Imagining Criminology: An Alternative Paradigm

ISBN-13: 9780815330783 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 208 str.

Frank P. Williams; Marilyn D. McShane

Opis

Critiques contemporary positivist-based criminology and proposes an alternative that is not in itself a new theory but a new orienting perspective, a different way of perceiving reality, under which existing theories can be used and reinterpreted. Because Williams proposes a metatheory rather than a

Spis treści

Chapter One: Thought and Ideology, Chapter Two: Recent Criminological Theorizing , Chapter Three: A Critique of Contemporary Criminological Theory , Chapter Four: Conceptualizing and Measuring, Chapter Five: The Search for Reality, Chapter Six: Chaos, Complex Systems, and Self-Organized Criticality, Chapter Seven: A Critical-Incident Orienting-Perspective, Chapter Eight: Specific Features of the Perspective , Chapter Nine: Implications of a Critical-Incident Metatheory, Chapter Ten: Conclusions

O autorze

Frank P Williams III