Ghost Criminology: A Requiem

Fiddler, Michael; Kindynis, Theo; Linnemann, Travis

doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479885725.003.0014

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“…Undoubtedly, the creation of palimpsests relies on some similar mechanisms (more on this below), but, as Quinn, Canossini & Evans (2020) argue: ‘the topographical metaphor is limited by its linear understanding of historical time – submerged layers impact shallow layers, but not vice versa’ (p.476). Palimpsestic penality, by contrast, offers a more flexible understanding of time and sequencing – aligning broadly with what Fiddler, Kindynis & Linnemann (2022) characterise as Weird temporality.…”

Section: Palimpsestic Penality and Institutional Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…These handful of examples illustrate the generative possibility of palimpsests well beyond our present focus. It is our hope that other punishment scholars may find thinking about palimpsests useful as they explore the complex, intersecting and malleable ways in which penal history matters, such that ‘time is scarcely as solid as it seems to be’ (Fiddler, Kindynis & Linnermann, 2022, p.3).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Palimpsestic penality exists in dialogue with other efforts to examine the afterlife of punishment, including historical echoes (Rhodes, 2004), ghosts (Fiddler, Kindynis & Linnemann, 2022), and penal zombies (Page, Phelps & Goodman, 2019). Palimpsestic penality also shares some affinity with other descriptions of punishment as braided (Hutchinson, 2006), assembled (Maurutto & Hannah‐Moffat, 2006), layered (Rubin, 2016), and agonistic (Goodman, Page & Phelps, 2015, 2017).…”

Section: Palimpsestic Penality and Institutional Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The palimpsest of outdoor penal labour in California, 1915–2000

Goodman

Quinn

2023

Howard J Crime Justice

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In this article we examine the curious stability of outdoor penal labour in California in the 20th century against a shifting social and penal field. Analysing state archival data on prison highway and forestry camps between 1915 and 2000, we frame the persistence of these practices as evidence of a penal labour palimpsest. We demonstrate how the agency and interpretive innovation of penal administrators – as the architects and interpreters of this palimpsest – served as a stabilising mechanism akin to, but distinct from, existing theories of path dependence. Zooming out from the intricacies of the historical record, we position this case as revealing some of the limits of strict theories of path dependence and, instead, as offering a more dynamic understanding of the complex, intersecting and malleable ways in which history matters.

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Section: Palimpsestic Penality and Institutional Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Palimpsestic Penality and Institutional Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The palimpsest of outdoor penal labour in California, 1915–2000

Goodman

Quinn

2023

Howard J Crime Justice

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“…Criminology itself is haunted (Fiddler et al, 2022). The discipline is besieged by voices from its unsettled past; plus, its future is threatened.…”

Section: Hauntology and The Spectres Of Colonialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of these spectres must be confronted and exorcised while others remain at society's edges. Populations can become haunted, and Fiddler et al (2022) indicate that the Dakota Sioux population of Minneapolis have been haunted by the European-American settlers who arrived in 1680, and perhaps the haunting has also happened in the reverse direction. After colonisation, slavery soon followed but was forbidden in the Northwest Territory in 1787.…”

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To Conserve and Protect: “Making Sense” of Conservation Officer uses of Emotional Labour

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Given the unique role that conservation officer’s play in our society, it is critical that researchers better understand factors that may influence the activities and behaviours of the individuals tasked with dealing with complex emotions of others, ensuring the safety of Canada’s backcountry wilderness, all while maintaining a tough persona and enforcing the law (Moreto et al., 2015; Moreto, 2016). Hochschild’s (1983) concept of “emotional labour” is employed within this document to explore the extent to which conservation officers rely on their ability to deal with complicated emotions, within themselves and those of individuals they encounter. Due to the limited literature exploring the nexus between conservation officers and emotional labour, a grounded theoretical approach was selected to accommodate the emerging nature of these concepts. Identifying the driving factors in conservation officer behaviour provides avenues to better understand the feasibility, applicability, and likelihood of success when introducing policy aimed at improving officer mental health (Moreto et al., 2015). This study is based on twelve in-depth qualitative interviews and six commentated walks with members from provincial and private parks in British Columbia, Canada. Within it, I will explore how conservation officers engage in emotional labour, as well as its impact. The results reveal how managing emotions according to the organizationally mandated display rules can affect an officer’s well-being, and it highlights the need for future research to enable park enforcement organisations to deal more effectively with work-related stress.

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More than monsters: Penal imaginaries and the specter of the dangerous sex offender

Werth

2022

Punishment & Society

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Drawing from ethnographic data, this article examines parole personnel's imaginaries of dangerous sex offenders: individuals perceived as especially aberrant, predatory and irredeemable. While the dangerous sex offender is perceived as a monster, this article contends that we also need to attend to the spectral characteristics ascribed to this subject. For parole personnel, the dangerous sex offender is a monster, but this is a monster that haunts; a monster that represents a spectral figure. The spectrality of this figure manifests in two overlapping ways. First, parole personnel perceive the dangerous sex offender – as a person – as a ghostly figure: a mobile, roving, nearly omnipresent individual that is difficult to locate or contain. Second, they perceive the threat posed by this subject – the commission of future sex crimes – as a pervasive absent presence. Even when it is not occurring, recidivism is imagined as an emergent, already unfolding event. In this way, dangerous sex offenders and their presumptive reoffending represent haunting figures that trouble the distinctions between absence/presence, visible/invisible and knowable/unknowable. Through tracing the convergence of monstrosity and spectrality, this article shows how parole personnel's imaginaries undergird the extremely exclusionary ways that they govern dangerous sex offenders.

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Ghost Criminology: A Requiem

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The palimpsest of outdoor penal labour in California, 1915–2000

The palimpsest of outdoor penal labour in California, 1915–2000

To Conserve and Protect: “Making Sense” of Conservation Officer uses of Emotional Labour

More than monsters: Penal imaginaries and the specter of the dangerous sex offender

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