Anthony Amicelle

Anthony Amicelle
Université de Montréal | UdeM · International Centre for Comparative Criminology

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L’omniprésence des enjeux de sécurité dans le champ politique et médiatique donne à voir un processus de sécuritisation des phénomènes sociaux, et de pluralisation des acteurs et des univers impliqués dans leur prise en charge. Le présent numéro entend précisément questionner à nouveaux frais cette double dynamique contemporaine, et en saisir les e...
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While the academic separation of policing and regulation is still largely operative, points of convergence are more significant than ever in the digital age, starting with concomitant debates about algorithms as a new figure of power. From the policing of illegal activities to the regulation of legal ones, the algorithmization of such critical soci...
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This article contributes empirically and conceptually to the literature on finance and security in the light of anti-money laundering and to discussions on international crime control and social order. It draws on unique data in Switzerland to question the chain of security through which the main global policy against crime is produced in concreto....
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Dès la seconde moitié du vingtième siècle, l’expansion des organisations internationales ( oi ) s’accompagne d’appels à en résorber la complexité pour en accroître la lisibilité et l’efficacité. Régulièrement rappelée par les États-membres et les fonctionnaires internationaux, la réduction des doublons et des concurrences intra et inter-organisatio...
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Cet ouvrage tente de cerner les tendances sociales, technologiques ou économiques associées à l'avènement d'Internet et à la mondialisation des échanges qui transforment le travail policier. Il s'agit d'un portrait précis et exhaustif de cette mouvance qui influence et façonne irrémédiablement les pratiques professionnelles des institutions chargée...
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"Que penser des «alternatives» à la prison? À l’occasion d’une conférence donnée à Montréal peu après la publication de Surveiller et punir, Michel Foucault avance l’idée que les sanctions «alternatives», loin de rompre avec l’emprisonnement, reviennent bien souvent à étendre les murs de la prison à toute la société. En effet, le progressisme pénal...
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Rectifying the fact that little criminological attention has been paid to the notion that the security of flows increasingly embodies concerns at the heart of contemporary policing practices, this book makes a significant contribution to knowledge about the policing and security governance of flows. The book focuses on how the growing centrality o...
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The pervasiveness of suspicion throughout society has become a central theme in the literature, especially with the importance of suspicious activity reporting in counterterrorism policies. Yet, little is known about the 'suspicion-in-the-making'. The article aims to shed light on the production of suspicion as routine work for people and businesse...
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How does a configuration of policing work regardless of the differences among its constituent members, who may relate to various social fields and range from for-profit organizations to law-enforcement and other state agencies? The article aims at providing some of the answers to this critical question in the light of financial policing, at the int...
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The article aims to carefully examine the reactions to the Panama Papers scandal in the light of the sociological literature on elites’ resistance to stigmas. More specifically, this article is focused on the defensive narratives of the persons targeted by the wave of revelations in the media. It also sheds light on the responses from the French go...
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Much has been written about the governance of crime – indeed, this is the thread that has unified criminology. Yet, property crimes and attacks against individuals – traditionally at the core of the discipline – are plummeting in many societies. Meanwhile, harms and harm management emerge outside the narrowness of criminal justice definitions. Desp...
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Tout au long de la decennie ou le gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper a ete au pouvoir, ce dernier a ete fortement critique sur les questions environnementales. Dans le cadre du present article, nous souhaitons resituer cette periode d’action gouvernementale canadienne dans un temps plus long, debutant en 1971 avec la creation d’Environneme...
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L’objectif du present article est de revenir sur les conditions d’emergence du probleme de l’argent sale dont la prise en charge a contribue a destabiliser de facon inedite le principe du secret bancaire. Il s’agit ainsi de saisir la maniere singuliere dont « l’odeur de l’argent » a ete promue et reconnue comme objet de preoccupation et de politiqu...
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Targeted financial sanctions regimes and regulations on ‘dirty money’ put banks on the front line in securing financial circulation. This is the context in which banking actors face the challenge of juggling with hundred of sanction, watch and regulatory lists. In light of that list mania for banking policing, list appears to have become the securi...
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Algorithms, biometrics and body scanners, computers and databases, infrastructures of various kinds, ranging from what is commonly referred to as ‘hi-tech’ to ‘low-tech’ items such as walls or paper files, have garnered increased attention in critical approaches to (in)security. This article introduces a special issue whose contributions aim to fur...
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Contemporary financial surveillance relies on the use of information and communications technology to identify and monitor financial flows for anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing purposes. From this perspective, traceability techniques are promoted to secure financial circulation without obstructing the systemic fluidity of capital...
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Michel Foucault’s work occupies a special place in the field of criminology. While the author of Discipline and punish has been (dis)credited as a source of division between criminologists or promoted as a legitimizing basis for “another” criminology, he has often been portrayed as a figure of rupture within this research tradition. The present art...
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Cet article est consacré à un enjeu encore trop peu étudié malgré son importance croissante dans un domaine tel que le policing transnational, à savoir le renseignement financier. Afin de contribuer à la réflexion sur cette composante à part entière des pratiques contemporaines de surveillance ou plutôt de dataveillance, l'analyse porte plus précis...
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While tax issues have been historically disconnected from the mobilization against money laundering, there is now an ongoing reconfiguration of this “border” in France and at the international level. Our contribution aims to analyze the inclusion process of tax issues within anti-money laundering policy in order to understand the current transforma...
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Le suivi de la piste financière fait aujourd’hui partie des pratiques instituées en matière de police et de renseignement. Située à l’interface de la finance et de la sécurité, la lutte contre le blanchiment de capitaux et le financement du terrorisme repose sur les relations de coopération tissées entre deux groupes d’acteurs aux motivations et au...
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While tax issues have been historically disconnected from the mobilization against money laundering, there is now an ongoing reconfiguration of this “border” in France and at the international level. Our contribution aims to analyze the inclusion process of tax issues within anti-money laundering policy in order to understand the current transforma...
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While critical academic studies on financial surveillance blossom, they hardly pay attention to the critical capability of those who are involved in the implementation of anti-money-laundering/countering terrorist financing (AML/CTF) policy. In this paper the authors attempt precisely this analysis of existing mobilizations which contest the everyd...
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This article examines dynamics of financial surveillance and risk-based regulation in the context of ongoing activities to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Close analysis of the situation in the UK reveals entangled forms of co-regulation and ultimately co-production of surveillance that challenge ‘institutional boundaries’ of the s...
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The monitoring of capital flows tends to be a “governmentality of mobility” which makes banking institutions filters protectors of international financial architecture. These filters make a differential evaluation of risks leading to exclusion of “illegitimate” flows without obstructing the systemic fluidity of capital movement. This security manag...

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