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Violent night : urban leisure and contemporary culture
Why do our night-time cities seem to mix pleasure with violence? This is the time and place when cities are taken over by young men in search of alcohol, drugs, another club or a fight. Current public policy has patently failed to keep on top of the new trends in both consumption and destruction which make urban centres simultaneously seductive and dangerous. Violent Night uses powerful insider accounts to uncover the underlying causes and meanings of violence. Interviews with the police, the perpetrators and the victims of violence reveal the complex emotions that surround both the perpetration and resolution of crime. Violent Night shows that a new approach is needed to successfully rehabilitate a culture struggling and failing to deal with nihilism and escalating hostility.
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SHOPOCALYPSE NOW: Consumer Culture and the English Riots of 2011
This article is an initial analysis and theorization of original ethnographic data gathered from young men who participated in the English riots of August 2011. The data consistently suggest that consumer culture supplied these young men with a compelling motivation to join the rioting after the initial localized response to the original incident had died down. The data are analysed in a way that builds a theory of the rioting as a product of objectless dissatisfaction. Drawing upon the resources of contemporary cultural and critical criminological theory, it argues that, in the current post-political vacuum, the rioters could not locate or articulate the objective structural and processual causes of their marginalization. Neither could they clearly recognize or ethically censure their structural antagonists. Thus, in the entire absence of truthful, comprehensible and unifying political symbolism, they had nowhere to go but the shops.
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Realist criminology and its discontents
Criminology moving beyond Left Realism and Critical Realism - criminologists' inability to explain and crucial issues facing society - problems with empiricism - need for ultra-realism - empirically observable events not revealing the deep dynamics of a criminal event - understanding the drives, processes and structure of crimes.
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Shock and Awe: On Progressive Minimalism and Retreatism, and the New Ultra-Realism
In this article, we respond to DeKeseredy and Schwartz’s (2013) article, “Confronting Progressive Retreatism and Minimalism: The Role of a New Left Realist Approach.” In that 2013 piece, the authors contend that many critical scholars are “retreating” from the crucial challenges of our time, and that many more are “minimizing” their critique and truncating the breadth of their critical scholarship. Given the tragedies that await us in the near future, we argue that it is vital that critical criminologists recognize the importance of their mission, ditch redundant theoretical frameworks, and focus again on the realities of global capitalism. We argue that critical criminologists can rejuvenate this crucial area of study by adopting the new ultra-realism.
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Traversing the Fantasy: Why Leftist Academics Must Abandon the Myth of Organic Resistance and Think Again About the Problems We Face
The concept of organic resistance has stood as a cornerstone of critical social science for decades. Countless authors have claimed that minor acts of “transgression” should be interpreted as indicators of a proto-revolutionary drive among the marginalized to fight oppressive power. Here, we argue that critical scholars must jettison such baseless idealism and accept the huge amount of work needed to create within people a desire for genuine change. Post-1968 liberal capitalism has proven itself, time and again, able to integrate dissent and dissatisfaction into its project of continuous self-revolution. To move forward, we must accept a regrettable reality: most marginalized citizens dream not of overthrowing the system, but of achieving a degree of security and success within the system as it stands. If critical criminology is to continue to shed new light upon the huge problems we face, the lives of our most marginalized citizens must be represented with a greater degree of honesty.
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‘Door Lore’. The Art and Economics of Intimidation
This paper explores the working practices, occupational culture, regulation and training of bouncers within the context of the burgeoning night-time leisure economies of Britain's post-industrial towns and cities. We argue that within these quasi-liminal urban spaces, mass intoxication, aggressive hedonism and disorder have become routine, whilst, in the absence of state control, private security operators have developed their own informal and pragmatic techniques of containment which conform to the demands of commercial and cultural, rather than legally justified imperatives. The existing and ineffectual attempts to regulate and 'professionalize' the 'door trade' are then examined. The paper concludes by pointing out some of the implications for the state's surrender of its monopoly of violence.
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Get Ready to Duck. Bouncers and the Realities of Ethnographic Research on Violent Groups
This paper seeks to address some of the pragmatic and ethical issues encountered when researching violence. We seek through reference to our own work and to the work of others to highlight the inevitability of these problems and to suggest that dealing with them is instrinsic to the sociological enterprise.
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