The Theoretical Foundations of Criminology: Place, Time and Context

ISBN-13: 9780415733953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 382 str.

Jayne Mooney

Opis

Written from a critical perspective, this book brings criminological theory to life. It presents the core theories as historical and cultural products and theorists as producers of culture located in particular places, writing in specific historical periods and situated in precise intellectual networks and philosophical controversies.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Setting the Stage for the Emergence of Criminology; 2. Classicist Criminology: The Search for Justice, Equality and the Rational ‘Man’; 3. The Positivist Revolution, Physiognomy, Phrenology and the Science of ‘; 4. Chicago School of Sociology: An Explosion of Ideas; 5. Developing a Sociological Criminology: Durkheim, Du Bois, Merton and Tannenbaum; 6. Feminism: Redressing the Gender Imbalance; 7. Confronting the Establishment: The Emergence of Critical Criminology; 8. From Theoretical Innovations to Political Engagement

O autorze

Jayne Mooney is an associate professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a member of the doctoral faculties in sociology and women studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her focus of scholarship is on the history of crime and punishment, gender and crime, the sociology of violence, social deviance and critical criminology. She was previously on the criminology faculties of Middlesex University and the University of Kent at Canterbury in the UK.