Making sense of evil : an interdisciplinary approach / Melissa Dearey (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hull, UK).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dearey, Melissa, author.

Series:

Critical criminological perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Criminal psychology.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 255 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"Should criminologists take evil seriously as a cause or explanation of crime, criminality, deviance and/or social control? This book seeks to answer this question by exploring a range of interdisciplinary approaches to evil from theology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies and anthropology to social psychology, political theory, law, radical feminism and criminology. Through applying and adapting theories and concepts from interdisciplinary sources for the purpose of criminological inquiry, Dearey presents an argument for why criminologists should begin to take this vexatious and highly controversial concept much more seriously in the development of future criminological theory and as a way to be more participative and engaged in public debates about crime"--Back cover.

Contents:

Theodicy : Understanding the Problem of Evil

Enter the Evil Genius : Encountering Metaphysical Evil

Radical Freedom, Radical Evil? Kant's Theory of Evil and the Failure of Theodicy

Telling Evil Stories : Understanding Cultural Narratives and Symbols of Evil in the Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur

'Something to be scared of' : Evil, the Feminine and Psychoanalytic Theory

Evil and Literature : Love and Liberation

Doing Evil : Crime, Compulsion, Seduction from the Standpoint of Social Psychology and Anthropology

The Banality of Evil : Genocide, Slavery, Holocaust, War

The Axis of Evil : the War on Terror, the 'Enemy Within' and the Politics of Evil and the State

Conclusion : Touching the Void or Looking Through a Glass Darkly? Evil and Criminology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index.

ISBN:

1137308796

9781137308795

OCLC:

864749942