Abolition
in academy
, 257–259
alliances
, 255
feminism
, 98
Abolitionism project
, 173
Abolitionist alliances, activist criminologists in
, 256–257
Academia
confronted with demands of academia as PhD researcher
, 424–427
role of
, 143–150
Academics
, 255
borders of academic activism
, 110–111
critique
, 145
process
, 210
Academy, abolition and anti-colonial activism in
, 257–259
Action research
, 24
research career and learning about
, 423–424
Activism
, 4–5, 13, 64–66, 98, 138, 146, 235, 251, 256, 259, 338–340, 343, 345–346, 392, 424
in criminology
, 181, 250
critical social research as
, 51–52
form of
, 341
invigorating activism in social work
, 396–397
Activist academia
, 245
challenges for
, 14–15
Activist academics
, 255, 426
Activist and postdoc, becoming
, 427–429
Activist criminalization
, 373–376
Activist criminological approach
, 219, 328
Activist criminologists
, 97, 102, 138, 188, 244–245, 257, 285, 374, 406, 413
in abolitionist alliances
, 256–257
contemporary roles of activist criminologists and data traps
, 413–416
Activist criminology
, 5, 9, 27, 38–40, 50, 64–66, 79, 93–94, 149, 193, 228, 326, 339, 352, 354, 372
(see also Janus-faced criminology)
as ‘conversational integration’ project
, 331–332
for activist criminology
, 143–150
activist criminology and activist criminalization
, 373–376
borders of
, 110–111
common features of rural and urban activism
, 285–286
community memory and resistance
, 96–98
conceptualising hope in activist criminology
, 94–96
counts as
, 38–40
criminology and Neoliberal university in late twentieth/twenty-first century
, 366–369
critical pedagogy
, 369–371
from critical to activist criminology
, 371–373
development of activist criminology and criminological activism
, 6–8
distinguishing differences to bridge communities
, 289–290
divergent approaches and unique perspectives
, 286–289
epistemologies in neoliberal academia
, 332–335
hope as practice
, 101–103
initial advancement of activist criminology approach
, 330–331
intersections in public and activist criminologies
, 8–11
limitations of shifts towards
, 395–396
new directions in
, 60–61
positionality, intervention, and myth of neutrality
, 11–14
roles of activist scholars and criminology
, 290–292
scholars
, 32
solidarity as ‘counter-conduct’ from activist criminology lens
, 243–244
states of denial and state terrorism
, 140
teaching
, 103
unequal consequences of activist engagement
, 14–15
Utopian thought and decarceral futures
, 98–101
visibilisation of torture in Spain by international reports
, 138–140
Activist criminology methods (ACM)
, 22
collaborative work with activists working/volunteering on injustice studied
, 29–30
collaborative work with harmed community/people
, 28
collaborative work with victims/survivors of injustice studied
, 29
consciously working to reflect on and address power differences
, 30–31
ensuring public aware of ACM research findings
, 31–32
expanded definitions and examples of ACM components
, 27
myth of ‘neutral scientist’ and overlapping identities of ACM researchers
, 22–23
overlapping predecessors and contributors to ACM
, 23–27
Activist critical criminology
, 52
Activist endeavour, development of critical criminology as
, 250–252
Activist engagement, unequal consequences of
, 14–15
Activist evidence, stop and search and role of
, 409–411
Activist green criminology
, 72
Activist interventions
building foundations of n
, 313–315
stepping into
, 315–317
Activist organisations
, 254
Activist public criminology
, 8
Activist qualities of art
, 52–54
Activist research
, 22–24, 385
Activist researchers practices
, 416
Activist scholars
, 291
roles of
, 290–292
Activist sex work research
, 382–386
Activists as knowledge producers
grassroots activism contribute to green criminological scholarship
, 68–72
green criminology, activism and activist criminology
, 64–66
movement knowledge ‘in its own right’
, 72–73
movement knowledge and activists as knowledge producers
, 66–67
Turkey’s hydropower boom and resistance
, 67–68
Activists as knowledge producers, movement knowledge and
, 66–67
Activists working/volunteering on injustice studied, collaborative work with
, 29–30
Ad hoc criminal concepts
, 246
Administrative criminology
, 38, 40, 80
negotiating boundaries of
, 40–43
Agency, struggle for
, 201–203
Aligned research practice
, 54
Alliance building
, 254–256
American Convention of Human Rights
, 195
American Convict Criminology group
, 10
American Society of Criminology
, 110
American Society of Criminology Presidential Address (2014)
, 39
Amnesty International
, 139, 158
Anti-racist activism
, 250
Anti-racist pedagogy
, 352
Anti-racist/colonial activism
, 254
Anti–colonial activism in academy
, 257–259
Antiterrorist Liberation Groups (GAL)
, 141
Artistic methodologies
, 52
Arü’s community
, 188, 190
Asociación contra la Cultura Punitiva y la Exclusión Social (ACPES)
, 146
Asociación contra la Tortura
, 148
Asylum Navigation Board
A Labyrinthine journey
, 317–320
accessing navigation board
, 321
building foundations of criminological and activist intervention
, 313–315
resisting death of migrant and refugee rights
, 312–313
stepping into activist interventions
, 315–317
Asylum process
, 315–317, 397
Australia
, 393, 395–396, 399
Australian Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics (AASW Code of Ethics)
, 396, 400
Australian Council of Heads of Schools of Social Work in Australia
, 398
Australian government
, 400
Australian Optional Protocol Against Torture Network (OPCAT Network)
, 256
Australian policies and approaches
, 397
Australian Research Council
, 392
Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
, 269
Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
, 267
Authoritarian Continuity and the Consolidation of Democracy
, 115
Authoritarianism
, 117–119
Autoethnography methods
, 23
Autonomous solidarities
, 238
Awareness-raising process
, 202
Calverts Cooperative
, 318
Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA)
, 257
Carceral-related harms
, 287
Catalan Preventive Mechanism
, 140
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS)
, 80
Centre for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University
, 113
Centre for the Study of Violence (NEV)
, 110, 113–117
Centros de Pesquisa, Inovação e Difusão (CEPID)
, 115, 117
Charter of Rights, The
, 127
Child sexual abuse
, 266, 269
Civic environmental monitoring
, 226
Civic monitoring
, 216
as way of collectively embracing harms
, 221–227
Civil activism, criminalisation of
, 156–160
Civil Rights Movement, The
, 289
Clash
, 175–176
initiating
, 180–181
Co-create proposal
, 182–183
Coalition and Liberal Democratic Government
, 373
Cognitive praxis
, 66
of social movements
, 6–7
Collaborative research
, 24
framework
, 25
principles in motion
, 58
Collective action
, 204, 208
Collective civic monitoring
, 221
Collective mobilization
, 73
Collective reflexivity
, 178
Colombian Indigenous community
, 193
Colombian Indigenous people
, 192
Colombian university
, 192
Comissão Teotônio Vilela in Portuguese (CTV in Portuguese)
, 112
Commission’s recommendations
, 43
Committee for the Prevention of Torture of the Council of Europe (CPT)
, 139
Common Study programme
, 145
Communitarian thinking
, 189
Community
, 409
activism
, 276
activists
, 291
awareness as public activism
, 274–275
context
, 286
distinguishing differences to bridge
, 289–290
of enquiry
, 54–55
memory
, 96–98
warmth of
, 192–193
Community mobilization
, 285, 289
strategies
, 290
Compartmentalisation
, 181
Conservative Government Ministers
, 39
Contemporary activist criminology
, 408
Contemporary cultural criminology
, 79
Conventional criminological approaches
, 81
Conventional-orthodox criminology
, 79
Conversational integration project, activist criminology and Liberi Nantes as
, 331–332
Convict criminologists
, 6
Convict Criminology network
, 10
Cook County Court system
, 354
Cooperative Prisoners in Struggle (COPEL)
, 146
Coproduction
, 59
educational value of
, 57
phase of research
, 59
of research
, 50, 54
Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, The (2015)
, 375
Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)
, 399
COVID in Prisons Action Network
, 255
COVID-19 pandemic
, 88, 155, 252, 254–256
Craft
, 299
activism
, 298
using craft to address criminal and social justice concerns
, 300–305
craft-based activism project
, 301
practices
, 297
skills
, 300
Craftivism
, 298–300
using craft to address criminal and social justice concerns
, 300–305
efficacy of
, 299
Craftivists
, 298
strategy
, 303
Creative methodologies
, 52
Crime–media nexus, exploring cultural criminology activism via
, 83–88
Criminal Justice Act, The (1967)
, 126
Criminal justice concerns, using craft to address
, 300–305
Criminal justice system
, 56, 100, 250, 252, 337
Criminal Law of the Enemy
, 144
Criminal legal system
, 6, 32, 405, 408
Criminal-legal sociology
, 144
Criminalisation
, 312
of activism
, 155, 160
challenging criminalisation rooted in exclusion
, 332–335
of citizen scientists
, 222
of civil activism
, 156–160
of people seeking asylum
, 397–398
of solidarity
, 246
Criminalization and Punishment Education Project (CPEP)
, 251
Criminological activism
conception
, 8
development of
, 6–8
Criminological analysis of artistic activity in detention
, 172–174
Criminological artivism (CA)
, 50
artivism
, 52–54
CA
, 58
case studies in
, 55–58
communities of enquiry
, 54–55
critical social research as activism
, 51–52
new directions in activist criminology
, 60–61
Criminological intervention, building foundations of
, 313–315
Criminological knowledge
, 405
Criminological norms and criminological detractors
abolition and anti-colonial activism in academy
, 257–259
activist criminologists in abolitionist alliances
, 256–257
alliance building, prison abolition and COVID-19
, 254–256
development of critical criminology as activist endeavour
, 250–252
threat catalysed new alliances between criminologists and activists
, 252–254
Criminological thinking
, 250
Criminological verstehen
, 81
Criminologists
, 189, 191, 250, 256, 284, 405, 409, 415
threat catalysed new alliances between activists and
, 252–254
Criminology
, 4–5, 40, 111, 138, 144, 155, 217, 250, 258, 366, 368, 405–406, 428
courses
, 368
in Latin America
, 111
and Neoliberal university in late twentieth/twenty-first century
, 366–369
roles of
, 290–292
for subversive stance in
, 179–183
Criminology activism
, 5, 110
Critical criminological paradigms
, 365
Critical criminologists
, 51, 407
Critical criminology
, 51, 63, 354, 366, 407
development of critical criminology as activist endeavour
, 250–252
Critical Criminology
, 6–7, 9–11
Critical optimism
, 189, 193
Critical pedagogy
, 101, 369–371
Critical research in criminology
, 51
Critical resistance (CR)
, 130
Critical social justice
, 354
four key elements of
, 360
perspectives
, 360
Critical social research
, 50
as activism
, 51–52
Crown Prosecution Service
, 339
Cultural criminologists
, 80
Cultural criminology
, 82
approach
, 173
Cultural criminology activism
(see also Institutional child sexual abuse activism; Hashtag activism)
exploring cultural criminology activism via crime–media nexus
, 83–88
insights from cultural criminology
, 80–83
Cultural theoretical analysis
, 145
Cultural victimology
, 301
#IchbinHannah campaign
, 11
I-O Exchange Program
, 180
Immigration Act (2014)
, 312
Immigration Act (2016)
, 312
Immigration Department
, 394
Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee (IWOC)
, 130
Indigenous community members
, 190
Industrial democracy workers’ agency
, 207
Information Commissioner’s Office
, 416
Inquiries
contemporary activist criminology
, 408
contemporary roles of activist criminologists and data traps
, 413–416
institutional recognition and limits of data
, 411–413
radical and realist activisms
, 406–408
sus’ laws, stop and search and role of activist evidence
, 409–411
Inside-Out
, 182
Prison Exchange Program
, 180
project
, 173–174, 180–182
session
, 180
Inspector General of Nigeria Police Force (IGP)
, 160
Institute of Fiscal Studies
, 368
Institutional abuse inquiries
, 268
Institutional child sexual abuse activism
(see also Hashtag activism; Cultural criminology activism)
Ballarat, Loud Fence, and Royal Commission
, 269–274
community awareness as public activism
, 274–275
public inquiries, truth telling and community awareness
, 267–269
Institutional violence
, 138–139
Integration
, 328
as assimilation
, 331
of migrants
, 327
Intelligence Response Team (IRT)
, 160
Interdisciplinary Center on Deviance and Penality (CRID&P)
, 151
Interim National Government (ING)
, 157
International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW)
, 396
International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)
, 396
International institutions
, 113
International legislation
, 234, 236
International organisations
, 139
International reports, visibilisation of torture in Spain by
, 138–140
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
, 200
Interviewees perceptions
, 209
IPOB
, 157, 162
proscription of (2017)
, 157–159
protestors
, 158
Italian Football Authority
, 330
Italian integration and reception system
, 327
Itinerant soliloquy (mobile methodology)
, 216, 219
Ivory Tower notion of social science scholars, The
, 22
Names AIDS Memorial and Monument Quilt projects
, 301
Names AIDS Memorial quilt
, 301
Nantes, Liberi as ‘conversational integration’ project
, 331–332
Narrative criminology
, 82
Nation justice advocates
, 255
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (NATSILS)
, 253
National Careers Service, The
, 368
National Executive Committee of PROP
, 128
National Football League (NFL)
, 341
National Memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse
, 272
National Preventive Mechanism (NPM)
, 140
National Student Survey (NSS)
, 367
National-level analysis
, 287
Navigation board, accessing
, 321
Neoliberal academia, activist criminology epistemologies in
, 332–335
Neoliberal carceralism
, 288
Neoliberal University
, 366–367
Neoliberal university in late twentieth/twenty-first century, criminology and
, 366–369
Neoliberalism
, 366, 371, 393
Network for Police Monitoring
, 372
Neutral scientists
, 23, 80
myth of neutral scientist and overlapping identities of ACM researchers
, 22–23
Neutrality, positionality, intervention, and myth of
, 11–14
New South Wales Government
, 265
New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (NZPC)
, 384
Niger Delta
, 163
communities
, 164
Niger Delta Peoples’ Volunteer Force (NDPVF)
, 156
Nigeria
contextualising militarised democracy
, 155–156
liberal democratic theory
, 160–162
militarised democracy, state repression and criminalisation of civil activism
, 156–160
nascent democracy
, 162
National Assembly
, 159
proscription of IPOB
, 2017, 157–159
state repressive response to #End SARS Protest
, 2020, 159–160
towards transformative democracy
, 162–164
Nigeria Police Force
, 159
Nigerian political context
, 158
Non-government organisations (NGOs)
, 395, 408
#NoMorePage3 campaign
, 341
Participatory action research project
, 24, 422–423
Participatory democracy
, 156
Participatory journalism
, 85
Participatory theatrical techniques
, 183
Pedagogy
, 192–193
in books, in media, in courts
, 194–195
debate between lonely heroes
, 189–190
diaries of despair
, 187–189
eyes wide shut
, 190–192
opening society’s eyes
, 193–194
warmth of community
, 192–193
Pedagogy of liberation
, 193–194
precepts of
, 195
Peer review expert process
, 392
Penal abolitionist project
, 172
Penal institution, opening up
, 180–181
People seeking asylum, criminalisation of
, 397–398
People’s Inquiry into Detention
, 398
Performative allyship
, 345–346
Police
, 354
brutality
, 165
racism
, 412, 416
repression
, 164
Police accountability through community-focused officer training
community policing’ not enough
, 352–353
culture of policing
, 353–354
methodological frame
, 354
Police training
, 354
practice of
, 360
Policing, culture of
, 353–354
Policing and Criminal Evidence (PACE)
, 411
Policy-oriented knowledge
, 67
Political ‘bias’ of activist criminology
, 11
Political Science Department
, 114
Political transition process
, 114
Politicisation of NGO resistance
, 237–238
Post-civil war marginalisation of Igbo
, 163
Practitioner–research collaborations
, 55
Predictive policing technology
, 405
Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP)
, 126–127
legacy of PROP
, 129–133
President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing
, 352
PREVENT (policy)
, 372, 374
Principal Legal Officer of the Northern Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, The
, 253
Prison abolition
, 254–256
movements
, 250
Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP)
, 180
Prison Department, The
, 125, 129
Prison Officers Association (POA)
, 131
Prison Pandemic Partnership
, 257
Prisoners
, 132
rights movements
, 133
1972 prisoners’ strike
, 129
Probationary: The Game of Life on Licence
, 56
Projeto Observatório de Direitos Humanos em Escolas in Portuguese (PODHE)
, 117
Prostitution Reform Act (PRA)
, 384
Protests
, 5, 155
in British prisons
, 124
criminalisation of
, 14
Public activism, community awareness as
, 274–275
Public criminology
, 7, 26–27, 110
intersections in activist criminologies and
, 8–11
Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters
, 224
Public policy experts
, 267
Publication-based dissertation
, 426
Race, Racism and American Law (1973)
, 250
Race Relations and Freedom of Information Acts
, 409
Racialised mass incarceration
, 287
Radical activisms
, 406–408
Radical Alternatives to Prison
, 133
Re-democratisation process
, 114–115
Realist
, 407
activisms
, 406–408
approaches
, 408
Reclaim Holloway
, 94, 100
Reconciliation commissions
, 274
Refugee rights, resisting death of migrant and
, 312–313
Refugee women’s football team
, 328
Research
, 50, 383
data
, 410
process
, 60
responding to research-led change
, 328–330
stance of participant-as-observer
, 173
utilisation
, 245
Research Assessment Exercise
, 367
Research Excellent Framework (REF)
, 367
Resistance
, 4, 96–98, 200, 208, 235, 239
act of
, 206
collective perspective centred on
, 207
consequences of
, 201
geographies of
, 240–241
to hydropower
, 67
setting context of resistance in Mediterranean
, 234
Turkey’s hydropower boom and
, 67–68
Resource accessibility
, 286
Right to Remain Asylum Navigation Board
, 7, 315–317
Rondas Ostensivas Tobias Aguiar (ROTA)
, 112
Royal Commission
, 272, 274–275
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
, 269
Royal Commission Philip Reed
, 266
Rural activism
, 284, 290
common features of
, 285–286
Rural activists
, 284–285, 290
São Paulo’s Research Foundation
, 115
Schuman Declaration (1950)
, 235
Science and Technology Studies
, 221
Sea-rescue NGOs
, 236, 238
counter-conduct
, 242
fulcrum of
, 241
geographies of solidarity and resistance
, 240–241
harms of solidarity crimes
, 235–237
political in sea-rescue NGOs’ counter-conduct
, 242–243
politicisation of NGO resistance
, 237–238
problematising solidarity
, 238–240
resistance
, 240
setting context of solidarity and resistance in Mediterranean
, 234–235
solidarities
, 238
solidarity as ‘counter-conduct’ from activist criminology lens
, 243–244
Search and rescue (SAR)
, 234
Seeking asylum
, 312
process of
, 316
in UK
, 314
Sex work
, 381, 383
laws
, 385
policy debates
, 382
Shadow Home Secretary
, 127
Single European Act (1986)
, 235
Slacktivism
, (see Lazy activism)
Social change
, 284, 290
activist sex work research
, 382–386
challenges and frustrations
, 386–387
Social control agents
, 354
Social harm
, 69, 164, 200
perspectives
, 209
potential of
, 201
Social justice
, 4, 39, 298, 300
using craft to address criminal and social justice concerns
, 300–305
progress
, 289
Social justice campaigns
, 340
Social marginalisation
, 343–345
Social media
, 4–5, 84–86, 338, 340, 347
platforms
, 299
Social mobilisation
, 346–348
Social movements
, 30, 53, 66, 145, 366, 370
social movement theorist/activist’ public criminology
, 7
theorist
, 8
Social stratification
, 238
Social structure
, 117–119
Social transformation process
, 370
Social work
activism
, 400
contradictory visions of
, 393–395
criminalisation of people seeking asylum
, 397–398
dissent and
, 395–396
educators
, 393
invigorating activism in
, 396–397
islamophobia
, 398–400
problem quest to be activist
, 400
Socially engaged arts practice (SEAP)
, 50
Socially implanted authoritarianism concept
, 110, 115, 117
Socio-environmental struggles
, 70
Socio-technical imaginaries
, 221
Solidarity
, 4, 246
as ‘counter-conduct’ from activist criminology lens
, 243–244
concept
, 235
geographies of
, 240–241
harms of solidarity crimes
, 235–237
problematising
, 238–240
setting context of solidarity in Mediterranean
, 234
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
, 268
South and Southern Theories
, 6
Southern criminology
, 111, 371
Spain by international reports, visibilisation of torture in
, 138–140
Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE)
, 140
Spanish state authorities
, 140
Special Tactical Squad (STS)
, 160
Sports address and impact on policy change
, 330–331
Sports-based interventions
challenging criminalisation rooted in exclusion
, 332–335
initial advancement of activist criminology approach
, 330–331
methodological evolution
, 328–330
origin of my journey
, 326–328
working collectively and horizontally
, 331–332
State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID)
, 159
State criminalisation of civil activism
, 162
State funding agencies
, 116
State repression
, 155–160
in Nigeria’s democracy
, 154
State-corporate criminology
, 208
States of denial
, 140–150
Stop and search
practices
, 406
and role of activist evidence
, 409–411
Stop Oil Now interventions
, 4
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)
, 150, 222
Structural inequalities
, 82
Subversion
, 152, 174
clash
, 175–176
proposal
, 178–179
vagueness
, 176–178
Subversive stance
, 182
co-create proposal
, 182–183
in criminology, for
, 179
enjoying vagueness
, 181–182
initiating clash
, 180–181
Survival International
, 195
Survivors
, 338
of violence
, 344
Sustaining Hope With Tamil Community
, 96–98
Symbolic interactionism
, 80
System of Registration and Communication of Institutional Violence (SIRECOVI)
, 148–149