Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape
AbstractThis paper explores an interdisciplinary approach that researchers can use to understand how people feel about their movement in the cityscape and their risk-taking activities by visualizing it. Author 1, a visual artist, and Author 2, a criminologist, used a psychogeography method where participants hand-drew maps of their everyday operations in the sex marketplace. Researchers, artists, and activists have used mapmaking to elucidate how individuals conceptualize physical space and place or their subjective, emotional relationship to the city's geography. Psychogeographers Lynch and Debord have used it to understa...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - November 19, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States
AbstractThe presumption of innocence, the prohibition against pretrial punishment, and the right to an impartial jury —constitutional bedrocks of the American criminal justice process—are potentially threatened by the practice of “perp walks.” Justice officials, politicians, and the news media have cited public demand as one justification for this controversial practice. Yet, this justification lacks an emp irical basis. Drawing from work on procedural fairness, the present study suggests compensatory justice as a framework for understanding why some American citizens might support perp walks. We extend research on...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - November 17, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Food crimes, food harms and the food system – SI introduction
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Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - November 5, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
The logic of CPTED for public space or the social potential of physical security
AbstractIn order to address crime, it is popular to use situational crime prevention with its focus on immediate opportunities for offending. If targets becomeless suitable and ifcapable guardians are present, then crime is less likely to take place in the here and the now. This logic often translates into placing greater distance between targets and motivated offenders. For industrial security, this comes down to deterring, denying, detecting and delaying ( “the four D’s”) any type of intrusion in order to protect assets. For public security, this comes down to surveillance, access control, territoriality, maintenan...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - November 2, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Book Review: Measuring compliance – Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct. Edited by Melissa Rorie and Benjamin Van Rooij
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Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - November 2, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
The logic of CPTED for public space or the social potential of physical security
AbstractIn order to address crime, it is popular to use situational crime prevention with its focus on immediate opportunities for offending. If targets becomeless suitable and ifcapable guardians are present, then crime is less likely to take place in the here and the now. This logic often translates into placing greater distance between targets and motivated offenders. For industrial security, this comes down to deterring, denying, detecting and delaying ( “the four D’s”) any type of intrusion in order to protect assets. For public security, this comes down to surveillance, access control, territoriality, maintenan...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - November 2, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Book Review: Measuring compliance – Assessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct. Edited by Melissa Rorie and Benjamin Van Rooij
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Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - November 2, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective
This article contributes to understanding the global variation and challenges in enforcing anti-human trafficking laws, by examining how Chilean law enforcement responded to suspected cases of trafficking into fo rced labor after the Anti-Trafficking Law was enacted in 2011. We present qualitative research on suspected cases of labor trafficking involving Indonesian women in the city of Punta Arenas, including interviews with suspected victims, prosecutors, plaintiff attorneys, anti-trafficking legal advocat es, and Indonesian embassy representatives. We argue that four aspects of Chilean legal culture illuminate multiple ...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - October 27, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Children and youth born of conflict-related sexual violence: the making of the ‘other’ in Northern Uganda and Rwanda
This article draws upon the perspectives of 139 children and youth born of conflict-related sexual violence in two countries: 60 in Rwanda and 79 in northern Uganda. It traces the life-histories and trajectories of these children and youth. Highlighted are the ways in which children and youth in both countries come to symbolize, and in many ways embody, an armed conflict that is long over. More specifical ly, the article explores the ways in which their lives and identities remain closely tied to violent conflict, as well as the ways in which they work to actively resist and challenge the assumptions and constructions plac...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - October 12, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
‘I have used up my entire youth in the bush’: the Comités de Autodefensa during and after the Peruvian internal armed conflict
AbstractYoungsters participate as combatants at the forefront of armed conflicts around the globe, be it as part of state forces, as members of rebel groups, or as drivers of armed civilian resistance. This contribution explores the social trajectories of (ex-)civil self-defense militia members in Peru who fought alongside the state forces to defeat the Maoist rebels of Shining Path in the 1980 and 1990s. On the one hand, by taking the PeruvianComit és de Autodefensa (CAD) as a somewhat atypical case-study, the article aims to enhance a more nuanced understanding of youth as drivers of and participants in civil war violen...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - October 5, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
The scope of food fraud revisited
AbstractFood fraud is an emerging field of study in academic literature. The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether current understanding of food fraud in literature is in congruence with incidents of food fraud in the Netherlands. The discussion that follows is based on an analysis of 53 empirical cases on food fraud investigations conducted at the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA), the nationwide enforcement body tasked with investigating food fraud. The findings elucidate the differences between food fraud and other (food) crime and highlight the discrepancies with academic definitions to d...
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - October 5, 2022 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
