Expanding the Criminological Imagination by Alana Barton
Manifesto for critical criminology
Explores areas neglected by establishment criminology
Focus on state crimes.
Manifesto for critical criminology
Explores areas neglected by establishment criminology
Focus on state crimes.
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.
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?