Beschreibung:
This book will be essential reading for students seeking an understanding of the nature of the discipline of criminology and criminological research. It brings together a series of writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critical analysis and their application to substantive case studies of research in action.
1. Introduction: developing criminological imagination 2. Critical criminology and the intensification of the authoritarian state 3. Confronting the 'hegemony of vision': state, space and urban crime prevention 4. The 'worse' of two evils? Double murder trials and gender in England and Wales 1900-1953 5. 'Talking about resistance': women political prisoners and the dynamics of prison conflict, Northern Ireland 6. Changing focus: 'drug-related crime' and the criminological imagination 7. Taking crime seriously? Disaster, justice and impunity 8. Towards a criminology for human rights 9. Conclusion: expanding the imagination - moving beyond criminology?