1. « Two Attitudes towards the World ». Criminology in face of Financial Illegalisms | « Deux attitudes face au monde » : La criminologie à l’épreuve des illégalismes financiers
- Author:
- Anthony Amicelle
- Publication Date:
- 06-2014
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Cultures & Conflits
- Institution:
- Cultures & Conflits
- Abstract:
- Michel Foucault’s work occupies a special place in the field of criminology. While the author of Discipline and punish has been (dis)credited as a source of division between criminologists or promoted as a legitimizing basis for “another” criminology, he has often been portrayed as a figure of rupture within this research tradition. The present article aims at clarifying this idea of rupture with the foucauldian concept of “illegalisms”. This paper is intended as a reminder of the heuristic value of such a conceptual framework to shed light on the various dynamics between financial crime and social control. To do so, I discuss a number of academic studies on business crime, the social relation to tax and dirty money in order to underline the rich possibilities of the foucauldian reflection for this wide area of research. Ultimately, the articulation of those academic studies helps to better understand the numerous changes in the management of economic and financial illegalisms over past decades in France. Their articulation shows a process of conversion and adaptation of differentiation between illegalisms that (re)produces an inequality of treatment depending on the situations and the categories of population.
- Topic:
- Crime, Regulation, Financial Crimes, Criminology, and Michel Foucault
- Political Geography:
- Europe and France