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Násilí, podvody a každodennost : Jak zkoumat organizovaný zločin?
| Title in English | Violence, frauds and everydayness : How to research organized crime? |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The main aim of this book is to introduce a new approach to studying organised crime, based on Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology. This approach is needed because, at present, there is no explanatory framework available that would allow the phenomenon to be studied in its various social and cultural contexts. Such a framework would have the conceptual basis needed to compare the findings obtained and would, at the same time, permit researchers to deal with the normative dilemmas that are inherent in the study of organised crime. In the first part of the book I discuss contemporary approaches to studying organised crime and identify theoretical issues (the trap of state-centred thinking, conceptual stretching and the disappearance of the subject), as well as normative issues that are connected with them (administrative criminology, the deviancy amplification spiral). In the second part I illustrate these theoretical problems by drawing empirically on my own experience and identify possible solutions to these problems (an enlarged conception of power, relational ontology, agents’ perspectives and the study of everyday life). In the third part I integrate these solutions into the framework of Pierre Bourdieu’s research project. I demonstrate the analytical utility of this framework in the fourth and fifth sections with empirical, qualitative studies of bouncers and lawyers. |
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