09926nam 2200649 450 991079921250332120240119114102.03-031-46213-0(MiAaPQ)EBC31051253(Au-PeEL)EBL31051253(EXLCZ)992951022060004120240119d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDemystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm The Work and Legacy of Steven Box /edited by David Gordon Scott and Joe SimFirst edition.Cham, Switzerland :Macmillan Palgrave,[2023]©20231 online resource (569 pages)Critical Criminological Perspectives SeriesPrint version: Scott, David Gordon Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 9783031462122 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Steven Box: A 'Realist of a Larger Reality' -- Introduction -- Genesis and Influences -- 'Nothing but Mystification' -- PCM in an 'Age of Mixed Tyrannies' -- PCM: Reception and Reviews -- PCM: A Critical Review -- PCM Forty Years On: Continuities and Discontinuities -- Authoritarian State Power -- Anti-statism -- Resistance, Democratic Accountability and Delivering Justice -- Responding to the Social Harms of the Powerful -- Box and Contemporary Criminology -- A Boxian Morality -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Corporate Crime -- 2 Corporate Crime, Regulation and the State -- Introduction -- The Achievements of 'Corporate Crime' -- Regulation: Presences and Absences? -- Some Presences … -- … and Absences -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 From Corporate Corruption to Rentiership: Extending Box's Power, Crime and Mystification -- Introduction -- Mystic Reality and the Failure of Corporate Corruption Literature -- Mystifying Corruption -- Rentierism [or Parasitism] as Crime of the Powerful -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Power, Crime and Deadly Deception -- Introduction -- Box on Elite Subcultures -- Denial of the Victim -- No Choice -- Regimes of Permission and the State -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 '90 Seconds to Midnight': Climate Change, Planetary Collapse and the 'Mystification' of Environmental Crime -- Introduction -- The Mystification of Climate Change and Environmental Crime -- Green Criminology and Climate Criminality -- Planetary Protection-'Boxian' Forays and Forecasts -- Climate 'Justice For All' -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Fighting for 'Justice for All' in an Era of Deepening Exploitation and Ecological Crisis -- Introduction -- 'The Carnival Mirror': Concealing the Crimes of Power, Exaggerating the Crimes of the Poor.Mystifications of State-Corporate Crime -- Fear of Revolt: Youth Activism, Power, and the Climate Emergency -- Fridays for Future -- Extinction Rebellion -- Just Stop Oil and Other Disruptive Groups -- Indigenous Youth Activists -- Justice for All: Fighting for Survival in an Era of Extinction -- Dismantling the Theatres of Control -- Conclusion: Putting Up a Fight for Justice -- References -- Part III Power, State Crime and Social Harm -- 7 The Neoliberal State: Then and Now -- Introduction -- The Neoliberal State: A Working Definition? -- Power and the Neoliberal State -- Crime and the Neoliberal State -- Mystification and the Neoliberal State -- The Neoliberal State Then and Now: Mystification Pure and Simple? -- Box Forty Years On -- Conclusion: The Importance of Holding Radical Ground -- References -- 8 The Austerity State, 'Social Junk' and the Mystification of Violence -- Introduction -- Power, Crime and Mystification -- Britain's Austerity State and Social Security -- Violence and Austerity -- Capitalism, Violence and the Austerity State -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Steven Box and Police Crime: Understanding and Challenging Police Violence and Corruption -- Introduction -- Police Crime as a Systemic Issue -- Crime, Law, and Order -- The State of Contemporary Policing -- The Mystifying Role of Academic Research -- The Mystification of Contemporary Policing -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 The Mystification of Police Institutional Violence -- Introduction -- Enemies Within -- Reproducing and Regulating the Enemy Within -- Transforming the Meaning of 'Police Crimes' -- Mystification and Technological Change -- Accountability, Mystification and Police Crimes -- Conclusion -- References -- 11 Immigration Control, Mystification and the Carceral Continuum -- Introduction -- Braverman's Dreams -- Immigration Control and the Carceral Continuum.Power and Mystification -- Enforcement as 'Support' -- 'Support' as Enforcement -- The State as Victim -- 'Safe Routes' and Bogus Debates -- Conclusion -- References -- 12 Criminal Law Categories as Ideological Constructs: The Case of Human Trafficking -- Introduction -- Transnational Criminal Law -- Law and Mystification -- Modern Slavery as Mystification? -- Banal Orthodoxies -- Race, Drugs and the Politics of Victimhood -- Mystifying State Crime? The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Reports -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Power, Gender and Sexual Violence -- 13 Power, Sexual Violence and Mystification -- Introduction -- Discursive Formations of Sexual Violence -- Mystification Through Dominant 'Truths' -- Mystification Through the Limits of Consent -- Institutional Mystification and the Limits of the Law -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 'Rape Kills the Soul': The Use of Sexual Violence by State and non-State Actors in War and Conflict -- Introduction -- Box's Analysis -- Understanding Tactical Rape -- Masculinity and Patriarchy -- Beginning to Demystify -- The UN and Powerbrokers -- Definitions, Consent and Coercion -- Tactical Rape and International Powerbrokers in the Twenty-First Century -- Forty Years After Power, Crime and Mystification -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 Gender, Power and Criminalisation -- Introduction -- Placing Power, Crime and Mystification in Context -- Revisiting Power and Mystification: Challenging State Power and Injustice -- Case Study 1: Stories of Injustice: Women Criminalised Under Joint Enterprise Laws -- Case Study 2: Institutional Intervention-Power and Resistance in Women's Lives -- Centring the Power to Criminalise Girls and Women -- Prioritising Determining Contexts -- Conclusion -- References -- 16 Mystification, Violence and Women's Homelessness -- Introduction -- 'Nothing but Mystification'.Mystification and Constructions of Homelessness -- Mystification and Women's Hidden Homelessness -- Homeless Women and Permutations of Violence -- Conclusion -- References -- Part V Demystifying Social Harm -- 17 Standing on the Shoulders of a Criminological Giant: Steven Box and the Question of Counter-Colonial Criminology -- Introduction -- The Poverty and Crime Thesis -- Crime, Power and Ideological Mystifications -- The Applicability of Power, Crime and Mystification to Decolonization Theory -- Conclusion: Standing on the Shoulders of a Criminological Giant -- References -- 18 The Policing of Youthful 'Social Dynamite' and Neo-liberal Capitalism: Continuities, Discontinuities and Alternatives -- Introduction -- Welfarism, Regulation and the Policing of Youthful 'Social Dynamite' -- New Labour: New (in)Justice -- System Shrinkage and Diversion: The Same but Different -- Continued Injustice -- Young People and The Youth Custodial Estate -- Girls, Young Women and (in)Justice -- Conclusion -- References -- 19 Demystifying Injustice: Joint Enterprise Law and Miscarriages of Justice -- Introduction -- Joint Enterprise and the Relevance of Steven Box -- Responding to Injustice-the Formation of JENGbA -- The 'Usual Suspects' -- Legal Activism -- Changing the Narrative Through Grassroots Campaigning -- Conclusion -- References -- 20 Punishment in 'This Hard Land': Conceptualising the Prison in Power, Crime and Mystification -- Introduction -- Box and the Prison: The Radical Context -- Prisons and the Continuities in Punishment -- Demystifying Deaths in Prison -- Box, Democratic Accountability and Utopian Thinking -- Conclusion -- References -- 21 Demystifying Murder: Open University Pedagogy, Social Murder and the Legacy of Steven Box -- Introduction -- DD105: Introduction to Criminology and OU Critical Pedagogy -- Avoidable Deaths and Social Murder.Demystifying Murder: The Grenfell Tower Fire Film -- Ethics and the Making of the Grenfell Tower and Social Murder Film -- Scrutinising the State -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.Critical criminological perspectives.CorporationsCorrupt practicesFemale offendersPoliceComplaints againstPolice corruptionPolice misconductPower (Social sciences)Sex crimesSocial justiceCorporationsCorrupt practices.Female offenders.PoliceComplaints against.Police corruption.Police misconduct.Power (Social sciences)Sex crimes.Social justice.364.168Scott David GordonSim JoeMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910799212503321Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm3872600UNINA