https://mail.lifescienceglobal.com/pms/index.php/ijcs/issue/feed 2026-02-23T09:57:31+00:00 Mansoor A. Rizvi rizvi@lifescienceglobal.com Open Journal Systems <p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The International Journal of Criminology and Sociology monitors the rapidly changing interdisciplinary fields of criminology and sociology. It is a forum for the publication and discussion of theory, research, policy, and practice in the related aspects of this discipline.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">IJCS is a valuable resource for intellectuals dealing with the various aspects related to crime, whether its criminology, sociology, anthropology, psychology, law, economics, politics or social work. It is also of great value to professionals concerned with crime, law, criminal justice, politics, and penology.</span></p> https://mail.lifescienceglobal.com/pms/index.php/ijcs/article/view/10847 2026-02-11T11:08:35+00:00 Paul C. Mocombe pmocombe@mocombeian.com

<p>Within Mocombe’s theories of phenomenological structuralism and consciousness field theory, this article outlines the emergence of the process of urbanization and urbanism as a way of life in the capitalist world-system. The paper connects, causally, the emergence of the latter with the formation of the former two, i.e., urbanization and urbanism, in the West.</p>

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<p class="04-abstract"><span style="background: white;">This article introduces the concept of teratocracy to analyze contemporary forms of political power marked by the erosion of symbolic limits and the normalization of excess. Epistemologically, it aligns with the tradition of the criminological imagination articulated by Jock Young, reconnecting criminology and sociology through C. Wright Mills’ critique of abstracted empiricism. From a criminological perspective, it also draws on recent developments in zemiology and social harm approaches, shifting the analytical focus from crime to the production, normalization, and denial of harm. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the analysis examines processes of symbolic collapse and their implications for authority, responsibility, legitimacy, and social harm. Teratocracy is conceptualized not as governance without law, but as a mode of power organized around unbounded enjoyment, which reshapes moral boundaries and weakens mechanisms of accountability.</span></p>

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