The history of criminology is a history of white supremacy
This critical ethnography of criminology and criminal justice classrooms and narratives highlights the unreservedly white-supremacist and heteropatriarchal roots and manifestations of criminology. Contextualized within a larger reading of the history of criminology’s thought, Saleh-Hanna maps the ri...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Abolish criminology
Year: 2022, Pages: 36-51 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | This critical ethnography of criminology and criminal justice classrooms and narratives highlights the unreservedly white-supremacist and heteropatriarchal roots and manifestations of criminology. Contextualized within a larger reading of the history of criminology’s thought, Saleh-Hanna maps the rise of classical criminology as a function of European systems of colonialism and chattel slavery as well as hundreds of years of witch Inquisitions, and the rise of biological positivism as central to the reforms that transported chattel slavery’s power into the criminal legal system and the subsequent shift into sociological positivism as an abstracted and expansion of eugenics and racial violence. Saleh-Hanna also offers two tools helpful in the teaching and conceptualization of criminology’s theories. The first is a deconstruction of criminology’s opposites as aligned (i.e., positivism is not the opposite of classical theory, and biological criminology is not the opposite of sociological positivism). The second is a comprehensive mapping of criminology’s dominant theories and school of thought within the times they were written. This allows scholars and instructors to trace and define the well-established relationships that exist between the history of criminology’s thought and some of the most overt and documented trajectories of white supremacist violence and policy debates across place and time. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 50-51 |
| ISBN: | 9781000875485 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9780367817114-5 |