A Precarious Life: Community and Conflict in a Deindustrialized Town

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Roxana Willis (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics)

A Precarious Life

Community and Conflict in a Deindustrialized Town

Roxana Willis (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics)

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Oxford University Press
16 May 2023

Crime & criminology; Criminology: legal aspects; Criminal justice law; Criminal procedure; Social law

Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology

A Precarious Life offers an internal view of conflict among one of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged communities in Britain. The long-term 'ethnography at home' is narrated through the life and death of the author's father, Paul, who worked in the coke ovens of the Corby steelworks until its closure in 1980. After closure, Paul ran a mobile grocery shop on his council estate and surrounding areas, which suffered an assortment of injuries in the post-industrial decades that followed. By engaging closely with the social practices of Paul and members of his relational community, this book provides a rare emic account of the classed and racialized tensions that occur within a precariously situated subsection of society. Through this process, layers of meaning are noticed, articulated, and deployed to make intelligible communal tensions. As the chapters progress, a complex ethical terrain is brought into view, where moral conflicts and dilemmas are rife. From this new perspective, a disjuncture becomes apparent between top-down theories that guide the criminal law, on the one hand, and norms that make better sense of the social world navigated by residents on an over-criminalized estate, on the other. A Precarious Life calls on legal scholars to understand better and engage with this alternative normative order, which embraces an ethics of honesty, relationality, solidarity, and care-captured by the central notion of mutuality.

By: Roxana Willis (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor London School of Economics)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198855149
ISBN 10: 0198855141
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 16 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Back to the Rough Ground 1: From Schoolyards to Factory Floors 2: The Necessity of Community 3: Violence 4: Thin Blue Line 5: Foreigners 6: A Violence Continuum 7: Moral Dilemmas 8: Questions of Moral Motivation Conclusion: Life After Loss

Roxana Willis is an Assistant Professor in Law at the London School of Economics. Before joining the LSE, Willis completed a Marie Sk/lodowska-Curie Junior Research Fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg; a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford; and a Junior Research Fellowship in Law at University College, Oxford. Willis holds a DPhil in Law (Oxon), an LLM in International Economic Law (SOAS, London), and an LLB in Law with European Legal Studies (University of Kent and Charles University, Prague).