Prelims

Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times

ISBN: 978-1-80382-280-8, eISBN: 978-1-80382-279-2

ISSN: 1521-6136

Publication date: 6 April 2023

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(2023), "Prelims", Deflem, M. (Ed.) Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times (Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance, Vol. 28), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xiii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1521-613620230000028019

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Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times

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Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance

Series Editors: Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.D. Silva

(Volumes 1–5: Jeffrey T. Ulmer)

Previous volumes:

Volume 6: Ethnographies of Law and Social control, edited by Stacey Lee Burns, 2005
Volume 7: Sociological Theory and Criminological Research, Views From Europe and United States, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2006
Volume 8: Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions, edited by Megan O’Neill, Monique marks and Anne-Marie Singh, 2007
Volume 9: Crime and Human Rights, edited by Stephan Paramentier and Elmar Weitekamp, 2007
Volume 10: Surveillance and Governance: Crime Control and Beyond, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2008
Volume 11: Restorative Justice: From Theory to Practice, edited by Holly Ventura Miller, 2008
Volume 12: Access to Justice, edited by Rebecca Sandefur, 2009
Volume 13: Immigration, Crime and Justice, edited by William F. McDonald, 2009
Volume 14: Popular Culture, Crime and Social Control, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2010
Volume 15: Social Control: Informal, Legal and Medical, edited by James J. Chriss, 2010
Volume 16: Economic Crisis and Crime, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2011
Volume 17: Disasters, Hazards and Law, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2012
Volume 18: Music and Law, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2013
Volume 19: Punishment and Incarceration: A Global Perspective, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2013
Volume 20: Terrorism and Counterterrorism Today, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2015
Volume 21: The Politics of Policing: Between Force and Legitimacy, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2016
Volume 22: Race, Ethnicity and Law, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2017
Volume 23: Homicide and Violent Crime, edited by Mathieu Deflem, 2018
Volume 24: Methods of Criminology and Criminal Justice Research, edited by Mathieu Deflem and Derek M.D. Silva, 2019
Volume 25: Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization, edited by Derek M.D. Silva and Mathieu Deflem, 2020
Volume 26: Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship, edited by Derek M.D. Silva and Mathieu Deflem, 2021
Volume 27: Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies, edited by Derek M.D. Silva and Mathieu Deflem, 2022

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Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance Volume 28

Crime and Social Control in Pandemic Times

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Mathieu Deflem

University of South Carolina, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

About the Authors ix
Introduction: Toward a Criminology of the Pandemic
Mathieu Deflem 1
PART I: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CRIME
Chapter 1: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Domestic Abuse, and Human Rights
Ronagh McQuigg 7
Chapter 2: Families Under Confinement: COVID-19 and Domestic Violence
Adan Silverio-Murillo, Jose Balmori de la Miyar and Lauren Hoehn-Velasco 23
Chapter 3: Domestic Violence During COVID-19: Insights from Guatemala
Laura Iesue, Jenifer González and Kelly V. Martinez 43
Chapter 4: Stay Home, Stay Safe? Short- and Long-term Consequences of COVID-19 Restrictions on Domestic Violence in the Netherlands
Veroni Eichelsheim, Anne Coomans, Anniek Schlette, Sjoukje van Deuren, Carlijn van Baak, Arjan Blokland, Steve van de Weijer and David Kühling 55
Chapter 5: Crime in the Coronavirus Pandemic: The Case of Israel
Gideon Fishman and Arye Rattner 73
Chapter 6: Crime During Covid-19: The Impact on Retail
Ben Stickle, Basia Pietrawska and Steven K. Aurand 87
PART II: MEDIA AND LAW
Chapter 7: Flooding the Zone, Challenging State Secrecy: Newsmaking Criminology in Pandemic Times
Justin Piché and Kevin Walby 107
Chapter 8: Tweeting About Crime in Pandemic Times: US Legacy News Media and Crime Reporting During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lisa A. Kort-Butler 123
Chapter 9: The Hungarian Legislative Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Challenges to the Rule of Law
Samantha Joy Cheesman 141
Chapter 10: Facing the Pandemic: Emergency Legislation in the COVID-19 Era and the Hypothetical Erosion of Democracy
Laura Alessandra Nocera 155
PART III: POLICING
Chapter 11: A Model of Police–Public Online Communication: Learning from Policing Under COVID-19 Pandemic Conditions
Xiaochen Hu and Nicholas P. Lovrich 173
Chapter 12: Policing Emergencies and Police–Community Relations: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel
Gali Perry, Tal Jonathan-Zamir and Roni Factor 191
Chapter 13: Police Proactivity in an Era of Pandemic and Protest
Scott M. Mourtgos and Ian T. Adams 207
PART IV: CORRECTIONS
Chapter 14: Institutional Corrections and COVID-19
Molly Smith and Nancy R. Gartner 227
Chapter 15: No Escape: “Doing COVID-19 Time”
Barbara H. Zaitzow 243
Chapter 16: Participatory Action Research in a Pandemic: Prison Climates During COVID-19
Megan Demarest, Daniel O’Connell, Darryl Chambers and Christy Visher 257
Index 273

About the Authors

Ian T. Adams, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina (USA), is Assistant Professor. He studies policing policy and has nearly 20 years of experience serving in various law enforcement capacities prior to his academic career.

Steven K. Aurand, CAP Index, Inc. (USA), is President and CEO of the company. He Co-founded in 1988. CAP is a trusted and recognized source of crime risk information for businesses and government agencies throughout the USA, the UK, Canada, and Mexico.

Carlijn van Baak, Carlijn van Baak, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and University of Amsterdam, is a PhD candidate who focuses on bystander behavior in violence, with a specific focus on intimate partner violence.

Arjan Blokland, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and Faculty of Law, Department of Criminology, Leiden University (The Netherlands), is a Senior Researcher and Professor of Criminology who specializes in violence and crime over the life-course.

Darryl Chambers, Center for Drug and Health Studies, University of Delaware (USA), is a Research Associate. His work focuses on community health-based projects, including the Safe Haven Program, a Suicide Prevention Grant, and Crime Mapping within Wilmington, DE. He has also been involved in leading participatory action research within the community.

Samantha Joy Cheesman, Institute of Comparative Law and Legal Theory, University of Szeged (Hungary), specializes in due process, right to a fair trial, plea bargaining, and comparative law. She is the Author of A comparative analysis of plea bargaining (2021) and publications on due process and the right to a fair trial.

Anne Coomans, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), is a PhD candidate, whose research focuses on mechanisms underlying domestic violence in families, specifically focusing on the impact of the pandemic.

Mathieu Deflem, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina (USA), specializes in the sociology of social control, policing, terrorism, popular culture, and sociological theory, areas in which he has published widely. His books include The Policing of Terrorism (Routledge, 2010) and Sociology of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Megan Demarest, Department of Criminal Justice, Delaware Valley University (USA), is an Assistant Professor and Faculty Associate at the University of Delaware Center for Drug and Health Studies. Her research examines emotions and the law, correctional programming, and re-entry.

Sjoukje van Deuren, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and Department of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands), is a Postdoc Researcher and Assistant Professor who specializes in organized crime and outlaw motorcycle gangs, violence within these groups, and domestic violence in the pandemic.

Veroni Eichelsheim, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen (The Netherlands), is a Senior Researcher and Professor of Developmental Psychology. She specializes in intergenerational continuity of problematic behavior, such as (domestic) violence and crime, focusing on familial relationships and circumstances.

Roni Factor, Institute of Criminology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), is an Associate Professor. His research interests include social mechanisms of high risk and delinquent behaviors, traffic violations, road traffic crashes, and relationships between law enforcement institutions and the community, with particular attention to disparities across ethnic and racial groups.

Gideon Fishman, Center for the Study of Society, University of Haifa (Israel), is Professor Emeritus. He specializes in studies of violence, victimology, juvenile delinquency, and the legal system. He has published widely, including two co-authored books, Justice for All? Jews and Arabs in the Israeli Justice System (1998) and Raised by the Government (1999).

Nancy Gartner, Department of Criminal Justice and Social Sciences, University of Wisconsin – Platteville (USA), specializes in both institutional and community corrections research and elders in the criminal justice system. She is the Author or Co-author of publications in journals including Criminology and Criminal Justice & Behavior.

Jenifer González, no affiliation (Guatemala), specializes in research methods and anthropology. She has experience as a researcher in projects related to education, migration, and vulnerable groups in Guatemala. She has also been involved in a COVID-19 Crime and Health Study in Guatemala.

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Department of Economics, Georgia State University (USA), is an Assistant Professor. She is an Applied Microeconomist focusing on public economics and health economics.

Xiaochen Hu, Department of Criminal Justice, Fayetteville State University (USA), conducts both quantitative and qualitative studies related to police decision-making, police culture, community-oriented policing, gangs, and criminal justice and mass media.

Laura Iesue, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University (USA), specializes in comparative criminology. She specializes in research focusing on the causes and consequences in violence in cross-national contexts as well as migration and program and policy evaluation. She is also the Co-founder of Stop Global Violence.

Tal Jonathan-Zamir, Institute of Criminology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), is an Associate Professor. Her research focuses on policing, particularly police–community relations, police legitimacy and procedural justice, police/public attitudes, and evidence-based policing.

Lisa A. Kort-Butler, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA), is Professor. Her work on media and crime has appeared in American Journal of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Review, Deviant Behavior, Punishment & Society and The Sociological Quarterly.

David Kühling, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), did his internship on this research project. He specializes in methods and statistics, especially in prediction modeling.

Nicholas P. Lovrich, School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Washington State University (USA), has worked with many federal, state, tribal, campus, county, and municipal law enforcement agencies on applications of community policing concepts in carrying out agency missions over the course of the past three decades.

Kelly V. Martinez, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University (USA), specializes in international comparative criminology, juvenile delinquency, juvenile psychopathology, and religiosity. Prior research experience includes studying the effects of adolescents’ inability to empathize and juvenile delinquency.

Ronagh McQuigg, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK), is a Senior Lecturer whose research interests encompass in particular domestic abuse as an international human rights issue. Her most recent book is Criminal Justice Responses to Domestic Abuse in Northern Ireland (Routledge, 2022).

Jose Balmori de la Miyar, Business and Economics School, Universidad Anahuac (Mexico), is an Associate Professor. His areas of research are health economics and law and economics.

Scott M. Mourtgos, Department of Political Science, University of Utah (USA), is a PhD Candidate. He is a National Institute of Justice LEADS Scholar and studies policing and criminal justice policy.

Laura Alessandra Nocera, Department of International, Legal, and Historical-Political Studies, University of Milan (Italy), is Adjunt Professor in Transnational Constitution-Making and specializes in public comparative law, human rights, and indigenous peoples’ issues. She is author of Indigenous Peoples and Ancestral Lands’ Common Ownership in Latin America (2018), Differential Constitutionalism and Indigenous Identities (2022), and numerous articles.

Daniel J. O’Connell, Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice, University of Delaware (USA), is an Assistant Professor and a Senior Scientist with the University of Delaware Center for Drug and Health Studies. His publications include articles on drug treatment, prison management, HIV prevention interventions, program evaluation, and criminological theory.

Gali Perry, Institute of Criminology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), is a Lecturer. Her research interests include the policing of political extremism, political violence, terrorism, and longitudinal research designs.

Justin Piché, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa (Canada), is an Associate Professor and Director of the Carceral Studies Research Collective. He is Co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. Hi research and advocacy are oriented toward de-centering imprisonment in favor of community-based responses to social conflicts and harm.

Basia Pietrawska, CAP Index, Inc. (USA), is Vice President of Consulting and Analytics. She oversees crime and loss analysis and mapping within various industries, including retail, banking, and the government, to develop customized solutions for reducing crime risk and loss.

Arye Rattner, Center for the Study of Crime, Law and Society, University of Haifa (Israel), is Professor Emeritus and the President of Kay College for Education. He specializes in crime, law and society, and has published numerous papers and co-authored two books, Convicted But Innocent (1996) and Justice for All? Jews and Arabs in the Israeli Justice System (1998).

Anniek Schlette, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), was a junior researcher focusing on prevalence of domestic violence as well as polarization and radicalization. She is now a PhD candidate at Utrecht University School of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

Adan Silverio-Murillo, School of Government, Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico) is an Assistant Professor. His research focuses on economics of crime and family economics.

Molly Smith, School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (USA), focuses on research concerning sexual victimization and correctional health care. Her work has been published in a variety of journals including Criminology, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Journal of Correctional Health Care.

Ben Stickle, Department of Criminal Justice Administration, Middle Tennessee State University (USA), is Associate Professor. His research focuses on property crime and policing; he is widely recognized through his research contributions on metal theft, package theft, and emerging crime trends, including crime during COVID-19.

Christy Visher, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware (USA), is a Professor and Director of the University of Delaware Center for Drug and Health Studies. Her research focuses on communities and crime, substance use, criminal careers, social factors in criminal desistance, and the evaluation of strategies for crime control and prevention.

Kevin Walby, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg (Canada), is an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Access to Information and Justice. He is Co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. His research and advocacy seek to promote access to information in matters of imprisonment.

Steve van de Weijer, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), is a Senior Researcher whose research focus on the criminal careers and life course of offenders, intergenerational continuity of crime, biosocial influences on criminal behavior, and cybercrime.

Barbara H. Zaitzow, Department of Government and Justice Studies, Appalachian State University (USA), conducts research in prisons and has been involved in local, state, and (inter)national advocacy work for prisoners and organizations seeking alternatives to imprisonment. His work has appeared in co-edited books and (inter)nationally recognized journals on various prison-related topics.

Prelims
Introduction: Toward a Criminology of the Pandemic
Part I: Domestic Violence and Crime
Chapter 1: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Domestic Abuse, and Human Rights
Chapter 2: Families Under Confinement: COVID-19 and Domestic Violence
Chapter 3: Domestic Violence During COVID-19: Insights from Guatemala
Chapter 4: Stay Home, Stay Safe? Short- and Long-term Consequences of COVID-19 Restrictions on Domestic Violence in the Netherlands
Chapter 5: Crime in the Coronavirus Pandemic: The Case of Israel
Chapter 6: Crime During COVID-19: The Impact on Retail
Part II: Media and Law
Chapter 7: Flooding the Zone, Challenging State Secrecy: Newsmaking Criminology in Pandemic Times
Chapter 8: Tweeting about Crime in Pandemic Times: US Legacy News Media and Crime Reporting During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chapter 9: The Hungarian Legislative Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Challenges to the Rule of Law
Chapter 10: Facing the Pandemic: Emergency Legislation in the COVID-19 Era and the Hypothetical Erosion of Democracy
Part III: Policing
Chapter 11: A Model of Police–Public Online Communication: Learning from Policing Under COVID-19 Pandemic Conditions
Chapter 12: Policing Emergencies and Police–Community Relations: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Israel
Chapter 13: Police Proactivity in an Era of Pandemic and Protest
Part IV: Corrections
Chapter 14: Institutional Corrections and COVID-19
Chapter 15: No Escape: “Doing COVID-19 Time”
Chapter 16: Participatory Action Research in a Pandemic: Prison Climates During COVID-19
Index