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This chapter reflects on how distancing is central to state and corporate violations of human rights. It shows how political ideologies, the production of data, bureaucratic rationalities and technological shifts actively sustain distance and facilitate violence and harms in doing so. In turn, the chapter proposes a criminological research agenda for human rights that unsettles the global power arrangements, institutional settings and structural conditions that ensure mass violations as a tolerated practice. Two elements are considered: to expose the distancing at play in violations, and to increase our attentiveness to the distancing at the core of research processes.
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Stanley, E. (2024). Criminological Research for Human Rights. In: Weber, L., Marmo, M. (eds) A Research Agenda for a Human Rights Centred Criminology. Palgrave Critical Studies in Human Rights and Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46289-4_2
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