What we understand as crime, be it torture, or theft, or indeed the crime of being black in Ferguson or Brooklyn, is a manifestation of complex problems in our society that go to the root of how the material resources in the world are distributed and how we relate to each other. We did not…
Henrique Carvalho casts a critical eye over the Crown Prosecution Service’s claim that prosecuting so-called ‘dumpster diving’ was in the public interest.The idea of insecurity seems to have an ever increasing hold on our contemporary social imaginary, a tendency which is now regularly used by the authorities in order to legitimise a specific notion of…