Exploring the key issues and future prospects facing critical criminology, this book brings together leading authorities in the field from the UK, Australasia and the USA.
Explores the key issues and future prospects facing critical criminology
Brings together an eminent international cast of critical criminologists from the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand
Essential reading for anybody concerned with the future of criminology and criminological scholarship.
Preface 1. Critical criminologies: an introduction Part 1: Issues and debates in critical criminology 2. Defining 'power' and challenging 'knowledge': critical analysis as resistance in the UK 3. Critical criminology in the United States: the Berkeley School and theoretical trajectories 4. 'Losing my religion': reflections on critical criminology in Australia 5. Feminism and critical criminology: confronting genealogies Part 2: New directions and challenges for critical criminology 6. For a psychosocial criminology 7. Critical criminology and the punitive society: some new 'visions of social control' 8. Criminology beyond the nation state: global conflicts, human rights and the 'new world disorder' 9. Left, right or straight ahead: contemporary prospects for progressive and critical criminology 10. Critical criminology? In praise of an oxymoron and its enemies 11. Critical criminology in the twenty-first century: critique, irony and the always unfinished