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Borders of Punishment, The: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion


Borders of Punishment, The: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion

Hardback by Aas, Katja Franko (Professor of Criminology, University of Oslo); Bosworth, Mary (Reader in Criminology, University of Oxford and, concurrently, Professor of Criminology, Monash University)

Borders of Punishment, The: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion

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ISBN:
9780199669394
Publication Date:
11 Jul 2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pages:
336 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 May - 1 Jun 2024
Borders of Punishment, The: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion

Description

The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion critically assesses the relationship between immigration control, citizenship, and criminal justice. It reflects on the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by mass mobility and its control and for the first time, sets out a particular sub-field within criminology, the criminology of mobility. Drawing together leading international scholars with newer researchers, the book systematically outlines why criminology and criminal justice should pay more attention to issues of immigration and border control. Contributors consider how 'traditional' criminal justice institutions such as the criminal law, police, and prisons are being shaped and altered by immigration, as well as examining novel forms of penality (such as deportation and detention facilities), which have until now seldom featured in criminological studies and textbooks. In so doing, the book demonstrates that mobility and its control are matters that ought to be central to any understanding of the criminal justice system. Phenomena such as the controversial use of immigration law for the purposes of the war on terror, closed detention centres, deportation, and border policing, raise in new ways some of the fundamental and enduring questions of criminal justice and criminology: What is punishment? What is crime? What should be the normative and legal foundation for criminalization, for police suspicion, for the exclusion from the community, and for the deprivation of freedom? And who is the subject of rights within a society and what is the relevance of citizenship to criminal justice?

Contents

The Criminology of Mobility ; Introduction. Humanizing Migration Control and Detention ; PART I: CRIMINALIZATION ; The Ordered and the Bordered Society: Migration Control, Citizenship, and the Northern Penal State ; Is the Criminal Law only for Citizens? A Problem at the Borders of Punishment ; The Process is the Punishment in Crimmigration Law ; The Troublesome Intersections of Refugee Law and Criminal Law ; PART II: POLICING ; Policing Transversal Borders ; The Criminalization of Human Mobility: A Case Study of Law Enforcement in South Africa ; Human Trafficking and Border Control in the Global South ; PART III: IMPRISONMENT ; Can Immigration Detention Centres be Legitimate? Understanding Confinement in a Global World ; Hubs and Spokes: The Transformation of the British Prison ; Seeing like a Welfare State: Immigration Control, Statecraft, and a Prison with Double Vision ; PART IV: DEPORTATION ; The Social Bulimia of Forced Repatriation: A Case Study of Dominican Deportees ; Deportation, Crime, and the Changing Character of Membership in the United Kingdom ; Democracy & Deportation: Why Membership Matters Most ; PART V: SOCIAL EXCLUSION ; Governing the Funnel of Expulsion: Agamben, the Dynamics of Force, and Minimalist Biopolitics ; People on the Move: From the Countryside to the Factory / Prison ; Epilogue. The Borders of Punishment: Towards a Criminology of Mobility

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