Colin Sumner: Criminology Through the Looking-Glass

ISBN-13: 9783030369439 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 155 str.

David Moxon

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Sumner and ideological censure

Context 

Sumner’s concept of ideological censure

To Cambridge

Chapter 3: After censure

Sumner as critic

Sumner as theorist of underdevelopment

Sumner as media analyst

Sumner as theorist of censure

Shifting sands

Chapter 4: Sumner and the death of deviance

The Obituary in brief

Observations on the Obituary

Chapter 5: After the death of deviance

Continued theoretical development

Censure in the textbooks

A return to old themes

A retirement of sorts

The continuing controversy over the Obituary

Chapter 6: Sumner and the looking glass

Censure and the 2011 riots

Measure for Measure

A return to first principles

Through the looking glass

Chapter 7: After Sumner?

Sumner’s work as a cumulative project

A commitment to theory

Sumner and Marxism

Towards moral renewal?

Sumner’s influence

The future

O autorze

David Moxon completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. No longer employed in academia, he continues to research and write on criminology in an independent capacity, and frequently draws upon the ideas of Colin Sumner.

Blurb

This book explores the work of criminologist Colin Sumner. It re-presents his arguments and ideas on Marxism, ideology, censure, deviance, crime, underdevelopment, social control and the media; situating them in their wider social context. Moxon argues that Sumner should be restored within the criminology discipline as a pioneer who has produced works of great theoretical sophistication and insight. By systematically considering Sumner’s entire output, the book shows how his thought involved a gradually deepening understanding of his core notion of ideological censure. His writing is also marked by a growing unease with the effects of late modern capitalism and the quagmire of censoriousness rife in the 21^st century. This book makes clear that Sumner’s work was remarkably prescient, and his ideas may help up to make sense of complicated times.