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Crockett Thomas P (2020) Crime as an assemblage. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology, 12 (2), pp. 68-79.
Abstract
This article seeks to make an original contribution to criminology and the sociology of crime and punishment by elaborating the 'assemblage', a concept which originates in the collaborative poststructuralist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and discussing its ontological implications for researching crime. I will first introduce the concept and its application. I then discuss the relationship between the assemblage and Michel Foucault's concept of the dispositif. I demonstrate how the assemblage could be used to analyse crime events and discuss questions of change and scale within the assemblage. I conclude by outlining some implications for how adopting this concept would change the way we practice and research crime and punishment.
Keywords
Assemblage; ontology; Gilles Deleuze; Félix Guattari; crime; dispositif
Journal
Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology: Volume 12, Issue 2
| Status | Published |
|---|---|
| Funders | Arts and Humanities Research Council |
| Publication date | 31/08/2020 |
| Publication date online | 30/08/2020 |
| Date accepted by journal | 10/09/2019 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34737 |
| ISSN | 2166-8094 |
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Lecturer in Criminology, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology