ABSTRACT The FARC, Colombia’s oldest and biggest guerrilla organisation, has long been constructed as the country’s public enemy number one, an enemy that is increasingly portrayed as an outright criminal actor who abandoned all political ambitions. This image of the FARC as a criminal threat to the Colombian state and society is central to a broader turn towards criminalisation in Colombian politics. Through the lens of a critical governance perspective and the notion of the state’s discursive selectivity this article analyses turning points during which the construction of Colombian society’s criminal enemies became a driving force in the country’s security governance. Which social forces support the implementation of criminalising forms of security governance and how? What are the social and political consequences of the latter? In answering these questions, the article argues that the war on (guerrilla) crime assumes a ‘productive’ role for Colombia’s formal democracy.

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刑事等级制度及其批评者：哥伦比亚的治理与不安全感

摘要哥伦比亚革命武装力量是哥伦比亚历史最悠久，规模最大的游击组织，长期以来一直是该国的公共敌人头号敌人，越来越多的敌人将敌人描绘成彻底放弃了所有政治野心的犯罪分子。哥伦比亚革命武装力量对哥伦比亚国家和社会构成刑事威胁的这种形象，对于哥伦比亚政治更广泛地走向犯罪定罪至关重要。本文通过批判性治理视角和国家话语选择性的概念，分析了转折点，在此期间，哥伦比亚社会的犯罪敌人的建设成为该国安全治理的推动力。哪些社会力量支持将安全治理定为刑事犯罪形式？如何执行？后者的社会和政治后果是什么？在回答这些问题时，文章认为，针对（游击）犯罪的战争为哥伦比亚的正式民主发挥了“生产性”作用。