Dino's Story: The Challenges of Co-writing the Life History of a Brazilian Gangster [0.03%]
戴诺的故事：与巴西黑帮成员合著回忆录的挑战
Corentin Cohen
Corentin Cohen
This article reflects on my attempt to co-write the life history of Dino, a former member of two gangs in São Paulo, Brazil. While introducing constraints, co-writing prolonged my ethnographic fieldwork, and enhanced reflexivity by allowin...
"I am No Longer Active, but I will Always Be a Crip": A Longitudinal Ethnography (N = 1) of Gang Desistance in the Netherlands [0.03%]
“我不再活跃，但永远都是克里普成员”——荷兰一个纵向民族志（N=1）中的黑帮犯罪的停止与复归现象
Robert A Roks
Robert A Roks
This article centers on the process of (gang) desistance of Jermaine, a man with a substantial criminal record who has been a member of the Dutch Crips gang for over a decade. Drawing on longitudinal ethnographic research, Jermaine's proces...
Women's Politics of Solidarity in El Salvador: Familial Love, Carceral Peace, and Patriarchy [0.03%]
危地马拉妇女团结政治：家庭之爱、监禁和平与父权制
R Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada
R Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada
El Salvador's U.S.-inspired war on gangs and mass incarceration is lauded by many globally as the needed punitive solution to end gang violence. However, critical gang studies challenge this view, emphasizing gangs' embeddedness within soci...
Gareth A Jones
Gareth A Jones
Failure is taboo. Yet as researchers we often encounter failure in the field and engage in confessional conversations with colleagues about 'what went wrong'. Failure is regarded as an unfortunate and unproductive part of research. Better l...
"I am the Mother of the Boss here": A Relational Biography of a Drug Dealer's Mother [0.03%]
“我是这儿的老板娘”——一个贩毒者母亲的关系人生传记
Verónica Zubillaga,Manuel Llorens
Verónica Zubillaga
This article explores the rarely told story of the mother of a drug dealer and gang leader. Through the relational biography of Virginia and her son, we will grasp the importance of family networks and their role in exercising violence, giv...
Laurens Bakker
Laurens Bakker
Can gangsters be good, or can good people use gangster methods? In Indonesia, as in many other countries, the scale between these two is fluid. This article concerns the life history of Farry Malonda, who balanced these two extremes through...
Patrick Naef
Patrick Naef
This article examines how individuals navigate life in criminalized territories. Drawing on ethnographic research in Medellin, Colombia's second-largest city, it explores the trajectories of three young men whose lives are deeply intertwine...
Kayleigh Charlton
Kayleigh Charlton
This article uses speculative fiction as a method for exploring the potentialities of queer abolition utopias. Abolition utopias aim to strike a balance of hope and need, offering innovative alternatives to prison while also addressing the ...
Biology and Criminology: Data Practices and the Creation of Anatomic and Genomic Body 'Types' [0.03%]
生物学与犯罪学：数据实践及解剖和基因型身体“类型”的形成
Mareile Kaufmann,Maja Vestad
Mareile Kaufmann
The use of biometrics for the creation of visual 'body types' needs continued criminological engagement. This article discusses Lombroso's practice of typing 'born criminals' vis-à-vis genomic phenotyping used to identify potential suspect...
Decolonizing Zemiology: Outlining and Remedying the Blindness to (Post)colonialism Within the Study of Social Harm [0.03%]
解殖化族类学：厘清并在族类学的社会危害研究中补救对殖民与后殖民主义的视而不见
Edward J Wright
Edward J Wright
This paper hosts the first meaningful dialogue between two important epistemic movements for criminology: zemiology and decolonisation. I identify that zemiology has a disciplinary blindness to colonialism and explain this using Gurminder K...