Criminological Imagination

Name: Criminological Imagination
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ISBN: 9780745641072

ISBN-10: 0745641075

ISBN-13: 9780745641072

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jock Young

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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 7/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Jock Young, one of the foremost criminologists of our time, is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Centre for Criminology at Middlesex University. His work and theories have had a significant influence on the shape of criminology, sociology and politics.



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction: The Legacy of C. Wright Mills



Closing Down the Imagination



Measurement and the Sexologists



Amnesia and the Art of Skating on Thin Ice



The Bogus of Positivism



Loosening the Moorings: The Emergence of Cultural Criminology



Giuliani and the New York Miracle



Mayhem, magic and Margaret Mead: Towards a Critical Ethnography



Subcultures as Magic: Problems of Urban Ethnography



Dangerous Knowledge and the Politics of the Imagination



Rescuing the Imagination


References


Index