This Companion presents the major debates and issues in Critical Criminology. It presents new research on crime, policy and the internationalisation of the criminal justice system. It sheds light on traditional debates in critical criminology through a confronting analysis of contemporary developments in criminal justice and criminology. This is the first textbook that brings together the major Australian and New Zealand theorists in Critical Criminology. The chapters represent the contribution of these authors in both their established work and their recent scholarship. It includes new approaches to theory, methodology, case studies and contemporary issues. It traverses a range of debates including the criminalisation of Indigenous people, ethnic communities, the working class, rural communities and young people from critical perspectives, and introduces new concepts of state crime. It covers developments in the penal system that have responded to globalisation and neo-liberalism, particularly in law and order and anti-terror campaigns. This coverage is counterpoised by portrayals of resistance within the penal system and considerations of restorative justice. The Companion is relevant to a broad range of courses and levels of study. It covers the major components of a Criminology course through a critical lens. It is a thorough introduction to concepts and critiques in criminology, as well as a provocative analysis of the assumptions underpinning the criminal justice system. Students, teachers and scholars in criminology, law and sociology will find this Companion invaluable.
Summary Table of Contents
Part I Theories and methodologies of critical criminology
CHAPTER 1:Critical Criminological Research - Julie Stubbs
CHAPTER 2: Culture, Critical Criminology and the Imagination of Crime - Alison Young
CHAPTER 3: Class Analysis and the Crime Problem - Rob White
CHAPTER 4: Psychologising Criminals and the Frankfurt School’s Critique - Thalia Anthony and Dorothea Anthony
CHAPTER 5: Neo-Liberalism and Risk in Criminology - Pat O’Malley
CHAPTER 6: Crime and Social Theory - Robert van Krieken
Part II Critical theory in action
CHAPTER 7: Critical Reflections on Feminist Criminologies - Kerry Carrington
CHAPTER 8: Masculinities, Crime and Criminalisation - Stephen Tomsen
CHAPTER 9: Narrating the Chase: Edgework and Young Peoples’ Experiences of Crime - Mark Halsey
CHAPTER 10: Ethnic Minority Immigrants, Crime and the State - Scott Poynting
CHAPTER 11: Colonial Critique and Critical Criminology: Issues in Aboriginal Law and Aboriginal Violence - Harry Blagg
Part III Broadening definitions of crime and criminology
CHAPTER 12: State Crime: Some Conceptual Issues - Mike Grewcock
CHAPTER 13: Torture and Terror - Elizabeth Stanley
CHAPTER 14: The New Criminals: Refugees and Asylum Seekers - Sharon Pickering
CHAPTER 15: Hate Crime - Gail Mason
CHAPTER 16: Dead Man Working? Critical Criminology, Human Rights and the Workplace - Barbara Ann Hocking and Scott Guy
Part IV Responses to crime
CHAPTER 17: Key Issues in a Critical Approach to Policing - Jude McCulloch
CHAPTER 18: Police Culture: A Brief History of a Concept - Janet Chan
CHAPTER 19: Giving Voice: The Prisoner and Discursive Citizenship - David Brown
CHAPTER 20: Understanding Prisoner Resistance: Power, Visibility and Survival in High-Security - Bree Carlton
CHAPTER 21: Risk, Punishment and Liberty - Mark Brown
CHAPTER 22: Penal Populism and the Contemporary Role of Punishment - John Pratt
Part V Future directions in critical criminology
CHAPTER 23: Resisting a “Law and Order” Society - Russell Hogg
CHAPTER 24: Understanding Restorative Justice Through the Lens of Critical Criminology - Chris Cunneen
CHAPTER 25:Toward Constituting a Critical Criminology for Rural Australia - Garry Coventry and Darren Palmer
CHAPTER 26: Globalised Crime and Governance: The Outcomes for Understanding International Criminal Justice - Mark Findlay
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