Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Affect

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This unprecedentedly expansive international collection of empirical and theoretical material explores the nascent field of criminology and affect. Affect theory first arose as an analytical framework to conceptualize and understand dynamic emotional relationships between individuals and the social environment. Despite the tremendous potential utility for affect theory to assist criminologists with conceptualizing crime and justice, affect remains underutilized in criminological research. Uniting research from otherwise geographically and culturally disparate locales under affect’s analytical umbrella presents a unique opportunity to demonstrate how criminologists can utilize affect theory to understand aspects of the justice process that otherwise prove elusive.The Handbook is organized around the most pressing topics of interest to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners engaged with crime and the administration of justice. The first set of chapters, Policing and Spatial Dynamics, explores emotion management among police officers and security workers, socio-legal approaches to police violence, and dynamic interactions between historical and security apparatuses. Section Two, Governance, Perceptions, and Decision-Making, examines the intersection of guns and emotions, how crime concerns and perceived victimization risks affect public support for harsher criminal sanctions, the academic study of criminal decision-making, and how women in the sex trade affectively navigate criminalization and social exclusion. The key topics underpinning Section Three, Violence and Victimization, include incorporating affect theory into genocide studies, emotions and justice in maritime piracy trials, agricultural crime and farmer mental health, the affective risks criminal justice systems can pose to victims of intimate partner violence, and trauma and affect among justice-involved individuals. Section Four, Legal Decision-Making, engages with the role of emotions in perceptions of photo and video evidence, judicial authority, family group therapy for juvenile offenders, and how legal decisionmakers interpret remorse. Section Five, Trials and Sentencing, features chapters on courtroom video testimony, rape trials, and affective dimensions of death penalty cases for jurors and members of the public. Section Six, Prison, tackles political dimensions of knowledge production, identity formation in prison dog training programs, carceral exclusion through family estrangement, institutional and social constructions of incarcerated women’s emotional wellbeing, and how prisoners create positive affect. Section Seven, Parole and Incarceration’s Afterlife, focuses on penal evaluation, public perceptions of parole worthiness, and the ethics of publicly performing work created by incarcerated women. The final section, Positionality in Research, addresses emotions in sexual violence research, ethnographic interviews about organized crime, narrative criminology’s affective dimensions, and the emotional dynamics of doing team-based work on violence against women in the researcher’s home community.By focusing on emotion as a dynamic and transmissible component of human interaction, this important work illuminates how researchers and practitioners can account for the less tangible—but nonetheless extremely significant—aspects of the justice process. The volume sets a clear agenda for the future of research, policy, and practice in the area of criminology and affect.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-26
Mått178 x 254 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge International Handbooks
Antal sidor386
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032895093

Susan Dewey is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at The University of Alabama who uses immersive, community-based participatory research methods to understand violence, vulnerability, and criminal justice institutions. She is author/editor of 16 book-length works and over 100 articles and reports, with this research supported by the National Science Foundation, Census Bureau, Department of Justice, and Fulbright-Hays, UN Women, Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Microsoft Philanthropies, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, the Correctional Education Association, and the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research.Brittany VandeBerg is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama, where she researches violence and resilience with a particular focus on gender. VandeBerg is a special assistant to the United Nations International Law Commission Special Rapporteur for Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea and a former consultant with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Counter Piracy Programme and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Somalia Fisheries Sector.

Part 1: Emotional Cartographies of Affective Governance 1. Criminology and Affect: An Introduction to Key Theories, Methods, and Challenges 2. Emotional Cartographies of Affective Governance: An Introduction 3. Emotional Cartographies of Affective Labor in Penal Spaces: A Global South Case from the Philippines 4. Genocide and Affect Theory 5. Feeling Your Way and Feeling the Rules: Modern Ruins and the Navigation of Lingering Normativity 6. What Helped You the Most? A Qualitative Examination of Affective Meaning in Open-Ended Responses from a Group Family Therapy Program for First Time Juvenile Offenders and Their Parents 7. Do Crime Concerns and Perceived Risk of Victimization Affect Public Support for Harsher Criminal Sanctions? A Reexamination of the Effect of Fear of Crime on Punitiveness in Various Societies Part 2: Affective Economic and Organizational Logics 8. Affective Economic and Organizational Logics: An Introduction 9. Police Affects: How the Law Constructs Emotions in Regulating State Violence 10. The Moral Economy of Organized Crime 11. Caviar Hysteria and the Affective Moral Economies of Illegal Caviar Trade in Europe 12. Agricultural Crime and Farmer Mental Health: Balancing Positive and Negative Affects 13. Bonds That Matter: Friendship in the Lives of Urban Sex Workers in Brazil Part 3: Carceral Affects 14. Carceral Affects: An Introduction 15. Affect, Emotion, and Coping in Correctional Populations: A Review of 25 Years of Published Studies in The Prison Journal 16. Rehabilitating Emotion: Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Men Who Participated in Prison Dog Programs 17. The Affective Journeys of Women Under Carceral Control 18. Hairs on the Back of the Neck: Intuition, Gut Feeling and Affect Within Penal Evaluation 19. The Double-Edged Sword of Remorse and Emotions in Research on Criminal-Legal Decisionmakers Part 4: Traumatic Affect 20. Traumatic Affect: An Introduction 21. Traumatic Affect and Problem-Solving Courts 22. Affecting and Affective Practice: New Materialist Insights Into Rape Trials 23. Digital Technologies in the Courtroom: Exploring the Emotional Dynamics of Video Links and Video Recorded Evidence 24. Emotion and Perceptions of Visual Evidence 25. Affective Risks and Criminal Justice Responses to Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China Part 5: Affective Positionalities 26. Affective Positionalities: An Introduction 27. What Does Narrative Criminology Narrate? The Necessity of Returning to Unconscious Affects 28. Emotional Entanglements: Reflexivity, Vulnerability, and the Affective Dimensions of Researching Sexual Violence 29. Hauntings of the Court: Affective Citizens in Death Penalty Sentencing 30. Affective Arrangements: Jury Decision-Making and Justice 31. The Ick Factor: Fear, Loathing, and Release 32. Affect, Emotion and the Making of Judicial Authority

Crime often produces strong reactions and emotions, both as a personal experience and area for policy. This is a well-known and debated topic in criminology. This handbook offers a new and exciting take on this as it sheds light on these reactions and emotions with chapters on an impressive range of criminological issues exploring different aspects and effects of affect. With this handbook the editors Dewey and VandeBerg together with authors from several continents and disciplines offer valuable contributions both to criminology and affect studies. May-Len Skilbrei, Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo, NorwayThe editors present culturally and geographically wide-ranging case studies which examine crime and justice processes through the analytical lens of affect theory. Contributors to this volume make a strong case for why affect theory should be central to both criminological theorizing and criminal justice practice. The important findings presented in this publication make it a must read for criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, gender studies specialists, critical theorists, and political scientists. In sum, anyone wishing to effectively deal with offenders as well as those involved in the challenging work of criminal justice practice will find this work useful.Richard J. Chacon, Professor of Anthropology at Winthrop University