The Crisis of the Critical Criminology Crisis in Brazil: Epistemological, Methodological and Political Challenges in Authoritarian Times

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-448
Author(s):  
SALO CARVALHO ◽  
LUCAS VIANNA MATOS
Keyword(s):  
Critical Criminology

scholarly journals Between Pleasure and Resistance: The Role of Substance Consumption in an Italian Working-Class Subculture

Societies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Placido
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Critical Criminology ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Substance Consumption ◽  
North Western

In this article I discuss how illegal substance consumption can act as a tool of resistance and as an identity signifier for young people through a covert ethnographic case study of a working-class subculture in Genoa, North-Western Italy. I develop my argument through a coupled reading of the work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) and more recent post-structural developments in the fields of youth studies and cultural critical criminology. I discuss how these apparently contrasting lines of inquiry, when jointly used, shed light on different aspects of the cultural practices of specific subcultures contributing to reflect on the study of youth cultures and subcultures in today’s society and overcoming some of the ‘dead ends’ of the opposition between the scholarly categories of subculture and post-subculture. In fact, through an analysis of the sites, socialization processes, and hedonistic ethos of the subculture, I show how within a single subculture there could be a coexistence of: resistance practices and subversive styles of expression as the CCCS research program posits; and signs of fragmentary and partial aesthetic engagements devoid of political contents and instead primarily oriented towards the affirmation of the individual, as argued by the adherents of the post-subcultural position.

scholarly journals LEFT REALISM CRIMINOLOGY: BASIS AND PERSPECTIVES

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1365-1370
Author(s):  
Vesna Stefanovska
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Critical Criminology ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Street Crime ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cultural Goals ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Race And Place

Left realism emerges in the early 1980s as a separate department, or direction within the neo-Marxist critical criminology. It results from dissatisfaction and certain criticisms of the foundations on which critical criminology is built, which left realists call left idealism. Namely, they are called realists because, in their view, crime should be considered in its reality, and the causes that led to criminal behavior should be seriously looked at, which means that leftist realists focus on already experienced realities. Hence, the issues of interest to left realists are the problems faced by certain groups regarding their age, class, sex, race and place of residence. They have some similarities with structural subcultural theories, arguing that crime is a form of subcultural adaptation to lived problems and realities. The basis is that due to material constraints and circumstances, the required cultural goals and aspirations cannot be achieved by legally disposable means. The central postulate of left realism is to reflect the reality of crime, in its origin, nature and influence. This means that crime cannot be romanticized or it cannot be explained as a product of the offender's pathology or other personal characteristics. Real problems related to the crime need to be considered and resolved. In this respect, the issues of left realism are the problems that citizens face, the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator, the geographical distribution of crime, as well as the prevalence of crime in certain social areas and sectors of the community. They are particularly concerned about ignoring the crime that is taking place on the streets by truly disadvantaged and marginalized citizens, as well as the crime that takes place behind closed doors, particularly in the family. So, the perspectives of the left realists are that street crime is a serious problem for the working class, working class crime is primarily committed against other working class members, relative poverty feeds the dissatisfaction and that dissatisfaction, in the absence of political solutions creates crime, and crime can be reduced by implementing practical social policies.On the basis of what has been stated, in this paper we will elaborate the critiques of critical criminology stated by the proponents of Left Realism , a Square of crime that offers appropriate solutions for criminal and social response to crime and perspectives of left realism that predominantly rely on community-based policies.

scholarly journals O "gerencialismo gauche" e a crítica criminológica que não teme dizer seu nome / The “gauche managerialism” and the critical criminology that does not fear say its name

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Salo de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Critical Criminology ◽  
America Latina

O ensaio procura analisar o desconforto que o exercício do controle social representa para a criminologia crítica, sobretudo a partir do momento em que, na América Latina, vive-se a experiência de governos de esquerda. A investigação é direcionada à análise das políticas criminais alternativas contemporâneas e à reflexão sobre o papel (e o compromisso) dos criminólogos críticos no enfrentamento das graves e sistemáticas violações aos direitos humanos produzidas na era do populismo punitivo. Em última análise, o ensaio problematiza importante questão apresentada, na década de 90, por Lola Aniyar de Castro: “vale a pena [ao criminólogo crítico] assumir o exercício do poder?”

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