Dr Ronald Kramer

BA with Honors (La Trobe University), MA Sociology, M Phil Sociology, PhD Sociology (Yale University)

Senior Lecturer

In: Sociology » Social Sciences » Faculty of Arts

Research | Current

Critical and cultural criminology
Graffiti and street art
Subcultures
Criminalization
Crime/deviance
Qualitative methods

My research focuses on how power asymmetries impact our thinking about crime and deviance, and how they shape everyday practices within criminal justice systems. The relationship between power, deviance and control has been explored through empirical studies on graffiti writing culture, fieldwork conducted in Rikers Island, and an institutional ethnography of district courts. My current project revolves around the misguided faith we place in science and technology to curtail criminalized behavior.

Teaching | Current

CRIM 200 Cultural Criminology

SOCIOL 203 Social Reality and Ideology

CRIM 700 Research in Criminology

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Kramer, R. (2017). Crime, Law and Justice in New Zealand by Greg Newbold, Routledge, 2016 [Book review]. Counterfutures: Left thought & practice Aotearoa (3), 161-166. Related URL.
Kramer, R. (2017). The rise of legal graffiti writing in New York and beyond. Palgrave Macmillan. Pages: 160. 10.1007/978-981-10-2800-7
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/32246
Kramer, R. (2016). Differential Punishment of Similar Behaviour: Sentencing Assault Cases in a Specialized Family Violence Court and ‘Regular Sentencing’ Courts. British Journal of Criminology, 56 (4), 689-708. 10.1093/bjc/azv064
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/28995
Kramer, R. (2016). The elusive nature of critical codes: Graffiti writing culture in film. Street Art and Urban Creativity, 2 (1), 67-76. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/32416
Kramer, R. (2016). New York City’s moral panic over graffiti: Normalizing neoliberal penality and paving the way for growth machines. In J. I. Ross (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art (pp. 404-415). New York: Routledge. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/28614
Kramer, R. (2016). Straight from the underground: New York City's legal graffiti writing culture. In J. I. Ross (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art (pp. 113-123). New York: Routledge. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/28613
Kramer, R. (2015). Visual Boredom: Commodification and Exclusion in Graffiti-Less Auckland. Metropolitics Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/26301
Kramer, R. (2015). Neoliberal states and ‘flexible penality’: Punitive practices in district courts. New Zealand Sociology, 30 (2), 44-58. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/26760