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Critical Criminology Today: Counter-Hegemonic Essays


Critical Criminology Today: Counter-Hegemonic Essays

Paperback by Ruggiero, Vincenzo (Middlesex University, UK)

Critical Criminology Today: Counter-Hegemonic Essays

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ISBN:
9781032022215
Publication Date:
10 Aug 2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
188 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 May - 1 Jun 2024
Critical Criminology Today: Counter-Hegemonic Essays

Description

What survives of the notions, principles and values of critical criminology? Faced with contexts that could not be more dramatically different to those fostering critical approaches to crime and its control, what is left of the radical theories and practical initiatives that characterized it in the 1970s? This book argues that critical criminology today can be reimagined if new concepts are elaborated, which bring academic efforts close to the practices of social movements. Building on an original collection of anti-hegemonic essays focused on specific criminological areas, including femicide, organized crime, drug use, punishment, state-corporate terrorism and financial crime, this book identifies the radical potential inherent in the choice of areas, topics and variables that critical criminologists can address today. In discussing concepts of distance, power, mercy and troublemaking, this book considers the relationship between critical criminology, social justice and activism. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to all those engaged with critical criminology, sociology and cultural studies.

Contents

1. Introduction 2. For a sociology of power 3. For a sociology of counter-power 4. Woman as colony 5. Political violence and behavioural economics 6. State-corporate terrorism 7. Pandemics, desire and melancholy 8. Hypotheses on the causes of financial crime 9. There is money in death 10. Civil war or transnational crime? 11. Convicts, crime and evil 12. Crime, punishment and utopia 13. Conclusion

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