Critical Criminology Today

Release on 2021-08-09 | by Vincenzo Ruggiero

Critical criminology, particularly its cultural stance, is linked to transformative politics, which is deemed to be better equipped to sustain the struggle 'between fundamentally opposed political positions promising radically different ...

Author: Vincenzo Ruggiero
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000420975
Category: Social Science
Page: 200
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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.

Language: en
Pages: 273

Advancing Critical Criminology

Authors: Walter S. DeKeseredy, Barbara Perry

Categories: Law

Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Lexington Books

Advancing Critical Criminology constitutes a timely addition to the growing body of knowledge on critical criminology scholarship. DeKeseredy and Perry have assembled a volume that provides scholars with an in-depth review of the extant literature on several major branches of criminology as well as examples of how critical criminologists apply

Language: en
Pages: 144

Contemporary Critical Criminology

Authors: Walter S. DeKeseredy

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

The concept of critical criminology – that crime and the present day processes of criminalization are rooted in the core structures of society – is of more relevance today than it has been at any other time. Written by an internationally renowned scholar, Contemporary Critical Criminology introduces the most up-to-date

Language: en
Pages: 510

Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology

Authors: Walter S. DeKeseredy, Molly Dragiewicz

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-09 - Publisher: Routledge

The main objective of the second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology is twofold: (1) to provide original chapters that cover contemporary critical criminological theoretical offerings generated over the past five years and (2) to provide chapters on important new substantive topics that are currently being studied and

Language: en
Pages: 200