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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.

The Execution Dock: Wapping, East London, UK (2023)
Book Chapter
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2023). The Execution Dock: Wapping, East London, UK. In A. Lynes, C. Kelly, & J. Treadwell (Eds.), 50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism (65-70). Bristol: Policy Press

This book chapter focuses on the crime of piracy and how the state responded to this problem in the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century.

The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts (2022)
Book Chapter
Dover, R. (2022). The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts. In R. Dover, H. Dylan, & M. S. Goodman (Eds.), A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government (155-166). London: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378803.00020

The term deep state has been used to describe the military-intelligence-industrial complex in some notable contexts such as the US, UK, India, Egypt and Turkey. More recently it has been appropriated by populists and conspiracy theorists to describe... Read More about The Deep State: Definitional Debates and Impacts.

The Food Industry (2022)
Book Chapter
Rizzuti, A. (in press). The Food Industry. In Y. Zabyelina, & K. L. Thachuk (Eds.), The Private Sector and Organized Crime : Criminal Entrepreneurship, Illicit Profits, and Private Sector Security Governance. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003198635

The food sector is highly attractive to criminals. First, it is lucrative, and notwithstanding its fragility, hardly suffers from economic turndowns. Second, it is strongly yet fragmentarily regulated, often poorly investigated, and the penalties app... Read More about The Food Industry.

“Why nature won’t save us from climate change but technology will”: Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth Through Carbon Capture Technologies (2021)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. (2021). “Why nature won’t save us from climate change but technology will”: Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth Through Carbon Capture Technologies. In S. Maasen, & D. Atwood (Eds.), Immanente Religion - Transzendente Technologie : Technologiediskurse und gesellschaftliche Grenzüberschreitungen (193-223). Leverkusen: Verlag Barbara Budrich

Warnings about climate change often come wrapped in apocalyptic language and scenarios, often as a rhetorical strategy to convey the sense of urgency with which action is required. Similarly, technologies that promise to deliver us from the impending... Read More about “Why nature won’t save us from climate change but technology will”: Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth Through Carbon Capture Technologies.

Populism, Anti-System Politics and the Media: A spotlight on Covid-19 (2021)
Book Chapter
Dover, R. (2021). Populism, Anti-System Politics and the Media: A spotlight on Covid-19. In J. Mair, T. Clark, N. Fowler, R. Snoddy, & R. Tait (Eds.), Populism, the Pandemic and the Media : Journalism in the age of Covid, Trump, Brexit and Johnson (148-154). Bury St. Edmunds: Abramis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003253822

Anti-system politicians in positions of power and influence and a compliant legacy and digital media have created a climate of disinformation and uncertainty for ordinary citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic.

From Invisible to Conspicuous: The Rise of Victim Activism in the Politics of Justice (2020)
Book Chapter
O’Leary, N., & Green, S. (2020). From Invisible to Conspicuous: The Rise of Victim Activism in the Politics of Justice. In J. Tapley, & P. Davies (Eds.), Victimology : Research, Policy and Activism (159-183). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42288-2_7

Crime victims are now significant voices in criminal justice politics and reform. No longer the invisible or forgotten people of the criminal justice system, the symbolic and political resonance of victimhood has grown to such an extent that the vict... Read More about From Invisible to Conspicuous: The Rise of Victim Activism in the Politics of Justice.

The Literary and Activist Works of Luis J. Rodríguez (2020)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2020). The Literary and Activist Works of Luis J. Rodríguez. In L. G. Mendoza (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature. New York: Oxford University Press

Luis J. Rodríguez is a Chicano memoirist, novelist, poet, children’s author, and activist. Born in 1954 in Mexico, his family migrated to the United States when he was young. As a youth, he spent many years immersed in the street gangs of Los Angeles... Read More about The Literary and Activist Works of Luis J. Rodríguez.

“ ‘O Prison Darkness … Lions in the Cage’; The ‘Exceptional’ Prison Narratives of Guantanamo Bay” (2020)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2020). “ ‘O Prison Darkness … Lions in the Cage’; The ‘Exceptional’ Prison Narratives of Guantanamo Bay”. In The Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Media (67-87). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36059-7

Prison memoirs often consider the author’s life of crime prior to incarceration and reflect on the behaviors (e.g., greed) or structural violence (e.g., poverty, racism) that led them to the prison. But what happens then, when as in the case of Guant... Read More about “ ‘O Prison Darkness … Lions in the Cage’; The ‘Exceptional’ Prison Narratives of Guantanamo Bay”.

Gender and release from imprisonment: Convict licensing systems in mid to late 19th century England (2020)
Book Chapter
Johnston, H., & Cox, D. (2020). Gender and release from imprisonment: Convict licensing systems in mid to late 19th century England. In M. Van der Heijden, M. Pluskota, & S. Muurling (Eds.), Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914 (134-147). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108774543.007

This paper draws on the research undertaken into the lives and prison experiences of around 650 male and female convicts who were released on licence (an early form of parole) from sentences of long term imprisonment (three years to life) in England... Read More about Gender and release from imprisonment: Convict licensing systems in mid to late 19th century England.

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.

Foreword to Coventry (2019)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2019). Foreword to Coventry. . Livingston, Alabama: Livingston Press

A foreword to the 2019 re-released novel Coventry by Joseph Bathanti which won the Novello Literary Award in 2006.

Victim-focused work with offenders (2019)
Book Chapter
Green, S. (2019). Victim-focused work with offenders. In P. Ugwudike, H. Graham, F. McNeill, P. Raynor, F. S. Taxman, & C. Trotter (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice (502-513). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315102832

Over the last 30 years there has been a steady growth in ‘victim-focused work with offenders’. Yet this phrase itself is vague, conveying little about what such work actually is, and is not. If it conjures any meaning at all, it is most commonly asso... Read More about Victim-focused work with offenders.

Exploring Processes Of Desistance By Ethnic Status : The Confluence of Community, Familial and Individual Processes (2019)
Book Chapter
Calverley, A. (2019). Exploring Processes Of Desistance By Ethnic Status : The Confluence of Community, Familial and Individual Processes. In S. Farrall (Ed.), The Architecture of Desistance (75-95). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429461804

Although studies of desistance have routinely focussed on how family formation, gaining employment, moving away from criminal friends and identity reconstruction support stopping offending, they have up until recently been less vocal in how meso- and... Read More about Exploring Processes Of Desistance By Ethnic Status : The Confluence of Community, Familial and Individual Processes.

Race, gender, and surveillance of migrant domestic workers in Asia (2018)
Book Chapter
Lee, M., Johnson, M., & McCahill, M. (2018). Race, gender, and surveillance of migrant domestic workers in Asia. In Race, criminal justice, and migration control: enforcing the boundaries of belonging (13-28). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0002

© Maggy Lee, Mark Johnson, and Mike McCahill, 2017. This chapter provides a transnational analysis of the ways in which migrant workers are placed at the sharp end of migration control based on gendered and racialized notions of domestic labour. Migr... Read More about Race, gender, and surveillance of migrant domestic workers in Asia.