New directions in criminological theory / / edited by Steve Hall and Simon Winlow

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.01
• Soggetto topico: Criminology; Criminology - Research
• Soggetto non controllato: Criminology
• Classificazione: PH 8000; 2,1
• Altri autori: HallSteve <1955-> WinlowSimon
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the need for new directions in criminological theory; PART I Epistemological and political reflections; 1 Criminological knowledge: doing critique; doing politics; 2 Political economy and criminology: the return of the repressed; 3 Critical criminology, critical theory and social harm; 4 The current condition of criminological theory in North America; PART II Criminological theory, culture and the subject; 5 The biological and the social in criminological theory ; 6 From social order to the personal subject: a major reversal7 The discourse on 'race' in criminological theory; 8 Using cultural geography to think differently about space and crime; 9 Consumer culture and the meaning of the urban riots in England; 10 Censure, culture and political economy: beyond the death of deviance debate; PART III Criminological theory and violence; 11 Psychosocial perspectives: men, madness and violence; 12 'All that is sacred is profaned': towards a theory of subjective violence; 13 Late capitalism, vulnerable populations and violent predatory crime ; PART IV Crime and criminological theory in the global age14 Outline of a criminology of drift; 15 'It was never about the money': market society, organised crime and UK criminology; 16 After the crisis: new directions in theorising corporate and white-collar crime; 17 Crimes against reality: parapolitics, simulation, power crime; 18 Global terrorism, risk and the state; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited collection brings together established global scholars and new thinkers to outline fresh concepts and theoretical perspectives for criminological research and analysis in the 21st century. Criminologists from the UK, USA, Canada and Australia evaluate the current condition of criminological theory and present students and researchers with new and revised ideas from the realms of politics, culture and subjectivity to unpack crime and violence in the precarious age of global neoliberalism.These ideas range from the micro-realm of the 'personality disorder' to the
• Titolo autorizzato: New directions in criminological theory
• ISBN: 9786613714480; 1-280-87317-5; 1-136-30627-7; 1-136-30626-9; 0-203-11786-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810417303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II