Ghost method
In the practice of their own lives and in the imagination of lawmakers, citizens, and the mass media, many people of interest to criminology exist less as persons than as apparitions. Their presence is haphazard; between their own illicit movement and the ongoing attempts to exclude them from public...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Ghost criminology
Year: 2022, Pages: 67-87 |
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| Summary: | In the practice of their own lives and in the imagination of lawmakers, citizens, and the mass media, many people of interest to criminology exist less as persons than as apparitions. Their presence is haphazard; between their own illicit movement and the ongoing attempts to exclude them from public space and public life, they float in and out of social experience more than they inhabit it. Constructed as threats to social order and public decency, they return to haunt the lives of the more secure. To understand the ghostly dynamics of such people and groups, criminologists need methods attuned to uncertainty and absence—methods designed to engage with the presence of absence, and to distinguish between those not there, those no longer there, and those soon to disappear. Such methods must also orient criminologists to ghostly spaces: to temporal aftermaths, to residues and ruins, and to the interstitial shadows of social life. To embrace such methods, though, is not only to seek ghosts; it is to reject positivist methods and their mythologies of certainty, factuality, and predictability. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 85-87 |
| ISBN: | 9781479885725 |
