The politics of crime in Turkey : neoliberalism, police and the urban poor / Zeynep Gönen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gönen, Zeynep, author.

Series:

Library of modern Turkey ; 23.

Library of modern Turkey

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Turkey.

Crime.

Crime--Political aspects--Turkey.

Police--Turkey.

Police.

Neoliberalism--Turkey.

Neoliberalism.

Kurds--Turkey.

Kurds.

Crime--Political aspects.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

xii, 272 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.

Summary:

During the 2013 Gezi Park Uprisings, the role and behaviour of the Turkish police made headlines across the world. This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the Iggos. Concentrating on the attempts to 'modernize' the policing of Izmir, Zeynep Gönen highlights how the police force expanded their territorial control over the urban space, specifically targeting the poor and racialized segments of the city. Through in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations of these 'targeted' populations, as well as rare ethnographic data from the Turkish police, Gönen shows how Kurdish migrants have been criminalized as dangerous 'enemies' of the order. In studying the ideological and material processes of criminalization, The Politics of Crime in Turkey makes the case for the neoliberal politics of crime that uses the notion of 'security' to legitimize violence and authoritarianism. The book will be of interest to criminologists, as well as those investigating the modern Turkish state and its relationship to the Kurds in the wider region. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Conceptual/Theoretical Framework and the Literature on the Neoliberal Penal State 23

2 Neoliberal Ideologies of Crime in Urban Turkey 50

3 The Crisis and Reinvention of the Police 78

4 Giuliani in Izmir: Restructuring of Public Order Policing and Criminalizing the 'Target Populations' 104

5 Policing a Kurdish Shantytown 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781784535438

1784535435

OCLC:

964650315