Crime, bandits, and community
How public panic shaped the social control of territory in the Ottoman Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13045352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Cayli (0000-0002-8677-4626, University of Derby, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 356-371 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Territory Politics Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2162-2671 • E-ISSN: 2162-268X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21622671.2018.1557074 |
| OpenAlex | W2905386366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 20 |
This study explores the role of crime, bandits and public panic in 19th-century Ottoman society by using archival documents and employing a comparative perspective. In addition to the social bandit concept of Eric Hobsbawm, there is an introduction of two new banditry forms in this study: opportunist bandits and imagined bandits. The comparison of different bandits clarifies that social bandits and opportunist bandits aggravated public panic and produced imagined bandits. Hence, public panic and the dissent of local people unveiled through rumours about the imagined bandits. The exploration of different forms of bandits in the Ottoman Empire is a response to the vexed issue concerning the challenges in the social control of territories in a multiethnic and multi-religious empire. This study provides new conceptual tools with which to rethink the spatial dimensions in the emergence of bandits. It shows that spatial factors in the social control of territory can be influenced by the reaction of local people from bottom to top and, in doing so, the spatial factors can determine the response of state authority. The present study, therefore, unveils the power relationship in the social control of territory whether it is manifested by physical force or public panic
Art · Criminology · Empire · Moral panic · Ottoman empire · Panic · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social control · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |