Responses#4 (Significance of the text)
Policing the Crisis
The study “Policing the Crisis” focuses mainly on a moral panic over “mugging” that took place in the 1970s. During the 70s period the first occurrence over mugging in Britain regarding moral panic. Mugging word has used in this chapter that not only refers to a crime but it also taken as a reasonable exercise of judicial power. The word mugging had first utilized in the USA and referred to those that being robbed by a black man. Moreover, it shows that behavior of black men has become dangerous to peaceful men, so this was enough justification to have a Black Act as an action had needed at the time (Hall & Critcher, 2013).
Further, the study interrogates in a particular theme by considering current crises, contexts, and perspectives. The study researches the cultural and social comparison of boundaries between the historical period and its genesis. Also, it emphasizes more on a crisis of capitalism along with cultural forces and its theorization with the unfolding politics of races.
Therefore, the author explains “Normal Crime” and “Social Crime.” These two terms have used to tell an intricate relationship between the transformation of the crime, economic and political movements, which have not yet given any importance. Whereas, the difference has measured between the ordinary and social crime is that if a person indulges in a criminal activity is because “a crime is a product of a social system.”
The research explains the importance of criminalization and labeling. It tells that is a process with legitimating social control that has explained under the examples of legal controls in which sustained convergence of ideological and criminal labels have obtained. These labels have marked as real and historical developments.
Findings highlight the legal and political order of the state, modes, and crisis in hegemony, Cultural Revolution and turning into authorization. It suggests that enforcing universal legal norms and sanctions on illegal capitalist transactions are the requirement of the legal authority. Further, the study shows the criminal history with its importance to the “rule of law” that provide the perfect and legitimate way for a long-term sustainability.
Moreover, the study addresses the class subjects and refer to individual persons. However, the real significance of this study shows that social relations are not able to develop through legal rules to construct a capitalist society. There are some features that author speak of the capitalist state and referring them to specific policies. These features have precise nature of the relationship between capitalism and fascism that consider as controversial because it has made compatible through suspending normal modes of limited forms of the state, such as the fascist state (Hall & Critcher, 2013).
An adequate information has given to the people of the law to make them capable of understanding the policies that are essential in the crisis. Crisis planning is only possible when the society raises issues regarding black men crimes, political scenario, counter-culture, social reproduction, racial discrimination, economic problems, capitalism or resistance in the working class and so forth.
References
Hall, S., & Critcher, C. (2013). Policing the crisis. Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.]: Palgrave Macmillan.
