The Crime of Writing: narratives and shared meanings in criminal cases in Baathist Syria.

(IFPO, CP38)

著者名：Ghazzal, Zouhair
出版元：IFPO
頁数：572p photos.
刊行年：2015
ISBN：9782351597101
Islamic law -- Crime -- Syria -- Sociology -- 1990- This book gives a unique portrait of Syrian society through the workings of its criminal records in the three decades prior to outbreak of the civil war in 2011. Based on actual crime files from Aleppo and Idlib, in addition to extensive interviews with criminal detaineers, lawyer, judges, and court experts, this study manages an in-depth account of Syria under the Baathist rule of the two Asad regimes.

Chapter 1. The political economy of crime -- 35 The civic foundations of the new post‑Ottoman legal order -- 35 This is not good enough to stay -- 46 Criminalizing the economy -- 52 Bailouts of so‑called credit collectors -- 59 What happened to the personality? -- 71 The old sultanic order and the new civic virtues -- 79 Why the demonstrability of crime has become that importan -- 83 The blueprint of undecipherable statistics -- 91 Chapter 2. What would stand as enough evidence? -- 101 What is enough evidence? -- 105 The aura of witnessing -- 108 Memory, time, and forgetting -- 110 Between performance and morality: why direct interrogation is all that matters -- 110 The crime of writing The unspoken honor -- 115 The unveiling of the mute ground of discourse -- 117 Wither Oedipus? -- 131 Chapter 3. There is no crime where there is madness -- 143 What happened? -- 145 The insane shepherd‑who‑writes -- 148 The criminal case as a legal artifact -- 161 Is he competent to stand trial? -- 167 Was he insane? -- 176 My client is known to be an idiot -- 177 Writing insanity -- 179 The accused is now in a borderline state -- 183 Common understandings and misunderstandings -- 188 Chapter 4. Auto-biographies: Self and Other in Confessional Criminal Narratives -- 195 Matters of fact -- 198 Autobiographical confessions -- 201 Crime or suicide? -- 210 Anatomy of a confession: the unwritten law of abuse -- 222 I admit that I was abusive towards my teenage daughter, but does that make me look like a criminal worthy of incarceration? -- 22 All those silent observers -- 233 The father’s gaze and the daughter’s guilt -- 239 Chapter 5. The death penalty, torture, and due process -- 245 So that they may become a lesson to others: why the death penalty still matters -- 245 When does torture become commonplace? -- 248 The death penalty is too little for people like that -- 251 Let’s keep everything in secret -- 256 You must become independent -- 268 Torture and its limits -- 273 Torture as the obscene supplement of Law -- 293 There is something wrong with my wife’s sexuality -- 295 That which we dare not speak about -- 299 Strong mother, weak son‑in‑law -- 303 The semantics of love and sexuality -- 304 They spoke too much, or too little -- 306 Selective use of language, key‑wording, and language games -- 310 That immoral thing -- 311 When the Law enjoys itself -- 312 Chapter 6. The problem of recipiency in honor killings -- 317 From “murder” to “honorable killing” -- 320 My husband and my mother were not lovers -- 324 Rethinking recipiency in honor killings -- 329 Negotiating sexual freedom -- 336 Struggling with motive -- 337 Swingers: unconventional hedonistic lives, and the exchange of sexual partners -- 339 The price of sexual freedom -- 340 Oedipus unbound -- 341 Documenting the indescribable -- 349 Triple rapes -- 352 Denying the facts, finding the truth -- 359 Chapter 7. When punishment is left to the judiciary: Kin wars between shared meanings and law -- 365 How did you do such a thing? -- 368 Are you kin affiliated? -- 371 Potential victims -- 378 The crime of writing Parsing the narrative threads -- 380 Relatives are always a surprise -- 382 Murder and the dynamics of kinship -- 384 Witnessing the everydayness of kin, violence, and sexuality -- 386 Wouldn’t it have been simpler? -- 387 The kin who surprise us -- 388 Chapter 8. A danger to society: they must therefore all disappear -- 391 Arson and matricide: the daughter rehabilitates the law -- 394 The violence of the mute woman and the power of speech -- 401 The emergence of the criminal spectator -- 407 I tempted him with some money -- 412 I saw my divorcée lying down with her new fiancé -- 421 Shameful sex in the vicinity of the husband’s corpse -- 425 Tales of sexual jouissance -- 430 Chapter 9. The place of third parties in land crimes -- 435 Honor, kin, land, and modernity -- 436 The landed aristocracy -- 439 Anatomy of a murder scene -- 441 The return of the repressed -- 444 The mantle of the father -- 447 Right‑of‑passage -- 456 Typology of a police report regarding the relatedness of the assailants: how local relations of power are interpreted and processed -- 459 Keying into the kinship database -- 461 Mitigated (cross‑)examinations -- 461 The political economy of land and crime -- 464 They had abused of their relationship to society -- 471 Murder always implies a third party -- 473 Chapter 10. Photoshopping the president: Men at work in the age of socialism -- 479 A crook should know how and when to quit -- 479 A crook who went too far -- 489 Accounts, reflexivity, and indexical expressions -- 499 Why is such a metamorphosis important? -- 500 Petty thefts and pernicious crack habits -- 510 How dangerous were they? -- 518 Chapter 11. Le moment de conclure -- 525 Relevant penal code articles -- 541
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