The new criminology : for a social theory of deviance / Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Ian, 1944-2001, author.

Contributor:

Walton, Paul.

Young, Jock.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Deviant behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Edition:

40th anniversary ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""The New Criminology was written at a particular time and place; it was a product of 1968 and its aftermath: a world turned upside down .It was a time of great changes in personal politics and a surge of politics on the left: Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism as well as radical social democratic ideas became centre stage."" Jock Young, from the new introduction.<BR><BR>Taylor, Walton and Young's <I>The New Criminology</I> is one of the seminal texts in Criminology. First published in 1973, it marked a watershed moment in the development of critical criminological theory and is as relevant toda

Contents:

Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Introduction to 40th anniversary edition; The New Criminology : where we came from, where we are going; Situating The New Criminology; The Millsian vision; The golden age of American sociology of deviance; The New Criminology and the NDC; The New Criminology: the explanatory agenda; The immediate years: Policing the Crisis and The New Criminology; Realist and cultural criminology: the subsequent years; Is cultural criminology necessarily idiographic?; The tendencies of social institutions and situations; History and change

Progress in scope and in theoryThe pieces of the puzzle come together; Bibliography; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Classical criminology and the positivist revolution; The classical school of criminology; Neo-classical revisionism; The positivist revolution; The quantification of behaviour; Scientific neutrality; The determinism of behaviour; 2. The appeal of positivism; The consensus world view; The determinism of behaviour; The science of society; The meshing of interests; Lombroso; Body types in biological positivism; The XYY chromosome theory; Eysenck; Trasler; Conclusion

3. Durkheim and the break with 'analytical individualism'Durkheim's break with positivism; Durkheim's view of human nature; Durkheim on anomie and the division of labour; Durkheim on 'the Normal and the Pathological'; Durkheim as a biological meritocrat; Durkheim and a social theory of deviance; 4. The early sociologies of crime; Merton and the American Dream; The typology of adaptations; Merton-the cautious rebel; A pluralistic society; Mertonian anomie theory and a social theory of deviance; The Chicago school and the legacy of positivism; The city, social problems and capitalist society

The struggle for space and a sociology of the cityThe struggle for space and the phenomenology of the ecological structure; Society as an organism; Criticisms of differential associations theory; Behaviourist revisions to Sutherland's theory; The theory of subcultures and beyond; 5. Social reaction, deviant commitment and career; What is the social reaction or labellingapproach to deviance?; Deviance, behaviour and action; Primary and secondary deviance and the notion of sequence or career; Social reaction: theory or perspective?; Power and politics; Conclusions

6. American naturalism and phenomenologyThe work of David Matza; Subterranean values, neutralization and drift; Pluralism; The late Matza: becoming deviant?; American phenomenology and the study of deviance: ethnomethodology; Ethnomethodology and the phenomenological project; The ethnomethodological critique; 7. Marx, Engels and Bonger on crime and social control; Willem Bonger and formal Marxism; Conclusion; 8. The new conflict theorists; Austin Turk and Ralf Dahrendorf; Authority, stratification and criminalization; Richard Quinney and the social reality of crime; 9. Conclusion

1. The wider origins of the deviant act

Notes:

"First published 1973 by Routledge, reprinted with new introduction in 2013."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 9, 2013).

ISBN:

0-415-85587-X

1-135-00686-5

0-203-73015-1

1-135-00687-3

9780203730157

OCLC:

854976336