Policing the surplus crisis, carceral racism and abolitionist resistance in Germany
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over the last decades, state violence has intensified in various European countries. Police powers, as well as repressive migration regimes, have massively expanded, and moral panics that center on the “criminality” of migrants and racialized youth are recurring. At the center of this condition lies the racialized figure of migration as well as the category of surplus. This article discusses two examples of the carceral condition in Germany: Police killings and related forms of policing, described by many activists in Germany as the “police problem”; and the moral urban panic around “clan criminality”. These two sides of policing are characterized by a specific form of racism. I define this form of racism as carceral racism. The contribution of this article is twofold: It provides an analysis of (1) two dominant forms of policing in Germany and (2) a new paradigm of racism that is shaped by the carceral condition.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it