Expanding the Criminological Imagination by Alana Barton
Manifesto for critical criminology
Explores areas neglected by establishment criminology
Focus on state crimes.
Expanding the Criminological Imagination
Expanding the Criminological Imagination
Summary
This book will be essential reading for students seeking an understanding of the nature of the discipline of criminology and criminological research. It brings together a series of writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critical analysis and their application to substantive case studies of research in action.
Expanding the Criminological Imagination Summary
About Alana Barton
Alana Barton is a Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Edge Hill University, UK.
Karen Corteen is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, and Programme Leader for Criminology at the University of Chester, UK.
David Scott is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
David Whyte is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: developing criminological imagination 2. Critical criminology and the intensification of the authoritarian state 3. Confronting the 'hegemony of vision': state, space and urban crime prevention 4. The 'worse' of two evils? Double murder trials and gender in England and Wales 1900-1953 5. 'Talking about resistance': women political prisoners and the dynamics of prison conflict, Northern Ireland 6. Changing focus: 'drug-related crime' and the criminological imagination 7. Taking crime seriously? Disaster, justice and impunity 8. Towards a criminology for human rights 9. Conclusion: expanding the imagination - moving beyond criminology?
Additional information
GOR010359261
9781843921561
1843921561
Expanding the Criminological Imagination by Alana Barton
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20061101
238
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