C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination: Prospects for Creative Inquiry

C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination: Prospects for Creative Inquiry
ISBN-10
1472414764
ISBN-13
9781472414762
Category
Social Science
Pages
317
Language
English
Published
2015-11-28
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Dr Jon Frauley

Description

In spite of its widespread use within criminology, the term ‘criminological imagination’, as derived from C. Wright Mills’ classic The Sociological Imagination, has yet to be fully developed and clarified as an analytic concept capable of guiding theorizing or empirical enquiry. This volume, with a preface by Elliot Currie, engages with and reflects on this concept, exploring C. Wright Mills’ work for criminological enquiry. Bringing together the latest work of leading scholars in the fields of criminology and sociology from around the world, C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination investigates the emergence and lineage of a criminological concept indebted to Mills’ thought, adapting and applying it to a specifically criminological context. With attention to theoretical concerns and, as well as the application of the criminological imagination in concrete empirical research, this volume sheds new light on the methodological and analytical aspects of the criminological imagination as a multifaceted concept and explores the possibilities that it offers for the emergence of an imaginative criminological practice. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in sociology and social theory, criminology, criminal justice studies, law and research methods.

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