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Recovering Police Legitimacy Open
This book is a personal response to the loss of trust in the police as an institution whose purpose is to protect the public. I served as a police officer in the last decade of the twentieth century and am dismayed to see considerably less…
Social Science as a Kind of Writing Open
The purpose of this paper is twofold: to argue for the value of (1) social science as part of the intellectual activity of writing (rather than righting) and (2) the practice of fiction to that intellectual activity. Writing is a mode of r…
Introduction: Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art Open
The purpose of this introduction is to set out the scope and content of this special issue of the Journal of Aesthetic Education, which takes Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art as its subject. I begin by delineating the “aesthetic” …
Violence Is a Cleansing Force: Frantz Fanon, the Criminological Imagination, and <i>Blade Runner 2049</i> Open
Frantz Fanon is best known as the author of two monographs: Black Skin, White Masks (1952), a literary and psychological account of Black experience and anti-Black racism, and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), a political manifesto arguing…
Literary Interventions in Justice: A Symposium Open
The purpose of this symposium is to explore the ways in which literature, broadly construed to include poetry and narrative in a variety of modes of representation, can change the world by providing interventions in justice. Our approach f…
Synopsis: A Criminology of Narrative Fiction Open
The purpose of this article is to summarise A Criminology of Narrative Fiction (McGregor 2021), which is the subject of this special issue of the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Criminology. The monograph is a development and expa…
Literary Interventions in Justice Open
In his Theses on Feuerbach, Karl Marx made the famous injunction: ‘Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.’ This is a daunting task for most academics specialising in literature, es…
A Literary Aesthetics of War Crime Open
In order to develop a literary aesthetics of war crime, I examine the phenomenon of moral immunity in military memoir. Using three paradigmatic examples of memoirs of unjust wars characterised by the routine perpetration of war crimes, I a…
Four Characteristics of Policing as a Practice Open
The purpose of this article is three-fold: (1) to provide an analysis of autoethnography as a method in policing research; (2) to distinguish between policing as a practice and policing as an institution; and (3) to outline the characteris…
The Problem of Thick Representation Open
The purpose of this paper is twofold: to define the problem of thick representation and to show that the problem is a puzzle for representation rather than a puzzle for a specific art form or art, in general, as has previously been suggest…
The Person of the Torturer: Secret Policemen in Fiction and Nonfiction Open
Early Modern conceptions of aesthetic education propose a necessary relation between aesthetic and moral values such that the appreciation of beauty is a necessary condition for the attainment of virtue. Contemporary conceptions retain the…
The Cognitive Value of Blade Runner Open
The purpose of this essay is to argue that Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Ridley Scott, 2007) has cognitive value which is inseparable from its value as a work of cinema. I introduce the cinematic philosophy debate in §1. §2 sets out my posi…
The Cognitive Value of Blade Runner Open
The purpose of this essay is to argue that Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Ridley Scott, 2007) has cognitive value which is inseparable from its value as a work of cinema. I introduce the cinematic philosophy debate in §1. §2 sets out my posi…