Criminology, Civilisation and the New World Order

ISBN-13: 9781904385882 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 422 str.

Wayne Morrison

Opis

Written by the co-editor of the best-seller Cultural Criminology Unleashed, this contemporary book explores the topics of colonialism, post-colonialism, genocide, state control, the impact of September 11th and the post-9/11 world in a global context.

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.