Table des matières
Chapter 1. The political economy of crime
- The civic foundations of the new post‑Ottoman legal order
- This is not good enough to stay
- Criminalizing the economy
- Bailouts of so‑called credit collectors
- What happened to the personality?
- The old sultanic order and the new civic virtues
- Why the demonstrability of crime has become that important
- The blueprint of undecipherable statistics
Chapter 4. Auto‑biographies: Self and Other in Confessional Criminal Narratives
- Matters of fact
- Auto‑biographical confessions
- Crime or suicide?
- Anatomy of a confession: the unwritten law of abuse
- I admit that I was abusive towards my teenage daughter, but does that make me look like a criminal worthy of incarceration?
- All those silent observers
- The father’s gaze and the daughter’s guilt
Chapter 5. The death penalty, torture, and due process
- So that they may become a lesson to others: why the death penalty still matters
- When does torture become commonplace?
- The death penalty is too little for people like that
- Let’s keep everything in secret
- You must become independent
- Torture and its limits
- Torture as the obscene supplement of Law
- There is something wrong with my wife’s sexuality
- That which we dare not speak about
- Strong mother, weak son‑in‑law
- The semantics of love and sexuality
- They spoke too much, or too little
- Selective use of language, key‑wording, and language games
- That immoral thing
- When the Law enjoys itself
Chapter 6. The problem of recipiency in honor killings
- From “murder” to “honorable killing”
- My husband and my mother were not lovers
- Rethinking recipiency in honor killings
- Negotiating sexual freedom
- Struggling with motive
- Swingers: unconventional hedonistic lives, and the exchange of sexual partners
- The price of sexual freedom
- Oedipus unbound
- Documenting the indescribable
- Triple rapes
- Silence and the force of what is not said
- Denying the facts, finding the truth
Chapter 8. A danger to society: they must
therefore all disappear
- Arson and matricide: the daughter rehabilitates the law
- The violence of the mute woman and the power of speech
- The emergence of the criminal spectator
- I tempted him with some money
- I saw my divorcée lying down with her new fiancé
- Shameful sex in the vicinity of the husband’s corpse
- Tales of sexual jouissance
Chapter 9. The place of third parties in land crimes
- Honor, kin, land, and modernity
- The landed aristocracy
- Anatomy of a murder scene
- The return of the repressed
- The mantle of the father
- Right‑of‑passage
- Typology of a police report regarding the relatedness of the assailants: how local relations of power are interpreted and processed
- Keying into the kinship database
- Mitigated (cross‑)examinations
- The political economy of land and crime
- They had abused of their relationship to society
- Murder always implies a third party