December 3, 2020

Thomas on Crime as an Assemblage @crowdedmouth

Phil Crockett Thomas, University of Glasgow, is publishing Crime as an Assemblage in the Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Criminology for 2020. Here is the 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 FĂ©lix 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 analyze 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.
Download the article from SSRN at the link.

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