Explorations in critical criminology in honor of William J. Chambliss / / edited by Dawn L. Rothe, Victoria E. Collins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793739103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2020
• ISBN: 90-04-41167-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 pages)
• Collana: Studies in Critical Social Sciences; ; volume145
• Disciplina: 364
• Soggetti: Critical criminology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Toward a Sociology of Organizational Criminal Conspiracies / William J. Chambliss and Christopher J. Moloney -- Organized Crime and the Sociological Imagination / Gary Potter -- Notes on the Art of Deception: the Crime Ethnography of William J. Chambliss / Mark S. Hamm and Jeff Ferrell -- Kate’s Law: the Social Construction of Crime in the Trump Era / Teresa C. Kulig and Francis T. Cullen -- Old Wine, New Bottles: Contextualizing Trump’s Regulatory Rollback / Raymond Michalowski and Meredith Brown -- ‘Blood for Oil’: Analyzing America’s War for the Greater Middle East as a Climate Crime of Empire / Ronald C. Kramer -- Green State Crimes and Toxic Prisons: Synthesizing Environmental Harms at the Intersection of the Military and Prison Industrial Complexes / Elizabeth A. Bradshaw -- Make Our Enemy—Kill Our Enemy: the Creation of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: From Realpolitik to Biopolitics to Necropolitics / Sarah Pedigo Kulzer and David O. Friedrichs -- Whose Law? What Order? Struggles within Juridical Fields / Ida Nafstad and Isabel Schoultz -- Back Matter -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is in honor of William J. Chambliss who has influenced and provided a foundation for new directions and approaches in sociology, criminology, critical criminology in particular, and the sociology of law. This is to name a few of the many inspirational and foundational ways he has changed the course and methods for generations to come, inspiring not only the editors and contributors of this volume. Each of ; the chapters detail various ways Bill’s work has impacted on our own perspectives and/or research including, but not limited to, the way we understand the value of non-traditional methods, law and power, the very definition of crime, organized crime, and unmasking the power structures and powerful that cause inequality, social ills and pains. Contributors are: Elizabeth A. Bradshaw, Meredith Brown, William J. Chambliss, Francis T. Cullen, Jeff Ferrell, David O. Friedrichs, Mark S. Hamm, Ronald C. Kramer, Teresa C. Kulig, Raymond Michalowski, Christopher J. Moloney, Ida Nafstad, Sarah Pedigo, Gary Potter, Isabel Schoultz.