Criminology, Civilisation and the New World Order

ISBN-13: 9781904385127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 424 str.

David Ed. Morrison

Opis

In this self-reflective era, accounts of criminology's history as a state- and science-dependent discipline are in the ascendant. But how many address the torque of criminology towards colonialist thought and practice or the relation between criminology and genocide? These are two of the central themes in this study.

Spis treści

Introduction.  September 11, Sovereignty and the Invasion of 'Civilized Space'.  Relating Visions: Patterns of Integration and Absences.  Criminal Statistics, Sovereignty and the Control of Death: Representations from Quetelet to Auschwitz.  The Lombrosian Moment: Bridging the Visible and the Invisible or Restricting the Gaze in the Name of Progress?  Civilizing the Congo, Whose Story, Whose Truth: Wherewith Criminology?.  'A living Lesson in the Museum of Order': The Case of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Brussels.  Contingencies of Encounter, Crime and Punishment: On the Purposeful Avoidance of 'Global Criminology'.  A Reflected Gaze of Humanity: Reflections on Vision, Memory and Genocide.  Teaching the Significance of Genocide and Our Indifference: The Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh.  Enlightenment, Wedding Guests and Terror: the Exceptional and the Normal Revisited

O autorze

Wayne Morrison is a member of the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London and Director of the University of London’s External Undergraduate Programmes for Law.