Critical voices in criminology / edited by Chris Powell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Powell, Chris, 1951-

Series:

Critical perspectives on crime and inequality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical criminology.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

xvii, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2009]

Summary:

Readers of criminology literature are presented with little more than thumbnail sketches as to the social characteristics or motivations of the authors one learns their status, institutional location and supposed credentials. Rarely are we presented with more detailed impressions of the authors, as a combination of positivist assumption and notions of professional competence seemingly renders such information unimportant However, increasing numbers of critical scholars are becoming aware of authorship as an issue; it matters who is addressing us. By taking these authors out of their methodological framework Critical voices in Criminology provides an opportunity for figures in and around critical criminology to discuss their own intellectual journeys into an with the discipline

This book offers the opportunity for contributors to reflect on their work and consider what they did not say. It also affords them the opportunity to describe their own channeling processes by indicating how the pursuance of some themes/topics seemed appropriated sensible or realistic while others appeared lass so, whether they internalized these particular themes, or if they attempted to contest and/or replace them.

Contents:

1 Butterfly or Dinosaur? Criminological "Journeyman"; and Romantic Pessimist / Chris Powell 1

2 Reflections of a Black Feminist Criminologist / Hillary Potter 23

3 An Accidental Criminologist / Luis Fernandez 39

4 Traveling into Criminology / Sharon Pickering 53

5 Convict Criminology: "Privileged Information" and the Authority of Experience / Alan Mobley 67

6 Identity Matters: Cultivating a Critical Criminologist / Nancy A. Wonders 91

7 From Dock to Doctor / Roger Yates 109

8 Goody Two Shoes Meets the Bad Girls / Ruth Waierhouse 125

9 "Hearing Voices, Bearing Witness": Reflections on Critical Analysis in Criminology / Phil Scraton 143

10 Confessions of a Drive-By Intellectual / Raymond Michalowski 185

11 Hither and Thither No More: Reflections of a Retiring, but Not Shy, Professor / Gary T. Marx 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780739120323

0739120328

9780739120330

0739120336

9780739139776

0739139770

OCLC:

319602619