Jock Young

The Criminological Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Rejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today. This title draws on a range of research - from urban ethnography to sexology and criminal victimization studies - to illustrate its failings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9780745641072
• ISBN-10: 0745641075
• Artikelnr.: 33614285

Autorenporträt

Jock Young is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Legacy of C. Wright Mills
1. Closing Down the Imagination
2. Measurement and the Sexologists
3. Amnesia and the Art of Skating on Thin Ice
4. The Bogus of Positivism
5. The Loosening of the Moorings: The Emergence of Cultural Criminology
6. Giuliani and the New York Miracle
7. Magic, Mayhem and Margaret Mead: Towards a Critical Ethnography
8. Subcultures as Magic: Problems of Urban Ethnography
9. Dangerous Knowledge and the Politics of the Imagination
10. Rescuing the Imagination