Critically examining criminology's conceptual foundations, aims, methods, boundaries, and impact, this collection of specially-commissioned essays by leading international criminologists examines the current state of the discipline. It is essential reading for all academics and advanced students of criminology. INDICE: Preface: John Braithwaite; Mary Bosworth and Carolyn Hoyle: Introduction; PART I Criminology and its Constituencies; 1. Conceptual allegiances: whose side are you on?; 1: Ian Loader and Richard Sparks: Criminology's Public Roles: A Drama in Six Acts; 2: Michael R. Gottfredson: Some Advantages of a Crime-Free Criminology; 3: Eugene McLaughlin: Critical Criminology: The Renewal of Theory Politics and Practice; 4: Jeff Ferrell: Disciplinarity and Drift; 5: David Brown: The Global Financial Crisis: Neo-Liberalism, Social Democracy and Criminology; 6: Pat Carlen: Against Evangelism in Academic Criminology: For Criminology as a Scientific Art; 2. Methodological allegiances: how shouldcriminology be done?; 7: Kathleen Daly: Shake it up Baby: Practicing Rock 'n'Roll Criminology; 8: Clifford Shearing and Monique Marks: Criminology's Disney World: The Ethnographer's Ride of South African Criminal Justice; 9: Nicole Rafter: Origins of Criminology; 10: Linda G. Mills: He was a Woman: Pitfalls and Possibilities of Popular Audiences; 11: Marcus Felson: Sort Crimes, Not Criminals; 12: Paternoster and Shawn Bushway: Studying Desistance from Crime: Where Quantitative Meets Qualitative Methods; 13: Mike Hough: Criminology and theRole of Experimental Research; 3. Political allegiances: what is criminology for?; 14: Beth E. Richie: Criminology and Social Justice: Expanding the Intellectual Commitment; 15: Thomas Mathiesen and Ole Kristian Hjemdal: A New Look at Victim and Offender - An Abolitionist Approach; 16: Natalie J. Sokoloff and Amanda Burgess-Proctor: Remembering Criminology's 'Forgotten Theme': Seeking Justice in U.S. Crime Policy Using an Intersectional Approach; 17: Chris Cunneen: Postcolonial Perspectives for Criminology; PART II Criminology and its Borders; 1. The limits of the discipline: where do we draw the line?; 18: Lucia Zedner: Putting Crime Back on the Criminological Agenda; 19: Aaron Doyle, Janet Chan, and Kevin D. Haggerty: Transcending the Boundaries of Criminology: The Example of Richard Ericson; 20: David Garland: Criminology's Place in the Academic Field; 21: Shadd Maruna and Charles Barber: Why Can't Criminology Be More Like Medical Research?: Be Careful What You Wish For; 22: Andrew Ashworth: Criminal Justice, Not Criminology?; 23: William A. Schabas: Criminology, Accountability and International Justice; 2. The limits of geography: does criminologytravel?; 24: Ben Bowling: Transnational Criminology and the Globalization of Harm Production; 25: Stephan Parmentier: The Missing Link: Criminological Perspectives on Dealing with the Past; 26: David Nelken: Why Compare Criminal Justice?; 27: Katja Franko Aas: Visions of Global Control: Cosmopolitan Aspirations in a World of Friction; 3. The limits of the academy: what is the impact of criminology?; 28: Lawrence W. Sherman: Criminology as Invention; 29: Kelly Hannah-Moffat: Criminological Cliques: Narrowing Dialogues, Institutional Protectionism, and the Next Generation; 30:
- ISBN: 978-0-19-957182-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 592
- Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés