The 2009 NAS Report revealed a paradigm crisis of the dominant conception of forensic sciences as a patchwork of disciplines assisting the criminal justice system, by questioning the robustness of the scientific foundations of essentially all of the forensic science disciplines except perhaps DNA analysis. Instead of questioning the very ontological nature of forensic science, solutions to counter this dramatic statement have been mainly focusing on methodology upgrades to limit psychological bias and better assess accuracy, sensitivity and error rates of enabled techniques. This approach is epitomized by quality management strategies that are crowned by accreditation of laboratories and certification of individual forensic scientists.
L'objectif de cet article est de mettre en lumière les rationalités du gestionnaire de la sécurité privée au sein du champ de la sécurité à Montréal. Quarante-cinq entrevues ont été ainsi analysées à l'aide de la métaphore du capital pour dégager ses différentes stratégies de conquête du champ. Alors que nos données montrent clairement que les gestionnaires de la sécurité privée ont acquis suffisamment de ressources pour ne pas dépendre excessivement de la police, cette dernière possède toujours un ascendant certain sur la première, notamment du fait des pouvoirs spéciaux qui lui sont alloués. En outre, l'industrie souffre d'un manque de légitimité qu'elle tente de combler par la reconnaissance étatique. Enfin, l'industrie ne cherche pas tant à concurrencer la police qu'à s'en distinguer pour occuper une place à part du champ.
Much has been written about the governance of crime-indeed this is the thread that has unified criminology. Yet, mere property crimes and attacks against individuals-traditionally at the core of the discipline-are plummeting in many societies. Meanwhile, harms and harms management emerge outside the narrowness of criminal justice definitions. Despite this, very little criminological attention has been paid to the fact that the security of flows increasingly embodies concerns that are at the heart of contemporary policing practices. This introduction to this special issue takes stock of these changes, and argues that to stay current and relevant, criminology must pay closer attention to these changing landscapes of harms and policing.
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