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31 Critical Criminology 1 (2023)

handle is hein.journals/ctlcrm31 and id is 1 raw text is: Critical Criminology (2023) 31:1-2 https:/doi.org/1 0.1007/s10612-023-09696-7 Editorial for Issue (31)1 by David C. Brotherton and Jayne Mooney David Brotherton1 - Jayne Mooney2 Published online: 4 April 2023 @ The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023 We are pleased to bring you the first issue of Critical Criminology for 2023. As we return to some sense of normalcy in the post-covid era, we take stock of the deepening contra- dictions in social and political systems across the globe as governments responded to the spread of this deadly disease. For some, the degree of social and physical harm so pro- nounced among the poor and the vulnerable seemed to come as a revelation, but for readers of and subscribers to this journal, we assume that the class, race/ethnic, and gendered fac- tors had their predictable impacts. Since that time when the world seemed to stop still and a sense of anomie abounded, we have returned to capitalism's business as usual with sky rocketing profits in certain indus- tries while a new series of financial crises erupt in others. Once again, our reining global socioeconomic system exhibits its intrinsic failures to provide stability and security to the majority while ensuring a small minority live in obscene, conspicuous luxury amid con- tinuing environmental destruction and climate change catastrophe. Plus qa change, you might mutter, as the President of the USA assures its population that the banks are funda- mentally sound even if the regulators have gone AWOL and the financial bourgeoisie once again get to keep their multi-million dollar paydays while avoiding the jail house door. In this liquid world of hypocrisy, corruption, and global usury, the crimes of the power- ful are on full display from the US and UK to Turkey, Brazil, Nigeria, Russia, and Israel. Never has a critical criminological perspective been more imperative. In this issue, we think you will find multiple examples of how this approach helps us to see the roots and contours of crime and social harm in all their local, national, and international guises, situ- ated in history and with an ongoing commitment to the development of theory. We hope this array of contributions from our colleagues encourages you, dear reader, to expand our division's founding principle to scholarly resist the deadening hands of orthodoxy and complacency while using where possible these articles in your classes and for general dissemination. E David Brotherton dbrotherton @jjay.cuny.edu Jayne Mooney criticalcrmjournal@gmail.com New York, NY, USA 2 John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA Springer

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