About
Laurent Bonelli is a professor of political science at the University of Paris-Nanterre and a member of the Institute for Social Sciences of Politics (UMR 7220). He is also co-editor-in-chief of Cultures & Conflits. His work focuses on the regulation of social and political illegalities in democracy.
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Introduction: Conceptualizing the police through field theory
In Sociétés contemporaines (2021/2 No 122)
Governing Internal Threats
Editorial
In Cultures & Conflits (2025/5 n° 139-140)
Policing Political Order: Genesis and Institutionalization of Political Intelligence in Nineteenth-Century France
In Cultures & Conflits (2025/5 n° 139-140)
“Criminologists Have Never Done Anything about the Crime Problem”
An Interview with Howard S. Becker
- Interview with Howard S. Becker,
- Interview by Didier Bigo,
- Laurent Bonelli
- et al.
In Cultures & Conflits (2025/2 n° 135-136)
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Articles
Governing Internal Threats
Editorial
In Cultures & Conflits (2025/5 n° 139-140)
Judges and Pistoleros. Social Violence, Political Violence and the Crisis of the Restoration Regime in Spain (1917–1923)
- By Arturo Zoffmann Rodríguez,
- Rubén Pérez Trujillano,
- Translated from spanish to french by Laurent Bonelli
In Cultures & Conflits (2025/5 n° 139-140)
Policing Political Order: Genesis and Institutionalization of Political Intelligence in Nineteenth-Century France
In Cultures & Conflits (2025/5 n° 139-140)
“Criminologists Have Never Done Anything about the Crime Problem”
An Interview with Howard S. Becker
- Interview with Howard S. Becker,
- Interview by Didier Bigo,
- Laurent Bonelli
- et al.
In Cultures & Conflits (2025/2 n° 135-136)
Introduction: Conceptualizing the police through field theory
In Sociétés contemporaines (2021/2 No 122)
“We’re not Big Brother!”
Authority and strategies of legitimation in intelligence agencies’ appropriation of digital data
- By Didier Bigo
- and Laurent Bonelli
In Cultures & Conflits (2019/2 No 114-115)
Introduction
In Cultures & Conflits (2019/2 No 114-115)
Introduction
- By Didier Bigo
- and Laurent Bonelli
In Cultures & Conflits (2018/4 No 112)
Jihadism
The reasons behind the seduction
- By Serge Hefez,
- Laurent Bonelli,
- Interview conducted by Isabelle Gravillon
In L'école des parents (2019/3 No 632)
Introduction
In Cultures & Conflits (2017/4 No 108)
A Critique of Criminological Reasoning
- By Didier Bigo
- and Laurent Bonelli
In Cultures & Conflits (2014/2 No 94-95-96)
The Use of Violence in Politics
In Cultures & Conflits (2011/1 No 81-82)
A “Faceless and Nameless” Enemy
Intelligence, Exception, and Suspicion after September 11, 2011
In Cultures & Conflits (2005/2 58)
Evolutions and Regulations of Popular Illegal Acts in France since the Early 1980s
In Cultures & Conflits (2003/3 No 51)
Applying for a Schengen Visa: Personal Experiences
In Cultures & Conflits (2003/2 No 50)
