Journal•ISSN: 1362-4806
Theoretical Criminology
SAGE Publishing
About: Theoretical Criminology is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Criminal justice & Poison control. It has an ISSN identifier of 1362-4806. Over the lifetime, 963 publications have been published receiving 33117 citations.
Topics: Criminal justice, Poison control, Politics, Prison, Cultural criminology
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TL;DR: In this paper, it is maintained that Foucault contributes in an important way to our understanding of and sensitivity regarding modern surveillance systems and practices, which are expanding at an accelerating rate, but that he overlooks an opposite process of great significance which has occurred simultaneously and at an equally accelerated rate: the mass media, and especially television, which today bring the many with great force to see and admire the few.
Abstract: The article takes its point of departure in one limited and consciously selected aspect of Michel Foucault's use of Jeremy Bentham's concept of `Panopticon': in his book Discipline and Punish, the aspect of surveillance, and the emphasis on a fundamental change and break which presumably occurred in the 1800s from social and theatrical arrangements, where the many saw the few, to modern surveillance activities where the few see the many. It is maintained that Foucault contributes in an important way to our understanding of and sensitivity regarding modern surveillance systems and practices, which are expanding at an accelerating rate, but that he overlooks an opposite process of great significance which has occurred simultaneously and at an equally accelerated rate: the mass media, and especially television, which today bring the many — literally hundreds of millions of people at the same time — with great force to see and admire the few. In contrast to Foucault's panoptical process, the latter process is...
659 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the main themes of the governmentality literature, as developed by Michel Foucault and subsequent writers, and outline a series of related ideas about ''the social' as a realm of government; statistics and bio-power; actuarial forms of reasoning; and government-at-a-distance.
Abstract: The article traces the main themes of the `governmentality' literature, as developed by Michel Foucault and subsequent writers, and outlines a series of related ideas about `the social' as a realm of government; statistics and bio-power; actuarial forms of reasoning; and government-at-a-distance. It goes on to illustrate the criminological value of these ideas by means of an analysis of some of the governmental rationalities and technologies that are currently emerging in the field of crime control. These include `economic' forms of reasoning about crime and its control, the emergence of `the criminogenic situation' as a practicable object of government and the use of `technologies of the self' in penal settings. The final part of the article identifies some of the limitations and problems of the `governmentality' literature. It argues that studies of governmentality beg certain sociological questions; that the governmentality analytic is quite compatible with certain forms of sociological analysis; and t...
601 citations
TL;DR: The authors traces the main themes of the ''governmentality' literature, as developed by Michel Foucault and subsequent writers, and outlines a series of related ideas about ''the social' as a realm...
Abstract: The article traces the main themes of the `governmentality' literature, as developed by Michel Foucault and subsequent writers, and outlines a series of related ideas about `the social' as a realm ...
560 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that American schools increasingly define and manage the problem of student discipline through a prism of crime control, and most theoretical explanations fail to situate school criminalization in a broader...
Abstract: American schools increasingly define and manage the problem of student discipline through a prism of crime control. Most theoretical explanations fail to situate school criminalization in a broader...
535 citations
TL;DR: In the emerging pre-crime society, crime is conceived essentially as risk or potential loss, ordering practices are pre-emptive and security is a commodity sold for profit as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Conventionally, crime is regarded principally as harm or wrong and the dominant ordering practices arise post hoc. In the emerging pre-crime society, crime is conceived essentially as risk or potential loss, ordering practices are pre-emptive and security is a commodity sold for profit. Though this dichotomy oversimplifies a more complex set of changes, it captures an important temporal shift. As the intellectual offspring of the post-crime society, criminology must adapt to meet the challenges of pre-crime and security. This article examines the key features a theory of security needs to encompass. It explores the immanent capacities of criminology for change and suggests exterior intellectual resources upon which it might draw. It concludes that the pre-crime society need not be a post-criminological one.
417 citations