Deviant Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781843920298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 228 str.

Reece Walters

Opis

In this work Reece Walters examines the politics of criminology and the ways in which criminological knowledge is generated. It includes an overview of the politics and practice of conducting criminological research (drawing upon material from Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the US), and the ways that regulatory and governing authorities set research agendas, manipulate the processes and production of knowledge and silence or suppress critical voices through various techniques of neutralisation.

Spis treści

1. Questions, contours and methods  2. Contours of criminological knowledge: haunted by a spirit of pragmatism?  3. Criminology, government and public policy  4. The politics and control of criminological knowledge  5. Silencing the critics: the 'War on Terror' and the suppression of dissent  6. New modes of governance and the commercialization of criminological knowledge  7. Reflections and new horizons

O autorze

Reece Walters is Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK.