Theorizing crime and deviance : a new perspective / by Steve Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Steve, 1955-

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Physical Description:

294 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE, 2012.

Summary:

This work emphasizes the need for new criminological theories and political renewal in a time when new forms of social division and anti-social subjectivity are emerging. Hall (criminology, Teesside University,UK) argues that criminological theory needs to "pull itself out of the quagmire of liberal postmodernist relativism" and "reinvent itself as a genuine opposition to neoliberal capitalism." He assesses the failure of the liberal narrative that has filtered through sociology to dominate the approved canon of non-conservative criminological theories. He spends the latter portion of the book outlining a newly synthesized theoretical approach to crime and harm, using a combination of revised dialectical theory, transcendental materialist philosophy, and a dualistic theory of historical process called pseudo-pacification. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Historical Patterns of Crime in England 20

3 Crime Trends in the Neoliberal Age 48

4 Social Theory and Criminology: The Underlying Liberal Narrative 72

5 Twentieth-century Criminological Theory: From Aetiology to Controlology 95

6 Living with the Undead: The Failure of Liberal-left Theory 131

7 The Return of the Dialectic 164

8 The Transcendental Materialist Subject 184

9 On the Stimulation and Pacification of Populations 214

10 Conclusion 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781848606715

1848606710

9781848606722

1848606729

OCLC:

769473165

Publisher Number:

99948616627