Crime as an assemblage

This article seeks to make an original contribution to criminology and the sociology of crime and punishment by elaborating the ‘assemblage’, a concept which originates in the collaborative poststructuralist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and discussing its ontological implications...

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Main Author: Crockett Thomas, Phil (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 12, Pages: 68-79
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Keywords:
Assemblage
Ontology
Gilles Deleuze
Félix Guattari
Crime
dispositif
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Summary:This article seeks to make an original contribution to criminology and the sociology of crime and punishment by elaborating the ‘assemblage’, a concept which originates in the collaborative poststructuralist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and discussing its ontological implications for researching crime. I will first introduce the concept and its application. I then discuss the relationship between the assemblage and Michel Foucault’s concept of the dispositif. I demonstrate how the assemblage could be used to analyse crime events and discuss questions of change and scale within the assemblage. I conclude by outlining some implications for how adopting this concept would change the way we practice and research crime and punishment.
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