| 书目名称 | Geometries of Crime | | 副标题 | How Young People Per | | 编辑 | Avi Brisman | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book explores how young people perceive the severity of crime and delinquency. It particularly addresses whom or what they consider to be the victims of crime and delinquency, how they analyze and assess appropriate responses by the criminal justice system, as well as their place within it. The book proposes tools for developing a more elaborate and robust understanding of what constitutes crime, identifying those affected by it, and what is deemed adequate or appropriate punishment. In so doing, it offers thick description of young peoples‘ conceptions of and experiences with crime, delinquency, justice and law, and uses this description to interrogate the role of the state in influencing - indeed, shaping - these perceptions. | | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | | 关键词 | Critical Criminology; Crime and Society; Criminological Theory; Youth crime; Young offenders; Offending; C | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54620-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-54620-3 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |
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,The Corners of Crime: An Introduction, |
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In the mock courtroom at the Red Hook Community Justice Center (RHCJC)—a multi-jurisdictional problem-solving court and community center located in the heart of the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York—a group of African-American and Latino/Hispanic teenagers, fourteen to eighteen years of age (although most are fifteen or sixteen), had gathered for a group interview. Each was hoping to earn a place in a nine- to ten-week-long unpaid training program for the Red Hook Youth Court (RHYC)—a juvenile diversion program designed to prevent the formal processing of juvenile offenders (usually first-time offenders) within the juvenile justice system. The teenagers who are selected from the pool of applicants must complete the training program and pass a “bar exam” in order to serve as RHYC members, where they will help resolve actual cases involving their peers (e.g., assault, fare evasion, truancy, vandalism).
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,Pyramids, Squares, and Prisms: Severity of Harm, Public Awareness and Perceptions of Severity of Ha |
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Roger Matthews (2009:344–5), a key figure in Left Realism, has observed:As Matthews suggests—and as noted in Chap. . of this book—criminologists frequently disagree about what constitutes crime. A number of different approaches have been offered to help negotiate this stumbling block within criminology (Young and Matthews 1992a:17): John Hagan’s pyramid of crime, Left Realists’ square of crime, and Henry and Lanier’s prism of crime.
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,Red Hook, the RHCJC, and Youth Courts, |
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Red Hook is a mixed-use neighborhood in South Brooklyn located on a peninsula in the New York Harbor, facing Governors Island to the northwest and the mouth of the Gowanus Canal to the southeast (Kasinitz and Hillyard 1995; Kasinitz and Rosenberg 1996; Mooney 2012; NYRCR 2013). Despite its view of the Statue of Liberty and proximity to the lower Manhattan financial district, Red Hook is isolated from the rest of Brooklyn and New York because it is surrounded by water on three sides (Buttermilk Channel/Upper Bay to the west, Gowanus Bay to the south, and Gowanus Canal to the east) and cut off from the rest of Brooklyn by the Gowanus Expressway to the northeast (see Maps . and .; see, e.g., Carter 2004; Cohen 2013; Dickey and McGarry 2006; Donovan 2001; Jackson 1998; Kasinitz and Hillyard 1995; Kasinitz and Rosenberg 1996; Kimmelman 2014; Levinson 2000; Mooney 2013; Nazaryan 2013; NYRCR 2013; Reiss 2000; White et al. 2003). Subway service exists only on the periphery of the neighborhood, making trips to Manhattan and other parts of Brooklyn a challenge (Kasinitz and Hillyard 1995; Zukin 2010:164).
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,Red Hook Youth Court Hearings and Youth Perceptions of Criminal Severity, Justice, Law, Punishment, |
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The RHYC held hearings in the afternoons and evenings during the weeks when it was not holding training for future RHYC members. (Often training was held on Mondays and Thursdays, with hearings on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.) On the afternoon of a hearing, RHYC members, upon arriving at the RHCJC, would head downstairs, change into special RHYC t-shirts, and consult the list of cases and role assignments for the evening. The RHYC could hear up to four cases in an afternoon and evening, and an RHYC member might serve in different roles for each of the hearings. An RHYC member without a role for a case was expected to sit in the audience and contribute as another set of eyes and ears for the court.
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,Beyond Shape: An Open Conclusion, |
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Tax Day. I was on my way to the RHCJC for interviews for the next cycle of youth court. Feeling a bit tired, I stopped at a bodega near the Smith and Ninth Street subway station in Brooklyn for a cup of coffee. As I stepped up to the register to pay, Clayton and Isaac, current RHYC members, entered the bodega. “Hey, there’s Avi,” Isaac said.
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