Focusing on postmodern criminology, this text explores key themes through theoretical frameworks, practical applications, and recent advancements in the field. It serves as a comprehensive resource for both students and those with prior knowledge, making complex concepts accessible and engaging.
Richard Quinney's journey from a family farm in Wisconsin to a prominent figure in critical criminology is explored through his personal reflections and experiences. The book highlights his contributions to radical criminology, peacemaking criminology, and peace studies, emphasizing his influential work, including The Social Reality of Crime. It also showcases his unique autoethnographic writing and award-winning photography. By sharing his struggles and insights, this work serves as inspiration for both seasoned criminologists and emerging scholars navigating their own paths in academia.
Postmodern Perspectives, Integration, and Applications
Exploring innovative perspectives in postmodern analysis, this study delves into discourse analysis, chaos theory, catastrophe theory, and edgework theory, offering a comprehensive understanding of their integration in criminology, law, and social justice. Practical applications are illustrated through literature, film, and client-lawyer interactions, providing valuable insights for scholars across law, criminology, sociology, and law enforcement. This work serves as an essential resource for those seeking to enrich their understanding of contemporary critical theories.
Focusing on the interplay between individuals and society, this work presents a holistic perspective on crime. It emphasizes that offenders and victims are influenced by their social contexts, suggesting that behaviors cannot be fully comprehended in isolation. This approach encourages a deeper understanding of crime by considering the broader societal factors at play.
Constitutive Criminology offers an affirmative, holistic approach to the study of crime. Taking as its starting point that individuals not only shape the world but are shaped by it, this book argues that the behaviours of those who offend and victimize others cannot be understood in isolation from the society of which they are a part. Instead of setting out to identify factors that cause offending, constitutive criminology examines the co-production of crime by human subjects and by the social and organizational structures that humans develop. The implications are, first, that crime must be deconstructed as a recurrent discursive process and, secondly, that conscious attempts must be made at reconstruction wi