RT Article
T1 Japanese atmospheres of criminal justice
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 59
IS 4
SP 765
OP 779
A1 Young, Alison 1962-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1667941666
AB What is a criminal justice atmosphere? Defined as that connecting individuals within and to the spaces they occupy or move through, the study of criminal justice atmospheres can add to thinking within criminology about space, affect and the aesthetic. Examination of criminal justice atmospheres teaches much about how institutions operate as environments choreographing a range of spatial, affective and aesthetic attachments for citizens. Through ethnographic research in Japan, the article considers the atmospheres of three settings: the koban, or ‘police box’, a museum dedicated to the leisure consumption of policing and a metropolitan prison. Reflexive engagement with aspects of Japanese criminal justice can reveal points of congruence through which taken-for-granted understandings of Western criminal justice processes may be questioned, critiqued and enriched. Reading their atmospheres enables our understanding both of their intended modes of operation and the possibilities for their interruption.
K1 Atmospheres
K1 Japan
K1 Affect
K1 Spatial criminology
K1 Ethnography
DO 10.1093/bjc/azy073