Criminology and Social Theory

Name: Criminology and Social Theory
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ISBN: 9780198299424

ISBN-10: 0198299427

ISBN-13: 9780198299424

Edition: 2000

Authors: David Garland, Richard Sparks

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In this unique collection of essays, a diverse group of distinguished social theorists reflect upon the intellectual challenges and opportunities presented to criminology by recent transformations in the social and intellectual landscapes of contemporary societies. As each essay in its different way reveals, crime and punishment have ceased to be topics that can be contained within the bounds of any specialized discipline. Crime and punishment now play such integral roles in the politics of contemporary societies, are so densely entangled with our daily routines, so deeply lodged in our emotional lives, so vividly represented in our cultural imagination, that they easily escape any…

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 234
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



List of Contributors


Criminology, Social Theory, and the Challenge of Our Times



Social Uses of Law and Order



The New Regulatory State and the Transformation of Criminology



Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Sociology of Crime



Dangerization and the End of Deviance: the Institutional Environment



Statism, Pluralism, and Social Control



Changing Representations of the Criminal



Government and Control



Index