The Politics of Crime in Turkey Neoliberalism Police and the Urban Poor 1st Edition by Zeynep Gonen – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 1784535435, 9781784535438
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ISBN 10: 1784535435
ISBN 13: 9781784535438
Author: Zeynep Gonen
This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the 1990s. Concentrating on the attempts to ‘modernize’ the policing of Izmir, Zeynep Gonen highlights how the police force expanded their territorial control over the urban space, specifically targeting the poor and racialized segments of the city. Through in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations of these ‘targeted’ populations, as well as rare ethnographic data from the Turkish police, surveys of the media and politicians’ rhetoric, Gonen shows how Kurdish migrants have been criminalized as dangerous ‘enemies’ of the order. In studying the ideological and material processes of criminalization, The Politics of Crime in Turkey makes the case for the neoliberal politics of crime that uses the notion of ‘security’ to legitimize violence and authoritarianism. The book will be of interest to criminologists, as well as those investigating the modern Turkish state and its relationship to the Kurds in the wider region. The multilayered methodology and conceptual approach sheds light on parallel developments in penal and security systems across the globe.
Table of contents:
1. Conceptual/Theoretical Framework and the Literature on the Neoliberal Penal State
2. Neoliberal Ideologies of Crime in Urban Turkey
3. The Crisis and Reinvention of the Police
4. Giuliani in Izmir: Restructuring of Public Order Policing and Criminalizing the ‘Target Populations’
5. Policing a Kurdish Shantytown
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Tags: Zeynep Gonen, Politics, Crime, Neoliberalism, Turkey