J S G Wozniak
Biographic Data
| ID | 71136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J S G Wozniak |
| GIVEN NAMES | J S G |
| FAMILY NAME | Wozniak |
| SIGNATURE | WOZNIAK J S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3015-7397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Because of the Color of My Skin: Addressing Structural Racism with Police Recruits and Returning Citizens
This article presents an ethnographic case study of dialogues between police recruits and returning citizens facilitated in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the January 6th Insurrection. The dialogues were part of Police Training Inside-Out (PTI-O), a program that brings police recruits/officers into prison to study as peers with incarcerated citizens. The analysis considers how a group of largely white recruits were emotionally trigger…
Critique of the Gotha Program
A City Divided: Race, Fear, and the Law in Police Confrontations, by David A. Harris
To most any U.S. American who has paid even a modicum of attention to the news over the past several years, the central incident of police violence examined in David A. Harris’s A City Divided: Race, Fear, and the Law in Police Confrontations is familiar almost to the point of banality. Indeed, even if you have never heard of Jordan Miles, you can probably guess the exact sequence of events with little effort: an eighteen-year-old Black man, who …
Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military
“The Blackness That Incriminated Me”: Stigma and Normalization in Brothers and Keepers
This research situates Brothers and Keepers, the memoir of John Edgar Wideman (one of the greatest writers of the past hundred years), within the tradition of Black sociology, arguing that it politicizes the theories in Stigma, the foundational study by Erving Goffman (one of the greatest sociologists of the past hundred years), by grounding them in the lived experience of an African American man. In turn, Goffman’s writing facilitates a reading …
The evolving self-presentation of the Islamic State, from Dabiq to Rumiyah
In 2016 the Islamic State (IS) dramatically altered the centerpiece of its Western outreach, shuttering Dabiq magazine and replacing it with Rumiyah. While Dabiq was marked by twin appeals to themes of chaos and civilization, the publication run of Rumiyah finds IS experiencing significant setbacks. Utilizing a quantitative content analysis of images in Rumiyah reveals IS adapting its framing to better reflect its present abilities and outlook. D…
Iraq’s Neoliberal Reconstruction and the Continued Relevance of the State
In the past several decades, social scientists and theorists have steadily moved away from understandings of power emphasizing the role of the nation-state, instead favoring explanations centering a multiplicity of actors and institutions as embedded in networks and relationships which traverse nations. The invasion of Iraq serves as a prime test case for theories of the operation of power in the twenty-first century, as the architects of the inv…
From the point of a gun to the point of starvation: Economic Conscription in Post-Conflict Policing
A central aspect of post-conflict policing literature holds that the new force must differentiate itself from its predecessor. In the efforts to democratize Iraqi police, trainers and recruits alike espouse lofty ideals regarding who should join and how police should behave. However, these ideals are directly contradicted by low qualification levels and the public behavior of police. Drawing from an intensive ethnographic study of police training…
Post‐conflict police reconstruction: M ajor trends and developments
Scholars have established effective and impartial policing regimes that are central to the development and maintenance of democratic states, especially in post‐conflict scenarios as the international community attempts to rebuild nations in the wake of dictatorial rule. Yet despite how common such efforts are, there remain serious gaps in the academic literature regarding this central aspect of state reconstruction. Recognizing that the model whi…
From Chi-Raq to Iraq: The retreat of the state and the rise of organized violent nonstate actors
Spike Lee’s latest film, Chi-Raq, draws upon a portmanteau coined by local rappers to describe the violence and chaos of Chicago’s South Side, home of some of the most violent neighborhoods in America. City leaders condemned the title as inflammatory and hyperbolic, but this article argues the comparison is not as far afield as they suggest. Drawing from the literatures on state legitimacy, American gang formation, and the emerging scholarship su…
We Are Going To Prove We Are A Civil and Developed Country: The Cultural Performance of Police Legitimacy and Empire in the Iraqi State
Possessing a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, police are central to the establishment of state legitimacy, especially in a nation experiencing a radical reconstruction. Employing a multi-method examination of a police training academy in Iraqi Kurdistan, this study investigates how a nascent state attempts to secure hegemony in a post-conflict environment. Drawing upon literature of state legitimacy and empire, findings suggest the recons…
Iraq and the material basis of post-conflict police reconstruction
Existing scientific literature on post-conflict police reconstruction is largely divided between two camps. The first, and most widely employed in practice, can be termed a neo-liberal model, which argues progress comes through technological and organizational sophistication delivered by Western officials. This neo-liberal model has been the guiding principle of the reconstruction of the Iraqi state and police force. However, many scholars have a…
Missing the moral: Excited delirium as a negative case study of a moral panic
This article examines Excited Delirium, a controversial medical explanation offered as an explanation for a variety of in-custody deaths. It appears to fit all essential criteria to incite a moral panic, featuring a powerful moral entrepreneur playing off of well-established fears of drugs use and psychosis, with a classic folk devil in the form of young men of color. Yet Excited Delirium has failed to provoke a widespread response, raising the q…
When the Going Gets Weird: An Invitation to Gonzo Sociology
Real Men Use Nonlethals: Appeals to Masculinity in Marketing Police Weaponry
In recent years, a range of new nonlethal weapons have been introduced for use by police officers, military personnel, and other consumers. This article examines how manufacturers are employing ideals of masculinity as both physical dominance and technical expertise in marketing these weapons to police officials. Based on a case study of a major weapons manufacturer's educational and sales conference, the authors explore how marketing appeals are…
Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research
Winning the Battle of Seattle: State Response to Perceived Crisis
This article examines the nature of police violence in the context of social discord. Using the anti-World Trade Organization protests as a backdrop, it delineates and applies Stark's (1968) theory of police riots to explain the progression of police aggression in Seattle. The article also extends Stark's model by integrating it with a Gramscian understanding of the dynamics of ideological consent in late capitalist societies. Finally, the articl…
Critique of the Gotha Program
Iraq and the material basis of post-conflict police reconstruction
Existing scientific literature on post-conflict police reconstruction is largely divided between two camps. The first, and most widely employed in practice, can be termed a neo-liberal model, which argues progress comes through technological and organizational sophistication delivered by Western officials. This neo-liberal model has been the guiding principle of the reconstruction of the Iraqi state and police force. However, many scholars have a…
We Are Going To Prove We Are A Civil and Developed Country: The Cultural Performance of Police Legitimacy and Empire in the Iraqi State
Possessing a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, police are central to the establishment of state legitimacy, especially in a nation experiencing a radical reconstruction. Employing a multi-method examination of a police training academy in Iraqi Kurdistan, this study investigates how a nascent state attempts to secure hegemony in a post-conflict environment. Drawing upon literature of state legitimacy and empire, findings suggest the recons…
When the Going Gets Weird: An Invitation to Gonzo Sociology
Real Men Use Nonlethals: Appeals to Masculinity in Marketing Police Weaponry
In recent years, a range of new nonlethal weapons have been introduced for use by police officers, military personnel, and other consumers. This article examines how manufacturers are employing ideals of masculinity as both physical dominance and technical expertise in marketing these weapons to police officials. Based on a case study of a major weapons manufacturer's educational and sales conference, the authors explore how marketing appeals are…
Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military
Because of the Color of My Skin: Addressing Structural Racism with Police Recruits and Returning Citizens
This article presents an ethnographic case study of dialogues between police recruits and returning citizens facilitated in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the January 6th Insurrection. The dialogues were part of Police Training Inside-Out (PTI-O), a program that brings police recruits/officers into prison to study as peers with incarcerated citizens. The analysis considers how a group of largely white recruits were emotionally trigger…
The evolving self-presentation of the Islamic State, from Dabiq to Rumiyah
In 2016 the Islamic State (IS) dramatically altered the centerpiece of its Western outreach, shuttering Dabiq magazine and replacing it with Rumiyah. While Dabiq was marked by twin appeals to themes of chaos and civilization, the publication run of Rumiyah finds IS experiencing significant setbacks. Utilizing a quantitative content analysis of images in Rumiyah reveals IS adapting its framing to better reflect its present abilities and outlook. D…
Post‐conflict police reconstruction: M ajor trends and developments
Scholars have established effective and impartial policing regimes that are central to the development and maintenance of democratic states, especially in post‐conflict scenarios as the international community attempts to rebuild nations in the wake of dictatorial rule. Yet despite how common such efforts are, there remain serious gaps in the academic literature regarding this central aspect of state reconstruction. Recognizing that the model whi…
Winning the Battle of Seattle: State Response to Perceived Crisis
This article examines the nature of police violence in the context of social discord. Using the anti-World Trade Organization protests as a backdrop, it delineates and applies Stark's (1968) theory of police riots to explain the progression of police aggression in Seattle. The article also extends Stark's model by integrating it with a Gramscian understanding of the dynamics of ideological consent in late capitalist societies. Finally, the articl…
Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research
Real Men Use Nonlethals: Appeals to Masculinity in Marketing Police Weaponry
In recent years, a range of new nonlethal weapons have been introduced for use by police officers, military personnel, and other consumers. This article examines how manufacturers are employing ideals of masculinity as both physical dominance and technical expertise in marketing these weapons to police officials. Based on a case study of a major weapons manufacturer's educational and sales conference, the authors explore how marketing appeals are…
When the Going Gets Weird: An Invitation to Gonzo Sociology
Missing the moral: Excited delirium as a negative case study of a moral panic
This article examines Excited Delirium, a controversial medical explanation offered as an explanation for a variety of in-custody deaths. It appears to fit all essential criteria to incite a moral panic, featuring a powerful moral entrepreneur playing off of well-established fears of drugs use and psychosis, with a classic folk devil in the form of young men of color. Yet Excited Delirium has failed to provoke a widespread response, raising the q…
We Are Going To Prove We Are A Civil and Developed Country: The Cultural Performance of Police Legitimacy and Empire in the Iraqi State
Possessing a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, police are central to the establishment of state legitimacy, especially in a nation experiencing a radical reconstruction. Employing a multi-method examination of a police training academy in Iraqi Kurdistan, this study investigates how a nascent state attempts to secure hegemony in a post-conflict environment. Drawing upon literature of state legitimacy and empire, findings suggest the recons…
Iraq and the material basis of post-conflict police reconstruction
Existing scientific literature on post-conflict police reconstruction is largely divided between two camps. The first, and most widely employed in practice, can be termed a neo-liberal model, which argues progress comes through technological and organizational sophistication delivered by Western officials. This neo-liberal model has been the guiding principle of the reconstruction of the Iraqi state and police force. However, many scholars have a…
Post‐conflict police reconstruction: M ajor trends and developments
Scholars have established effective and impartial policing regimes that are central to the development and maintenance of democratic states, especially in post‐conflict scenarios as the international community attempts to rebuild nations in the wake of dictatorial rule. Yet despite how common such efforts are, there remain serious gaps in the academic literature regarding this central aspect of state reconstruction. Recognizing that the model whi…
From Chi-Raq to Iraq: The retreat of the state and the rise of organized violent nonstate actors
Spike Lee’s latest film, Chi-Raq, draws upon a portmanteau coined by local rappers to describe the violence and chaos of Chicago’s South Side, home of some of the most violent neighborhoods in America. City leaders condemned the title as inflammatory and hyperbolic, but this article argues the comparison is not as far afield as they suggest. Drawing from the literatures on state legitimacy, American gang formation, and the emerging scholarship su…
Iraq’s Neoliberal Reconstruction and the Continued Relevance of the State
In the past several decades, social scientists and theorists have steadily moved away from understandings of power emphasizing the role of the nation-state, instead favoring explanations centering a multiplicity of actors and institutions as embedded in networks and relationships which traverse nations. The invasion of Iraq serves as a prime test case for theories of the operation of power in the twenty-first century, as the architects of the inv…
From the point of a gun to the point of starvation: Economic Conscription in Post-Conflict Policing
A central aspect of post-conflict policing literature holds that the new force must differentiate itself from its predecessor. In the efforts to democratize Iraqi police, trainers and recruits alike espouse lofty ideals regarding who should join and how police should behave. However, these ideals are directly contradicted by low qualification levels and the public behavior of police. Drawing from an intensive ethnographic study of police training…
The evolving self-presentation of the Islamic State, from Dabiq to Rumiyah
In 2016 the Islamic State (IS) dramatically altered the centerpiece of its Western outreach, shuttering Dabiq magazine and replacing it with Rumiyah. While Dabiq was marked by twin appeals to themes of chaos and civilization, the publication run of Rumiyah finds IS experiencing significant setbacks. Utilizing a quantitative content analysis of images in Rumiyah reveals IS adapting its framing to better reflect its present abilities and outlook. D…
“The Blackness That Incriminated Me”: Stigma and Normalization in Brothers and Keepers
This research situates Brothers and Keepers, the memoir of John Edgar Wideman (one of the greatest writers of the past hundred years), within the tradition of Black sociology, arguing that it politicizes the theories in Stigma, the foundational study by Erving Goffman (one of the greatest sociologists of the past hundred years), by grounding them in the lived experience of an African American man. In turn, Goffman’s writing facilitates a reading …
A City Divided: Race, Fear, and the Law in Police Confrontations, by David A. Harris
To most any U.S. American who has paid even a modicum of attention to the news over the past several years, the central incident of police violence examined in David A. Harris’s A City Divided: Race, Fear, and the Law in Police Confrontations is familiar almost to the point of banality. Indeed, even if you have never heard of Jordan Miles, you can probably guess the exact sequence of events with little effort: an eighteen-year-old Black man, who …
Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military
Critique of the Gotha Program
Because of the Color of My Skin: Addressing Structural Racism with Police Recruits and Returning Citizens
This article presents an ethnographic case study of dialogues between police recruits and returning citizens facilitated in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the January 6th Insurrection. The dialogues were part of Police Training Inside-Out (PTI-O), a program that brings police recruits/officers into prison to study as peers with incarcerated citizens. The analysis considers how a group of largely white recruits were emotionally trigger…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)