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Everything You Can Imagine Is Real: Jock Young’s Legacy on Othering in a Divided Society

Fri, Nov 21, 5:00 to 6:20pm, Marriott, Salon 15, Lower B2 Level

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

Jock Young’s (2011) “The Criminological Imagination” is a forceful reminder that cultural criminologists have a moral obligation to champion a new ethics of inquiry. True to form, Young urges us to dispense with the theoretical segregation and misguided narratives that define mainstream research. This panel is a tribute to his determination to durably transform criminology.

The first paper deals with sexual violence in late modern India. By offering a fuller sense of the human lives at stake and focusing on power relations within their particular cultural context, it challenges us to profoundly transform ethnographic and interpretive research. The second presentation is a multi-layered, interdisciplinary analysis of marijuana use in the United States that explores the potential impact of criminological research on policy and lawmaking should medical and non-medical cannabis use be decriminalized or legalized nationwide. The third paper probes key economic aspects of cannabis legalization via a critical criminological analysis of the power relations inherent in the criminal justice industrial complex, where private business and government interests meet to maximize their profits. The final presentation provides valuable ethnographic insight on computer crime as it highlights hacking as a transgressive craft and sheds new light on the concept of occupational crime.

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