Critical criminology: issues, debates, challenges

Abstract

Preface by Elliott Currie 1. Critical criminologies: an introduction by Kerry Carrington and Russell Hogg Part 1: Issues and debates in critical criminology 2. Defining 'power' and challenging 'knowledge': critical analysis as resistance in the UK by Phil Scraton 3. Critical criminology in the United States: the Berkeley School and theoretical trajectories by Herman Schwendinger, Julia R. Schwendinger and Michael J. Lynch 4. 'Losing my religion': reflections on critical criminology in Australia by David Brown 5. Feminism and critical criminology: confronting genealogies by Kerry Carrington Part 2: New directions and challenges for critical criminology 6. For a psychosocial criminology by Tony Jefferson 7. Critical criminology and the punitive society: some new 'visions of social control' by John Pratt 8. Criminology beyond the nation state: global conflicts, human rights and the 'new world disorder' by Russell Hogg 9. Left, right or straight ahead: contemporary prospects for progressive and critical criminology by Judith Bessant 10. Critical criminology? In praise of an oxymoron and its enemies by Pat Carlen 11. Critical criminology in the twenty-first century: critique, irony and the always unfinished by Jock Young