Papers by Chrysa Mantziou
This extended project investigated the phenomenon of serial killing in Britain and Greece, in re... more This extended project investigated the phenomenon of serial killing in Britain and Greece, in respect of the victims. Specifically, it examined the reasons and methods behind the selection of the victims, in accordance with each country’s social structure and background. Initially, the study approached the criminal type of serial killers by giving definitions and displaying classifications as they appear in both British and Greek chronicles. There was employed a combination of several existing criminological theories; especially the structural theories of homicide were considered the most crucial for they explain the phenomenon at a societal level and highlight the social breakdowns that serial murder induces. Furthermore, the project is grounded on secondary research material such us bibliography and textbooks, references to numerous British and Greek literature guides, newspaper articles, journals, prestigious publications, court files and internet sites regarding serial murder and their victims. There were also used case studies, original documents from individual case files and extended press files. Through twenty British case studies and six selected cases from the Greek criminological chronicles within the last six decades, this essay attempted to highlight the similarities and main differences concerning the serial killers’ victims and targeting methods. Young women and prostitutes appeared to be the same victim typologies in both countries, having revealed that both societies are patriarchal and that the sexual element appears to be common in the murders committed by serial killers. Consequently, the main theme of the essay was to clarify that the victimized individuals stem from the society’s most vulnerable and powerless groups of people who are unfortunately deprived of social care, support and protection.
The concept of 'moral panics' continues to be used as a framework for analysing the causes, struc... more The concept of 'moral panics' continues to be used as a framework for analysing the causes, structures and functions of social and political crises. Nonetheless, as an analytical tool, such a framework is limited in its capacity to explain the ongoing and interconnected relationships between drugs and society. Drawing first on an interdiscursive and intertextual framework, the field of analysis is broadened to consider how recent drug panics in Australia depend upon, signify and condense wider social and historical anxieties around drugs and other social problems. However, such an approach also has its limitations given that the play of intertextuality is conditioned by relations of power at the level of what Foucault calls a 'dispositive', a historically contingent configuration that strategically orientates our responses to the problem. Three dispositional drug-related prototypes are considered and how they work together to shape, reinforce and condition the drug problem and our responses to it. This research was initially concerned with better understanding the socio-political dynamics around what was stated to be a new emerging threat to the Australian community , and then finding an appropriate conceptual/theoretical framework from which to analyse it. The threat concerned the increasing use of methamphetamine, especially crystal methamphetamine, more commonly known as 'crystal meth' or 'ice', as represented in the mainstream media, and the conceptual framework under consideration was 'moral panic'. However, in surveying the media texts and commentary on the subject, it soon became apparent that there were a number of drug-related controversies , 'scandals', debates and such occurring in Australia over the past few years, many
General perspective of the lectures: the study of bio-power. ~ Five proposals on the analysis of ... more General perspective of the lectures: the study of bio-power. ~ Five proposals on the analysis of mechanisms of power. ~ Legal system, disciplinary mechanisms, and security apparatuses (dispositifs). Two examples: (a) the punishment of theft; (b) the treatment of leprosy, plague, and smallpox. ~ General features of security apparatuses (1): the spaces of security. ~ The example of the town. ~ Three examples of planning urban space in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: (a) Alexandre Le Maître's La Métropolitée (1682); (b) Richelieu; (c) Nantes. two 18 JANUARY 1978 General features of the apparatuses of security (II): relationship to the event: the art of governing and treatment of the uncertain (l'aléatoire). -The problem of scarcity (la disette) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. -From the mercantilists to the physiocrats. -Differences between apparatuses of security and disciplinary mechanisms in ways of dealing with the event. -The new governmental rationality and the emergence of "population." -Conclusion on liberalism: liberty as ideology and technique of government. three 25 JANUARY 1978 General features of apparatuses of security (III). -Normation (normation) and normalization. -The example of the epidemic (smallpox) and inoculation campaigns in the eighteenth century. -The emergence of new notions: case, risk, danger, and crisis. -The forms of normalization in discipline and in mechanisms of security. -Deployment of a new political technology: the government of populations. -The problem of population in the mercantilists and the physiocrats. -The population as operator (operateur) of transformations in domains of knowledge: from the analysis of wealth to political economy, from natural history to biology, from general grammar to historical philology. four 1 FEBRUARY 1978 The problem of "government" in the sixteenth century. ~ Multiplicity of practices of government (government of self, government of souls, government of children, etcetera). ~ The specific problem of the government of the state. ~ The point of repulsion of the literature on government: Machiavelli's The Prince. ~ Brief history of the reception of The Prince until the nineteenth century. ~ The art of government distinct from the Prince's simple artfulness. ~ Example of this new art of government: Guillaume de la Perrière Le Miroir politique (1555). ~ A government that finds its end in the "things" to be directed. ~ Analysis of the pastorate (continuation). ~ The problem of the shepherd-flock relationship in Greek literature and thought: Homer, the Pythagorean tradition. Rareness of the shepherd metaphor in classical political literature (Isocrates, Demosthenes). ~ A major exception: Plato's The Statesman. The use of the metaphor in other of Plato's texts (Critias, Laws, The Republic). The critique of the idea of a magistrate-shepherd in The Statesman. The pastoral metaphor applied to the doctor, farmer, gymnast, and teacher. ~ The history of the pastorate in the West, as a model of the government of men, is inseparable from Christianity. Its transformations and crises up to the eighteenth century. Need for a history of the pastorate. ~ Characteristics of the "government of souls": encompassing power coextensive with the organization of the Church and distinct from political power. ~ The problem of the relationships between political power and pastoral power in the West. Comparison with the Russian tradition. seven 22 FEBRUARY 1978 Analysis of the pastorate (end). ~ Specificity of the Christian pastorate in comparison with eastern and Hebraic traditions. ~ An art of governing men. Its role in the history of governmentaltiy. ~ Main features of the Christian pastorate from the third to the sixth century (Saint John Chrysostom. Saint Cyprian, Saint Ambrose, Gregory the Great, Cassian, Saint Benedict): (1) the relationship to salvation. An economy of merits and faults: (a) the principle of analytical the insurrections of conduct in the sixteenth century. The Protestant Reformation and the Counter Reformation. Other factors. ~ Two notable phenomena: the intensification of the religious pastorate and the increasing question of conduct, on both private and public levels. ~ Governmental reason specific to the exercise of sovereignty. ~ Comparison with Saint Thomas. ~ Break-up of the cosmologicaltheological continuum. ~ The question of the art of governing. ~ Comment on the problem of intelligibility in history. ~ Raison d'État (1): newness and object of scandal. ~ Three focal points of the polemical debate around raison d'État: Machiavelli, "politics" (la "politique"), and the "state." ten 15 MARCH 1978 Raison d'État (II): its definition and principal characteristics in the seventeenth century. ~ The new model of historical temporality entailed by raison d'État. ~ Specific features of raison d'État with regard to pastoral government: (1) The problem of salvation: the theory of coup d'État (Naudé). Necessity, violence, theatricality. ~ (2) The problem of obedience. Bacon: the question of sedition. Differences between Bacon and Machiavelli. ~ (3) The problem of truth: from the wisdom of the prince to knowledge of the state. Birth of statistics. The problem of the secret. ~ The reflexive prism in which the problem of the state appeared. ~ Presence-absence of "population" in this new problematic. (4) occupations; (5) the coexistence and circulation of men. ~ Police as the art of managing life and the well-being of populations. thirteen 5 APRIL 1978 Police (continuation). ~ Delamare. ~ The town as site for the development of police. Police and urban regulation. Urbanization of the territory. Relationship between police and the mercantilist problematic. ~ Emergence of the market town. ~ Methods of police. Difference between police and justice. An essentially regulatory type of power. Regulation and discipline. ~ Return to the problem of grain. ~ Criticism of the police state on the basis of the problem of scarcity. The theses of the économistes concerning the price of grain, population, and the role of the state. ~ Birth of a new governmentality. Governmentality of the politiques and governmentality of the économistes. ~ The transformations of raison d'État: (1) the naturalness of society; (2) new relationships between power and knowledge; (3) taking charge of the population (public hygiene, demography, etc.); (4) new forms of state intervention; (5) the status of liberty. ~ Elements of the new art of government: economic practice, management of the population, law and respect for liberties, police with a repressive function. ~ Different forms of counter-conduct relative to this governmentality. ~ General conclusion. Course summary Course context Index of notions Index of names ♠13
This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, 'surveillance c... more This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, 'surveillance capitalism,' and considers its implications for 'information civilization.' The institutionalizing practices and operational assumptions of Google Inc. are the primary lens for this analysis as they are rendered in two recent articles authored by Google Chief Economist Hal Varian. Varian asserts four uses that follow from computer-mediated transactions: 'data extraction and analysis,' 'new contractual forms due to better monitoring ,' 'personalization and customization,' and 'continuous experiments.' An examination of the nature and consequences of these uses sheds light on the implicit logic of surveillance capitalism and the global architecture of computer mediation upon which it depends. This architecture produces a distributed and largely uncontested new expression of power that I christen: 'Big Other.' It is constituted by unexpected and often illegible mechanisms of extraction, commodification, and control that effectively exile persons from their own behavior while producing new markets of behavioral prediction and modification. Surveillance capitalism challenges democratic norms and departs in key ways from the centuries-long evolution of market capitalism.
The Open Criminology Journal
Objectives: This study aimed to quantify the health and social needs of older male prisoners in t... more Objectives: This study aimed to quantify the health and social needs of older male prisoners in the North West of England, to determine whether their needs were being met, and to explore an age cut-off for this group. Methods: Data were collected by interview and case note review. Areas covered included physical health, mental health, personality disorder, cognitive impairment and social need. Results: A total of 262 prisoners were included in the study. Over 90% had a physical health disorder, most commonly hypertension and osteoarthritis. A total of 61% had a mental disorder, most commonly major depressive disorder and alcohol misuse disorder. There were few differences within age bands for physical health problem or health/social need, but those aged 50-59 years had more mental disorder, including mental illness, substance misuse disorder and personality disorder. Conclusions: Older prisoners have a high level of health need and a different profile to the rest of the prison population. Fifty appears to be a useful age over which to define this group, and service provision should reflect this in a national management strategy.
This article explores the situated nature of male prisoner identities in the late modern British ... more This article explores the situated nature of male prisoner identities in the late modern British context, using the contrasting theoretical frames of Sykes's (1958) indigenous model and Jacobs ' (1979) importation model of prisoner subcultures and social relations. Drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in an ethnically, religiously and nationally diverse young offenders institution, consideration is given to how prisoners manage and negotiate difference, exploring the contours of racialization and racism which can operate in ambiguous and contradictory ways. Sociological understandings of identity, ethnicity, racialization and racism are used to inform a more empirically grounded theoretical criminology.
Although the prison furlough programme in Greece was first implemented in 1990, it has received l... more Although the prison furlough programme in Greece was first implemented in 1990, it has received little academic attention ever since. In an effort to fill that gap, this article reflects on some of the main aspects of the programme and poses some key research questions. To what extent do furloughed prisoners fail to return to the establishment on time? What is the proportion of those who fail to return at all? Why are foreign applicants less likely to receive licences than Greeks? Which factors do the prison authorities consider in their risk assessment of furlough applicants? Which are the weaknesses of the existing correctional legislation? Based on the findings from a fourmonth research project in the Male Prison of Korydallos -the largest establishment in Greece -I deal with these questions which have important implications for the 'what works' debate in Greece.
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