Vortrag von Jack Katz: Unspeakable - the mysterious rise and fall of crime sind 1960Dienstag, 16. April 19 Uhr im Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung
8 April 2019
At the core of predatory crime are the workings of a variety
of social circles in which responsibility for attacks on strangers
becomes collectively shared and diffused. For thirty years,
independent processes led to the withdrawal of centralized
social controls at all levels of authority, setting the context
for the rise of diversely organized, small criminogenic social
worlds. Then another set of historically distinct processes led
to a reduced replacement of the networks that had produced
high rates of predation. The rise and fall of crime in the U.S. has
remained a mystery because of methodological assumptions
in academic social science and national blinders in political
culture. The neglected causal dynamics have been hidden in
immigrants’ biographies, the social psychology of ethnic mobility,
international dynamics of contraband drug markets, and an
expanding exoskeleton of personal identity built up through both
repressive and ameliorative government policies. Examples will
focus on contemporary Los Angeles.
Jack Katz, Soziologe; Research Professor Emeritus am Department of
Sociology der University of California in Los Angeles
Moderation: Dr. Nadja Maurer Ethnologin; Wissenschaftlerin am
Hamburger
Institut für Sozialforschung
Ort: Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Mittelweg 36,
20148 Hamburg