The Spirit of Crimmigration

Stigma, epistemology and violence

António Pedro Dores (Outubro 2012)

Philosophical differentiation

Hegel

Aristoteles Plato

Ontological differentiation

Coming to being

Things as classified

Principles and ideal types

Sociological differentiation

States of spirit

Immigrantscrime

Epistemological turn

• Aristotelic views of things as data• Stigma as normative views of negative

connotations• Dialectic views of social things producing

effects on data and being changed by normative thinking and doing

Scapegoat system and power

Social nature

Data Normative world

Power

Social nets

person

Pre-history of crimmigration

• Crime&peasant• Crime&sailor men• Crime&indigena• Crime&milicia• Crime&nomade

• Scapegoats politics

Positive definition of spirit• Each social configuration builds up its own

criminalization spirit• Social spirit must be understood not as a

metaphysic entity • Spirit of the time (in criminal grounds) is a

holistic result of the dialectic relationship between people (social things) the normative world (legal framework in motion) and classification models (data)

Positive spirit of the time• It is a result of socialization actuality, as

well as a coercive mode of doing people, power and social nets

• Spirit of norms does not exist as letters in a book; it results from the use living people develop in society in order to produce social legitimate views of/actions for social good;

Profiling immigrants

• Crimmigration spirit tell us that immigrants are being used as scapegoats to structural risks western world are living

• Freedom of global circulation of capital and workers is coerced by working class control as crimmigration

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http://iscte.pt/~apad/estesp

http://prezi.com/nquya3t7_bwf/espirito-e-sociedade

Social dimensions secrets

Polítics Culture

Economics Society

Common social dimensions

Giddens critic

Capitalism Industrialism

War Social control

Stigma; production of society

Polítics Culture

Economics Society Immigrant

(shame)Thomas Scheff

Capitalism Industrialism

War Social control Criminal

(fear)