Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: The Work and Legacy of Steven Box

ISBN-13: 9783031462122 / Angielski

David Gordon Scott; Joe Sim

Spis treści

Introduction.- chapter 1: steven box: a ‘realist of a larger reality’(david scott and joe sim).-  part 1: corporate crime.- chapter 2: corporate crime, regulation and the stat (steve tombs).- chapter 3. From corporate corruption to rentiership: extending box’s power, crime and mystification (steven bittle and jon frauley).- chapter 4. Power, crime and deadly deception (david whyte).- chapter 5. Climate change, planetary collapse and the ‘mystification’ of environmental crime (reece walters).- chapter 6. Fighting for ‘justice for all’ in an era of deepening exploitation and ecological crisis (elizabeth bradshaw and paul leighton).- part 2: power, state crime and social harm.- chapter 7. The neoliberal state: then and now (samantha fletcher and will mcgowan).- chapter 8. The austerity state, ‘social junk’ and the mystification of violence (chris grover).- chapter 9. Steven box and police crime: understanding and challenging police violence and corruption (will jackson).- chapter 10. ‘the first narrative that is put out’: the mystification of police institutional violence (Lisa white and patrick williams).- chapter 11. Immigration control, mystification and the carceral continuum (jon burnett).- chapter 12. Criminal law categories as ideological constructs: the case of human trafficking (shahrzad fouladvand and tony ward).- part 3: power, gender and sexual violence.- chapter 13. Power, sexual violence and mystification (kym atkinson and helen monk).- chapter 14. ‘rape kills the soul’: the use of sexual violence by state and non-state actors in war and conflict (brenda fitzpatrick).- chapter 15. Gender, powerlessness and criminalisation (kathryn chadwick and becky clarke).- chapter 16. Mystification, violence and women’s homelessness (vickie cooper and dan mcculloch).- part 4: demystifying social harm.- chapter 17. Standing on the shoulders of a criminological giant: steven box and the question of counter-colonial criminology (biko agozino).- chapter 18. The policing of youthful ‘social dynamite’ within neo-liberal capitalism: continuities, discontinuities and alternatives (jodie hodgson).- chapter 19. Demystifying injustice: joint enterprise law and miscarriages of  justice (janet cunliffe and gloria morrison).- chapter 20: punishment in ‘this hard land’: conceptualising the prison in power, crime and mystification (joe sim).- chapter 21. Demystifying murder: open university pedagogy, social murder, and the legacy of steven box (deborah h. Drake and david scott)

O autorze

David Scott is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University, UK. He is an experienced editor and has edited/co-edited several books including Why Prison? (Cambridge University Press, 2013) Beyond Criminal Justice (EG Press, 2014) and the International Handbook of Penal Abolition (Routledge, 2021). 

Joe Sim has published a number of books including Medical Power in Prisons (Open University Press), Punishment and Prisons (Sage), British Prisons (Basil Blackwell) with Mike Fitzgerald, and Prisons Under Protest (Open University Press) with Phil Scraton and Paula Skidmore. He has also co-edited two major collections Western European Penal Systems (Sage) with Vincenzo Ruggiero and Mick Ryan, and State Power Crime (Sage) with Roy Coleman, Steve Tombs and Dave Whyte. 

Blurb

This edited collection revisits Steven Box’s book, Power, Crime and Mystification, published in 1983, and considers its relevance thirty years on. It introduces the critical analysis developed by Box which examined corporate crime, police crime, rape, and female crime and analyses the continuities and discontinuities since that time in relation to crime, the state and the exercise/mystification of power. It explores the ways in which we can see his influence nationally and internationally on critical criminological, zemiological and abolitionist writings today and how these can be applied to the present moment to understand criminal justice and criminal injustice. It asks: how can some of the neglected aspects of his work be revived in the contemporary literature? And how can his ideas and concepts help shine light upon issues, controversies and harms that were not covered in the original book? It provides a toolkit for students and academics to critically analyse the issues around crime/harm, power/powerlessness, justice/injustice, and truth/mystifications. This book brings together leading critical scholars to engage with a classic text in critical criminology.

David Scott is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University, UK. He is an experienced editor and has edited/co-edited several books including Why Prison? (Cambridge University Press, 2013) Beyond Criminal Justice (EG Press, 2014) and the International Handbook of Penal Abolition (Routledge, 2021). 

Joe Sim has published a number of books including Medical Power in Prisons (Open University Press), Punishment and Prisons (Sage), British Prisons (Basil Blackwell) with Mike Fitzgerald, and Prisons Under Protest (Open University Press) with Phil Scraton and Paula Skidmore. He has also co-edited two major collections Western European Penal Systems (Sage) with Vincenzo Ruggiero and Mick Ryan, and State Power Crime (Sage) with Roy Coleman, Steve Tombs and Dave Whyte.