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Deviant knowledge : criminology, politics and policy / Reece Walters.
Van Pelt Library HV6024.5 .W35 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walters, Reece.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminals--Research.
- Criminals.
- Crime--Research.
- Crime.
- Criminals--Research--Political aspects.
- Crime--Research--Political aspects.
- Crime--Finance--Political aspects.
- Criminals--Finance--Political aspects.
- Finance.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 218 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cullompton : Willan, 2003.
- Contents:
- 1 Questions, contours and methods 1
- 2 Contours of criminological knowledge: haunted by a spirit of pragmatism? 13
- Early criminological developments 15
- International reconstruction and developments in criminological research following World War II 24
- United Nations, criminological discourse and government(ality) 27
- The rise of critical genres 36
- 3 Criminology, government and public policy 43
- Criminology in government 44
- The Home Office, England and Wales 45
- National Institute of Justice, Washington D.C. 59
- Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra 64
- Criminology in public policy 71
- 4 The politics and control of criminological knowledge 79
- What are the politics of criminological research? 81
- (Re)defining research 83
- Government and commercial contracts: the legalization of interference 86
- Ethical and legal issues 93
- Securing support and sponsorship 98
- Gathering and accessing data 103
- Publishing results 109
- 5 Silencing the critics: the 'War on Teror' and the suppression of dissent 124
- The War on Terror 126
- 'Acts of sedition': opposing the War on Terror 127
- Government intolerance and the suppression of free speech 130
- The authoritarian ascendancy 132
- Resistance and detaching hegemonic truth 134
- 6 New modes of governance and the commercialization of criminological knowledge 136
- Governmentality and criminological research 137
- University autonomy and criminological research 144
- Critique and post-disciplinary criminologies 152
- 7 Reflections and new horizons 160
- Looking back and moving forward 160
- Intellectual independence and collective concern 163
- The value of critique 165
- Final thought 169
- Research methodology 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-206) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1843920301
- 1843920298
- OCLC:
- 52565232
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