Umschau: Forschung, Kriminalliteratur etc.

1. (und schon im letzten Jahr erschienen:) Jonathan M. Wender: Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2008. Xii, 243 p. Aus der Verlagsanzeige, die sehr viel umfangreicher ist: “A former police sergeant draws on philosophy, literature, and art to reveal the profound–indeed poetic–significance of police-citizen encounters”. Es gibt eine etwas zwiespältige Rezension bei Law & Society Review (Volume 43, Issue 3) sowie eine Voransicht bei Google, bei der schon die verlinkten Schlagworte höchlich beeindrucken.

2. (und vermutlich noch nicht ausgeliefert, aber wohl geeignet als Weihnachtsgeschenk für deutsche Krimileser &-kritiker): Robin Truth Goodman: Policing Narratives and the State of Terror. Albany: State U of New York P, 2009. Verlagsanzeige (vollständig, weil der Sunypress-Server hakelt): “Examines the recent “War on Terror” and the increasing privatization of international policing through the lens of detective fiction and security and espionage narratives. / Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, world politics have increasingly mirrored plots of detective novels, with high-profile criminal investigations that cross multiple borders and the internationalized law enforcement practices associated with the “War on Terror.” Policing Narratives and the State of Terror examines the relationship between domestic policing and international policy through an analysis of contemporary popular detective fiction, police procedurals, police autobiography, security reports, and chronicles of domestic spying. Robin Truth Goodman connects these accounts of policing to the changing shape of the contemporary nation-state, marked by the denationalization of labor; commercial and criminal laws that jump borders more quickly than civil law protections; and the replacement of legal precedent by unrepeatable, exceptional executive decisions. Working at the intersection of literature, international law, and globalized commerce, Goodman astutely pinpoints how policing has become an increasingly troublesome instrument of empire, particularly in terms of national sovereignty and the growing numbers of mercenary private security forces”.

Nachtrag: Christine Corcos (von L&H-Blog) hat noch einen Zusatz:

Ian Ward, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Faculty of Law, has published Law, Text, Terror, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Here is the abstract [mit ToC, Excerpt, etc.]:
“The relationship between law and terrorism has re-emerged recently as a pressing issue in contemporary jurisprudence. Terrorism appears to take law to its limit, whilst the demands of counter-terrorism hold the cause of justice in contempt. At this point the case for engaging alternative intellectual approaches and resources is compelling. Ian Ward argues that through a closer appreciation of the ethical and aesthetical dimensions of terror, as well as the historical, political and cultural, we can better comprehend modern expressions and experiences of terrorism. For this reason, alongside juristic responses to modern expressions of terrorism, Law, Text, Terror examines a variety of supplementary literary texts as well as alternative intellectual approaches; from the drama of Euripides and Shakespeare, to the rhetoric and poetry of Burke and Shelley, the literary feminisms of Lessing and Rame, and the narrative existentialism of Conrad, Coetzee, Dostoevsky and DeLillo”.

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