Jane Schneider & Peter Schneider (2008). The Anthropology of Crime and Criminalization. Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 37: 351-373. (Via Psychology & Crime News.)
Abstract: “The ambiguity of the concept of crime is evident in the two strands of anthropological research covered in this review. One strand, the anthropology of criminalization, explores how state authorities, media, and citizen discourse define particular groups and practices as criminal, with prejudicial consequences. Examples are drawn from research on peasant rebellion, colonialism, youth, and racially or ethnically marked urban poor. The other strand traces ethnographic work on more or less organized illegal and predatory activity: banditry, rustling, trafficking, street gangs, and mafias. Although a criminalizing perspective tends to conflate these diverse forms of ‘organized’ crime, in particular erasing the boundary between street gangs and drug trafficking, the forms have discrete histories and motivations. Their particularities, as well as their historical interactions, illuminate everyday responses to crime and suggest ways to put in perspective the ‘crime talk’ of today, which borders on apocalyptic.”
So ganz überraschend scheint mir das nicht zu sein. Aber leider gibt’s den Online-Zugang nur gegen Bares, also wird man warten müssen, bis die StaBi die Druckausgabe im Angebot hat. Aber dann wird’s auch eine Kopie für Herrn Dr. Kochanowski geben. Versprochen.
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