Nicole Rafter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4500771 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicole Rafter |
| PRENOMES | Nicole |
| SOBRENOME | Rafter |
| ASSINATURA | RAFTER N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Northeastern University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 216 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Criminology Goes to the Movies
Investigating cinema under the magnifying glass From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy, through scholarly research, but also in popular culture, through film. Criminology Goes to the Movies connects with ways in which students are already thinking criminologically through engageme…
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture
Over 120 scholarly articles Crime and punishment fascinate. Overwhelming in their media dominance, they present us with our most popular television programs, films, novels, art works, video games, podcasts, social media streams and hashtags. This encyclopedia, a massive and unprecedented undertaking, offers a foundational space for understanding the cultural life and imaginative force and power of crime and punishment. Across five areas foundatio…
The Criminal Brain, Second Edition
Introduction to special issue on Visual Culture and the Iconography of Crime and Punishment
Joshua Oppenheimer (dir.), The Act of Killing
The Lombroso Museum from its origins to the present day
Few texts have had so melodramatic a publication career as Lombroso's La donna delinquente (Lombroso and Ferrero 1893). The theatrical stops and starts of its publication history doomed it for years to misunderstanding and scorn, although this same rollercoastering trajectory eventually led to the work's rescue, restorations of its reputation, and happy endings. In the twists and turns of its publication history, La donna delinquente reflects, mo…
Silence and Memory in Criminology—the American Society of Criminology 2009 Sutherland Address
Two recent American Society of Criminology presidential addresses have identified as a key problem the fact that criminology lacks a history. In this address, I ask why criminology (in contrast to closely related fields) has generated so few studies of its past; I also identify some results of this failure and discuss why intellectual fields need a sense of their origins and development. History molds individual and collective identities; it lays…
Darfur and the Crime of Genocide by John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond
Crime, film and criminology
This article aims at giving crime-film research a stronger sense of purpose by asking: How do crime films relate to criminology? Using the example of recent films about sex crimes, I argue that crime films should be conceptualized as an aspect of popular criminology, and popular criminology as an aspect of criminology itself. If we define criminology as the study of crime and criminals, it becomes clear that film is one of the primary sources thr…
Somatotyping, Antimodernism, and the Production of Criminological Knowledge
This study analyzes the work of William H. Sheldon, the psychologist, physician, and advocate of the study of body types. It investigates how he arrived at his much‐repeated finding that a correlation exists between mesomorphy (a stocky, muscular body build) and delinquency and how his ideas were validated and perpetuated. It reviews what Sheldon actually said about the causes of crime; identifies his goals in searching for a relationship between…
Shots in the Mirror
Movies play a central role in shaping our understanding of crime and the world generally, helping us define what is good and bad, desirable and unworthy, lawful and illicit, strong and weak. Crime films raise controversial issues about the distribution of social power and the meanings of deviance, and they provide a safe space for fantasies of rebellion, punishment, and the restoration of order. In the first comprehensive study of its kind, well-…
H. J. Eysenck in Fagin’s kitchen
In 1964, the British psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck published Crime and Personality , the book that set forth his theory of the criminal as a psychopathic poor conditioner. Crime and Personality went through three editions, and even those who vehemently rejected the theory acknowledged it as the most highly articulated and influential biological explanation of crime of its time. Yet today Eysenck’s name is fading from criminological memory - an…
The murderous Dutch fiddler
To form a clear view of the origins of criminology and present-day practices in criminal justice, criminologists need to recognize phrenology as one of their progenitors. Although phrenology is dismissed as a ‘pseudo-science’ and mocked as ‘bumpology’, it in fact constituted an important early science of the mind, and the theories that phrenologists generated in the fields today called criminology, criminal jurisprudence and penology influenced t…
Earnest A. Hooton and the Biological Tradition in American Criminology
Biological explanations shaped criminology at its inception, and today they are reemerging with fresh vigor and increased potential. But many criminologists do not understand how biological theories developed, what they contributed to criminology generally and where they went astray. This paper focuses on the work of Earnest A. Hooton, whose criminological studies, published in 1939, met with decidedly mixed reviews but were nonetheless discussed…
The Unrepentant Horse‐slasher
This paper raises questions about the origins, definition and nature of criminological knowledge by seeking to identify the earliest examples of scientific criminological thought. Pushing the story further back in time than previous studies of criminological history, it proposes a way to think about criminology before criminologists—that is, efforts to study crime scientifically before the emergence of specifically criminological discourses and b…
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
American Criminal Trial Films
The history of American trial films – and I am speaking of trial films in general at the moment, not of the sub‐division of criminal trial films – has been shaped both by changes in public attitudes toward law and lawyers and by shifts in viewer tastes. These same factors have necessitated changes in the way we define ‘American trial films’. In earlier years one could recognize a trial film with relative ease: it was a drama in which a heroic law…
Creating Born Criminals
Creating Born Criminals
Journal Article Creating Born Criminals Get access Rafter Nicole Hahn, Creating Born Criminals. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xi, 284 pp. $36.95. Larry Goldsmith Larry Goldsmith San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 443–444, https://doi.org/10.2307/846059 Published: 01 October 1998
“Gender, Representation, and Social Control”
Anne M. Butler — Gendered Justice in the American West
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Psychopathy and the Evolution of Criminological Knowledge
Despite the recent publication of excellent histories of criminology, our understanding of the origins and evolution of criminological knowledge remains fragmentary. We know little about the development of the concept of psychopathy, for example, even though it is one of the oldest and most enduring of all criminological ideas; nor do we have much sense of how psychopathy theory affected the development of criminology as a field of study. This ar…
Sex, Race, and Science
The Psychiatric Persuasion
Benevolent Repression
Journal Article Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement Get access Pisciotta Alexander W., Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement. New York: New York University Press, 1994. xii, 197 pp. $35.00. Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History…
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
Crime, film and criminology
This article aims at giving crime-film research a stronger sense of purpose by asking: How do crime films relate to criminology? Using the example of recent films about sex crimes, I argue that crime films should be conceptualized as an aspect of popular criminology, and popular criminology as an aspect of criminology itself. If we define criminology as the study of crime and criminals, it becomes clear that film is one of the primary sources thr…
Introduction to special issue on Visual Culture and the Iconography of Crime and Punishment
Creating Born Criminals
Journal Article Creating Born Criminals Get access Rafter Nicole Hahn, Creating Born Criminals. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xi, 284 pp. $36.95. Larry Goldsmith Larry Goldsmith San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 443–444, https://doi.org/10.2307/846059 Published: 01 October 1998
Silence and Memory in Criminology—the American Society of Criminology 2009 Sutherland Address
Two recent American Society of Criminology presidential addresses have identified as a key problem the fact that criminology lacks a history. In this address, I ask why criminology (in contrast to closely related fields) has generated so few studies of its past; I also identify some results of this failure and discuss why intellectual fields need a sense of their origins and development. History molds individual and collective identities; it lays…
Earnest A. Hooton and the Biological Tradition in American Criminology
Biological explanations shaped criminology at its inception, and today they are reemerging with fresh vigor and increased potential. But many criminologists do not understand how biological theories developed, what they contributed to criminology generally and where they went astray. This paper focuses on the work of Earnest A. Hooton, whose criminological studies, published in 1939, met with decidedly mixed reviews but were nonetheless discussed…
Some Consequences of Strict Constructionism
Some Consequences of Strict Constructionism Get access Nicole H. Rafter Nicole H. Rafter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 39, Issue 1, 1 February 1992, Pages 38–39, https://doi.org/10.2307/3096911 Published: 31 July 2014
Criminal Anthropology in the United States
Criminologists continue to debate fundamental issues about the nature of their work. Some of the issues were built into the field by the criminal anthropologists who founded it a century ago. By examining the work of major American criminal anthropologists—a nearly forgotten group—one can identify the origins of three enduring problems: criminology's difficulties in (1) establishing its disciplinary boundaries; (2) defining its methods: and (3) d…
Somatotyping, Antimodernism, and the Production of Criminological Knowledge
This study analyzes the work of William H. Sheldon, the psychologist, physician, and advocate of the study of body types. It investigates how he arrived at his much‐repeated finding that a correlation exists between mesomorphy (a stocky, muscular body build) and delinquency and how his ideas were validated and perpetuated. It reviews what Sheldon actually said about the causes of crime; identifies his goals in searching for a relationship between…
The Unrepentant Horse‐slasher
This paper raises questions about the origins, definition and nature of criminological knowledge by seeking to identify the earliest examples of scientific criminological thought. Pushing the story further back in time than previous studies of criminological history, it proposes a way to think about criminology before criminologists—that is, efforts to study crime scientifically before the emergence of specifically criminological discourses and b…
H. J. Eysenck in Fagin’s kitchen
In 1964, the British psychologist Hans Jürgen Eysenck published Crime and Personality , the book that set forth his theory of the criminal as a psychopathic poor conditioner. Crime and Personality went through three editions, and even those who vehemently rejected the theory acknowledged it as the most highly articulated and influential biological explanation of crime of its time. Yet today Eysenck’s name is fading from criminological memory - an…
White trash
The murderous Dutch fiddler
To form a clear view of the origins of criminology and present-day practices in criminal justice, criminologists need to recognize phrenology as one of their progenitors. Although phrenology is dismissed as a ‘pseudo-science’ and mocked as ‘bumpology’, it in fact constituted an important early science of the mind, and the theories that phrenologists generated in the fields today called criminology, criminal jurisprudence and penology influenced t…
Claims-Making and Socio-Cultural Context in the First U.S. Eugenics Campaign
Although historians have for some time been integrating sociological concepts into their work on eugenics, sociologists have for the most part left the study of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century eugenics to historians. Arguing that our understanding of eugenics can be advanced by combining sociological and historical methods, this paper undertakes a constructionist analysis of the first U.S. eugenics campaign, which redefined poor, fee…
Gender, Prisons, and Prison History
Prisons for Women, 1790-1980
Until recently, women's institutions and their inmates have received little attention in the literature on prisons. This neglect in part stems from the fact that over time women have comprised but a small fraction of the total prisoner population. Yet it is also the product of two common assumptions: that the development of the women's prison system and experiences of its inmates closely resemble those of men; or that, if different, the evolution…
Joshua Oppenheimer (dir.), The Act of Killing
Psychopathy and the Evolution of Criminological Knowledge
Despite the recent publication of excellent histories of criminology, our understanding of the origins and evolution of criminological knowledge remains fragmentary. We know little about the development of the concept of psychopathy, for example, even though it is one of the oldest and most enduring of all criminological ideas; nor do we have much sense of how psychopathy theory affected the development of criminology as a field of study. This ar…
Partial Justice
Journal Article Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800–1935. By Nicole Hahn Rafter. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985. xxvi + 269 pp. Chart, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $22.95.) Get access Ellen Dwyer Ellen Dwyer Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 666–667, https://doi.org…
Sex, Race, and Science
Prisons for Women, 1790-1980
Until recently, women's institutions and their inmates have received little attention in the literature on prisons. This neglect in part stems from the fact that over time women have comprised but a small fraction of the total prisoner population. Yet it is also the product of two common assumptions: that the development of the women's prison system and experiences of its inmates closely resemble those of men; or that, if different, the evolution…
The Criminal Justice System and Women
Gender, Prisons, and Prison History
Partial Justice
Journal Article Partial Justice: Women in State Prisons, 1800–1935. By Nicole Hahn Rafter. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985. xxvi + 269 pp. Chart, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $22.95.) Get access Ellen Dwyer Ellen Dwyer Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Pages 666–667, https://doi.org…
Partial Justice
Partial Justice
Female Felons
White trash
White Trash
Texas Prisons
Journal Article Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down Get access Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down. By Martin Steve J. Ekland-Olson Sheldon. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987. xxix + 289 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, indexes. $21.95.) Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, Febr…
Crime and the Family
Although there has been a great deal of speculation about the relationship of crime and the family, the nature of that relationship is not well understood. After tracing the origins of the theory that crime can be genetically transmitted from parents to children, I go on to critique current biological theories of crime. Next I discuss work emerging from several disciplines that helps explain the environmental influence of families on crime. Argui…
Partial Justice
Contemporary Research on crime, prisons, and social control has largely ignored women. Partial Justice, the only full-scale study of the origins and development of women's prisons in the United States, traces their evolution from the late eighteenth century to the present day. It shows that the character of penal treatment was involved in the very definition of womanhood for incarcerated women, a definition that varied by race and social class. R…
Claims-Making and Socio-Cultural Context in the First U.S. Eugenics Campaign
Although historians have for some time been integrating sociological concepts into their work on eugenics, sociologists have for the most part left the study of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century eugenics to historians. Arguing that our understanding of eugenics can be advanced by combining sociological and historical methods, this paper undertakes a constructionist analysis of the first U.S. eugenics campaign, which redefined poor, fee…
Criminal Anthropology in the United States
Criminologists continue to debate fundamental issues about the nature of their work. Some of the issues were built into the field by the criminal anthropologists who founded it a century ago. By examining the work of major American criminal anthropologists—a nearly forgotten group—one can identify the origins of three enduring problems: criminology's difficulties in (1) establishing its disciplinary boundaries; (2) defining its methods: and (3) d…
Some Consequences of Strict Constructionism
Some Consequences of Strict Constructionism Get access Nicole H. Rafter Nicole H. Rafter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 39, Issue 1, 1 February 1992, Pages 38–39, https://doi.org/10.2307/3096911 Published: 31 July 2014
Crimes of Passion
Benevolent Repression
Journal Article Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement Get access Pisciotta Alexander W., Benevolent Repression: Social Control and the American Reformatory-Prison Movement. New York: New York University Press, 1994. xii, 197 pp. $35.00. Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History…
Sex, Race, and Science
The Psychiatric Persuasion
“Gender, Representation, and Social Control”
Anne M. Butler — Gendered Justice in the American West
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Psychopathy and the Evolution of Criminological Knowledge
Despite the recent publication of excellent histories of criminology, our understanding of the origins and evolution of criminological knowledge remains fragmentary. We know little about the development of the concept of psychopathy, for example, even though it is one of the oldest and most enduring of all criminological ideas; nor do we have much sense of how psychopathy theory affected the development of criminology as a field of study. This ar…
Creating Born Criminals
Journal Article Creating Born Criminals Get access Rafter Nicole Hahn, Creating Born Criminals. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997. xi, 284 pp. $36.95. Larry Goldsmith Larry Goldsmith San Francisco, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 4, October 1998, Pages 443–444, https://doi.org/10.2307/846059 Published: 01 October 1998
Creating Born Criminals
American Criminal Trial Films
The history of American trial films – and I am speaking of trial films in general at the moment, not of the sub‐division of criminal trial films – has been shaped both by changes in public attitudes toward law and lawyers and by shifts in viewer tastes. These same factors have necessitated changes in the way we define ‘American trial films’. In earlier years one could recognize a trial film with relative ease: it was a drama in which a heroic law…
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