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University of Minnesota Press, 2022
This is the final chapter of The Horror of Police
University of Minnesota Press, 2022
Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police Drawin... more Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police
Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Travis Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed “monster fighters” but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. The Horror of Police shows that police violence is not a deviation but rather a deliberate and permanent fixture of U.S. “law and order.”
The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces From... more The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces
From Abu Ghraib and Holocaust death camps to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and slave plantations, spaces where violent crimes have occurred can often become forever changed, or “haunted,” in the public imagination. In this volume, Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann, and Theo Kindynis bring together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars to study this phenomenon, exploring the origins, theory, and methodology of ghost criminology.
Featuring Jeff Ferrell, Michelle Brown, Eamon Carrabine, and other prominent scholars, Ghost Criminology takes us inside spaces where the worst crimes have imprinted themselves on our history, memory, and media spaces. Contributors explore a wide range of these hauntological topics from a criminological perspective, including the excavation of graffiti in the London underground, the phantom of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, NC, during the 2017 riots, and the ghostly evidentiary traces of crime in motel rooms.
Ultimately, Fiddler, Kindynis, and Linnemann offer ghost criminology as another way of seeing, and better understanding, the lingering impact of violence, oppression, and history in today’s world. Ghost Criminology curates cutting-edge research to break exciting new terrain.
NYUP, 2016
(November 2016).
Papers by Travis Linnemann
Abstract: During the past twenty years the United States has seen delinquency rates and juvenile ... more Abstract: During the past twenty years the United States has seen delinquency rates and juvenile crime develop as a significant social problem. Relatively new approaches are currently employed by agencies charged with controlling juvenile crime. The focus of this research is a non-traditional correctional program that implements strength based case management techniques to intervene, address, and prevent delinquent behavior among at-risk juveniles. This study is an impact assessment of a grant-funded intervention program on the recidivism rates of those enrolled in the program over a three-year period. The study measures the net effects of the program and lends support for further development and expansion of strength based interventions.
This article takes aim at an image-based methamphetamine (meth) intervention programme in the Uni... more This article takes aim at an image-based methamphetamine (meth) intervention programme in the United States, to reveal disparate images of meth users organized along a binary system of value, pitting the sexual vulnerabilities of young women against the violent predation of young men. We argue the programme structures a particular visuality or way of seeing the supposed ills of meth use that agitates white middle-class social anxieties, through a ‘meth epidemic ’ unfairly imagined as ‘white ’ and ‘rural’. Following self-justifying drug war logics, the project battles an epidemic it helps to create and sustain. Thus, we see the programme as an important site of cultural production where its punitive visualities contribute to structures of ideological penal policies and practices or ‘imaginary penalities ’ that obfuscate alternatives for harm reduction and the ills of the neo-liberal order.
Changes in the geographic distribution of racial/ethnic groups in recent decades have resulted in... more Changes in the geographic distribution of racial/ethnic groups in recent decades have resulted in increasingly diverse cities. The implications of increased between-group contact for residents in multiethnic communities however are unclear. City or county level analyses provide ...
In their contribution to a festschrift in honor of Stanley Cohen, Malcolm Feeley and Jonathan Sim... more In their contribution to a festschrift in honor of Stanley Cohen, Malcolm Feeley and Jonathan Simon suggest that the intensely securitized present represents a condition of institutionalized moral panics, mapping a "permanent circuit of knowledge and power concerning crime." 1 Inverting Cohen's original episodic model, Feeley and Simon see insecurity as "the norm" and argue that moral crusades are no longer mounted to reinforce solidarity, order and security. Instead, even the most insignificant security measures are habituated practices invoked "in the face of ever growing threat." 2 If this is indeed the case, rather than attempting to diagnose moral panics, adjudicate the "real" threat, or find the proper balance between security and liberty, perhaps a better approach to critical analysis of crime and insecurity is to view both not only as integral to contemporary statecraft, but more sociologically, as part of a broader cultural repertoire put to work by citizen-subjects in the course of everyday sense-making. 3 In a similar sense, Mark Neocleous recently noted, "it is by now well established that contemporary security strategy is heavily structured around the unknown, the 1
Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
Deviant Behavior
ABSTRACT “Black” has long been employed to inspire or communicate horror, isolation and dread. Em... more ABSTRACT “Black” has long been employed to inspire or communicate horror, isolation and dread. Employed the state and capital, from the CIA and municipal police departments to corporations, the “black site” is a geography that conceals the knowledge of its own existence and boundaries. “Rurality” is a spatial concept characterized by the unknown and the blurred edges of its own temporal and material existence. Taking the common rural prison and Contained Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) as examples of rural “black sites”, we contend that efforts to render them visible can be enhanced by the lessons of paranormal/spirit photography.
The Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Criminology
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 2016
This paper engages the cultural politics of criminal classifications by aiming at one of the stat... more This paper engages the cultural politics of criminal classifications by aiming at one of the state’s most powerful, yet ambiguous markers—the ‘gang.’ Focusing on the unique cases of ‘crews’ and collectives within the ‘straight edge’ and ‘Juggalo’ subcultures, this paper considers what leads members of the media and police to construct—or fail to construct—these street collectives as gangs in a seemingly haphazard and disparate fashion. Juxtaposing media, cultural, and police representations of straight edge ‘crews’ and Juggalo collectives with the FBI’s Gang Threat Assessment, we detail how cultural politics and ideology underpin the social reality of gangs and thus the application of the police power. This paper, furthermore, considers critical conceptualizations of the relationship between police and criminal gangs.
University of Minnesota Press, 2022
This is the final chapter of The Horror of Police
University of Minnesota Press, 2022
Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police Drawin... more Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police
Drawing on the language and texts of horror fiction, Travis Linnemann recasts the police not only as self-proclaimed “monster fighters” but as monsters themselves, a terrifying force set loose in the world. The Horror of Police shows that police violence is not a deviation but rather a deliberate and permanent fixture of U.S. “law and order.”
The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces From... more The haunting effects of crime, violence, and death in our history, memory, and media spaces
From Abu Ghraib and Holocaust death camps to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and slave plantations, spaces where violent crimes have occurred can often become forever changed, or “haunted,” in the public imagination. In this volume, Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann, and Theo Kindynis bring together an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars to study this phenomenon, exploring the origins, theory, and methodology of ghost criminology.
Featuring Jeff Ferrell, Michelle Brown, Eamon Carrabine, and other prominent scholars, Ghost Criminology takes us inside spaces where the worst crimes have imprinted themselves on our history, memory, and media spaces. Contributors explore a wide range of these hauntological topics from a criminological perspective, including the excavation of graffiti in the London underground, the phantom of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, NC, during the 2017 riots, and the ghostly evidentiary traces of crime in motel rooms.
Ultimately, Fiddler, Kindynis, and Linnemann offer ghost criminology as another way of seeing, and better understanding, the lingering impact of violence, oppression, and history in today’s world. Ghost Criminology curates cutting-edge research to break exciting new terrain.
NYUP, 2016
(November 2016).
Abstract: During the past twenty years the United States has seen delinquency rates and juvenile ... more Abstract: During the past twenty years the United States has seen delinquency rates and juvenile crime develop as a significant social problem. Relatively new approaches are currently employed by agencies charged with controlling juvenile crime. The focus of this research is a non-traditional correctional program that implements strength based case management techniques to intervene, address, and prevent delinquent behavior among at-risk juveniles. This study is an impact assessment of a grant-funded intervention program on the recidivism rates of those enrolled in the program over a three-year period. The study measures the net effects of the program and lends support for further development and expansion of strength based interventions.
This article takes aim at an image-based methamphetamine (meth) intervention programme in the Uni... more This article takes aim at an image-based methamphetamine (meth) intervention programme in the United States, to reveal disparate images of meth users organized along a binary system of value, pitting the sexual vulnerabilities of young women against the violent predation of young men. We argue the programme structures a particular visuality or way of seeing the supposed ills of meth use that agitates white middle-class social anxieties, through a ‘meth epidemic ’ unfairly imagined as ‘white ’ and ‘rural’. Following self-justifying drug war logics, the project battles an epidemic it helps to create and sustain. Thus, we see the programme as an important site of cultural production where its punitive visualities contribute to structures of ideological penal policies and practices or ‘imaginary penalities ’ that obfuscate alternatives for harm reduction and the ills of the neo-liberal order.
Changes in the geographic distribution of racial/ethnic groups in recent decades have resulted in... more Changes in the geographic distribution of racial/ethnic groups in recent decades have resulted in increasingly diverse cities. The implications of increased between-group contact for residents in multiethnic communities however are unclear. City or county level analyses provide ...
In their contribution to a festschrift in honor of Stanley Cohen, Malcolm Feeley and Jonathan Sim... more In their contribution to a festschrift in honor of Stanley Cohen, Malcolm Feeley and Jonathan Simon suggest that the intensely securitized present represents a condition of institutionalized moral panics, mapping a "permanent circuit of knowledge and power concerning crime." 1 Inverting Cohen's original episodic model, Feeley and Simon see insecurity as "the norm" and argue that moral crusades are no longer mounted to reinforce solidarity, order and security. Instead, even the most insignificant security measures are habituated practices invoked "in the face of ever growing threat." 2 If this is indeed the case, rather than attempting to diagnose moral panics, adjudicate the "real" threat, or find the proper balance between security and liberty, perhaps a better approach to critical analysis of crime and insecurity is to view both not only as integral to contemporary statecraft, but more sociologically, as part of a broader cultural repertoire put to work by citizen-subjects in the course of everyday sense-making. 3 In a similar sense, Mark Neocleous recently noted, "it is by now well established that contemporary security strategy is heavily structured around the unknown, the 1
Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
Deviant Behavior
ABSTRACT “Black” has long been employed to inspire or communicate horror, isolation and dread. Em... more ABSTRACT “Black” has long been employed to inspire or communicate horror, isolation and dread. Employed the state and capital, from the CIA and municipal police departments to corporations, the “black site” is a geography that conceals the knowledge of its own existence and boundaries. “Rurality” is a spatial concept characterized by the unknown and the blurred edges of its own temporal and material existence. Taking the common rural prison and Contained Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) as examples of rural “black sites”, we contend that efforts to render them visible can be enhanced by the lessons of paranormal/spirit photography.
The Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Criminology
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, 2016
This paper engages the cultural politics of criminal classifications by aiming at one of the stat... more This paper engages the cultural politics of criminal classifications by aiming at one of the state’s most powerful, yet ambiguous markers—the ‘gang.’ Focusing on the unique cases of ‘crews’ and collectives within the ‘straight edge’ and ‘Juggalo’ subcultures, this paper considers what leads members of the media and police to construct—or fail to construct—these street collectives as gangs in a seemingly haphazard and disparate fashion. Juxtaposing media, cultural, and police representations of straight edge ‘crews’ and Juggalo collectives with the FBI’s Gang Threat Assessment, we detail how cultural politics and ideology underpin the social reality of gangs and thus the application of the police power. This paper, furthermore, considers critical conceptualizations of the relationship between police and criminal gangs.
Though the politics of mass imprisonment do not stop at the confines of the ghetto or the geograp... more Though the politics of mass imprisonment do not stop at the confines of the ghetto or the geographic boundaries of major cities the lack of discussion of these issues in rural contexts suggests as much. However, increased law enforcement attention and repeated characterizations of ...
During the past twenty years the United States has seen delinquency rates and juvenile crime deve... more During the past twenty years the United States has seen delinquency rates and juvenile crime develop as a significant social problem. Relatively new approaches are currently employed by agencies charged with controlling juvenile crime. The focus of this research is a non-traditional correctional program that implements strength based case management techniques to intervene, address, and prevent delinquent behavior among at-risk juveniles. This study is an impact assessment of a grant-funded intervention program on the recidivism rates of those enrolled in the program over a three-year period. The study measures the net effects of the program and lends support for further development and expansion of strength based interventions.
British Journal of Criminology, 2014
Crooked Cops, Conspiracy and the sad death of "Cocaine Bear."
There is a saying, the police are never around when you need them, but always around when you don... more There is a saying, the police are never around when you need them, but always around when you don't. Though we aren't sure from where it came, this adage returned to us as we read the late Mark Fisher's final work, The Weird and the Eerie.1 In his most basic phrasing, Fisher describes the weird as the out of place-the conjoining of two or more things which do not belong together-a sense of wrongness, the not quite right.2 By its very nature, the weird manifests as unease, but it may also signal a shock of the new, the outmoding or radical departure from our existing frameworks of understanding. To encounter the weird in this regard, is to stand with bewilderment in the presence of that which exists outside typical boundaries of thought and sight. Alongside the unwelcomed intrusions of the weird, Fisher positions the eerie, denoting an equally untoward sense of presence or absence. It is here that we might ask ourselves, "Why is there something here where there should be nothing? Or, why is there nothing here when there should be something?"3 Fisher's efforts of course should not be confused with an imaginative attempt to revive late 19th century spiritualism. Rather, as an extension of his earlier work on hauntology,4 The Weird and The Eerie continues the search for ways to grasp the "agency of the virtual", of those things which act upon the realms of the living without actually existing. By way of example, he notes that "capital is at every level an eerie entity: conjured out of nothing, capital nevertheless exerts more influence than any allegedly substantial entity."5 Borne of, inseparable from and necessitated by capital, the police power is also at every level eerie. In fact, so interwoven...