Authors:Bruce A. Arrigo, Christopher R. William,
Publisher: University of Illinois Pre
Keywords: criminology, perspectives, critical, philosophy, crime
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-03-24
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0252072898
ISBN-13: 9780252072895

"Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology" represents the first systematic attempt to unpack the philosophical foundations of crime in Western culture. Utilizing the insights of ontology, epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics, contributors demonstrate how the reality of crime is informed by a number of implicit assumptions about the human condition and un-stated values about civil society.Charting a provocative and original direction, editors Bruce A. Arrigo and Christopher R. Williams couple theoretically oriented chapters with those centred on application and case study. In doing so, they develop a

Author: Victoria M. Time
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: criminology, contributions, penology, drama, fiction, criminals, shakespeare
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-11-30
List price: $110.95
ISBN-10: 0313308705
ISBN-13: 9780313308703

By exploring Shakespeare’s use of law and justice themes in the context of historical and contemporary criminological thinking, this book challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry to avenues that have yet to be explored or integrated into the discipline. Crime writers, including William Shakespeare, were some of the earliest investigators of the criminal mind. However, since the formalization of criminology as a discipline, citations from literary works have often been omitted, despite their interdisciplinary nature. Taking various Shakespearean plays and characters as

Authors:Anthony Walsh, Kevin M Beaver,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: criminology, justice, studies, research, directions, new, biosocial, theory
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0415989442
ISBN-13: 9780415989442

Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today’s criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem.

Authors:Ellen G. Cohn, David P. Farrington, Richard A. Wrigh
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: criminology, penology, contributions, criminal, evaluating, justice
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1998-05-30
List price: $110.95
ISBN-10: 0313301530
ISBN-13: 9780313301537

Using citation analysis, this study examines the influence and prestige of scholars, journals, and university departments in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. In the tradition of Marvin E. Wolfgang’s Evaluating Criminology, the authors apply this quantitative method to evaluate the impact of individuals and their research efforts on two fields and to identify interconnections among scholars and their publications. This examination of the most-cited scholars, works, and topics in major American and international journals from 1986 to 1990 and from 1991 to 1995 provides valua

Author: Mark Halsey
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: advances, criminology, text, violence, environmental, damage, deleuze
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754624919
ISBN-13: 9780754624912

Damage to the environment is now one of the most serious threats to quality of life. In recent years, criminologists have shown an increased interest in theorizing environmental problems. But despite its recent ’green revolution’, criminology has arguably yet to grasp the limits of its commentaries on environmental damage. In this book, the author surveys the problems associated with modernist accounts of environmental harm and offers in their place an explication of the main insights associated with post-structuralist thought. Centred predominantly around the work of Gilles Deleuz

Author: Alessandro De Giorgi
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: criminology, advances, penal, politics, fordism, post, political, economy, punishment, perspectives, thinking
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 2006-06
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0754626105
ISBN-13: 9780754626107

The political economy of punishment suggests that the evolution of punitive systems should be connected to the transformations of capitalist economies: in this respect, each ’mode of production’ knows its peculiar ’modes of punishment’. However, global processes of transformation have revolutionized industrial capitalism since the early 1970s, thus configuring a post-Fordist system of production. In this book, the author investigates the emergence of a new flexible labour force in contemporary Western societies. Current penal politics can be seen as part of a broader pr

Author: Piers Bierne
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: chicago, criminology, school, milton, thrasher, frederic, gang, volume, study, gangs
Published: 2004-11-11
List price: $285.00
ISBN-10: 0415700965
ISBN-13: 9780415700962