When the Normal is Pathological: New Rules for Criminology in a Post-Crime Era

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

Recent seismic, political events have transformed the criminological landscape. This poses a key question: is criminology, in its current progressive incarnation, even remotely capable of providing answers to the existential challenges now being posed? In the wake of Trump, the descent into authoritarianism in both the global north and the global south, the re-emergence of Empire and the decline of the West as a unitary bloc, what kind of criminology is equipped to confront these new dynamics of risk? This round table session asks whether current fixations like building ever larger data sets, artificial intelligence, or identity politics are of any use in meaningfully addressing the erosions of legal and normative consensus in a ‘post-crime’ age? If not, what new rules does criminology now require to become relevant?

Subtopic

• Topic 1: Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Behavior / Critical Criminology

Chair

• Mike Mcguire, University of Surrey

Discussants

• Phil Carney, University of Kent

• Simon Hallsworth, University of Suffolk