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'This is your face on meth': The punitive spectacle of 'white trash' in the rural war on drugs 7 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
This article engages the dynamic role of the crime image and more specifically the mug shot, in a contemporary anti-methamphetamine media campaign known as ‘Faces of Meth’. Understood here as a pedago...
Policing the 'progressive' city: The racialized geography of drug law enforcement 7 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
This article explores selective drug law enforcement practices in a single municipality, San Francisco, where racial disproportionality in drug arrest rates is among the highest in the United States. ...
Beware of notarios: Neoliberal governance of immigrants as crime victims 7 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Drawing on David Garland’s (1996, 2001) observations about the ‘limits of the sovereign state’, we seek in this article to develop a critical understanding of the recent response in the USA to ‘notari...
Asserting criminality and denying migrant belonging: The production of deportability in US judicial court hearings 7 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Recent interest in the securitization of immigration has highlighted a significant shift in immigration enforcement, from border regulation to the control of territorially present populations. Emphasi...
A new risk management for prisoners in France: The emergence of a death-avoidance approach 7 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
A new punitive approach in the French prison sector has emerged as a result of the European Court of Human Rights and the French administrative courts exerting pressure on prison governors in response...