| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations |
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Critical criminological perspectives |
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Critical criminological perspectives.
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| Contents |
Utopia and its discontents / Margaret Malloch and Bill Munro -- Crime, critique and utopian alternatives / Margaret Malloch -- Utopia and penal constraint: the Frankfurt School and critical criminology / Bill Munro -- Erich Fromm : from messianic utopia to critical criminology / Michael Löwy -- Crime and punishment in classical and libertarian utopias / Vincenzo Ruggiero -- Visualising an abolitionist real utopia : principles, policy and praxis / David Scott -- Towards a utopian criminology / Lynne Copson -- Using the future to predict the past : prison population projections and the colonisation of penal imagination / Sarah Armstrong -- Techno-utopianism, science fiction and penal innovation : the case of electronically monitored control / Mike Nellis -- From penal dystopia to the reassertion of social rights / Loïc Wacquan |
| Summary |
This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the application of a utopian method for uncovering the potential within criminology and criminal justice, as well as the relevance of the utopian impulse for developing a challenge to the status quo in academia and beyond. Crime, Critique and Utopia examines the relationship between Utopia and the political through an analysis of utopian conceptualisations around crime and justice. It addresses the relevance of utopian principles in relation to a range of issues of direct and contemporary relevance to criminology, investigating theoretical possibilities, the use of utopian methods, and the application of utopian principles, in the quest for a transformative agenda within criminology and beyond. This book refines important social and historical themes of utopian construct from a criminological perspective, examining the interconnections between theoretical work on Utopia and political doctrines such as abolitionism and anarchism. It provides a critical analysis of criminal law and state policy on crime, considering various aspects of the utopian 'impulse' as it shapes criminological and abolitionist thinking. This edited collection includes contributions from Sarah Armstrong (Glasgow University, UK), Lynne Copson (University of Edinburgh, UK), Michael Lowy (CNRS, France), Mike Nellis (University of Strathclyde, UK), Vincenzo Ruggiero (Middlesex University, UK), David Scott (University of Central Lancashire, UK) and Loic Wacquant (University of California at Berkeley, USA) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Crime -- History
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Crime prevention -- History
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Penology & punishment.
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Sociology.
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Social & political philosophy.
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Criminology: legal aspects.
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TRUE CRIME -- General.
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Law.
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Crime
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Crime prevention
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Malloch, Margaret S
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Munro, Bill, 1963-
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| ISBN |
9781137009807 |
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1137009802 |
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