Critical criminology : issues, debates, challenges / edited by Kerry Carrington and Russell Hogg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carrington, Kerry.

Hogg, Russell

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical criminology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 286 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2002.

Contents:

1 Critical criminologies: an introduction / Kerry Carrington, Russell Hogg 1

Part I Issues and Debates in Critical Criminology

2 Defining 'power' and challenging 'knowledge': critical analysis as resistance in the UK / Phil Scraton 15

3 Critical criminology in the United States: the Berkeley School and theoretical trajectories / Herman Schwendinger, Julia R. Schwendinger, Michael J. Lynch 41

4 'Losing my religion': reflections on critical criminology in Australia / David Brown 73

5 Feminism and critical criminology: confronting genealogies / Kerry Carrington 114

Part II New Directions and Challenges for Critical Criminology

6 For a psychosocial criminology / Tony Jefferson 145

7 Critical criminology and the punitive society: some new 'visions of social control' / John Pratt 168

8 Criminology beyond the nation state: global conflicts, human rights and the 'new world disorder' / Russell Hogg 185

9 Left, right or straight ahead: contemporary prospects for progressive and critical criminology / Judith Bessant 218

10 Critical criminology? In praise of an oxymoron and its enemies / Pat Carlen 243

11 Critical criminology in the twenty-first century: critique, irony and the always unfinished / Jock Young 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

1903240697

1903240689

OCLC:

48930923