Existentialist Criminology by Donald J Crewe
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.
Ronnie Lippens is Professor of Criminology at Keele University. He is author and editor of over 150 academic contributions in a wide variety of venues, including edited book volumes for Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge and Glasshouse Press. His current research interests include 'philosophical criminology', and 'visual criminology', with a focus on art and art history.
Emma Murray is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice for the School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University. Her work is dedicated to the problem of veterans within the criminal justice system, and more recently what the testimonies of veterans - who have been convicted of an offence post-combat - reveal about war and governance in the 21st century.
Emma Murray is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice for the School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University. Her work is dedicated to the problem of veterans within the criminal justice system, and more recently what the testimonies of veterans - who have been convicted of an offence post-combat - reveal about war and governance in the 21st century.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415684729 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415684722 |
| Title | Existentialist Criminology |
| Author | Donald J Crewe |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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