Crime and Power

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1. Crime and Power: IntroductionCrime and PowerWhy Power is ImportantUseful TerminologyThe Case Study ApproachWhat is a case study?The case for the case study in criminological research Our case studiesThe LayoutReferences
2. What is Power and Who are the Powerful?IntroductionWhat is Power? Power is relational Power is about decision-makingPower is about having agencyPower is economicPower is about resourcesPower is structuralPower can be positivePower is visible and invisibleSummaryWho has Power? Frank Pearce's (1976) Crimes of the PowerfulIndividual and Group PowerWhere is the Power?How is Power used and Why?Summary: How are power, harm, and crime connected?Pause for ThoughtReferences
3. The Invisibility of Crimes of the PowerfulIntroductionThe Seven Features of InvisibilityNo knowledge No statistics No theory No research No control No politics No panic! The Media SummaryPause for ThoughtThe Seven Spatial Typologies of Invisible CrimesThe BodyThe HomeThe StreetThe SuiteThe EnvironmentThe StateThe VirtualPause for ThoughtSummaryReferences
Part 1: Individuals and Power DynamicsIntersectionalitiesPart 1: Chapters 4-8Questions to PonderReferences
4. Class, Status and ElitesIntroductionCrime and the 'Lower' ClassesWhat is class?Crime, statistics, and povertyDefinitions of CrimeWhite-collar CrimeThe scattered effects of white-collar crimeThe trend away from a criminal justice system response to corporate crimeCharacteristics of the perpetratorsThe limitations of white-collar crimePause for ThoughtMore than just White-collar CrimeCase Study - Harvey WeinsteinCase Study Discussion: Hiding in Plain SightPause for ThoughtElitism and CrimeGo FurtherReferences
5. Race and EthnicityIntroductionThe Political Economy of Colonisation Case Study - Black Lives MatterPause for ThoughtPolice shootings in the United StatesSlavery and Civil RightsContemporary Racial Profiling The Impact of Zero-tolerance PolicingControl and Adaptations to ControlConnections to the pastPunishment and surveillance in the modern eraSummaryGo FurtherReferences
6. ReligionIntroductionCase Study 1 - Ireland's Magdalen Laundries: Historical background and contemporary developments and discourseCase Study 2 - Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in TuamMagdelenism and the Role of the StateThe Catholic Church and the new moralityPause for ThoughtThe All Powerful Total Institution: ContainmentDiscipline and PunishSilence and DenialPower and Activism Pause for ThoughtSummaryGo FurtherReferences
7. GenderIntroductionThe Sex/Gender Dichotomy and Binarism Gender, Power and Feminism