Bruce Arrigo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Arrigo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Arrigo |
| SIGNATURE | ARRIGO B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9747-9860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The ethics of influence: Nudge theory reconsidered
Psychological jurisprudence and the working “tools” of justice: Diagnostic commentary and transgressive philosophy
The practice framework of psychological jurisprudence provides researchers, educators, and policy professionals with a critically animated theory and a humanistically-oriented science by which to diagnose the status of coexistent wellbeing in diverse carceral spaces and settings. These are environs in which the systems of mental health, substance abuse, and offender rehabilitation function to oversee the treatment needs of incarcerated persons an…
The Biography of De-Realization on Criminal History, Culture and Politics
Diagnosing Dignity’s De-Realization: Lessons From The ‘Laws Of Captivity’ Thesis
What does it mean to speak of dignity’s de-realization much less to diagnose the experience of it? This article draws inspiration from law, culture and the humanities to address these underexamined questions. I outline the relational problem of dignity’s de-realization and rely on a clinical case to illuminate the problem’s interpersonal dynamics. I describe the theoretical assumptions that inform my assessment of dignity’s co-constitutive de-rea…
The Virtues of Justice: Toward a Moral and Jurisprudential Psychology
Within the theoretical literature on crime control and offender therapy, little has been written about the importance of virtue ethics in the experience of human justice and in the evolution of the common good. As a theory of being, the aretaic tradition extols eudemonic existence (i.e., excellence, flourishing) as a relational habit of developing character that is both practiced and embodied over time. What this implies is that virtue justice de…
Psychological Jurisprudence as Deconstructionist Method: The Theory and Science of Virtue-Based Research
For nearly thirty years, the theory and science of Psychological Jurisprudence (PJ) have been used to address a range of complex and controversial issues in crime, law, and justice. As a matter of epistemological and ontological commitments, PJ’s research agenda is sourced in an Aristotelian-derived virtue ethic. This ethic advances eudemonic existence. This existence extolls human flourishing and excellence and it recognizes that these eudemonic…
The de-realization of Black bodies in an era of mass digital surveillance: A techno-criminological critique
This article describes the ways in which existing methods of dataveillance and big data collection have contributed to the current de-realization of Black bodies. In the present or ultramodern era, de-realization consists of datafication (i.e. digital profiling techniques and life mining strategies) in support of techno-crime control policy. The process of de-realization both de-politicizes Black identities and de-personalizes the lived experienc…
Ethical Considerations at the Intersection of Climate Change and Reproductive Justice: Directions from Green Criminology
The Dark Web and anonymizing technologies: Legal pitfalls, ethical prospects, and policy directions from radical criminology
Pre-crime, Post-criminology, and the Captivity of Ultramodern Desire
The Terrorist Identity: Explaining the Terrorist Threat
Who would strap a bomb to his chest, walk into a crowded subway station and blow himself up? Only by examining how a terrorist understands his own identity and actions can this question be answered. The authors of The Terrorist Identity explore how the notion of self-concept combined with membership in terrorist and extremist groups, can shape and sustain the identity of a terrorist as well as their subsequent justification for violence and the l…
The Dictionary of Critical Social Sciences
This book is a teaching dictionary with the goal of de-mystifying current social science theory in a comprehensive, accessible format. It focuses on important terminology in progressive, radical, critical Marxist, feminist, left-liberal, postmodern, and semiotic contexts
The Sage Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy
Although surveillance hit the headlines with revelations by Edward Snowden that the NSA had been tracking phone calls worldwide, surveillance of citizens by their governments actually has been conducted for centuries. Only now, with the advent of modern technologies, it has exponentially evolved so that today you can barely step out your door without being watched or recorded in some way. In addition to the political and security surveillance unv…
Critical Criminology as Academic Activism: On Praxis and Pedagogy, Resistance and Revolution
Revolutionizing Academic Activism: Transpraxis, Critical Pedagogy, and Justice for a People Yet to Be
Critical Criminology
Francesa Biagi-Chai Serial Killers: Psychiatry, Criminology, Responsibility, Translated by V. Voruz and S. Yang
The Ultramodern Condition: On the Phenomenology of the Shadow as Transgression
Phil Scraton, Power , Conflict and Criminalisation
De/reconstructing critical psychological jurisprudence: Strategies of resistance and struggles for justice
The development of an integrated critical psychological jurisprudence (PJ) continues to elude researchers in theoretical and applied contexts. Indeed, the radical potential of a synthetic PJ that furthers the political aims of social change, collective good and citizen justice has yet to be sufficiently problematised or systematically reviewed in the extant literature. This article begins to address this deficiency. First, the social philosophy t…
Identity, International Terrorism and Negotiating Peace: Hamas and Ethics-Based Considerations from Critical Restorative Justice
This paper conceptually examines one specific case of international terrorism, including the emergence and maintenance of membership-allegiance in its militant extremist group. This is the case of the Islamic Resistance Movement (or Hamas) and the manifestation of its corresponding Palestinian identity. Although the social person is constituted by symbols and objects, acts and social acts, meanings, and role-taking and role-making, questions pers…
Philosophical Criminology and Complex Systems Science: Towards a Critical Theory of Justice
Conflict Theory and Crime and Delinquency
Much of the sociological and criminological mainstream assumes that society is organized around and characterized by consensus; however, conflict theorists place the process of discord at the center of cultural, institutional, and organizational dynamics. While a number of theoretical variations have emerged from within the general conflict tradition, they share a few basic assumptions. First, conflict theorists assume that in more complex, indus…
Recommunalization of the disenfranchised: A theoretical and critical criminological inquiry
This article examines the eight-stage model of recommunalizing the homeless in a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) as developed by Arrigo and its theoretical grounding, based on principles derived from critical criminology. In particular, by retrospectively identifying how several key concepts emanating from peacemaking, anarchist and cultural criminology are illustrated by the SRO’s formation and operation, the article demonstrates where and how the d…
French Connection in Criminology, The: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change
Philosophical Criminology and Complex Systems Science: Towards a Critical Theory of Justice
Recommunalization of the disenfranchised: A theoretical and critical criminological inquiry
This article examines the eight-stage model of recommunalizing the homeless in a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) as developed by Arrigo and its theoretical grounding, based on principles derived from critical criminology. In particular, by retrospectively identifying how several key concepts emanating from peacemaking, anarchist and cultural criminology are illustrated by the SRO’s formation and operation, the article demonstrates where and how the d…
Anarchaos and Order: On the Emergence of Social Justice
In this article we explore aspects of anarchism and of chaos theory, suggesting that recent insights advanced by the latter shed new light on the former. The former conceptually explains the importance of natural order as a human process that questions and, ultimately, subverts the artifice of state-imposed authoritative order. The latter examines, both theoretically and empirically, the role of order, disorder, and `chaotic' social dynamics in t…
Critical Criminology, Existential Humanism, and Social Justice: Exploring the Contours of Conceptual Integration
Postmodern criminology in relation to radical and conflict criminology
The Dictionary of Critical Social Sciences
This book is a teaching dictionary with the goal of de-mystifying current social science theory in a comprehensive, accessible format. It focuses on important terminology in progressive, radical, critical Marxist, feminist, left-liberal, postmodern, and semiotic contexts
Critical Criminology as Academic Activism: On Praxis and Pedagogy, Resistance and Revolution
Revolutionizing Academic Activism: Transpraxis, Critical Pedagogy, and Justice for a People Yet to Be
Identity, International Terrorism and Negotiating Peace: Hamas and Ethics-Based Considerations from Critical Restorative Justice
This paper conceptually examines one specific case of international terrorism, including the emergence and maintenance of membership-allegiance in its militant extremist group. This is the case of the Islamic Resistance Movement (or Hamas) and the manifestation of its corresponding Palestinian identity. Although the social person is constituted by symbols and objects, acts and social acts, meanings, and role-taking and role-making, questions pers…
Reality-based television and police–citizen encounters: The intertextual construction and situated meaning of mental illness-as-punishment
Recent theoretical analyses concerning mental illness argue that persons labeled as such are punished first through discourse, subsequently legitimized, knowingly or not, through social effect. In this framework, punishment is an artifact of unconscious and symbolic forces whose structuration can be positionally, relationally and provisionally decoded through careful textual exegeses. Linked to several strains of postmodern inquiry, a number of a…
Theorizing Non-Linear Communities: On Social Deviance and Housing the Homeless
Theories of deviance abound; however, little attention has been given to the construction and meaning of deviance in postmodern society. According to some theorists, one conceptual variant of postmodernism is chaology or non-linear dynamical systems theory. In this article, the relevance of chaos theory for advancing our understanding of social deviance is examined. In particular, such notions as non-linearity, fractal space, attractors, self-sim…
Justice and the deconstruction of psychological jurisprudence: The case of competency to stand trial
Critical psychological jurisprudence draws attention to the forces of ideology, power and violence embedded in the narratives of law and psychiatry, criminal justice and mental health. Application work in this area identifies how and for whom justice is served (or denied) by prevailing medicolegal decisions and practices. One method of discursive analysis comes from deconstruction. Indeed, as Derrida has proclaimed, ‘deconstruction is justice.’ T…
An Experientially-Informed Feminist Jurisprudence: Rape and the Move toward Praxis
Deconstructing jurisprudence: An experiential feminist critique
Diagnosing Dignity’s De-Realization: Lessons From The ‘Laws Of Captivity’ Thesis
What does it mean to speak of dignity’s de-realization much less to diagnose the experience of it? This article draws inspiration from law, culture and the humanities to address these underexamined questions. I outline the relational problem of dignity’s de-realization and rely on a clinical case to illuminate the problem’s interpersonal dynamics. I describe the theoretical assumptions that inform my assessment of dignity’s co-constitutive de-rea…
The de-realization of Black bodies in an era of mass digital surveillance: A techno-criminological critique
This article describes the ways in which existing methods of dataveillance and big data collection have contributed to the current de-realization of Black bodies. In the present or ultramodern era, de-realization consists of datafication (i.e. digital profiling techniques and life mining strategies) in support of techno-crime control policy. The process of de-realization both de-politicizes Black identities and de-personalizes the lived experienc…
De/reconstructing critical psychological jurisprudence: Strategies of resistance and struggles for justice
The development of an integrated critical psychological jurisprudence (PJ) continues to elude researchers in theoretical and applied contexts. Indeed, the radical potential of a synthetic PJ that furthers the political aims of social change, collective good and citizen justice has yet to be sufficiently problematised or systematically reviewed in the extant literature. This article begins to address this deficiency. First, the social philosophy t…
Theory, Justice, and Social Change: Theoretical Integrations and Critical Applications
"Theory, Justice, and Social Change: Theoretical Integration and Critical Applications represents a series of essays that systematically reviews or extends the role of critical social theory in fostering justice and change in several relevant, though problematic, social contexts. Mindful of the need to address both conceptual exegeses and pragmatic concerns, the articles contained in this volume grapple with the ongoing "double crisis" that confr…
Deconstructing jurisprudence: An experiential feminist critique
An Experientially-Informed Feminist Jurisprudence: Rape and the Move toward Praxis
Rooms for the Misbegotten: Social Design and Social Deviance
Housing strategies designed to create a sense of community for our nation's at-risk and poverty-stricken citizens continue to be a source of debate. One major issue is the degree to which criminal behavior exists within these environments. In this article, the results from a seven year study of one single room occupancy (SRO) facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are described. Analysis of two models used for intervening with the vulnerable tenant…
Special Issue Editor's Introduction
A Jungian Analysis of the “Shock Jock” Howard Stern: A Case for the Psychology of Violence
Postmodern criminology in relation to radical and conflict criminology
Theories of Crime and Crimes of Theorists: On the Topological Construction of Criminological Reality
Social science scholarship is increasingly addressing the dynamics of gender, race and class in various institutional contexts. Criminological research is no exception to this trend. Within the criminological sciences, postmodern research is also gaining greater attention and respectability. Notwithstanding the discipline's recent emphasis on postmodernity and cultural plurality, little attention has been given to criminological theory and how th…
The French Connection: Implications for Law, Crime, and Social Justice
Employant une orientation theorique, l'A. detaille les contributions de certains theoriciens sociaux de la premiere vague postmoderne (Lacan, Foucault...) et explique comment leurs idees ont ete appropriees dans la loi, le crime et la justice sociale par une deuxieme vague. Des problemes d'ordre social et legal sont traites : les maladies mentales ou encore les theories raciales
Anarchaos and Order: On the Emergence of Social Justice
In this article we explore aspects of anarchism and of chaos theory, suggesting that recent insights advanced by the latter shed new light on the former. The former conceptually explains the importance of natural order as a human process that questions and, ultimately, subverts the artifice of state-imposed authoritative order. The latter examines, both theoretically and empirically, the role of order, disorder, and `chaotic' social dynamics in t…
Critical Criminology, Existential Humanism, and Social Justice: Exploring the Contours of Conceptual Integration
Law, Psychology, and Justice: Chaos Theory and the New (Dis)Order
Justice and the deconstruction of psychological jurisprudence: The case of competency to stand trial
Critical psychological jurisprudence draws attention to the forces of ideology, power and violence embedded in the narratives of law and psychiatry, criminal justice and mental health. Application work in this area identifies how and for whom justice is served (or denied) by prevailing medicolegal decisions and practices. One method of discursive analysis comes from deconstruction. Indeed, as Derrida has proclaimed, ‘deconstruction is justice.’ T…
Critical Criminology at the Edge: Postmodern Perspectives, Integration, and Applications by Dragan Milovanovic
Psychological Jurisprudence: Critical Explorations in Law, Crime, and Society
Theory, Justice, and Social Change: Theoretical Integrations and Critical Applications
"Theory, Justice, and Social Change: Theoretical Integration and Critical Applications represents a series of essays that systematically reviews or extends the role of critical social theory in fostering justice and change in several relevant, though problematic, social contexts. Mindful of the need to address both conceptual exegeses and pragmatic concerns, the articles contained in this volume grapple with the ongoing "double crisis" that confr…
Theorizing Non-Linear Communities: On Social Deviance and Housing the Homeless
Theories of deviance abound; however, little attention has been given to the construction and meaning of deviance in postmodern society. According to some theorists, one conceptual variant of postmodernism is chaology or non-linear dynamical systems theory. In this article, the relevance of chaos theory for advancing our understanding of social deviance is examined. In particular, such notions as non-linearity, fractal space, attractors, self-sim…
French Connection in Criminology, The: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change
Reality-based television and police–citizen encounters: The intertextual construction and situated meaning of mental illness-as-punishment
Recent theoretical analyses concerning mental illness argue that persons labeled as such are punished first through discourse, subsequently legitimized, knowingly or not, through social effect. In this framework, punishment is an artifact of unconscious and symbolic forces whose structuration can be positionally, relationally and provisionally decoded through careful textual exegeses. Linked to several strains of postmodern inquiry, a number of a…
Recommunalization of the disenfranchised: A theoretical and critical criminological inquiry
This article examines the eight-stage model of recommunalizing the homeless in a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) as developed by Arrigo and its theoretical grounding, based on principles derived from critical criminology. In particular, by retrospectively identifying how several key concepts emanating from peacemaking, anarchist and cultural criminology are illustrated by the SRO’s formation and operation, the article demonstrates where and how the d…
Conflict Theory and Crime and Delinquency
Much of the sociological and criminological mainstream assumes that society is organized around and characterized by consensus; however, conflict theorists place the process of discord at the center of cultural, institutional, and organizational dynamics. While a number of theoretical variations have emerged from within the general conflict tradition, they share a few basic assumptions. First, conflict theorists assume that in more complex, indus…
Philosophical Criminology and Complex Systems Science: Towards a Critical Theory of Justice
De/reconstructing critical psychological jurisprudence: Strategies of resistance and struggles for justice
The development of an integrated critical psychological jurisprudence (PJ) continues to elude researchers in theoretical and applied contexts. Indeed, the radical potential of a synthetic PJ that furthers the political aims of social change, collective good and citizen justice has yet to be sufficiently problematised or systematically reviewed in the extant literature. This article begins to address this deficiency. First, the social philosophy t…
Identity, International Terrorism and Negotiating Peace: Hamas and Ethics-Based Considerations from Critical Restorative Justice
This paper conceptually examines one specific case of international terrorism, including the emergence and maintenance of membership-allegiance in its militant extremist group. This is the case of the Islamic Resistance Movement (or Hamas) and the manifestation of its corresponding Palestinian identity. Although the social person is constituted by symbols and objects, acts and social acts, meanings, and role-taking and role-making, questions pers…
Phil Scraton, Power , Conflict and Criminalisation
The Ultramodern Condition: On the Phenomenology of the Shadow as Transgression
Sociology (38 works) · Law (31 works) · Political science (30 works) · Criminology (29 works) · Epistemology (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Economic Justice (16 works) · Computer Science (13 works)