Criminology, civilisation and the new world order / Wayne Morrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Wayne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Philosophy.

Criminology.

Globalization.

Genocide.

Criminology--History.

History.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon ; New York : Routledge/Cavendish, 2006.

Contents:

The argument and composition of this book 1

Immediate background for writing 2

The irrelevancy of criminology: itself an excluded? 4

Witnessing enlightenment: mediated visuality, the normal and the exceptional 6

Chapter 1 September 11, Sovereignty and the Invasion of 'Civilised Space' 15

Prologue, the demands of surprise 15

Hobbes's paradigm of modernity: civilised space, territorial space... 16

A paradigm in pieces, analysis...or the chorus to new acts of power? 21

Objects, objectivity and nothingness 22

Geography and experiencing the events: symbolic and real 26

Visualising the new globalisation? 28

The discursive co-ordinates of locality within globalism...crime, war and the need for sovereign guarantees of meaning 31

Reasserting sovereignty: beyond civilised space? 33

The language of double standards 36

Chapter 2 Relating Visions: Patterns of Integration and Absences 39

Organising a discursive tradition: presence and absence 39

The challenge of modern social theory 42

Criminological theory and its unifying sense of mission 43

Does criminology without metanarratives have a history? Does it need one? 46

Assessing the operational basis of modern criminology 46

The history of the present: still in the grip of positivist vision? 48

Describing the particularity of criminology: the visible and the excluded 51

Criminology and the governmental project: the signification of civilised space 52

Registering criminological apartheid? 56

Chapter 3 Criminal Statistics, Sovereignty and the Control of Death: Representations from Quetelet to Auschwitz 61

Part I Statistics: the measuring of crime and the power of the nation-state 61

Quetelet, moving from individual consideration to aggregate social laws: the first criminologist of bio-power? 63

Observation of the visible and aggregation of the visible and invisible 68

The particularity of 'criminal statistics' and the rise of the dark figure 70

Quetelet's average man 71

Quetelet's metaphysic of science and progress 72

Excursus: can criminological texts cope with attempts at a 'law of social development? 73

To return to bio-power: from the law of the bell curve to genocide? 77

Part II Criminal statistics outside of the nation-state: acknowledging 'genocide' 87

Genocide: definition and controversies 90

International criminal statistics? 92

Chapter 4 The Lombrosian Moment: Bridging the Visible and the Invisible, or Restricting the Gaze in the Name of Progress? 99

Part I Visualising criminality 99

The mainstream story of visualising the criminal body: an intellectual revolution? 102

Part II The Darwinian imagination: moving from the social to the technical 109

Excursus: on photography and typologising 119

Part III Reconciling Darwin and Lombroso 132

Historical recall: a failure in the civilising process or genocide? 134

Chapter 5 Civilising the Congo, Which Story, Whose Truth: Wherewith Criminology? 139

Part I Leopold II and the civilising of the Congo 139

Introduction: visualising a terrain 140

Stanley: from a bastard birth to burial in Westminster Abbey 144

The Berlin conference 1884-5 149

The Leopoldian system: state concessions and monopolies, forced labour and atrocity 153

Part II Heart of Darkness: a metaphor for the relationship between criminology and global imagination? 167

Heart of Darkness: a mere work of literature? 167

Voyage into the Heart of Darkness: a complex criminology? 168

The inside and the outside: the centre and the periphery 170

Dream and reality 171

Chapter 6 'A Living Lesson in the Museum of Order': The Case of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Brussels 177

Introduction: contemporary civilised space, exercising and expunging the power of normalisation 177

The normalcy of contemporary Brussels 178

The Royal Museum for Central Africa at Tervuren 184

The visiting experience 186

Revising...locating... 188

Identification with the symbolic order through routinisation of the ritual 189

Visiting experience 2003: the visible of the museum 192

Placement by institutional history 196

Policing and the creation of civilised space 198

The spectacle of seduction 202

A continuing process? 205

Appendix Contrasting imagery: the battle over truth 206

Chapter 7 Contingencies of Encounter, Crime and Punishment: On the Purposeful Avoidance of 'Global Criminology' 213

Competing bars: competing judgements? 214

Why did Nuremberg not move criminology beyond the nation-state? 214

The rule of law and the ambiguous use of the concept of conspiracy 217

Locating the Holocaust: uniqueness and symbol 219

The battle of Omdurman: control of the symbolic and killing at a distance 222

Excursus: the destruction of territorial security: the case of China 228

Western Imperialism: the avoided factor at the Tokyo trials? 233

Benin 1897: a celebrated punitive expedition 233

Competing versions 236

The art treasures 239

Namibia: a successful German colonial genocide and prelude to the Holocaust? 242

An alternative explanation for the impossibility of law and criminology? 246

Chapter 8 A Reflected Gaze of Humanity: Reflections on Vision, Memory and Genocide 249

Genocide and memories 249

Preventing vision: the closed world of the camp 251

Crossing the boundaries of the ordinary and the genocidal: Browning, Goldhagen and Reserve Police Battalion 101 253

Nanjing and Japanese atrocities: the forgotten cruelty of a supposed comparative work 265

The existential moment, turning the ordinary into the exceptional 268

Contingencies of seeing: between pornography and common humanity 271

Chapter 9 Teaching the Significance of Genocide and Our Indifference: The Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh 279

Part I Representation and locality 279

Genocide: institutional memory and post-memory 284

The museum experience 286

The final straw 291

Part II Identity and encountering reality, past and future intervention 301

The absence 302

Chapter 10 Enlightenment, Wedding Guests and Terror: The Exceptional and the Normal Revisited 309

Enlightenment: modern style 310

Wedding parties: ambivalent guests 311

Knowing and the return of the repressed: the seduction of imperialist imagery [1] 315

Controlling language: situating war - national or global?: the seduction of imperialist imagery [2] 318

The task: to build coherent criminological language in the shadow of empire? 320.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-404) and index.

ISBN:

1904385885

1904385125

OCLC:

70122971

Publisher Number:

9781904385882

9781904385127