Counter-colonial criminology : a critique of imperialist reason / Biko Agozino ; with a foreword by Stephen Pfohl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agozino, Biko.

Contributor:

Pfohl, Stephen J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How the colonial experience has been instrumental in shaping modern criminology.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

1. The Enlightenment and Euro- American Theories of the Judicial Process 13Enlightened Retribution and Utilitarianism

The Rational Ideal Type and Orientalism

Whose Conscience is the Collective Conscience under Colonialism?

From the Micro- Physics of Power to the Bifurcation Thesis

2. From Determinism to Meaning: The Emergence of the Labelling Perspective

Theoretical and Historical Background

Symbolic Interactionism

Phenomenology and Labelling

The Power to Name as a Focus

An Assessment of the Labelling Perspective

3. From Societal Reaction to Questions of Power: From Labelling to Radical Criminology

From the Symbolic to the Structural

Back to Classical Marxism

Practical Implications

A Critique of Critical Criminology

What is New about New Realism?

Realism, Neoclassicism and Sociological Determinism

The Examples of Counter- Colonial Crminology

4. Feminist Perspectives and Critical Criminology 63Feminist Empiricism

Standpoint Feminism

Postmodern Feminism

5. Lesbian Rape: Maternal Metaphors for the Patriarchal State and International Conflict Resolution

The Literature of Rape

The Sisters Do It for Themselves

6. Poststructuralism and Positivism in Criminological Theory

7. Social Fiction Sui Generis : The Fairy Tale Structure of Criminological Theory 103Tensions between Facticity and Validity 103The Murder of Reality

The Fictional Character of Criminological Theory

8. Executive Lawlessness and the Struggle for Democracy in Africa 113What is Crime and What is Punishment?

Democracy, Law and Order as Organised Violence

Realism, Authoritarianism and Decolonisation

Democracy as Redress for Victimised Society

9. Radical Criminology in African Literature

The Problem of Crime

What is Crime and What Causes Crime?.

How is Law Related to Society?

How Should Society Respond to Offending Behaviour? 153Discussion and Conclusion

10. Committed Objectivity in Race Class Gender Research

Race Class Gender Identity in Research

Objectivity is not Positionlessness 163The Example of the Institute of Race Relations

What is Committed Objectivity?

11. How Scientific is Criminal Justice? A Methodological Critique of Research on McCleskey v. Kemp and Other Capital Cases 173The Case of McCleskey

Investigation and Adjudication as Research

Science has No Room for Finality

A Scientific Argument Against the Death Penalty

A Critique of Criminological Research on the Death Penalty

Mumia Abu- Jamal: Another Ken Saro- Wiwa?

Conclusion: How Scientific are Criminal Justice Sciences?

12. What is Institutionalised? The Race Class Gender Articulation of Stephen Lawrence

The Sociology of Institutionalisation

Institutionalised Racism Sexism Classism

A Letter from Harlem

Windrush : A Law and Social Justice Workshop

Conclusion

13. Criminal Records: The Toughest, the Police and the Thieves: The Policing of Peter Tosh and Popular Culture

Everyone is talking about crime, crime, tell me who are the criminals Tosh

I am wanted dred and alive, no place to hide Tosh

Get up stand up, stand up for your rights Tosh and Marley

Conclusion: Groundings

Conclusion: Beyond Criminological Orientalism

Bibliography

Index

Abacha, General Sani,

187-8

222

Abbott, D.

8

142

Aboriginal Australian

5

60

men, 241

men, 246

youth, 239

abortion 47

absolutism 27

Abu-Jamal, Mumia

173

187-90

accountability 138

Achebe

7

11-12

38

62

145

221

228

Acton, Lord 30

adjudication 23

administrative criminology,hypocrisy of 47-8

adults 51.

Africa

11

41

49

133

138

230

246

cultural unity of, 241

rape of, 77

scramble for, 62

universities in, 8-9

Africa World Review 116

African American classic 39

African American men

193

241

African American students 44

African Americans

4

34

191

231

239

African creative writers 229

African cultures 240

African descent

African Diaspora

African Fractals

238

245

African holocaust 246

African intellectuals 71

African literature

61

140-2

African people 224

African saying 115-16

African-American criminologists 7

Africans

83

88

207

244

enslaved, 14-15

Africentrism 241

Afro-Americans 191

Agbo, Simeon 189

Agozino, Biko

19

26

91

112

134

162-3

170

186

192

199-200

206

216-17

236-9

trifurcation, 126

trifurcation, 128

Aguda, Justice, T.A. 133

Ahire, Phillip 143

Aidoo, Ama Ata

72

149

Ake, Claude 1

Albanese, J.S. 185

Algeria

40

Alldridge, Peter 179-80

Allen, Hilary 65

Alschuler, A.W. 191

Althusser, Louis 52

Amadiume, Ifi

81

America

threatened boycott of congress

9

17

29

144

American dream 29

American Flag 237

American revolutionaries 136

American students 69

American universities 9

American war of independence 43

Americans on death row 185

Americas, the 138

Amery, Colin, The Rape of Britain 75

Amin, Samir

119

Amnesty International

90

189

anarchists 51-2

ANC 58

Angelou, Maya 84

angle of deviation 233

Angola 40

animal kingdom 11-12

anomie 42

anthropology

12

critique of colonial, 69

anthropometry 34

anti-apartheid activists 130 266.

anti-colonial literature 61

anti-colonial struggles

9-10

44

anti-imperialist 7

anti-racism 49

anti-racist education 165

anti-Semitism

20

203

anti-sexism 49

anti-Vietnam war protests 41

apartheid

22

132

137-8

resistance to, 70

Apartheid Pass Laws 8

apes 25

Appiah, Anthony 241

Archer, P. 135

Arrigo, Bruce 110

arrogance 16

articulation of race, class and gender 80

Asante, Molefi 241

Asia

Asians

4-5

Asiatic mode of law 53

Atlanta, Georgia 237

Austinian 133

Australia

35

235

237

Australian and New Zealand crimi-nologists 7

authoritarian authoritarianism 133

authoritarian law-and-order 138

authoritarian populism

21-2

authoritarianism 130

Ayu, Iyorchi

220

Ba, Mariama 149

Babangida, General Ibrahim 189

Babbie, E. 177

Back 166

Badau, Hugo 185

Baldus study

174

183-4

190

Baldwin, James 204-6

Bangladesh 90

Bankowski, Zenon 52

Barak, Greg

66

132-3

136-7

Barbados 15

Barbie, E. 167

Baudrillard, Jean

10

102

103

111-12

198

200

216

Fatal Strategies, 77

Perfect Crime, 108-10

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, 102

Bauman, Zygmunt

24

199

Beauty and the Beast 112

Beccaria, Cesare

14

16-17

93

Beck, Urlich 198

Becker, Howard S.

43-4

47

50-1

67

158

165

171

and the wives of jazz musicians, 49

Beirne, Piers 14

Belgian colonial officials 32

Belgium 14

Bell, Vicki 77

Ben-Tovim, G. 166

Bentham, Jeremy

15

Bhabha, Homi

100-1

Biafra 35

bifurcation

37

125

Biko, Steve 70

black Africa

32

Black Consciousness Movement 70.

black criminal justice personnel 207

black intellectuals 85

black legend 14

black masculinity 236-8

black men 185

Black Panther Party

79

black people

oppressed for centuries, 78

Black Police Officers Association 208

Black Probation Officers Association 208

black women

172

Black Women and the Criminal Justice System 186

blackness

233-5

masculine, 235

Blaumstein, A. 168

blood feuds 117

bloodclaat 223

Bluecoat Gallery 155

Blumer, Herbert 44

Bolan, Barbara 176-7

Bolshakov, V. 135

Bonger, Wilhem 92

Bosnia 228

Bosnian-Croatian 90

bosses 51

Bottoms, Anthony 37

boundary, blurring 36

Bourdieu, Pierre 169

bourgeois class

Box, Steve

30

Brandt, A. 193

Brisbane, Australia 239

Britain

115

136

226

Britannia 126

British colonies 26

British National Party 80

British rule 40

Broadhead, Lee-Anne 72

Broadwater Farm Estate 170

Brooks, Dwayne 194

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 168

Brown, D. 58

Brownmiller, Susan

89

Bryson, Norman 89

bumboclaat 223

bureaucracies, rational 236

bureaucratisation 22-3

Burkina Faso 32

Burundi 138

Bush, George, Sr 84

butch-femme passion 86

Cabral, Amilcar

137

on class suicide, 53-4

Caesaire, Aime

5-6

15-16

32-3

Cain, Maureen

66-8

98

161

216-18

Calabar University 130

California universities 44

Cambodia 35

Campbell, Horace

139

217

223

Canada 86

capital punishment

173-93

capitalism

23

54

capitalist societies

59

Carib woman 83

Caribbean

women, 79

Carlen, Pat

64

215

Carmichael, Stokely 202.

Carter, Angela, and Red Riding Hood 112.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849641449

1849641447

9780585488691

058548869X

OCLC:

53983418