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Criminal Accusation: Political Rationales and Socio-Legal Practices


ISBN13: 9780367185633
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2017)
Price: Publication Abandoned
Hardback edition , ISBN13 9781138505377



Accusing someone of committing a crime arrests everyday social relations and unfurls processes that decide on who to admit to criminal justice networks. Accusation, that is, demarcates specific subjects as the criminally accused who then face courtroom trials, and possible punishment. It inaugurates a crime’s historical journey into being with sanctioned accusers successfully making criminal allegations against accused persons in the presence of authorized juridical agents. Given this decisive role in the production of criminal identities, it is surprizing that criminal accusation has received relatively short shrift in sociological, socio-legal and criminological discourses.

 

In this book, George Pavlich redresses this oversight by framing a socio-legal field directed to political rationales and practices of criminal accusation. The focus of its interrogation is the truth-telling powers of an accusatory lore that creates subjects within the confines of legally authorized spaces. And, in this respect, the book has two overarching aims in mind. First, it names and analyzes powers of criminal accusation – its history, rationales, rites and effects – as an enduring gateway to criminal justice. Second, the book evaluates the prospects for limiting and/or changing apparatuses of criminal accusation. By understanding their powers, might it be possible to decrease the number who enter criminal justice’s gates? This question opens debate on the subject of the book’s final section: the prospects for more inclusive accusative grammars that do not, as a reflex, turn to exclusionary visions of crime and vengeful, segregated, corrective or risk-orientated punishment. Highlighting how expansive criminal justice systems are populated by accusatorial powers, and how it might be possible to recalibrate the lore that feeds them, this groundbreaking analysis will be of considerable interest to scholars working in socio-legal research studies, critical criminology, social theory, postcolonial studies and critical legal theory.

Subjects:
Law and Society
Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1:
Accusation: Landscapes of Exclusion
Chapter 2:
Apparatuses of Criminal Accusation
Chapter 3:
Avowal and Criminal Accusation
Chapter 4:
The Violent Rhetoric of Accusation: Cicero and the Marcus Ameleus Scaurus Case
Chapter 5:
Cultural Grammars of Accusation: Thomas of Monmouth’s Blood Libel Accusations
Chapter 6:
Creating Crime: Accusatory Entryways to Criminal Justice
Chapter 7:
The Lore of Criminal Accusation
Chapter 8:
Criminal Justice and Cape Law’s Persons
Chapter 9:
Forget Crime: Accusation, Governance and Criminology
Chapter 10:
The Emergence of Habitual Criminals in 19th Century Britain: Implications for Criminology
Chapter 11:
The Subjects of Criminal Identification
Afterword