The French Connection in Criminology

The French Connection in Criminology
Author: Bruce A. Arrigo
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791483738

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.

Power and Crime

Power and Crime
Author: Vincenzo Ruggiero
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317647394

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.

Constitutive Criminology at Work

Constitutive Criminology at Work
Author: Stuart Henry
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1999-08-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791441947

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

Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice

Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice
Author: Richard Quinney
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791447604

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.

Crime and Criminal Justice in Israel

Crime and Criminal Justice in Israel
Author: Robert R. Friedmann
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 458
Release: 1998-03-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791437148

Offers insights into the criminal justice system and the field of criminology in Israel.

Criminal Behavior

Criminal Behavior
Author: Bruce A. Arrigo
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2006-03-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008-11-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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 Modern Germany

Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany
Author: Richard F. Wetzell
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 178238247X

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.