Overview
- Provides a timely exploration of how states are utilizing tools of social control
- Discuses why some states might want to employ tools of social control
- Offers a comparative study, focusing mainly on Poland and Ireland
Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives (CCRP)
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–Dr. hab. Brunon Hołyst, Professor of Criminology, Warsaw Management Academy, Poland
This is an important book that offers a rare, comparative sociological-criminological analysis of Poland and Ireland, focusing on legal textbooks, using some promising analytical terms like ‘securitisation’/ ‘desecuritisation’ and the ‘guilty knowledge’ of professional experts. Taking inspiration especially from the work of Michel Foucault, but also Mikhail Bakhtin on chronotope and Victor Turner on the ritual process and liminality, the book explores the vexing question of how ideologically so different political regimes nevertheless converged on similar practices of social control, imposing as norm a certain rigid and mechanical mode of acting which,according to the author, amounted to a genuine militarisation of behaviour. Of particular interest, especially given our current situation, is the focus on the way in which emergency legislation was used, and abused, for political purposes. The book also helps to revisit the just as disturbing question of why there was a strange ‘elective affinity’ between Communism and Catholicism, first explored in the literature of ‘crowd psychology’, and also Thomas Mann.–Arpad Szakolczai, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University College Cork, Ireland
This book is a very important contribution to critical criminology. It creates a new kind of symbolic connection between Polish criminology and the global perspective on it, especially Irish criminology. This monograph represents the author’s original way of thinking about social control and social justice within the European system of democratic countries; and it opens a new level of discussion as part of critical criminology in Europe. The author represents a new generation of Irish and Polish Criminologists looking for general trends in contemporary societies and their legal systems. Błażej Kaucz is to be congratulated for his extensive analysis of the subject.–Christopher Czekaj, Professor of Criminology, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland
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About the author
Błażej Kaucz is a researcher in criminology and socio-legal studies. He completed his PhD in criminology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at University College Cork, Ireland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Militarisation of Behaviours
Book Subtitle: Social Control and Surveillance in Poland and Ireland
Authors: Błażej Kaucz
Series Title: Critical Criminological Perspectives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16601-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16600-6Published: 01 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16603-7Published: 02 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16601-3Published: 31 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Crime Control and Security, Social Sciences, general, Critical Criminology, Criminal Behavior, Military and Defence Studies