Founded in cultural, textual, and ethnographic analysis, this distinctive and engaging book proposes an imaginative criminology, focusing on how spaces of transgression, control or confinement are lived, portrayed and imagined.
This book explores the ways in which criminological methods can be imaginatively deployed and developed in a world increasingly characterized by the blurred nature of social reality.
Yet, in this provocative new book, Young rejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today.
This book brings together a series of writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critical analysis and their application to substantive case studies of research in action.
Insofar as imaginative criminology eschews administrative criminology's quest for evidence of the alreadyknown in favour of imagining the new, it is one manifestation of a broader critical criminology. Unlike administrative criminology ...
Expanding the Criminological Imagination: Critical Readings in Criminology. Portland, OR: Willan Publishing. Braithwaite, John 2000. 'The New Regulatory State and the Transformation of Criminology.' British Journal of Criminology 40(2): ...
Yet, in this provocative new book, Young rejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today.
This volume, with a preface by Elliot Currie, engages with and reflects on this concept, exploring C. Wright Mills’ work for criminological enquiry.
Brown, David. 1998. Between madness and badness: A reflection on medicine, morals and the mind of the criminal. Washington Post, March 1, ... Burgess, and Roderick McKenzie, 47—62. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Orig. pub. 1923.) ...
This is a criminology text that is explicitly sociological in orientation and is designed to help students cultivate a sociological imagination to guide their thinking about crime and criminal justice....
How America Stacks Up When It Comes to Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The Smithsonian. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/how-America-stacks-up-greenhouse-gas-emissions-180963560/ Weiss, E. (2008). Climate Change, Intergenerational ...