Political Criminology, the Plural State, and the Politics of Affect

Abstract

This chapter brings together the insights of Stuart Scheingold's work on political criminology and urban social control with subsequent work on the politics of affect or “public feelings.” I argue that Scheingold prefigured the turn to affect in his study of crime politics and that his attention to the way affect-driven politicization plays out differently at different political levels (local, national) usefully complicates the current focus on national politics.

Citation

Feldman, L. (2012), "Political Criminology, the Plural State, and the Politics of Affect", Sarat, A. (Ed.) Special Issue: The Legacy of Stuart Scheingold (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 59), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-4337(2012)0000059008