Susanne Karstedt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Karstedt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Karstedt |
| SIGNATURE | KARSTEDT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0269-8858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Assessing Crime Seriousness: How Important are Values?
Atrocity Crimes and international criminal justice: Linking the past and the future
Investigating Atrocity Crimes: Between Advocacy and Justice
Criminal justice investigators of atrocity crimes work in the same space as Non-Governmental Organisations. Even if having different objectives and mandates in crisis zones, numerous NGOs are also investigating or collecting evidence in the process of pursuing their other mandates, as was observed recently in Ukraine or Rohingya refugee camps. This can cause problems for the investigators of international crimes, and their work of collecting evid…
Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II
Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights violations, atrocity crimes and extreme violence are pervasive. In this context, corporations become compl…
Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust . Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jelena Subotic and Susan Welch
Journal Article Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust. ed. Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jelena Subotic and Susan Welch Get access Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust, ed. Jeffrey S Kopstein, Jelena Subotic, and Susan Welch (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023), 332 pp., hardcover $130.00, paperback $35.95, ebook $25.99. Susanne Karstedt Susanne Karstedt School of Criminology and …
Epilogue: A tale of journeys, roads and nodes
This series collects papers and proceedings related with law and society, and produced at the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, including workshops papers, master tesinas, or research grant productions, in any language.
The Usage and Usefulness of History
Luke Glanville, Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. 240 pages. isbn: 9780691205021 (hbk).\nThis is an extraordinarily lucid account of the past, present and future of the responsibility to protect (R2P). It is the ‘fruitful framing’ (p.18) in the history of ideas and practice of international law and protection of vulnerable populations that makes this book suc…
Crime And Punishment: Public Opinion And Political Law-And-Order Rhetoric In Europe 1996–2019
This article explores in which ways politicians’ law-and-order rhetoric and citizens’ attitudes and concerns about crime engage with each other in European countries. The focus is on the ‘constructionist’ or ‘framing’ model which posits that citizens’ attitudes about crime and punishment are influenced and ‘framed’ by political rhetoric. We capture the overall ‘tone’ of political rhetoric around crime and criminal justice using law-and-order stat…
Respectable Citizens - Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes
Drawing on survey data from a comparative study of England and Wales and the former East and West Germany, this book examines economic crimes of ‘everyday life’, such as overestimating losses in insurance claims, cheating on taxes, misusing store or credit cards, and defrauding medical and social services. The book delves into the extent of both feelings of ‘victimization’ at the hands of insurers, restaurants who add additional charges, banks wh…
Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and Theories of Crime: Unlocking Criminology's Potential
Surprisingly, scholars studying mass atrocity and genocide have frequently sidelined criminological theories and concepts. Other disciplines have addressed these crimes while mostly ignoring criminological insights and theories. In this review, we assess the potential of criminological theories to contribute to explaining and preventing mass atrocities and genocide, highlight criminological insights from the study of these crimes, and unlock the …
On wake-up calls and metaphors: Comment on Braithwaite “crime as a cascade phenomenon
Braithwaite’s provocation to see crime (and its prevention) through a “cascade lens” is certainly a wake-up call for macrocriminologists. As a metaphor it has the capability to motivate new directions in criminological research, however this also limits its potential as organising structure for testing important propositions. I argue that two strategies are required to move the cascade concept from a metaphor to an analytical tool. First, it need…
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Critical Junctures and Conditions of Change: Exploring the Fall of Prison Populations in US States
State prison populations in the United States have been regularly declining since 2009, and, at the end of 2014, the combined federal and state prison population was at its lowest level since 2005. Criminologists were caught by surprise by this development in the country that epitomized contemporary ‘mass incarceration’. Their theoretical accounts were steeped in a ‘punitive worldview’ that left no space for the stabilization and eventual decline…
The Resettlement of Sex Offenders after Custody: Circles of Support and Accountability
Circles of Support and Accountability is a voluntary initiative that assists people with convictions for sexual offences to resettle in the community. People leaving prison with such convictions often have difficulties in resettling. They carry the burden of the conviction itself, which may be both stigmatising and isolating, and they are the subject of sex offender register requirements, parole and other supervisory conditions. Circles of Suppor…
Genocide
Genocide has been termed the crime of the twentieth century, and the Holocaust of the European Jews by the German Nazi regime will forever be its defining event. This entry first gives an overview of the legal definition of genocide as a crime by the international community in the wake of the Holocaust, as well as other terminologies. Estimates of victims and perpetrators for mass atrocities and genocide across the past decades are presented. Two…
Tolerance
In 1598 King Henri IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, setting out tolerance as a guiding principle of the state, its administration, and the life of its citizens. The edict established the principle of tolerance to end civil strife and religious conflicts, and to enhance the safety of all citizens, regardless of their religious beliefs. Promulgated more than 400 years ago, the Edict of Nantes is an astonishingly modern document. It granted …
Middle-Class Crime
Middle-class crime is a more recent development added to the conceptual framework of white-collar crime. This chapter addresses the increase in fraud committed by “ordinary people” from the middle classes, often in a gray zone between illegality and immorality. Due to changes in consumption, finances, and banking, and foremost the Internet, they are both offenders and targets and victims of crime, resulting in a considerable overlap between offen…
Genocide
Despite the difficulties in providing a precise definition of genocide, and the even greater problems of trying to anticipate and prevent such mass killings, the subject remains one of the most important issues facing the contemporary world. This entry explores the variety of genocidal acts perpetrated since the start of the twentieth century and the evolving framework of international justice seeking to address these vital issues.
Managing Criminal Reputations: West German Elites after the Nuremberg Trials, 1946–1960
From the start the Nuremberg Trials were planned as trials of the power elites of Nazi Germany, including the military, corporations, government bureaucracy and party elites. By targeting those who had orchestrated the genocide of the European Jews from above and ultimately had ‘command responsibility’ for war crimes and crimes against humanity according to contemporary terminology, they set an important precedent for international criminal tribu…
Cultural peers and penal policies: A configurational approach toward mapping penal landscapes
Globalization changed the comparative gaze and enterprise in criminology. The dialectics between global convergence and domestic divergence are nowhere more visible but in the realm of responses to crime. Rather than loosening their impact on penal justice and penal policies, cultural differences, national institutional settings and symbols are coming to the fore, and contemporary penal policies and systems develop along the fault lines of region…
The Emotion Dynamics of Transitional Justice: An Emotion Sharing Perspective
Since the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, transitional justice (TJ) procedures have been cast in terms of emotion: disgust, horror, revenge, and remorse. For contemporary TJ, claims are made that it contributes to the emotional recovery of individual victims and conflict-torn societies after mass atrocity crimes. Empirical support for such claims is mixed at best. This article proposes a framework of “emotion sharing” in order to enhan…
Trusting Authorities: Legitimacy, Trust, And Collaboration In Non-Democratic Regimes
Is legitimacy and cooperation only possible in democracies, and can contemporary democracies only generate legitimacy and cooperation? Certainly not, given the quite remarkable strength, stability and survival of non-democratic regimes, even during the third 'wave of democracy' since the end of the last century. As non-democratic regimes become powerful global actors and models, questions arise as to the mechanisms through which they can muster l…
Globalisation and the Challenge to Criminology
Nearly half a century separates the writing of Theodor Adorno and Michael Ignatieff, and their sober though not pessimistic perspective on gross human rights violations and cruelty. Both write under the shadow of genocide and mass atrocities. The Holocaust was central to Adorno’s philosophy and social theory; for Ignatieff, the genocides in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, as well as the failure of the international community to prevent or intervene…
The Routledge Handbook of European Criminology
In his 1989 presidential address to the American Society of Criminology, William Chambliss captured the criminological imagination with a new concept: state-organised crime, or state crime (Chambliss, 1989). Like its predecessor ‘white collar crime’ half a century earlier the concept of ‘state crime’ has drawn attention to the ‘key questions at the foundations of the discipline, the definition of crime’ (Rothe and Friedrichs, 2006: 150). Both con…
Contextualizing Mass Atrocity Crimes: Moving Toward a Relational Approach
Contemporary mass atrocities and genocides hold two general lessons: First, even in the course of these violent decades, genocides are rare events, and mass atrocities are not. Second, contemporary mass violence evolves in macro- and microcontexts that shape particular trajectories of conflict and violence. As the international community assumes responsibility for protecting victims and prosecuting perpetrators in contemporary high-risk environme…
Emotions and criminal justice
During the last decade, a process of ‘emotionalization of law’ has spread around the globe, changing the criminal justice system in many ways. Anger, disgust and shame are perceived as ‘valuable barometers of social morality’ and brought back to criminal procedures. The ‘return of emotions’ to penal law and criminal justice is linked to and illuminates the moral imagination of late modern societies. This article seeks to address two facets of the…
Democracy, Crime, and Justice
By SUSANNE KARSTEDT and GARY LaFREE The connection between democracy and criminal justice is so fun a ental as to be self-evident: the rule of law guarantees due process, and the observation of human rights is an integral part of the emergence and institu tionalization of democracy. Indeed, most mea sures of the strength of democracy include an index of criminal justice and due process guar antees. By contrast, the connection between democracy an…
Reading the riots: What were the police doing on Twitter
The widespread adoption of new forms of digital communication platforms such as micro-blogging sites presents both an opportunity and a challenge for researchers interested in understanding people's attitudes and behaviours, especially in the context of unfolding crises and the need for government agencies such as the police to inform the public and act swiftly to ensure public order and safety. In this paper, we use a study of a recent public or…
Democracy, Values, and Violence: Paradoxes, Tensions, and Comparative Advantages of Liberal Inclusion
Democracies represent an institutional framework and a way of life that is, almost by definition, nonviolent. Contrasting with this ideal are two simultaneous global trends: an extension of democratic regimes and rising levels of violent crime. This article explores this seeming gap between democracy’s ideal and reality. The author identifies comparative advantages and disadvantages for both democracy and autocracy in restraining violent crime. C…
The Moral Economy of Everyday Crime
This article explores the moral reasoning involved in everyday crime. Drawing on a qualitative study of convicted offenders in England, it examines how individuals justify their criminal actions by constructing a 'moral economy' that balances their perceived needs and obligations against the risks and rewards of offending. The study reveals that offenders often rationalize their crimes by appealing to notions of fairness, reciprocity, and deservi…
From Absence to Presence, From Silence to Voice: Victims in International and Transitional Justice Since the Nuremberg Trials
As much as victims have been absent in traditional and national criminal justice for a long time, they were invisible in transitional and international criminal justice after World War II. The Nuremberg Trials were dominated by the perpetrators, and documents were mainly used instead of victim testimony. Contemporaries shared the perspective that transitional justice, both international and national procedures should channel revenge by the victim…
Critical Junctures and Conditions of Change: Exploring the Fall of Prison Populations in US States
State prison populations in the United States have been regularly declining since 2009, and, at the end of 2014, the combined federal and state prison population was at its lowest level since 2005. Criminologists were caught by surprise by this development in the country that epitomized contemporary ‘mass incarceration’. Their theoretical accounts were steeped in a ‘punitive worldview’ that left no space for the stabilization and eventual decline…
Cultural peers and penal policies: A configurational approach toward mapping penal landscapes
Globalization changed the comparative gaze and enterprise in criminology. The dialectics between global convergence and domestic divergence are nowhere more visible but in the realm of responses to crime. Rather than loosening their impact on penal justice and penal policies, cultural differences, national institutional settings and symbols are coming to the fore, and contemporary penal policies and systems develop along the fault lines of region…
Contextualizing Mass Atrocity Crimes: Moving Toward a Relational Approach
Contemporary mass atrocities and genocides hold two general lessons: First, even in the course of these violent decades, genocides are rare events, and mass atrocities are not. Second, contemporary mass violence evolves in macro- and microcontexts that shape particular trajectories of conflict and violence. As the international community assumes responsibility for protecting victims and prosecuting perpetrators in contemporary high-risk environme…
The Emotion Dynamics of Transitional Justice: An Emotion Sharing Perspective
Since the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, transitional justice (TJ) procedures have been cast in terms of emotion: disgust, horror, revenge, and remorse. For contemporary TJ, claims are made that it contributes to the emotional recovery of individual victims and conflict-torn societies after mass atrocity crimes. Empirical support for such claims is mixed at best. This article proposes a framework of “emotion sharing” in order to enhan…
Coming to Terms with the Past in Germany after 1945 and 1989: Public Judgments on Procedures and Justice
Germany presents the unique case of a society that has been forced to come to terms with its past twice within a fifty‐year period. This double experience can contribute to our understanding of the legal processes of lustration. This paper examines a largely neglected dimension of this phenomenon: justice judgments by the general population. Justice judgments about the Nuremberg Trials and denazification after 1945 are compared to analogous proce…
Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and Theories of Crime: Unlocking Criminology's Potential
Surprisingly, scholars studying mass atrocity and genocide have frequently sidelined criminological theories and concepts. Other disciplines have addressed these crimes while mostly ignoring criminological insights and theories. In this review, we assess the potential of criminological theories to contribute to explaining and preventing mass atrocities and genocide, highlight criminological insights from the study of these crimes, and unlock the …
Explorations into the sociology of criminal justice and punishment: Leaving the Modernist Project Behind
Law has been a close partner to sociology from its very beginning, and the partnership often has proven to be extremely prolific for sociology. Grand theories as well as vital conceptual tools can be counted among its offspring. Both disciplines share the common ground of socio-legal studies, which has developed into a nearly independent interdisciplinary enterprise where legal scholars and sociologists happily meander between the normative and t…
Introduction to the BJC Special Issue on Terrorism
Criminology—especially empirical and experimental criminology—has often been accused by its critics of focusing primarily on the quantitatively measurable aspects of crime and crime control and of avoiding critiques of business and state power. In the last decade, this sort of criticism has been far more readily applied to the culturally dominant international model—American criminology—than to work published in Australian, British or Continental…
Explaining Gendered Sentencing Patterns for Violent Men and Women in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Period
Contemporary studies of disparities in the sentencing of male and female offenders claim that the differences found are caused by gender-related contextual factors, but not by a gender bias. In contrast, historical studies have suggested that women were disadvantaged by appearing to offend both against the law and the conventions of femininity. This article analyses minor assaults prosecuted in ten English magistrates’ courts between 1880 and 192…
Emancipation, crime and problem behavior of women: A perspective from Germany
Tolerance
In 1598 King Henri IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, setting out tolerance as a guiding principle of the state, its administration, and the life of its citizens. The edict established the principle of tolerance to end civil strife and religious conflicts, and to enhance the safety of all citizens, regardless of their religious beliefs. Promulgated more than 400 years ago, the Edict of Nantes is an astonishingly modern document. It granted …
Managing Criminal Reputations: West German Elites after the Nuremberg Trials, 1946–1960
From the start the Nuremberg Trials were planned as trials of the power elites of Nazi Germany, including the military, corporations, government bureaucracy and party elites. By targeting those who had orchestrated the genocide of the European Jews from above and ultimately had ‘command responsibility’ for war crimes and crimes against humanity according to contemporary terminology, they set an important precedent for international criminal tribu…
Human Rights
Human rights are those liberties, immunities, and benefits which, by accepted contemporary values, all human beings should be able to claim ‘as of right’ of the society in which they live” ( Encyclopedia of Public International Law 1995: 886). Virtually all states embrace and support the idea of human rights, and they have indicated some general agreement as to their objectives and contents. This definition which casts human rights in legal terms…
Individualisme et violence: Modernisation extrême ou re-traditionalisation de la société
In this article the hypothesis of individualisation will be empirically tested, accordingly the internal standard of violence of a society will increase with the dissolution of traditional bonds and values. This hypothesis contradicts the assumption of Durkheim, who postulated a decrease of violence with the spread of morals of equality and universalism, as main characteristics of individualisation. On the basis of correlation analysis between ra…
Advances in Criminological Theory. Volume 5: Routine Activity and Rational Choice
Coming to Terms with the Past in Germany after 1945 and 1989: Public Judgments on Procedures and Justice
Germany presents the unique case of a society that has been forced to come to terms with its past twice within a fifty‐year period. This double experience can contribute to our understanding of the legal processes of lustration. This paper examines a largely neglected dimension of this phenomenon: justice judgments by the general population. Justice judgments about the Nuremberg Trials and denazification after 1945 are compared to analogous proce…
Individualisierung, Individualismus und Gewalt — ein Blick über die Grenzen
Individualismus und Individualisierung sind gegenwärtig die zentralen Konzepte einer zutiefst pessimistischen Kulturkritik. Haben die westlichen Industriegesellschaften die Grenze zum »absoluten Individualismus« (Hoffman-Nowotny 1995) überschritten? Steht die »Selbstauflösung« dieser Gesellschaften unmittelbar bevor, soweit es ihre institutionelle Struktur und moralische Verfassung betrifft? Vor allem die Zunahme von Gewalt ist zu einem Kristalli…
Soziale Probleme und soziale Bewegungen
Kürzlich wurde vorgeschlagen, daß der Staat soziale Bewegungen gegen das Problem „Alkohol am Steuer“ nicht nur fördern, sondern sogar selbst inaugurieren solle (Jacobs 1989; vgl. McAdam/McCarthy/Zald 1988, S. 720). Das theoretische Programm der „Soziologie sozialer Probleme“, das mit der kritischen, gegen die „professionelle Ideologie der Sozialpathologen“ (Mills 1943) gerichteten „epistemologischen Wende“ durch Blumer (1971) und vor allem Specto…
Emancipation, crime and problem behavior of women: A perspective from Germany
Durkheim, Tarde and beyond: The global travel of crime policies
Exchange, transport and import of crime policies takes place on a global scale. New strategies of crime prevention, models of institutions and interventions rapidly spread around the globe. Knowledge is increasingly shared among the `epistemic communities' of criminologists, and criminal justice and policing experts and practitioners. Notwithstanding the global scale of exchange, criminal justice systems and policies are definitely local, and emb…
Emotions and criminal justice
During the last decade, a process of ‘emotionalization of law’ has spread around the globe, changing the criminal justice system in many ways. Anger, disgust and shame are perceived as ‘valuable barometers of social morality’ and brought back to criminal procedures. The ‘return of emotions’ to penal law and criminal justice is linked to and illuminates the moral imagination of late modern societies. This article seeks to address two facets of the…
Soziologie der Kriminalität
Mit Beitragen von Henner Hess, Sebastian Scheerer, David Garland, Steve Messner, John Hagan, Bill McCarthy, Oliver Morgenroth, Klaus Boehnke, Lydia Seus, Gerald Prein, Shadd Maruna, Stephen Farrall, John Braithwaite, Eva Schmitt-Rodermund, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Dirk Enzmann, Karin Brettfeld, Peter Wetzels, Alexander Vazsonyi, Christian Seipel, Stefanie Eifler, Willem de Haan, Letizia Paoli, Klaus Boers, Hans Theile, Kari-Maria Karliczek, Tim Hop…
Explaining Gendered Sentencing Patterns for Violent Men and Women in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Period
Contemporary studies of disparities in the sentencing of male and female offenders claim that the differences found are caused by gender-related contextual factors, but not by a gender bias. In contrast, historical studies have suggested that women were disadvantaged by appearing to offend both against the law and the conventions of femininity. This article analyses minor assaults prosecuted in ten English magistrates’ courts between 1880 and 192…
Individualisme et violence: Modernisation extrême ou re-traditionalisation de la société
In this article the hypothesis of individualisation will be empirically tested, accordingly the internal standard of violence of a society will increase with the dissolution of traditional bonds and values. This hypothesis contradicts the assumption of Durkheim, who postulated a decrease of violence with the spread of morals of equality and universalism, as main characteristics of individualisation. On the basis of correlation analysis between ra…
Democracy, Values, and Violence: Paradoxes, Tensions, and Comparative Advantages of Liberal Inclusion
Democracies represent an institutional framework and a way of life that is, almost by definition, nonviolent. Contrasting with this ideal are two simultaneous global trends: an extension of democratic regimes and rising levels of violent crime. This article explores this seeming gap between democracy’s ideal and reality. The author identifies comparative advantages and disadvantages for both democracy and autocracy in restraining violent crime. C…
Democracy, Crime, and Justice
By SUSANNE KARSTEDT and GARY LaFREE The connection between democracy and criminal justice is so fun a ental as to be self-evident: the rule of law guarantees due process, and the observation of human rights is an integral part of the emergence and institu tionalization of democracy. Indeed, most mea sures of the strength of democracy include an index of criminal justice and due process guar antees. By contrast, the connection between democracy an…
The Moral Economy of Everyday Crime
This article explores the moral reasoning involved in everyday crime. Drawing on a qualitative study of convicted offenders in England, it examines how individuals justify their criminal actions by constructing a 'moral economy' that balances their perceived needs and obligations against the risks and rewards of offending. The study reveals that offenders often rationalize their crimes by appealing to notions of fairness, reciprocity, and deservi…
Creating Institutions: Linking the ‘Local’ and the ‘Global’ in the Travel of Crime Policies
Institutions represent the ‘technologies of the social.’ They are increasingly modelled and transported to other cultures and societies, and criminal justice institutions—traditional, parochial, and local as they are—are no exception to this. Problems of crime and insecurity have engendered the travelling of institutions from the centre to the periphery and vice versa. This paper will explore the problems which arise from travelling and modelling…
Explorations into the sociology of criminal justice and punishment: Leaving the Modernist Project Behind
Law has been a close partner to sociology from its very beginning, and the partnership often has proven to be extremely prolific for sociology. Grand theories as well as vital conceptual tools can be counted among its offspring. Both disciplines share the common ground of socio-legal studies, which has developed into a nearly independent interdisciplinary enterprise where legal scholars and sociologists happily meander between the normative and t…
Human Rights
Human rights are those liberties, immunities, and benefits which, by accepted contemporary values, all human beings should be able to claim ‘as of right’ of the society in which they live” ( Encyclopedia of Public International Law 1995: 886). Virtually all states embrace and support the idea of human rights, and they have indicated some general agreement as to their objectives and contents. This definition which casts human rights in legal terms…
Genocide
Genocide has been termed the crime of the twentieth century and in many ways it epitomizes this “age of extremes” (Hobsbawm 1994). It was in this century that the word genocide was first coined, and it was legally defined and criminalized. The international community committed itself to the protection of threatened populations and to the prosecution and punishment of those who were responsible for mass killings, and was successful in a number of …
Emotions, Crime and Justice: Exploring Durkheimian Themes
The process of ‘emotionalization’ of law and criminal justice has decisively changed criminological perspectives on the role of emotions in crime and justice during the last decade. ‘Reintegrative Shaming’ and Restorative Justice have been influential in re-shaping criminal justice around the globe, and the ‘return of emotions’ into criminological perspectives, theories and research is presently re-configuring notions of the ‘rational offender’ a…
The Phantom Capitalist s: A classic
From Absence to Presence, From Silence to Voice: Victims in International and Transitional Justice Since the Nuremberg Trials
As much as victims have been absent in traditional and national criminal justice for a long time, they were invisible in transitional and international criminal justice after World War II. The Nuremberg Trials were dominated by the perpetrators, and documents were mainly used instead of victim testimony. Contemporaries shared the perspective that transitional justice, both international and national procedures should channel revenge by the victim…
Introduction to the BJC Special Issue on Terrorism
Criminology—especially empirical and experimental criminology—has often been accused by its critics of focusing primarily on the quantitatively measurable aspects of crime and crime control and of avoiding critiques of business and state power. In the last decade, this sort of criticism has been far more readily applied to the culturally dominant international model—American criminology—than to work published in Australian, British or Continental…
Genocide
Genocide has been termed the crime of the twentieth century, and in many ways it epitomizes this “age of extremes” (Hobsbawm 1994). The century started with genocides in Africa – the genocide of the Hereros by the Germans; and in Asia – the massacre of the Armenians in Turkey. The Nazi Holocaust of the European Jews will forever be the defining event of the century. The term “genocide” was coined, and it was legally defined and criminalized. The …
The Sage Handbook of Criminological Research Methods
Conducting research into crime and criminal justice carries unique challenges. This Handbook focuses on the application of 'methods' to address the core substantive questions that currently motivate contemporary criminological research. It maps a canon of methods that are more elaborated than in most other fields of social science, and the intellectual terrain of research problems with which criminologists are routinely confronted. Drawing on exe…
Trusting Authorities: Legitimacy, Trust, And Collaboration In Non-Democratic Regimes
Is legitimacy and cooperation only possible in democracies, and can contemporary democracies only generate legitimacy and cooperation? Certainly not, given the quite remarkable strength, stability and survival of non-democratic regimes, even during the third 'wave of democracy' since the end of the last century. As non-democratic regimes become powerful global actors and models, questions arise as to the mechanisms through which they can muster l…
Globalisation and the Challenge to Criminology
Nearly half a century separates the writing of Theodor Adorno and Michael Ignatieff, and their sober though not pessimistic perspective on gross human rights violations and cruelty. Both write under the shadow of genocide and mass atrocities. The Holocaust was central to Adorno’s philosophy and social theory; for Ignatieff, the genocides in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, as well as the failure of the international community to prevent or intervene…
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