Bench Ansfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 830377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bench Ansfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bench |
| FAMILY NAME | Ansfield |
| SIGNATURE | ANSFIELD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of American Studies Yale University New Haven CT USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Politics of Safety
Abolition Infrastructures
Over the past two decades, transformative justice has gained momentum as an organized effort to answer contemporary abolitionism's thorniest question: How can a society handle the problem of harm without resorting to punishment? The movement has sought to develop responses to harm and violence that reject retribution and instead emphasize accountability, repair, care, and attention to the systemic roots of violence. In large part because the move…
Born in Flames
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The Crisis of Insurance and the Insuring of the Crisis
The Broken Windows of the Bronx
The Broken Windows of the Bronx:Putting the Theory in Its Place Bench Ansfield (bio) Broken glass everywhere —Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "The Message" Published to great fanfare and controversy in a 1982 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling's "Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety" sent shockwaves through social scientific and law enforcement circles, rippling out to recast conversations o…
Unsettling “Inner City”
The term inner city first achieved consistent usage through the writings of liberal Protestants in the USA after World War II . Its genesis was the product of an era when a largely suburban mainline Protestantism was negotiating its relationship to American cities. Liberal Protestants’ missionary brand of urban renewal refocused attention away from the blight and structural obsolescence thought to be responsible for urban decay, and instead broug…
Still Submerged
This essay extends and applies Sylvia Wynter’s meta-cartography of Man and les damnés de la terre/the wretched of the earth by looking towards contemporary debates over the urban. The research draws attention to debates in the fields of urban redevelopment and renewal in order to interrogate the current “epistemological resignation” that marks much scholarly research on urbanity. Noting the epistemological illegibility and silence enshrouding the…
The Broken Windows of the Bronx
The Broken Windows of the Bronx:Putting the Theory in Its Place Bench Ansfield (bio) Broken glass everywhere —Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "The Message" Published to great fanfare and controversy in a 1982 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling's "Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety" sent shockwaves through social scientific and law enforcement circles, rippling out to recast conversations o…
Unsettling “Inner City”
The term inner city first achieved consistent usage through the writings of liberal Protestants in the USA after World War II . Its genesis was the product of an era when a largely suburban mainline Protestantism was negotiating its relationship to American cities. Liberal Protestants’ missionary brand of urban renewal refocused attention away from the blight and structural obsolescence thought to be responsible for urban decay, and instead broug…
Born in Flames
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Abolition Infrastructures
Over the past two decades, transformative justice has gained momentum as an organized effort to answer contemporary abolitionism's thorniest question: How can a society handle the problem of harm without resorting to punishment? The movement has sought to develop responses to harm and violence that reject retribution and instead emphasize accountability, repair, care, and attention to the systemic roots of violence. In large part because the move…
The Crisis of Insurance and the Insuring of the Crisis
Still Submerged
This essay extends and applies Sylvia Wynter’s meta-cartography of Man and les damnés de la terre/the wretched of the earth by looking towards contemporary debates over the urban. The research draws attention to debates in the fields of urban redevelopment and renewal in order to interrogate the current “epistemological resignation” that marks much scholarly research on urbanity. Noting the epistemological illegibility and silence enshrouding the…
Unsettling “Inner City”
The term inner city first achieved consistent usage through the writings of liberal Protestants in the USA after World War II . Its genesis was the product of an era when a largely suburban mainline Protestantism was negotiating its relationship to American cities. Liberal Protestants’ missionary brand of urban renewal refocused attention away from the blight and structural obsolescence thought to be responsible for urban decay, and instead broug…
The Broken Windows of the Bronx
The Broken Windows of the Bronx:Putting the Theory in Its Place Bench Ansfield (bio) Broken glass everywhere —Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "The Message" Published to great fanfare and controversy in a 1982 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling's "Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety" sent shockwaves through social scientific and law enforcement circles, rippling out to recast conversations o…
The Crisis of Insurance and the Insuring of the Crisis
Born in Flames
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Abolition Infrastructures
Over the past two decades, transformative justice has gained momentum as an organized effort to answer contemporary abolitionism's thorniest question: How can a society handle the problem of harm without resorting to punishment? The movement has sought to develop responses to harm and violence that reject retribution and instead emphasize accountability, repair, care, and attention to the systemic roots of violence. In large part because the move…
The Politics of Safety
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Accountability (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works)