All Outputs (6)

Immigration Control, Mystification and the Carceral Continuum (2023)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J. (2024). Immigration Control, Mystification and the Carceral Continuum. In D. G. Scott, & J. Sim (Eds.), Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm The Work and Legacy of Steven Box. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46213-9_11

This chapter examines immigration control in the UK as a core site where carceral logics are actualised, drawing on the analytical framework developed in Steven Box’s Power, Crime and Mystification. Box’s seminal text in 1983 provided a compelling ac... Read More about Immigration Control, Mystification and the Carceral Continuum.

Marxism and the Political Economy of Abolition (2023)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J. (in press). Marxism and the Political Economy of Abolition. In D. G. Scott (Ed.), Abolitionist Voices. Bristol: Bristol University Press

This chapter examines the ways Marxist and neo-Marxist thought has contributed to abolitionist praxis. In doing so, it first explores Marx’s early writings in the 1840s, demonstrating how these were foundational to his later critique of political eco... Read More about Marxism and the Political Economy of Abolition.

Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’: Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief (2019)
Book Chapter
Bhatia, M., & Burnett, J. (2019). Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’: Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief. In F. Perocco (Ed.), Tortura e migrazioni | Torture and Migration (161-179). Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-358-8/007

This chapter explores medical power in the UK’s ‘war on asylum’, examining how medical expertise has been undermined in the asylum process when this expertise is utilised to add weight to asylum seekers’ claims to have experienced torture. It examine... Read More about Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’: Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief.

"Punitive reformation": state-sanctioned labour through criminal justice and welfare (2018)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J. (2018). "Punitive reformation": state-sanctioned labour through criminal justice and welfare. In S. Bittle, L. Snider, S. Tombs, & D. Whyte (Eds.), Revisiting Crimes of the Powerful : Marxism, Crime and Deviance (283-296). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212333

This chapter examines an aspect of the “imaginary social order” that was integral to the analysis within Crimes of the Powerful, but has rarely been adequately explored: the “belief that the interests of labour are essentially the same as the interes... Read More about "Punitive reformation": state-sanctioned labour through criminal justice and welfare.

Austerity and the Production of Hate (2017)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J. (2017). Austerity and the Production of Hate. In V. Cooper, & D. Whyte (Eds.), The Violence of Austerity (217-223). London: Pluto Press

The Violence of Austerity collects the voices of campaigners and academics to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies dismantled the social systems that operated as a buffer against economic hardship, exposing austerity... Read More about Austerity and the Production of Hate.

The Violence of Workfare (2017)
Book Chapter
Burnett, J., & Whyte, D. (2017). The Violence of Workfare. In V. Cooper, & D. Whyte (Eds.), The Violence of Austerity (59-66). London: Pluto Press

This chapter analyses the testimonies of 97 people who have participated in ‘workfare’ schemes in the UK and have raised concerns about the health and safety risks experienced on these placements. Overall, these placements, which were carried out bet... Read More about The Violence of Workfare.