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Published: 01 May 2023
figure 2 The scene of crime, Joseph Zealy's photography studio, where Renty was captured. This image was redacted by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay in collaboration with Yonatan Vinitsky. More
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 209–246.
Published: 01 January 2006
... and Development Unit, Home Office, Government of the United Kingdom. www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hosb1203.pdf . Beck, Ulrich. 1992 . Risk society: Towards a new modernity , translated by Mark Ritter. London: Sage. Blumenthal, Jessica. 2004 . We, the people, victims of horrific crime, know the “good...
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Published: 01 May 2020
Figure 5 Conversationalist [on right]: “Extraordinary crime wave we’re having — er — ah — for the time of year.” From Punch , February 11, 1920. More
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (3): 426–452.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... 426 Crimes of Substitution: Detection in Late Soviet Society Serguei Alex. Oushakine In order to appear “accidental,” an element in a work of art must belong to at least two...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 601–623.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Association of Chiefs of Police, police have advocated on their own behalf and interacted with larger political and economic trends. Separate from their role in crime control, police have become entrepreneurial and resistant to fiscal austerity. This article offers a new characterization of the effects...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 625–644.
Published: 01 September 2019
... crimes such as domestic violence, sexual assault, and sex work or sex trafficking. Thus women, sex workers, and gender-nonconforming people may be disproportionately excluded from any benefits of bodycam surveillance. But privacy and dignity interests, as well as investigatory realities, preclude...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (2 (100)): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 2023
... was in some ways unexceptional, both in Sierra Leonean politics and in the postcolonial response to urban crime. And yet it marked a subtle shift in both Sierra Leonean electoral politics and in the way such vigilante justice in African cities is interpreted. Contrasting the ethnographic elements...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 7–15.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Pallavi Govindnathan This essay defines the spread of acid attacks in South Asia and other regions, where disputes over land, inheritances, dowries, and declined marriage proposals often arouse greed and jealousy and lead to violence. Acid attacks are profoundly vicious crimes, the more so because...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (3): 465–485.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Helene Risør The article sets lynching of presumed criminals in the city of El Alto, Bolivia, in relation to both everyday experiences of insecurity about crime and violence and the enactment of neighborliness as a grounded notion of citizenship. Focusing on the experience and management...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (3 (80)): 593–616.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Anthony W. Fontes Extortion is the most common of crimes in Central America today and the most despised. As a growing criminal phenomenon, it exemplifies trends prevalent across post–Cold War Latin America as well as other parts of the world. In many societies, the “democratic wave” and the triumph...
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (3): 447–468.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Rivke Jaffe; Shamus Khan; Madiha Tahir This article develops a theorization of “speculative policing”: an experimental, future-oriented form of policing that connects crime prevention to real-estate speculation and other forms of negotiating urban risk and uncertainty. Speculative policing works...
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 275–284.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of South African crime statistics: Convictions for the period 1956 to 1988. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. Holtman, Barbara. 2008. Submission by the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative to the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development on the Child Justice Bill...
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 53–78.
Published: 01 January 2006
... his classmates turned him in for drawing pictures of weapons. The 11-year-old fifth grader was not charged with a crime in the Wednesday incident. His name is not being released to protect him, school officials said. “There were...
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (1): 3–7.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of this transitional justice process are, first, the public hearings in which nearly twenty-four hundred demobilized paramilitary commanders will be asked to confess their crimes before receiving the benefits of Law 975, and second, the visibility and empowerment of victim organizations. The truth sought...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 155–162.
Published: 01 January 1992
... Copyright © 1992 by the Society For Transnational Cultural Studies 1992 MISELLANY Punishing Sexual Crimes: A New and Dangerous Approach* Marjorie Heins A radical new theory of criminal responsibility is making its way through Congress that would blame sexual crimes...
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 January 2020
... by the police. 15 Just days after I sat in on the first police interrogation of the young man who had been suspected of raping his six-year-old neighbor (as much for his dark skin and kinky hair as for his snake tattoo), the police officer who investigated his alleged crime was called on to interrogate...
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2005
... and dealt explicitly with the social problems of the city—from prostitution, crime, and drug abuse among the new urban working classes to the hypocrisy of the Turkish aristocracy and Egyptian effendiyya (lettered class...
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Public Culture (1998) 10 (3): 577–607.
Published: 01 September 1998
.... An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. Birmingham, AL: Legal Classics Library. Bureau of Justice Statistics. 1996. Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1995. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. Christie , Nils . 1993. Crime Control as Industry. London: Routledge. Davis...
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (1 (81)): 165–190.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and the invention of the silicon chip, but the episode’s central question was posed in a scientific style. “Does modern architecture actually encourage people to commit crime?” the narrator asked while confronting viewers with the now notorious Aylesbury Estate in Southeast London. As the camera panned across...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (1): 31–46.
Published: 01 January 2004
... by this violation.” Constitutional rights of personality have set the terms of the debate over the National Congress’s new press bill, which seeks to redefine press crimes and to create efficient mechanisms for punishing journalists and media organizations when these crimes occur. But the debate over freedom...