RT Article
T1 Off-the-cuff law-making: policing pandemic dispossession in Spain
JF Critical criminology
VO 31
IS 2
SP 363
OP 378
A1 Jiménez Franco, Daniel 1974-
A2 Aguerri, Jesús C.
A2 Forero Cuéllar, Alejandro
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1858658209
AB This article presents a discussion concerning the role of police rationale(s) in Spain within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, where exceptionalist strategies aimed at curtailing the spread of the virus came to dramatically strengthen existing social divisions. In line with some authors who have already approached this phenomenon from different disciplines, our premise is that most serious emergencies boosted by Covid-19 were not a mere matter of public health, but rather a particularly harmful expression of accumulation by dispossession. Thus, rather than a flaw in the system produced by an exceptional friction between public security and public health, securitarian performances deployed by neoliberal states can be read as symbiotic strategies, from both law and order and business as usual approaches, to manage the social "externalities" of capitalist predatory strategies. As we will argue, phenomena such as the reinforcement of the policing consensus, police production of law, or the authoritarian turn favored by the Covid-19 health crisis must all be analyzed in this context.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 377-378
K1 Corona-Pandemie
K1 Polizei
K1 Öffentliche Sicherheit
K1 Gesundheit
K1 Spanien
DO 10.1007/s10612-023-09702-y