266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book considers how neoliberal criminal law constructs racialised ‘hypercriminals’.
In a world of fake news and virtual reality, where social media posts seem more real than the materiality of racial capitalism, this book develops the idea of ‘hypercriminality’, as a means of explaining how racial disproportionalities in the criminal legal system persist, despite discourses of a post-racial... Read more
Introduction 1. Hypercriminality and Racialisation 2. Racial Capitalism, Colonialism and Simulation 3. Stop and Search Powers Under Section 60 4. Neoliberal Social Control 5. Dangerousness 6. Bad Character Evidence 7. Hypercriminality and Carceral Abolition
Biography
Sarah Corbett-Batson is an Associate Professor at The University of Law, London, and a criminal defence barrister at One Pump Court.
"It is a work of profound intellectual courage, a vital contribution to understanding the spectral, insidious, and deeply violent nature of the law in our simulated world."
Professor Alexander Yu. Krouglov, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
