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Autore |
Taylor Ian R. |
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Titolo |
The new criminology : for a social theory of deviance / / Ian Taylor, Paul Walton and Jock Young |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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0-415-85587-X |
1-135-00686-5 |
0-203-73015-1 |
1-135-00687-3 |
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Edizione |
[40th anniversary ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (397 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Criminology |
Deviant behavior |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"First published 1973 by Routledge, reprinted with new introduction in 2013." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Introduction to 40th anniversary edition; The New Criminology : where we came from, where we are going; Situating The New Criminology; The Millsian vision; The golden age of American sociology of deviance; The New Criminology and the NDC; The New Criminology: the explanatory agenda; The immediate years: Policing the Crisis and The New Criminology; Realist and cultural criminology: the subsequent years; Is cultural criminology necessarily idiographic?; The tendencies of social institutions and situations; History and change |
Progress in scope and in theoryThe pieces of the puzzle come together; Bibliography; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Classical criminology and the positivist revolution; The classical school of criminology; Neo-classical revisionism; The positivist revolution; The quantification of behaviour; Scientific neutrality; The determinism of behaviour; 2. The appeal of positivism; The consensus world view; The determinism of behaviour; The science of society; The meshing of interests; Lombroso; Body types in biological positivism; The XYY chromosome theory; |
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Eysenck; Trasler; Conclusion |
3. Durkheim and the break with 'analytical individualism'Durkheim's break with positivism; Durkheim's view of human nature; Durkheim on anomie and the division of labour; Durkheim on 'the Normal and the Pathological'; Durkheim as a biological meritocrat; Durkheim and a social theory of deviance; 4. The early sociologies of crime; Merton and the American Dream; The typology of adaptations; Merton-the cautious rebel; A pluralistic society; Mertonian anomie theory and a social theory of deviance; The Chicago school and the legacy of positivism; The city, social problems and capitalist society |
The struggle for space and a sociology of the cityThe struggle for space and the phenomenology of the ecological structure; Society as an organism; Criticisms of differential associations theory; Behaviourist revisions to Sutherland's theory; The theory of subcultures and beyond; 5. Social reaction, deviant commitment and career; What is the social reaction or labellingapproach to deviance?; Deviance, behaviour and action; Primary and secondary deviance and the notion of sequence or career; Social reaction: theory or perspective?; Power and politics; Conclusions |
6. American naturalism and phenomenologyThe work of David Matza; Subterranean values, neutralization and drift; Pluralism; The late Matza: becoming deviant?; American phenomenology and the study of deviance: ethnomethodology; Ethnomethodology and the phenomenological project; The ethnomethodological critique; 7. Marx, Engels and Bonger on crime and social control; Willem Bonger and formal Marxism; Conclusion; 8. The new conflict theorists; Austin Turk and Ralf Dahrendorf; Authority, stratification and criminalization; Richard Quinney and the social reality of crime; 9. Conclusion |
1. The wider origins of the deviant act |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""The New Criminology was written at a particular time and place; it was a product of 1968 and its aftermath: a world turned upside down .It was a time of great changes in personal politics and a surge of politics on the left: Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism as well as radical social democratic ideas became centre stage."" Jock Young, from the new introduction.<BR><BR>Taylor, Walton and Young's <I>The New Criminology</I> is one of the seminal texts in Criminology. First published in 1973, it marked a watershed moment in the development of critical criminological theory and is as relevant toda |
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