Advancing Critical Criminology: Theory and Application / Edition 1

by Walter S. DeKeseredy University of Ontario Institute of Technology; co-author of Dangerous Exits, Barbara Perry, Shahid Alvi, Bruce A. Arrigo, Gregg Barak Eastern Michigan University; author of Violence and Nonviolence: Pathways t

Overview

Advancing Critical Criminology constitutes a timely addition to the growing body of knowledge on critical criminology scholarship. DeKeseredy and Perry have assembled a volume that provides scholars with an in-depth review of the extant literature on several major branches of criminology as well as examples of how critical criminologists apply their theoretical perspectives to substantive topics, such as drugs, interpersonal violence, and rural crime. Accordingly, this work is divided into two main sections: overviews of theories and applications. Each chapter provides a summary of work in a specific area, along with suggestions for moving the field forward. This reader is unique in its choice of topics, which have often been overlooked in the past. An expert collection of international scholars, Advancing Critical Criminology is certain to stimulate lively debates and generate further critical social scientific work in this field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739112533
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	06/22/2006
Series:	Critical Perspectives on Crime and Inequality
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Walter S. DeKeseredy is Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Barbara Perry is Associate Professor of Social Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Overviews of Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 2 Left Realism Revisited
Chapter 3 Transgressing Boundaries: Feminist Perspectives in Criminology
Chapter 4 Cultural Criminology: A Decade and Counting of Criminological Chaos
Chapter 5 Emotionality, Rationality, and Restorative Justice
Chapter 6 The New Penology in a Critical Context
Part 7 Applications of Theory
Chapter 8 A Critical Perspective on Violence
Chapter 9 Missing Pieces: The Paucity of Hate Crime Scholarship
Chapter 10 Women and Drugs: A Feminist Perspective
Chapter 11 Rural Crime, Poverty, and Community
Chapter 12 Towards a Critical Penology of the Mentally Ill Offender: On Law, Ideology, and the Logic of "Competency"
Chapter 13 Constitutive Rhetoric and Constitutive Criminology: The Significance of The Virtual Corpse

Editorial Reviews

Advanced Critical Criminology shows that progressive thinking about crime is alive and well. Rich in scholarship and diverse in perspective, the selections illuminate how the criminal enterprise is intimately shaped by power, culture, and injustice. This volume is essential reading for scholars and their students not afraid to challenge conventional criminological assumptions and to envision crime and its control in fresh ways.

Francis T. Cullen

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Advanced Critical Criminology shows that progressive thinking about crime is alive and well. Rich in scholarship and diverse in perspective, the selections illuminate how the criminal enterprise is intimately shaped by power, culture, and injustice. This volume is essential reading for scholars and their students not afraid to challenge conventional criminological assumptions and to envision crime and its control in fresh ways.

Critical criminology, so vital during an era of political backlash, is re-imagined in this wide ranging set of essays. Cutting edge issues from hate crime, mass incarceration and the new penology, and rural crime are presented along side of more established and important considerations such as the future of left realism some twenty years out and a critical perspective on the causes of violence.

From the Publisher

Critical criminology, so vital during an era of political backlash, is re-imagined in this wide ranging set of essays. Cutting edge issues from hate crime, mass incarceration and the new penology, and rural crime are presented along side of more established and important considerations such as the future of left realism some twenty years out and a critical perspective on the causes of violence.

Meda Chesney-Lind