Crime, Social Control and Human Rights: From moral panics to states of denial, essays in honour of Stanley Cohen

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Editors......Page 10
Contributors......Page 11
Foreword......Page 18
Cohen the criminologist......Page 20
Cohen and Human Rights......Page 26
References......Page 28
Part 1 - Seminal Influences......Page 30
1. Growing up with Stan......Page 31
2. The art of exile: a study of Alexander Herzen......Page 36
Notes......Page 45
3. The other side of the street: an interview with Stan Cohen......Page 47
4. How we deal with the people we study: ‘The Last Seminar’ revisited......Page 55
Our people and us......Page 58
The moral(s)......Page 64
References......Page 65
Part 2 - Gradations of Social Control: From Moral Panics to Long-term Imprisonment......Page 66
5. Folk Devils and Moral Panics: an appreciation from North America......Page 68
The AMBER Alert System......Page 75
The Jeanne Clery Act......Page 77
Dining out/in the gated suburbs......Page 78
References......Page 80
6. Slipping away – moral panics each side of ‘the Golden Age’......Page 82
The beach......Page 84
Symmetry......Page 85
Energy......Page 86
The real problem, the real significance......Page 88
Late modernity and the permanent moral panic......Page 91
References......Page 93
Introduction......Page 95
The burgeoning legislative framework......Page 96
Localised arrangements......Page 99
Notes......Page 104
References......Page 107
8. Hassles and worse......Page 109
Notes......Page 119
9. Moral panic, denial, and human rights: scanning the spectrum from overreaction to underreaction......Page 121
Moral panic over flag burning......Page 122
Moral panic over street crime and youth violence......Page 123
Moral panic over immigrants and asylum seekers......Page 125
Denial in a post-9/11 world......Page 126
Literal denial......Page 127
Interpretive denial......Page 128
Implicatory denial......Page 129
Conclusion......Page 130
References......Page 131
Part 3 - Extremities of Control: Torture and the Death Penalty......Page 134
10. The power to classify: avenues into a supermax prison......Page 136
The ‘special security’ category: avenues into a supermax......Page 138
Serious rule violators......Page 139
Alleged gang members......Page 140
Assignment to custody, programme, privilege and incentive groups......Page 141
Avenues out of supermax......Page 143
Conclusions......Page 146
References......Page 148
Introduction......Page 149
The absolute prohibition of torture......Page 151
The absolute prohibition and the ticking bomb......Page 152
Stage 2: the Landau Commission......Page 153
Stage 3: Landau Commission guidelines......Page 155
Stage 4: necessity guidelines......Page 158
Some general conclusions......Page 159
Notes......Page 161
12. Death, denial, discourse: on the forms and functions of American capital punishment......Page 165
The labyrinthine legal structures......Page 167
Jury sentencing......Page 168
The performative aspects......Page 169
Foucault on sovereign power and the spectacle of the scaffold......Page 170
Foucault on modern capital punishment......Page 171
Foucault, sovereignty, and the American polity......Page 173
Public torture lynchings and the people’s justice......Page 175
Modern capital punishment and its relation to lynching......Page 177
The inverse of the lynching......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 179
Notes......Page 181
References......Page 182
Cases cited......Page 183
Part 4 - Visions of Social Control......Page 184
13. Pathologies of markets and states......Page 186
I......Page 188
II......Page 195
III......Page 199
References......Page 201
Introduction......Page 203
Cohen’s......Page 204
Was Cohen correct? Tracing social control changes and practices (1985–present)......Page 207
The expansion of exclusionary control......Page 208
The expansion of inclusionary control......Page 211
The expansion of pre-emptive inclusionary controls......Page 214
Expanded control will be widely supported by the public......Page 216
Conclusion......Page 218
References......Page 222
Introducing security......Page 224
Privatizing security......Page 227
Examining security......Page 228
Concerning security......Page 231
Governing security......Page 234
References......Page 236
Free movement: Kant and Carens......Page 240
Border controls and the erosion of domestic rights......Page 242
Surveillance and Cohen’s punitive city......Page 243
A defence of migrant rights......Page 244
The attack on diversity and the question of immigration restriction......Page 246
The practical and political limits of restriction......Page 247
Can ‘good’ migrants be separated from ‘bad’ migrants?......Page 248
Are control measures affordable and effective?......Page 249
Can politicians effectively assess a potential threat?......Page 250
Conclusion......Page 252
Notes......Page 253
References......Page 254
17. Detain – restrain – control: sliding scale or slippery slope?......Page 255
Sliding scale?......Page 256
Slippery slope?......Page 258
Taking liberties?......Page 263
References......Page 265
18. Social control talk/talking about social control: encounters with Stan Cohen and his work......Page 267
The discovery of the asylum......Page 270
Social control and the net-widening thesis......Page 274
Atrocities and denials......Page 275
Notes......Page 278
Part 5 - The Theory and Practice of Denial......Page 282
19. Denial and responsibility......Page 284
Feelings of responsibility versus conceptions of responsibility and mechanisms of ‘responsibilisation’......Page 285
Responsibility beyond subjective consciousness?......Page 287
Exculpation based on non-conscious factors......Page 288
Inculpation via responsibility beyond consciousness......Page 290
‘Objective’ responsibility based on fair opportunity or the evaluation of character: negligence and practical indifference......Page 291
Strict liability and responsibility for outcomes......Page 293
Corporate responsibility......Page 295
Acknowledgements......Page 297
References......Page 298
20. The Israeli human rights movement – lessons from South Africa......Page 299
Human rights organisations in Israel and South Africa – what has changed since 1990?......Page 300
Civil rights and human rights......Page 301
Human rights and politics......Page 305
Individual versus collective rights......Page 307
Why do Israeli liberals not do more?......Page 313
Conclusion......Page 314
Notes......Page 316
References......Page 320
Court rulings......Page 322
21. Mediterranean poverty and conflict: applying a human rights strategy......Page 323
Establishing an international baseline......Page 324
Variations in the scale of poverty......Page 326
Where poverty is most severe: the case of Egypt......Page 328
Where poverty is most severe: the case of Palestine......Page 329
Mediterranean policies to restrict poverty: the case of Israel......Page 330
Regional and political association and human rights......Page 332
The right to social security: a Mediterranean policy?......Page 333
The right to social security: current developments......Page 334
The right to social security: the lessons of history......Page 336
Conclusion – creative use of the human rights framework......Page 338
Acknowledgements......Page 340
References......Page 341
22. States of acknowledgement: the politics of memory, apology, and therapy......Page 343
Memorial politics: dealing with past injustice......Page 344
Technologies of acknowledgement: the political apology......Page 348
Technologies of healing: the therapeutic model......Page 352
Concluding remarks......Page 355
Notes......Page 356
23. Denial in Cambodia......Page 359
24. ‘Does any of this matter?’ Transitional justice and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict......Page 368
Transitional justice and the Israeli–Palestinian peace process: it did matter......Page 369
What kind of truth?......Page 372
What kind of commission(s)?......Page 374
matter?......Page 377
Notes......Page 378
Part 6 - Ways Ahead......Page 382
I sang in my cell because I wouldn’t sing......Page 384
King Sabata, who made us laugh five minutes late......Page 388
Henry, whose hand shook......Page 392
A rendition of a man called Mohamed......Page 393
26. Restorative justice – answers to deficits in modernity?......Page 397
The lack of room for grief and anger in modern societies......Page 399
Less that unites and more that divides......Page 400
The whole person, versus the parts......Page 401
Peacemakers......Page 402
On form......Page 403
But if a crime has occurred?......Page 404
Major gains......Page 405
References......Page 406
27. The flow of boundaries: gays, queers and intimate citizenship......Page 408
Boundary problems......Page 409
Boundaries and hostilities: constructing the ‘Other’ and the enemy......Page 411
The flows of boundaries......Page 412
Sexual boundaries and classifications......Page 414
Queers, post-gays and the rest: the challenges to identity and citizenship......Page 415
Queering identity......Page 416
A rival strategy: toward (postmodern?) intimate citizenship in a fuzzy world......Page 418
Continual permutations of boundary making and boundary closing......Page 419
References......Page 420
28. The fates of solidarity: use and abuse......Page 423
The Middle East......Page 428
Universalist objections......Page 431
The claims of community......Page 432
Human rights and the norms of war......Page 433
Notes......Page 434
29. Criminology as a vocation......Page 436
Criminology as a vocation: realism versus ultimate ends......Page 437
Late 1950s–1970s – recorded crime rise......Page 439
1980–92: crime explosion......Page 440
1992 onward: falling crime, rising fear......Page 442
Comparative penal systems and crime......Page 444
: the New York murder mystery......Page 445
Conclusion: policing or political economy? – the irresponsibility of realism......Page 446
References......Page 447
30. Conflict, suffering and the promise of human rights......Page 451
Justice, institutionalism and the centrality of suffering......Page 453
Suffering, recognition and the emergence of moral obligation......Page 456
Energy, suffering and human rights as praxis......Page 460
Conclusion......Page 463
References......Page 464
Name Index......Page 471
Subject Index......Page 475