Expanding the Criminological Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781843921561 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str.

Opis

Brings together writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critical analysis and their application to substantive case studies of research in action. This book is useful for students seeking an

Spis treści

1. Introduction: developing criminological imagination  2. Critical criminology and the intensification of the authoritarian state  3. Confronting the 'hegemony of vision': state, space and urban crime prevention  4. The 'worse' of two evils? Double murder trials and gender in England and Wales 1900-1953  5. 'Talking about resistance': women political prisoners and the dynamics of prison conflict, Northern Ireland  6. Changing focus: 'drug-related crime' and the criminological imagination  7. Taking crime seriously? Disaster, justice and impunity  8. Towards a criminology for human rights  9. Conclusion: expanding the imagination - moving beyond criminology?