Critical Criminology And Literary Criticism

Author : McGregor, Rafe
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 152921968X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism written by McGregor, Rafe and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is increasing pressure on the humanities to justify their value and on criminology to undertake interdisciplinary research. In this book, Rafe McGregor establishes a new interdisciplinary methodology, ‘criminological criticism’, harnessing the synergy between literary studies and critical criminology to produce genuine interventions in social reality. McGregor practices criminological criticism on George Miller’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’, Prime Video’s ‘Carnival Row’ and J.K. Rowling’s ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’, demonstrating how these popular allegories provide insights into the harms of sexism, racism and class prejudice. This book proposes a model for collaboration between literary studies and critical criminology that is beneficial to the humanities, the social sciences and society.

Author : Walter S. DeKeseredy
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739151673
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advancing Critical Criminology written by Walter S. DeKeseredy and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 their theoretical perspectives to substantive topics, such as drugs, interpersonal violence, and rural crime. Accordingly, this work is divided into two main sections: overviews of theories and applications. Each chapter provides a summary of work in a specific area, along with suggestions for moving the field forward. This reader is unique in its choice of topics, which have often been overlooked in the past. An expert collection of international scholars, Advancing Critical Criminology is certain to stimulate lively debates and generate further critical social scientific work in this field.

Author : Rafe McGregor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000915204
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary Theory and Criminology written by Rafe McGregor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Theory and Criminology demonstrates the significance of contemporary literary theory to the discipline of criminology, particularly to those criminologists who are primarily concerned with questions of power, inequality, and harm. Drawing on innovations in philosophical, narrative, cultural, and pulp criminology, it sets out a deconstructive framework as part of a critical criminological critique-praxis. This book comprises eight essays – on globalisation, criminological fiction, poststructuralism, patriarchal political economy, racial capitalism, anthropocidal ecocide, critical theory, and critical praxis – that argue for the value of contemporary literary theory to a critical criminology concerned with the construction of a just and sustainable reality in the face of climate change and other mass harms. This is the first criminology book to engage with literary theory from the perspective of criminology and provides a guide for criminologists who want to deploy literary theory as part of their research programmes. It supersedes existing engagements with poststructuralism in the philosophical criminological tradition because it entails neither a constructionist ontology nor a relativist epistemology. It shows criminologists how literary theory offers the tools to first deconstruct and then reconstruct meaning and value. Literary Theory and Criminology is essential reading for all critical criminological theorists.

Author : Rafe McGregor
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529219671
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism written by Rafe McGregor and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishing a new interdisciplinary methodology, ‘criminological criticism’, Rafe McGregor proposes a model for collaboration between literary studies and critical criminology that is beneficial to the humanities, the social sciences and society.

Author : Martin Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317523814
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Controversies in Critical Criminology written by Martin Schwartz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original essays introduce students to the complex and influential field of critical criminology. It presents many of the theories of critical criminology — Marxist, Feminist, Left Realist, Postmodern, Constitutive, Peacemaking, and Restorative Justice — and explores how, despite their distinctions, each theory is rooted in radical criminology, and all are critical of mainstream criminology.

Author : Walter S. DeKeseredy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317221826
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology written by Walter S. DeKeseredy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 theorized by progressive criminologists. Special attention is devoted to new theoretical directions in the field, such as southern criminology, queer criminology, and green criminology. The diverse chapters cover not only cutting-edge theories, but also the variety of research methods used by leading scholars in the field and the rich data generated by their rigorous empirical work. In addition, some of the chapters suggest innovative and realistic short- and long-term policy proposals that are typically ignored by mainstream criminology. These progressive strategies address some of the most pressing social problems facing contemporary society today, which generate much pain and suffering for socially and economically disenfranchised people. The new edition of the Handbook is a major work in redefining areas within the context of international multidisciplinary critical research, and in highlighting emerging areas, such as human trafficking, Internet pornography and image-based sexual abuse. It is specifically designed to be a comprehensive resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and policymakers.

Author : David Christopher Powell
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739139770
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Voices in Criminology written by David Christopher Powell and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of criminological literature are presented with little more than thumbnail sketches as to the social characteristics or motivations of the authors. One learns their status, institutional location, and supposed credentials. Rarely are we presented with more detailed impressions of the authors as a combination of positivist assumptions and notions of professional competence seemingly render such information unimportant. However, increasing numbers of critical scholars are becoming aware of authorship as an issue; it matters who is addressing us. By taking these authors out of their methodological framework, Critical Voices in Criminology provides an opportunity for figures in and around critical criminology to discuss their own intellectual journeys into and within the discipline. The book offers the opportunity for contributors to reflect on their work and consider what they did not say. It also affords them the opportunity to describe their own 'channeling processes' by indicating how the pursuance of some themes/topics 'seemed' appropriate, sensible, or realistic, while others appeared less so, whether they internalized these particular themes, or attempted to contest and/or replace them.

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Author : Ian Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136334025
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Criminology (Routledge Revivals) written by Ian Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, this collection of essays expands upon the themes and ideas developed in the editors’ previous work, the visionary and groundbreaking text: The New Criminology. Directed at orthodox criminology, this is a partisan work written by a group of criminologists committed to a social transformation: a transformation to a society that does not criminalize deviance. Included are American contributions, particularly from the School of Criminology at Berkeley, represented by Hermann and Julia Schwendinger and Tony Platt, together with essays by Richard Quinney and William Chambliss. From Britain, Geoff Pearson considers deviancy theory as ‘misfit sociology’ and Paul Hirst attacks deviancy theory from an Althusserian Marxist position. The editors contribute a detailed introductory essay extending the position developed in The New Criminology, and two other pieces which attempt to continue the task of translating criminology from its traditional correctionalist stance to a commitment to socialist diversity and a crime-free set of social arrangements.

Author : Rafe McGregor
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529208068
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Criminology Of Narrative Fiction written by Rafe McGregor and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on complex narratives across film, TV, novels and graphic novels, this authoritative critical analysis demonstrates the value of fictional narratives as a tool for understanding, explaining and reducing crime and social harm. McGregor establishes an original theory of the criminological value of fiction.