Ely Aaronson
Biographic Data
| ID | 998564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ely Aaronson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ely |
| FAMILY NAME | Aaronson |
| SIGNATURE | AARONSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4539-9428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Negotiating Decriminalization
In recent decades, decriminalization has gained renewed salience on the criminal justice reform agenda. This article considers the promises and pitfalls of the strategic reliance on decriminalization as a vehicle for scaling back the carceral state. Building on empirical and theoretical insights drawn from various policy domains and national contexts, this analysis sheds light on the double-edged consequences of different variants of de jure and …
The Relational Carceral State and the Segregated Origins of Drug Policy
Drawing on key insights from relational sociology, criminologists have often analysed the carceral state by examining its relations with welfarist mechanisms of governing social marginality. This way of setting the relational scope for analysing the carceral state, however, has left important research avenues underexplored. Building from Du Boisian sociology and racial capitalism literature, we develop a relational approach that examines the co-p…
Transnational Configurations of the Criminalization–Racialization Nexus and the Origins of International Cannabis Prohibitions
Racial disparities in criminal justice are often viewed through a nation-centric lens. The rise of transnational and decolonial approaches in comparative law scholarship provides an opportunity to go beyond this methodologically nationalist perspective and gain a deeper understanding of how processes of criminalization and racialization mutually constitute one another within political spaces that transcend the boundaries of individual jurisdictio…
From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization
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The symbiotic tensions of the regulatory–carceral state
Recent scholarship has emphasized the need to develop a polymorphic conceptualization of the regulatory state. This article contributes to this theory‐building project by outlining a research agenda for exploring the symbiotic interactions and tensions between the regulatory and carceral morphs of the state. Using the case study of cannabis legalization reforms in the United States, we argue that the legitimation deficits of the carceral state st…
Introduction to the Symposium on Drug Decriminalization, Legalization, and International Law
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Defining Crimes in a Global Age
The design of empirical research and theory-building projects in the sociolegal literature on criminalization is often premised on a presumed dichotomy between domestic and international planes of criminal lawmaking. However, in a global era in which domestic processes of criminalization are increasingly shaped by norms, institutions, and actors developed and operating outside national borders, criminalization research should develop a new theore…
Rights-consciousness as an Object of Historical Inquiry
Hendrik Hartog’s article “The Constitution of Aspiration” paved new ways of thinking about the historical formation and political significance of rights-consciousness. This Essay considers the contribution of social histories of rights-consciousness to our understanding of the underpinnings and consequences of constitutional change. In particular, we consider the impact of this literature on debates regarding questions of periodization in America…
From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime
This book explores the complex ways in which political debates and legal reforms regarding the criminalization of racial violence have shaped the development of American racial history. Spanning previous campaigns for criminalizing slave abuse, lynching, and Klan violence and contemporary debates about the legal response to hate crimes, this book reveals both continuity and change in terms of the political forces underpinning the enactment of new…
The symbiotic tensions of the regulatory–carceral state
Recent scholarship has emphasized the need to develop a polymorphic conceptualization of the regulatory state. This article contributes to this theory‐building project by outlining a research agenda for exploring the symbiotic interactions and tensions between the regulatory and carceral morphs of the state. Using the case study of cannabis legalization reforms in the United States, we argue that the legitimation deficits of the carceral state st…
Rights-consciousness as an Object of Historical Inquiry
Hendrik Hartog’s article “The Constitution of Aspiration” paved new ways of thinking about the historical formation and political significance of rights-consciousness. This Essay considers the contribution of social histories of rights-consciousness to our understanding of the underpinnings and consequences of constitutional change. In particular, we consider the impact of this literature on debates regarding questions of periodization in America…
Defining Crimes in a Global Age
The design of empirical research and theory-building projects in the sociolegal literature on criminalization is often premised on a presumed dichotomy between domestic and international planes of criminal lawmaking. However, in a global era in which domestic processes of criminalization are increasingly shaped by norms, institutions, and actors developed and operating outside national borders, criminalization research should develop a new theore…
The Relational Carceral State and the Segregated Origins of Drug Policy
Drawing on key insights from relational sociology, criminologists have often analysed the carceral state by examining its relations with welfarist mechanisms of governing social marginality. This way of setting the relational scope for analysing the carceral state, however, has left important research avenues underexplored. Building from Du Boisian sociology and racial capitalism literature, we develop a relational approach that examines the co-p…
Transnational Configurations of the Criminalization–Racialization Nexus and the Origins of International Cannabis Prohibitions
Racial disparities in criminal justice are often viewed through a nation-centric lens. The rise of transnational and decolonial approaches in comparative law scholarship provides an opportunity to go beyond this methodologically nationalist perspective and gain a deeper understanding of how processes of criminalization and racialization mutually constitute one another within political spaces that transcend the boundaries of individual jurisdictio…
From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization
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From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime
This book explores the complex ways in which political debates and legal reforms regarding the criminalization of racial violence have shaped the development of American racial history. Spanning previous campaigns for criminalizing slave abuse, lynching, and Klan violence and contemporary debates about the legal response to hate crimes, this book reveals both continuity and change in terms of the political forces underpinning the enactment of new…
Rights-consciousness as an Object of Historical Inquiry
Hendrik Hartog’s article “The Constitution of Aspiration” paved new ways of thinking about the historical formation and political significance of rights-consciousness. This Essay considers the contribution of social histories of rights-consciousness to our understanding of the underpinnings and consequences of constitutional change. In particular, we consider the impact of this literature on debates regarding questions of periodization in America…
Introduction to the Symposium on Drug Decriminalization, Legalization, and International Law
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Defining Crimes in a Global Age
The design of empirical research and theory-building projects in the sociolegal literature on criminalization is often premised on a presumed dichotomy between domestic and international planes of criminal lawmaking. However, in a global era in which domestic processes of criminalization are increasingly shaped by norms, institutions, and actors developed and operating outside national borders, criminalization research should develop a new theore…
From Global Interventionism to Domestic Police Militarization
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
The symbiotic tensions of the regulatory–carceral state
Recent scholarship has emphasized the need to develop a polymorphic conceptualization of the regulatory state. This article contributes to this theory‐building project by outlining a research agenda for exploring the symbiotic interactions and tensions between the regulatory and carceral morphs of the state. Using the case study of cannabis legalization reforms in the United States, we argue that the legitimation deficits of the carceral state st…
Transnational Configurations of the Criminalization–Racialization Nexus and the Origins of International Cannabis Prohibitions
Racial disparities in criminal justice are often viewed through a nation-centric lens. The rise of transnational and decolonial approaches in comparative law scholarship provides an opportunity to go beyond this methodologically nationalist perspective and gain a deeper understanding of how processes of criminalization and racialization mutually constitute one another within political spaces that transcend the boundaries of individual jurisdictio…
Negotiating Decriminalization
In recent decades, decriminalization has gained renewed salience on the criminal justice reform agenda. This article considers the promises and pitfalls of the strategic reliance on decriminalization as a vehicle for scaling back the carceral state. Building on empirical and theoretical insights drawn from various policy domains and national contexts, this analysis sheds light on the double-edged consequences of different variants of de jure and …
The Relational Carceral State and the Segregated Origins of Drug Policy
Drawing on key insights from relational sociology, criminologists have often analysed the carceral state by examining its relations with welfarist mechanisms of governing social marginality. This way of setting the relational scope for analysing the carceral state, however, has left important research avenues underexplored. Building from Du Boisian sociology and racial capitalism literature, we develop a relational approach that examines the co-p…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (3 works) · Criminal law (3 works) · Criminalization (3 works)