This unprecedentedly expansive international collection of empirical and theoretical material explores the nascent field of criminology and affect. Affect theory first arose as an analytical framework to conceptualize and understand dynamic emotional relationships between individuals and the social environment. Despite the tremendous potential utility for affect theory to assist criminologists with conceptualizing crime and justice, affect remains underutilized in criminological research. Uniting research from otherwise geographically and culturally disparate locales under affect’s analytical umbrella presents a unique opportunity to demonstrate how criminologists can utilize affect theory to understand aspects of the justice process that otherwise prove elusive.
The Handbook is organized around the most pressing topics of interest to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners engaged with crime and the administration of justice. The first set of chapters explore emotion management among police officers and security workers, socio-legal approaches to police violence, and dynamic interactions between historical and security apparatuses. Section Two examines the intersection of guns and emotions, how crime concerns and perceived victimization risks affect public support for harsher criminal sanctions, the academic study of criminal decision-making, and how women in the sex trade affectively navigate criminalization and social exclusion. The key topics underpinning Section Three include incorporating affect theory into genocide studies, emotions and justice in maritime piracy trials, agricultural crime and farmer mental health, the affective risks criminal justice systems can pose to victims of intimate partner violence, and trauma and affect among justice-involved individuals. Section Four engages with the role of emotions in perceptions of photo and video evidence, judicial authority, family group therapy for juvenile offenders, and how legal decisionmakers interpret remorse. Section Five features chapters on courtroom video testimony, rape trials, and affective dimensions of death penalty cases for jurors and members of the public. Section Six tackles political dimensions of knowledge production, identity formation in prison dog training programs, carceral exclusion through family estrangement, institutional and social constructions of incarcerated women’s emotional wellbeing, and how prisoners create positive affect. Section Seven focuses on penal evaluation, public perceptions of parole worthiness, and the ethics of publicly performing work created by incarcerated women. The final section addresses emotions in sexual violence research, ethnographic interviews about organized crime, narrative criminology’s affective dimensions, and the emotional dynamics of doing team-based work on violence against women in the researcher’s home community.
By focusing on emotion as a dynamic and transmissible component of human interaction, this important work illuminates how researchers and practitioners can account for the less tangible—but nonetheless extremely significant—aspects of the justice process.
This unprecedentedly expansive international collection of empirical and theoretical material explores the nascent field of criminology and affect.
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Crime often produces strong reactions and emotions, both as a personal experience and area for policy. This is a well-known and debated topic in criminology. This handbook offers a new and exciting take on this as it sheds light on these reactions and emotions with chapters on an impressive range of criminological issues exploring different aspects and effects of affect. With this handbook the editors Dewey and VandeBerg together with authors from several continents and disciplines offer valuable contributions both to criminology and affect studies.
May-Len Skilbrei, Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo, Norway
The editors present culturally and geographically wide-ranging case studies which examine crime and justice processes through the analytical lens of affect theory. Contributors to this volume make a strong case for why affect theory should be central to both criminological theorizing and criminal justice practice. The important findings presented in this publication make it a must read for criminologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, gender studies specialists, critical theorists, and political scientists. In sum, anyone wishing to effectively deal with offenders as well as those involved in the challenging work of criminal justice practice will find this work useful.
Richard J. Chacon, Professor of Anthropology at Winthrop University
Part 1: Emotional Cartographies of Affective Governance
1. Criminology
and Affect: An Introduction to Key Theories, Methods, and Challenges
2.
Emotional Cartographies of Affective Governance: An Introduction
3. Emotional
Cartographies of Affective Labor in Penal Spaces: A Global South Case from
the Philippines
4. Genocide and Affect Theory
5. Feeling Your Way and Feeling
the Rules: Modern Ruins and the Navigation of Lingering Normativity
6. What
Helped You the Most? A Qualitative Examination of Affective Meaning in
Open-Ended Responses from a Group Family Therapy Program for First Time
Juvenile Offenders and Their Parents
7. Do Crime Concerns and Perceived Risk
of Victimization Affect Public Support for Harsher Criminal Sanctions? A
Reexamination of the Effect of Fear of Crime on Punitiveness in Various
Societies Part 2: Affective Economic and Organizational Logics
8. Affective
Economic and Organizational Logics: An Introduction
9. Police Affects: How
the Law Constructs Emotions in Regulating State Violence
10. The Moral
Economy of Organized Crime
11. Caviar Hysteria and the Affective Moral
Economies of Illegal Caviar Trade in Europe
12. Agricultural Crime and Farmer
Mental Health: Balancing Positive and Negative Affects
13. Bonds That Matter:
Friendship in the Lives of Urban Sex Workers in Brazil Part 3: Carceral
Affects
14. Carceral Affects: An Introduction
15. Affect, Emotion, and Coping
in Correctional Populations: A Review of 25 Years of Published Studies in The
Prison Journal
16. Rehabilitating Emotion: Experiences of Formerly
Incarcerated Men Who Participated in Prison Dog Programs
17. The Affective
Journeys of Women Under Carceral Control
18. Hairs on the Back of the Neck:
Intuition, Gut Feeling and Affect Within Penal Evaluation
19. The
Double-Edged Sword of Remorse and Emotions in Research on Criminal-Legal
Decisionmakers Part 4: Traumatic Affect
20. Traumatic Affect: An Introduction
21. Traumatic Affect and Problem-Solving Courts
22. Affecting and Affective
Practice: New Materialist Insights Into Rape Trials
23. Digital Technologies
in the Courtroom: Exploring the Emotional Dynamics of Video Links and Video
Recorded Evidence
24. Emotion and Perceptions of Visual Evidence
25.
Affective Risks and Criminal Justice Responses to Intimate Partner Violence
in Postsocialist China Part 5: Affective Positionalities
26. Affective
Positionalities: An Introduction
27. What Does Narrative Criminology Narrate?
The Necessity of Returning to Unconscious Affects
28. Emotional
Entanglements: Reflexivity, Vulnerability, and the Affective Dimensions of
Researching Sexual Violence
29. Hauntings of the Court: Affective Citizens in
Death Penalty Sentencing
30. Affective Arrangements: Jury Decision-Making and
Justice
31. The Ick Factor: Fear, Loathing, and Release
32. Affect, Emotion
and the Making of Judicial Authority
Susan Dewey is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at The University of Alabama who uses immersive, community-based participatory research methods to understand violence, vulnerability, and criminal justice institutions. She is author/editor of 16 book-length works and over 100 articles and reports, with this research supported by the National Science Foundation, Census Bureau, Department of Justice, and Fulbright-Hays, UN Women, Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Microsoft Philanthropies, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, the Correctional Education Association, and the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research.
Brittany VandeBerg is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama, where she researches violence and resilience with a particular focus on gender. VandeBerg is a special assistant to the United Nations International Law Commission Special Rapporteur for Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea and a former consultant with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Counter Piracy Programme and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Somalia Fisheries Sector.
