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- Title
Policing Corona: Crime, Social Bulimia, and Racial Capitalism.
- Authors
Montana, Omar
- Abstract
This article explores the case study of crime and policing in the urban New York City neighborhood of Corona, Queens. Taking a critical criminological approach and employing Jock Young's theory of social bulimia, it investigates media coverage of crime in Corona from 2011 to 2021, finding that the neighborhood was framed as both a hub for "vice" and for real estate investment via the commodification of "Latin flavor." The analysis suggests that Corona exemplifies Young's theory of social bulimia as it both excludes and exploitatively includes immigrant groups. I show how power operates to both criminalize and commodify ethno-racialized populations within the structural context of contemporary US racial capitalism. The article concludes by arguing that the case of Corona is at once distinctive and more generally illustrative of similar processes that have occurred in other New York City neighborhoods like the Lower East Side and Williamsburg.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); BULIMIA; REAL estate investment; CAPITALISM; POLICE
- Publication
Critical Criminology, 2024, Vol 32, Issue 1, p97
- ISSN
1205-8629
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10612-023-09745-1