Arrigo / Milovanovic / Schehr The French Connection in Criminology

Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8373-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in New Directions in Crime and Justice Studies

Brings the insights of postmodernism to the concerns of criminology and includes examples of how social theory can function in the real-world realm of criminal law. Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arrigo, Bruce A.

Milovanovic, Dragan

Schehr, Robert Carl

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Establishing the First Wave: The Linguistic Turn in Social Theory
2. Sustaining the First Wave: More on the Linguistic Turn in Social Theory
3. The Second Wave: Interpreting the Past, Building the Present, and Looking Toward the Future
4. Confinement Law and Prison Resistance: Applications in Critical Penology
5. Critical Race Theory and Postmodern Analysis: Strength in Dialectical Unity
6. Cinema and Literary Texts, Différance, and Social Justice Studies
7. Restorative Justice and Victim Offender Mediation: Towards a Transformative Praxis
8. Social Movements as Nonlinearity: On Innocence Projects and Intentional Communities Conclusion: Back to the Future: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor and Chair of Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the author of many books, including Psychological Jurisprudence: Critical Explorations in Law, Crime, and Society, also published by SUNY Press. Dragan Milovanovic is Professor of Justice Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and the author of many books, including An Introduction to the Sociology of Law. Robert Carl Schehr is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University and the author of Dynamic Utopia: Establishing Intentional Communities as a New Social Movement.