
Encyclopedia of Gangs
In light of Los Angeles' gang state of emergency, ethnic and minority gangs are arguably more high profile now than at any other time in our history. News media typically focus on the crime and violence associated with gangs, but not much else. This encyclopedia seeks to illuminate the world of gangs, including gang formations, routine gang activities, aberrations and current developments. One hundred essay entries related to gangs in the United …
The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation
From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them. This book chronicles the astounding self-transformation of one of the most feared gangs in the United States into a social movement acting on behalf of the dispossessed, renouncing violence and the underground economy, and requiring school att…
Dominican Republic From Poster Child to Basketcase
Displacement and stigma
The phenomenon of forced repatriation for non-citizens has grown exponentially since the passing of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 and the Patriot Act of 2001. This development is the `natural' result of the three wars on the globalized `other': the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, and the war on the immigrant (see Brotherton and Kretsedemas, 2008). Based on five years of ethnographic study (2002—7) wit…
Beyond social reproduction
Researchers and theorists have described violent street gang subcultures in the USA as a response to the intersecting forces of marginalization inflicted on minority communities. Most gang scholars agree that the urban youth street gang is the quintessential example of social reproduction at work. While evidence can be mustered to defend such a position, it is important to consider how street gangs may constitute counter-hegemonic forms of both i…
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
This book takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at immigration enforcement. It connects neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to recast deportation, detention, and border-control policies in the United States and worldwide in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.”
Social Control and the Gang
Deported Americans
"Social banishment and the US "Criminal alien
Cet article mobilise les données issues d'un travail d'observation participante au sein d'audiences d'expulsion de migrants dans le nord-est des États-Unis en se focalisant sur deux thématiques : (i) l'émergence d'un régime de déportation et ses mécanismes de violence structurelle et (ii) les normes de la violence dans les espaces de ce régime de déportation. Par régime de déportation, nous faisons ici référence aux systèmes et pratiques institut…
Jock Young and social bulimia
The contradictions of suppression
Introduction
The Social Order of the Underworld
The Social Processes and Integrated Theory of the Credible Messenger
The phenomenon of the credible messenger (CM) in anti-violence interventions in the United States has expanded greatly during the last decade or more. While the number of CMs has mushroomed along with their roles, there has been little attention paid to the agency of the subjects that makes these projects possible. In 2023–24, I led an evaluation study of such an intervention in New York City. Using an inductive analysis to discover emergent them…
Fighting for Dignity
The contradictions of suppression
Prison Notes in the Dominican Republic
Socially Constructing the Nomads. Part One
Gangs and Society
Compiled by three leading experts in the psychological, sociological, and criminal justice fields, this volume addresses timely questions from an eclectic range of positions. The product of a landmark conference on gangs, Gangs and Society brings together the work of academics, activists, and community leaders to examine the many functions and faces of gangs today. Analyzing the spread of gangs from New York to Texas to the West Coast, the book c…
The Deportees
Droves of deportees from the various Dominican enclaves of the United States are arriving in Santo Domingo. Most of them will never entertain the possibility of returning to their loved ones who continue living in the United States
The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation
From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them. This book chronicles the astounding self-transformation of one of the most feared gangs in the United States into a social movement acting on behalf of the dispossessed, renouncing violence and the underground economy, and requiring school att…
Dominican Republic From Poster Child to Basketcase
Encyclopedia of Gangs
In light of Los Angeles' gang state of emergency, ethnic and minority gangs are arguably more high profile now than at any other time in our history. News media typically focus on the crime and violence associated with gangs, but not much else. This encyclopedia seeks to illuminate the world of gangs, including gang formations, routine gang activities, aberrations and current developments. One hundred essay entries related to gangs in the United …
Beyond social reproduction
Researchers and theorists have described violent street gang subcultures in the USA as a response to the intersecting forces of marginalization inflicted on minority communities. Most gang scholars agree that the urban youth street gang is the quintessential example of social reproduction at work. While evidence can be mustered to defend such a position, it is important to consider how street gangs may constitute counter-hegemonic forms of both i…
Displacement and stigma
The phenomenon of forced repatriation for non-citizens has grown exponentially since the passing of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 and the Patriot Act of 2001. This development is the `natural' result of the three wars on the globalized `other': the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, and the war on the immigrant (see Brotherton and Kretsedemas, 2008). Based on five years of ethnographic study (2002—7) wit…
The Social Bulimia of Forced Repatriation
This chapter analyzes the immigration/deportation process through the concept of social bulimia. Drawing on life history interviews with Dominican deportees conducted in the Dominican Republic and the United States during the years 2002–2010, as well as in situ field observations of deportees and archival research related to Dominican deportation and the settlement of that community, the chapter focuses on three stages of the bulimic cycle: the s…
Outside Justice
Outside Justice: Undocumented Immigrants and the Criminal Justice System fills a clear gap in the scholarly literature on the increasing conceptual overlap between popular perceptions of immigration and criminality, and its reflection in the increasing practical overlap between criminal justice and immigration control systems.  Drawing on data from the United States and other nations, scholars from a range of academic disciplines examine the im…
Cultural criminology and its practices
Jock Young and the Criminological Imagination as a Life Force
The work of the incomparable Jock Young has had an enormous impact on the development of critical criminology and of criminology more generally. In this important volume I discuss the impact of his latter works (principally his trilogy) on the development of my own research in subfields that have become virtual industries in the global praxes of contemporary criminal (in)justice: gangs and deportation. I draw on my extensive experience with ethno…
Jock Young and social bulimia
Youth Street Gangs
Gangs have been heavily pathologized in the last several decades. In comparison to the pioneering Chicago School's work on gangs in the 1920s we have moved away from a humanistic appraisal of and sensitivity toward the phenomenon and have allowed the gang to become a highly plastic folk devil outside of history. This pathologization of the gang has particularly negative consequences for democracy in an age of punishment, cruelty and coercive soci…
The Social Order of the Underworld
Crime, Punishment and Migration
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
This book takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at immigration enforcement. It connects neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to recast deportation, detention, and border-control policies in the United States and worldwide in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.”
"Social banishment and the US "Criminal alien
Cet article mobilise les données issues d'un travail d'observation participante au sein d'audiences d'expulsion de migrants dans le nord-est des États-Unis en se focalisant sur deux thématiques : (i) l'émergence d'un régime de déportation et ses mécanismes de violence structurelle et (ii) les normes de la violence dans les espaces de ce régime de déportation. Par régime de déportation, nous faisons ici référence aux systèmes et pratiques institut…
Deported Americans
Routledge International Handbook of Critical Gang Studies
Ethnographic research about gang-exit processes and formers’1 identity transformation gives rise to the emancipatory question of how research can make a difference in practice. This chapter proposes social practice ethics as a way of reflecting on the difference research can make in, for and to practice, situating ethics in relation to the meanings and consequences of research for social practice. The chapter illustrates how to practice situated …
Social Control and the Gang
Fighting for Dignity
Introduction
Political science (21 works) · Criminology (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (9 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)