Postmodern Criminology

ISBN-13: 9780367136185 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Dragan Milovanovic

Opis

Originally published in 1997.  This excellent text discusses some of the key themes, dealing with both theoretical integrative work, applications, and recent developments in studying postmodern criminology. It is intended for students as well as those who are more familiar with the subject.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Foreword. Preface. Introduction Part 1: Theoretical Integration 1. Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodernist Thought 2. The Decentered Subject in Law: Contributions of Topology, Psychoanalytic Semiotics, and Chaos Theory 3. Borromean Knots and the Constitution of Sense in Juridico-Discursive Production 4. Constitutive Criminology: The Maturation of Critical Theory Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic Part 2: Application: Doing Affirmative Postmodern Analysis in Law, Crime, and Penology 5. Jailhouse Lawyers and Jailhouse Lawyering 6. Overcoming the Absurd: Prisoner Litigation as Primitive Rebellion Dragan Milovanovic and Jim Thomas 7. The Necessity Defense, Substantive Justice, and Oppositional Linguistic Practice Shelley Bannister and Dragan Milovanovic 8. Constitutive Penology Dragan Milovanovic and Stuart Henry 9. Topology, Chaos, and Psychoanalytic Semiotics Part 3: Emerging Postmodern Methodologies: Integration and Application 10. Chaos and Criminology: Phase Maps and Bifurcation Diagrams 11. Chaos, Meta-Modeling, and Criminology: Iterative Loops, COREL and Mandelbrot Sets 12. Catastrophe Theory, Crime, and Peacemaking. Conclusion: Toward the New Orderly (Dis)Order. References. Cases Cited

O autorze

Dragan Milovanovic is Professor in the Justice Studies Department at Northeastern Illinois University.