Existentialist Criminology

Herausgeber: Crewe, Donald J; Lippens, Ronnie

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Produktbeschreibung

Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice. This emerging interest chimes with recent social and cultural developments - as well as shifts in their theoretical consideration - that are oriented around contingency and unpredictability. But whilst these conditions have largely been described and analysed through the lens of complexity theory, post-structuralist theory and postmodernism, there exploration by critical criminologists in existentialist terms offers a richer and more productive approach to the social and cultural dimensions of crime, deviance, crime control and, more broadly, of regulation and governance. Covering a range of topics that lend themselves quite naturally to existentialist analysis - crime and deviance as becoming and will, the existential openness of symbolic exchange, the internal conversations that take place within criminal justice practices, and the contingent and finite character of resistance - the contributions to this volume set out to explore a largely untapped reservoir of critical potential.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge-Cavendish
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780415684729
• ISBN-10: 0415684722
• Artikelnr.: 33870414

Autorenporträt

Don Crewe, Ronnie Lippens

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Existentialism: Freedom
Being and Crime
D. Crewe and R. Lippens 1. Will to Self Consummation and Will to Crime: A Study in Criminal Motivation
D. Crewe 2. Being Accused
Becoming Criminal
G. Pavlich 3. Biaphobia
State Violence
and the Definition of Violence
W. Schinkel 4. Existentialism
Edgework
and the Contingent Body: Exploring the Criminological Implications of Ultimate Fighting
S. Lyng
R. Matthews
and W. Miller 5. Scrounging: Time
Space
and Being
J. Ferrell 6. White-Collar Offenders After the Fall from Grace. Stigma
Blocked Paths and Resettlement
B. Hunter 7. 'We Just Live Day-to-Day'. A Case Study of Life after Release Following Wrongful Conviction
S. Farrall 8. The Seductions of Conformity. The Criminological Importance of a Phenomenology of Exchange
S. Mackenzie 9. Existentialism and the Criminology of the Shadow
B. Arrigo and C. Williams 10. Towards Existential Hybridization? A Contemplation on the Being and Nothingness of Critical Criminology
R. Lippens