Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology

ISBN-13: 9780367878146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 536 str.

Walter S. Dekeseredy; Molly Dragiewicz

Opis

Designed for students, researchers and policymakers, this handbook highlights new theoretical directions within the context of international multidisciplinary critical research, namely southern criminology, queer criminology, and green criminology.

Spis treści

Introduction: Critical criminology: past, present, and future Part I Beyond critique: theoretical perspectives 1. Critical political economy, crime and justice 2. Left realism: a new look 3. Ultra-realism 4. Southern criminology 5. Feminist perspectives 6. Masculinities and crime 7. Queer criminology 8. Cultural criminology 9. Critical green criminology 10. Green cultural criminology 11. Convict criminology 12. Postmodern criminology Part II Select topics in critical criminology 13. A critical interpretation of animal exploitation 14. Crimes of the powerful: an agenda for a twenty-first-century criminology 15. State violence, women, and gender 16. Criminology, war and the violence of militarism 17. Terrorism: the problem with radicalization: overlooking the elephants in the room 18. Militarizing American police: an overview 19. Hate crime 20. Neoliberalism and the politics of imprisonment 21. Private prisons, the criminal justice–industrial complex and bodies destined for profitable punishment 22. Power and accountability: life after death row in the United States 23. Thinking critically about contemporary adult pornography and woman abuse 24. Critical issues in intimate partner violence against women 25. Image-based sexual abuse 26. Child sexual abuse 27. Antifeminism and backlash: a critical criminological imperative 28. A critical examination of girls’ violence and juvenile justice 29. Girls and women in conflict with the law 30. Critical criminology and drugs 31. Critical perspectives on urban street gangs 32. The future of a critical rural criminology 33. Media and crime: interrogating the violence of representation 34. Research on human trafficking: critical perspectives and thoughts on new directions Part III Policy issues 35. Curbing state crime by challenging the U.S. Empire 36. Violence and social policy 37. Confronting adult pornograph

O autorze

Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Centre on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He has published 23 books, 95 scientific journal articles and 76 scholarly book chapters on violence against women and other social problems.

Molly Dragiewicz is Associate Professor in the School of Justice, Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She launched QUT’s first domestic violence elective unit in 2015 and developed and serves as Course Coordinator for the Graduate Certificate in Domestic Violence since 2016.