Mark S Hamm
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark S Hamm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark S |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamm |
| SIGNATURE | HAMM M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Riddle of Radicalization
This chapter examines the commonly held notion that mass incarceration encourages extremist views, turning this logic on its head by showing how, on another level, mass incarceration can provide a context for understanding the inner lives of prisoners who adopt extremist views, and even offer a remedy. This is the riddle of radicalization, a puzzle whose answer can be found in the combined efforts of prison chaplains and inmate leaders who have c…
Islam in Prison
This chapter traces the emergence and political role of Islam in American prisons, as well as the intersections between race and religion, beginning with Noble Drew Ali's revolutionary Moorish Science doctrine. From thence arose the Nation of Islam, which spread among prison inmates when its proponents were jailed and later grew into a stabilizing force in many prisons. As Muslim identities intensified among black prisoners in the years ahead, th…
The Spectacular Few
Al-Qaeda of California
This chapter situates the case of the Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS) within the larger story of the reemergence of Islam in U.S. prisons during the era of mass incarceration. In particular, the chapter pinpoints the rise of Islam in American prisons as the inextricable link between prisons and ghettos, following the collapse of indigenous institutions and their replacements in state institutions, which are primarily criminal justice in nature…
Terrorist Kingpins and the De-Radicalization Movement
This concluding chapter outlines the best practices for incarcerating terrorist kingpins, by presenting three such models for consideration: the total segregation model used by the United States, the partial segregation model used by Israel, and the dispersal model employed by Great Britain. Cross-cultural comparisons of these methods are of course subject to the vagaries of language and customs, politics, penal law, and criminal subcultures. Yet…
The Spectacular Few: Prisoner Radicalization and the Evolving Terrorist Threat
The Madrid train bombers, shoe-bomber Richard Reid, al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the 9/11 attacks—all were led by men radicalized behind bars. By their very nature, prisons are intended to induce transformative experiences among inmates, but today's prisons are hotbeds for personal transformation toward terrorist beliefs and actions due to the increasingly chaotic nature of prison life caused by mass incarceration. Written by a former prison guard, this…
The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism
Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij combine criminological theory with empirical and ethnographic research to map lone-wolf radicalization, helping with the identification of suspected individuals and recognizing patterns of indoctrination. A combination of personal and political grievances lead lone wolves to befriend online sympathizers
Theses on Chambliss: Roughneck and Saint
Endgame? Sports Events as Symbolic Targets in Lone Wolf Terrorism
This article explores how terrorists acting alone or in small groups have used sports events as symbolic targets in their performance of terrorism. Drawing on a comparative analysis of the attacks on the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and the 2013 Boston Marathon, it is argued that terrorist target selection of major sports events should be understood in relation to the grievances and desires of the perpetrators. The article finds that rather than be…
Arun Kundnani: The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
Key Issues and Research Agendas in Lone Wolf Terrorism
This article builds on recent contributions to the academic literature on lone wolf terrorism to critically examine key issues that are germane to the current state of play in this field of study. It finds that, overall, the recent academic literature still suffers from considerable problems regarding quality and rigor, including definitional, conceptual, methodological, and inference issues. By providing a critique of these issues, the article a…
Into the Future, Darkly
Provocateur for justice: Notes on the imprisonment of Professor Luis Barrios
Singing across the scars of wrong: Johnny Cash and his struggle for social justice
The life and music of Johnny Cash are explored in this article as we detail his commitment to social justice. Situating his politics and biography within a cultural criminology orientation, we show that Cash’s lived politics and edgy music reflect his concerns with the working class, the dispossessed, the rebellious, the American Indian, and above all, the convict. A pusher of social causes, Cash advocated for prison reform through decades of soc…
Prison Islam in the Age of Sacred Terror
Research indicates that Islam is the fastest growing religion among prisoners in Western nations. In the United States, roughly 240,000 inmates have converted to the faith since the 9/11 attacks. According to federal law enforcement, Saudi-backed Wahhabi clerics have targeted these prisoners for terrorist recruitment. The present research examines this claim from several different perspectives. First, it reviews the literature on prisoner convers…
Terrorism As Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond
High crimes and misdemeanors: George W. Bush and the sins of Abu Ghraib
This article examines the Abu Ghraib prison scandal from the perspective of cultural criminology. Several points are made about the iconic images of abuse. First, it is argued that these images, along with supporting documents, constitute the photographic record of a crime committed by the capitalist state. This was the high crime of torture. Next the images are used to examine the efficacy of various explanations for the Abu Ghraib scandal. Thes…
Apocalyptic Violence: The Seduction of Terrorist Subcultures
This article critically examines the concept of apocalyptic violence. Drawing on a wide range of methods, the study examines the social histories of some 40 neo-Nazi males. The network of knowledge that gives meaning to terrorist subcultures is examined in two case studies, showing a great diversity in the human conditions that adapt people to the subcultural products that makes terrorism possible. Yet the outcome is the same: terrorists use thei…
Stanley Cohen, States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
The Struggle against Capital Punishment: A Conversation with Human Rights Attorney Stephen Bright
Apres avoir montre la discrimination qui s'exerce dans le traitement des criminels Noirs aux Etats-Unis, cet article examine le probleme de la peine de mort dans ce pays a travers une interview du celebre representant des Droits de l'homme Stephen Bright. Comme dans d'autres domaines de la criminologie, l'A. estime qu'une sociologie des emotions serait appropriee. Les difficultes actuelles et a venir auxquelles aura a faire face la lutte abolitio…
The State of State Crime Research: A Commentary
Ce commentaire souligne les difficultes actuelles rencontees en matiere de conceptualisation, de recherche et de traitement du crime d'Etat. L'absence de consensus quant a la definition d'un crime d'Etat, ainsi que les reticences de la part des services relevant de l'Etat expliquent en partie certains blocages. Il fournit egalement une serie de recommandations pour favoriser l'acceptation de la recherche sur le crime d'Etat dans le champ de la cr…
Ethnography at the edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research
Descent into Madness: An Inmate's Experience of the New Mexico State Prison Riot
Hate crimes: The rising tide of bigotry and bloodshed
Prison Islam in the Age of Sacred Terror
Research indicates that Islam is the fastest growing religion among prisoners in Western nations. In the United States, roughly 240,000 inmates have converted to the faith since the 9/11 attacks. According to federal law enforcement, Saudi-backed Wahhabi clerics have targeted these prisoners for terrorist recruitment. The present research examines this claim from several different perspectives. First, it reviews the literature on prisoner convers…
Key Issues and Research Agendas in Lone Wolf Terrorism
This article builds on recent contributions to the academic literature on lone wolf terrorism to critically examine key issues that are germane to the current state of play in this field of study. It finds that, overall, the recent academic literature still suffers from considerable problems regarding quality and rigor, including definitional, conceptual, methodological, and inference issues. By providing a critique of these issues, the article a…
Apocalyptic Violence: The Seduction of Terrorist Subcultures
This article critically examines the concept of apocalyptic violence. Drawing on a wide range of methods, the study examines the social histories of some 40 neo-Nazi males. The network of knowledge that gives meaning to terrorist subcultures is examined in two case studies, showing a great diversity in the human conditions that adapt people to the subcultural products that makes terrorism possible. Yet the outcome is the same: terrorists use thei…
High crimes and misdemeanors: George W. Bush and the sins of Abu Ghraib
This article examines the Abu Ghraib prison scandal from the perspective of cultural criminology. Several points are made about the iconic images of abuse. First, it is argued that these images, along with supporting documents, constitute the photographic record of a crime committed by the capitalist state. This was the high crime of torture. Next the images are used to examine the efficacy of various explanations for the Abu Ghraib scandal. Thes…
Endgame? Sports Events as Symbolic Targets in Lone Wolf Terrorism
This article explores how terrorists acting alone or in small groups have used sports events as symbolic targets in their performance of terrorism. Drawing on a comparative analysis of the attacks on the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and the 2013 Boston Marathon, it is argued that terrorist target selection of major sports events should be understood in relation to the grievances and desires of the perpetrators. The article finds that rather than be…
Singing across the scars of wrong: Johnny Cash and his struggle for social justice
The life and music of Johnny Cash are explored in this article as we detail his commitment to social justice. Situating his politics and biography within a cultural criminology orientation, we show that Cash’s lived politics and edgy music reflect his concerns with the working class, the dispossessed, the rebellious, the American Indian, and above all, the convict. A pusher of social causes, Cash advocated for prison reform through decades of soc…
The State of State Crime Research: A Commentary
Ce commentaire souligne les difficultes actuelles rencontees en matiere de conceptualisation, de recherche et de traitement du crime d'Etat. L'absence de consensus quant a la definition d'un crime d'Etat, ainsi que les reticences de la part des services relevant de l'Etat expliquent en partie certains blocages. Il fournit egalement une serie de recommandations pour favoriser l'acceptation de la recherche sur le crime d'Etat dans le champ de la cr…
Hate crimes: The rising tide of bigotry and bloodshed
Ethnography at the edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research
Descent into Madness: An Inmate's Experience of the New Mexico State Prison Riot
The Struggle against Capital Punishment: A Conversation with Human Rights Attorney Stephen Bright
Apres avoir montre la discrimination qui s'exerce dans le traitement des criminels Noirs aux Etats-Unis, cet article examine le probleme de la peine de mort dans ce pays a travers une interview du celebre representant des Droits de l'homme Stephen Bright. Comme dans d'autres domaines de la criminologie, l'A. estime qu'une sociologie des emotions serait appropriee. Les difficultes actuelles et a venir auxquelles aura a faire face la lutte abolitio…
The State of State Crime Research: A Commentary
Ce commentaire souligne les difficultes actuelles rencontees en matiere de conceptualisation, de recherche et de traitement du crime d'Etat. L'absence de consensus quant a la definition d'un crime d'Etat, ainsi que les reticences de la part des services relevant de l'Etat expliquent en partie certains blocages. Il fournit egalement une serie de recommandations pour favoriser l'acceptation de la recherche sur le crime d'Etat dans le champ de la cr…
Stanley Cohen, States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
Apocalyptic Violence: The Seduction of Terrorist Subcultures
This article critically examines the concept of apocalyptic violence. Drawing on a wide range of methods, the study examines the social histories of some 40 neo-Nazi males. The network of knowledge that gives meaning to terrorist subcultures is examined in two case studies, showing a great diversity in the human conditions that adapt people to the subcultural products that makes terrorism possible. Yet the outcome is the same: terrorists use thei…
Terrorism As Crime: From Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and Beyond
High crimes and misdemeanors: George W. Bush and the sins of Abu Ghraib
This article examines the Abu Ghraib prison scandal from the perspective of cultural criminology. Several points are made about the iconic images of abuse. First, it is argued that these images, along with supporting documents, constitute the photographic record of a crime committed by the capitalist state. This was the high crime of torture. Next the images are used to examine the efficacy of various explanations for the Abu Ghraib scandal. Thes…
Singing across the scars of wrong: Johnny Cash and his struggle for social justice
The life and music of Johnny Cash are explored in this article as we detail his commitment to social justice. Situating his politics and biography within a cultural criminology orientation, we show that Cash’s lived politics and edgy music reflect his concerns with the working class, the dispossessed, the rebellious, the American Indian, and above all, the convict. A pusher of social causes, Cash advocated for prison reform through decades of soc…
Prison Islam in the Age of Sacred Terror
Research indicates that Islam is the fastest growing religion among prisoners in Western nations. In the United States, roughly 240,000 inmates have converted to the faith since the 9/11 attacks. According to federal law enforcement, Saudi-backed Wahhabi clerics have targeted these prisoners for terrorist recruitment. The present research examines this claim from several different perspectives. First, it reviews the literature on prisoner convers…
Provocateur for justice: Notes on the imprisonment of Professor Luis Barrios
Into the Future, Darkly
Key Issues and Research Agendas in Lone Wolf Terrorism
This article builds on recent contributions to the academic literature on lone wolf terrorism to critically examine key issues that are germane to the current state of play in this field of study. It finds that, overall, the recent academic literature still suffers from considerable problems regarding quality and rigor, including definitional, conceptual, methodological, and inference issues. By providing a critique of these issues, the article a…
Endgame? Sports Events as Symbolic Targets in Lone Wolf Terrorism
This article explores how terrorists acting alone or in small groups have used sports events as symbolic targets in their performance of terrorism. Drawing on a comparative analysis of the attacks on the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and the 2013 Boston Marathon, it is argued that terrorist target selection of major sports events should be understood in relation to the grievances and desires of the perpetrators. The article finds that rather than be…
Arun Kundnani: The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror
Theses on Chambliss: Roughneck and Saint
The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism
Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij combine criminological theory with empirical and ethnographic research to map lone-wolf radicalization, helping with the identification of suspected individuals and recognizing patterns of indoctrination. A combination of personal and political grievances lead lone wolves to befriend online sympathizers
The Riddle of Radicalization
This chapter examines the commonly held notion that mass incarceration encourages extremist views, turning this logic on its head by showing how, on another level, mass incarceration can provide a context for understanding the inner lives of prisoners who adopt extremist views, and even offer a remedy. This is the riddle of radicalization, a puzzle whose answer can be found in the combined efforts of prison chaplains and inmate leaders who have c…
Islam in Prison
This chapter traces the emergence and political role of Islam in American prisons, as well as the intersections between race and religion, beginning with Noble Drew Ali's revolutionary Moorish Science doctrine. From thence arose the Nation of Islam, which spread among prison inmates when its proponents were jailed and later grew into a stabilizing force in many prisons. As Muslim identities intensified among black prisoners in the years ahead, th…
The Spectacular Few
Al-Qaeda of California
This chapter situates the case of the Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS) within the larger story of the reemergence of Islam in U.S. prisons during the era of mass incarceration. In particular, the chapter pinpoints the rise of Islam in American prisons as the inextricable link between prisons and ghettos, following the collapse of indigenous institutions and their replacements in state institutions, which are primarily criminal justice in nature…
Terrorist Kingpins and the De-Radicalization Movement
This concluding chapter outlines the best practices for incarcerating terrorist kingpins, by presenting three such models for consideration: the total segregation model used by the United States, the partial segregation model used by Israel, and the dispersal model employed by Great Britain. Cross-cultural comparisons of these methods are of course subject to the vagaries of language and customs, politics, penal law, and criminal subcultures. Yet…
The Spectacular Few: Prisoner Radicalization and the Evolving Terrorist Threat
The Madrid train bombers, shoe-bomber Richard Reid, al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the 9/11 attacks—all were led by men radicalized behind bars. By their very nature, prisons are intended to induce transformative experiences among inmates, but today's prisons are hotbeds for personal transformation toward terrorist beliefs and actions due to the increasingly chaotic nature of prison life caused by mass incarceration. Written by a former prison guard, this…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Criminology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Terrorism (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (10 works) · History (8 works) · Prison (7 works) · Law (6 works)