The French Connection in Criminology
The French Connection in Criminology

Author: Bruce A. Arrigo

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0791483738

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Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems This is the first comprehensive, accessible, and integrative overview of postmodernism's contribution to law, criminology, and social justice. The book begins by reviewing the major contributions of eleven prominent figures responsible for the development of French postmodern social theory. This "first" wave includes Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Hélène Cixous, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, and Jean-François Lyotard. Their respective insights are then linked to "second" wave scholars who have appropriated their conceptualizations and applied them to pressing issues in law, crime, and social justice research. Compelling and concrete examples are provided for how affirmative and integrative postmodern inquiry can function meaningfully in the world of criminal justice. Topics explored include confinement law and prison resistance; critical race theory and a jurisprudence of color; media/literary studies and feminism; restorative justice and victim-offender mediation processes; and the emergence of social movements, including innocence projects and intentional communities.

Constitutive Criminology at Work
Constitutive Criminology at Work

Author: Stuart Henry

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1999-08-12

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780791441947

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Provides the first applications of constitutive criminology, a theoretical framework inspired by postmodernism, to specific areas of criminological practice.

Power and Crime
Power and Crime

Author: Vincenzo Ruggiero

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-27

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1317647394

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This book provides an analysis of the two concepts of power and crime and posits that criminologists can learn more about these concepts by incorporating ideas from disciplines outside of criminology. Although arguably a 'rendezvous' discipline, Vincenzo Ruggiero argues that criminology can gain much insight from other fields such as the political sciences, ethics, social theory, critical legal studies, economic theory, and classical literature. In this book Ruggiero offers an authoritative synthesis of a range of intellectual conceptions of crime and power, drawing on the works and theories of classical, as well as contemporary thinkers, in the above fields of knowledge, arguing that criminology can ‘humbly’ renounce claims to intellectual independence and adopt notions and perspectives from other disciplines. The theories presented locate the crimes of the powerful in different disciplinary contexts and make the book essential reading for academics and students involved in the study of criminology, sociology, law, politics and philosophy.

Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice
Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice

Author: Richard Quinney

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780791447604

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Each stage has also incorporated changes that were taking place in Quinney's personal life. Ultimately, there is no separation bewteen life and theory, between witnessing and writing."--BOOK JACKET.

Criminal Behavior
Criminal Behavior

Author: Bruce A. Arrigo

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13:

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Criminal Behavior: A Systems Approach strikes a sensible, reader-friendly, and insightful balance between explaining crime and delinquency and interpreting human behavior. In this way, the emerging insights of criminal justice and the unique values of psychology are strategically brought to bear on what conduct society defines as criminal. Utilizing a "systems" approach, the book skillfully and methodically addresses relevant theories of criminal behavior, various types of violent and non-violent crimes and criminals and institutional and organizational responses to crime and criminal behavior. For careers in Criminology.

Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology
Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology

Author: Bruce A. Arrigo

Publisher:

Published: 2006-03-24

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13:

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In this examination of the philosophical foundations of crime in Western culture, the authors combine theoretical chapters with those centred on application and case study. They develop an accessible and insightful approach to philosophical criminology in step with the challenges of the 21st century.

Marxism and Criminological Theory
Marxism and Criminological Theory

Author: Mark Cowling

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Published: 2008-11-03

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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This volume details existing uses of Marxist thought in criminology, including examination of the work of Willem Bonger, Georg Rusche and Otto Kircheimer, as well as assessing the role of Marxist analysis within particular schools of thought such as Critical Criminology and Left Realism. Arguing for the continued relevance of Marxism in the post-Soviet era, this study also offers a 'toolkit' of Marxist theories detailing how theorists can make a fully systematic use of a set of Marxist ideas.

Crime and Criminal Justice in Israel
Crime and Criminal Justice in Israel

Author: Robert R. Friedmann

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9780791437131

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Assessing the Israeli criminal justice knowledge base with implications for Israel and international scholarship, this book explores crime, legislation, law enforcement, courts, corrections, and the victim. The book discusses the development of criminal justice and criminology in a new society, adding to the understanding of crime and societal reaction. The authors examine the historical development of Israeli criminal justice, describe the state of current knowledge, and point to possible future directions.

Law, Psychology, and Justice
Law, Psychology, and Justice

Author: Christopher R. Williams

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780791451830

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A provocative critique of the relationship between the legal system and psychology that uses chaos theory to offer a more humane alternative.

Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany

Author: Richard F. Wetzell

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2014-05-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 178238247X

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The history of criminal justice in modern Germany has become a vibrant field of research, as demonstrated in this volume. Following an introductory survey, the twelve chapters examine major topics in the history of crime and criminal justice from Imperial Germany, through the Weimar and Nazi eras, to the early postwar years. These topics include case studies of criminal trials, the development of juvenile justice, and the efforts to reform the penal code, criminal procedure, and the prison system. The collection also reveals that the history of criminal justice has much to contribute to other areas of historical inquiry: it explores the changing relationship of criminal justice to psychiatry and social welfare, analyzes representations of crime and criminal justice in the media and literature, and uses the lens of criminal justice to illuminate German social history, gender history, and the history of sexuality.