Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: The Work and Legacy of Steven Box (Critical Criminological Perspectives)

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