Expanding the Criminological Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781843921578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 256 str.

Alana Barton; Karen Corteen; David Scott

Opis

This book brings together a series of 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. The books starting point is criminology's failure to adequately investigate genocide, western state terrorism, safety crime, environmental crimes, state crimes against children, and many other harmful acts. It establishes the conceptual and practical foundations for a new generation of studies in criminology, and sets a new agenda for critical criminology. Each chapter critically assesses the main conceptual and empirical problems encountered in research and indicates the ways in which work has been influenced by critical criminology paradigms and enriched by other disciplines, bringing to life the key theoretical debates within the discipline. This book will be essential reading for students seeking an understanding of the nature of the discipline of cr

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?