The book asks important questions, which are also relevant to others fields...I highly recommend
this book for all criminologists and social scientists.
Anne Alvesalo-Kuusi, Sosiologia
Foreword, Elliott Currie; C. Wright Mills and the criminological imagination: introductory remarks, Jon Frauley. Part I C. Wright Mills, the Criminological Imagination and the Criminological Field: For a refractive criminology: against science machines and cheerful robots, Jon Frauley; The demise of the criminological imagination: thirty years later, Frank P. Williams III; Contemporary criminology and the sociological imagination, Eamonn Carrabine; The criminological imagination in an age of global cybernetic power, Stephen Pfohl. Part II The Criminological Imagination, Theoretical Insights, Empirical Implications: The implications of the sociology of C. Wright Mills for modern criminological theory revisited, Joseph A. Scimecca; Sympathy and the criminological imagination, Melanie White; Re-imagining social control: G.H. Mead, C. Wright Mills and beyond, Nicolas Carrier. Part III The Criminological Imagination, Empirical Insights, Theoretical Implications: Critical research values and C. Wright Mills' Sociological Imagination: learning lessons from researching prison officers, David Scott; Neo-liberalism, higher education and anti-politics: the assault on the criminological imagination, Alana Barton and Howard Davis; Imagining the unthinkable: climate change, ecocide and children, Rob White; The criminological imagination and the promise of fiction, Stephanie Piamonte; Imagining transnational security projects, David Nelken