Alternative Criminologies

2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-03571-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 626 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 900 g

This book celebrates a kaleidoscopic process of permanent critique and a diversity of social and scientific knowledges. It examines complex and global crime issues in light of the many alternative scientific, artistic, empathetic, campaigning and otherwise imaginative criminologies that attempt to understand and/or fundamentally change why crime and justice take the forms they do.

From cutting edge topics such as crimes against humanity, the criminology of mobility, terrorism, cybercrime, corporate crime and green criminology; to gendered perspectives on violence against women, sexualities and feminist and queer criminologies; to key issues in penology such as mass incarceration, the death penalty, desistance from crime, risk and the political economy of punishment; Alternative Criminologies demonstrates the breadth, the variety and the vibrancy of contemporary perspectives on crime, criminalization and punishment.

Bringing together 39 leading experts from around the world, this international collection unites fresh and insightful theoretical positions with innovative empirical research and marks an important juncture for criminologies and their imagined futures.

This second edition builds on the strengths of the original volume through careful revision and expansion. Several chapters include refined terminology and conceptual clarifications, updated literature and references, new empirical material, and revised case studies and examples. Contributors also reflect on significant global and regional developments shaping crime and justice in the years following the publication of the first edition, with the volume further extended by two new chapters: one on Southern and Decolonial criminologies, and another examining criminology and criminal justice in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alternative Criminologies remains essential reading for students of criminology and criminal justice.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carlen, Pat

Ayres França, Leandro

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: Theoretical perspectives 1. Alternative criminologies: an introduction 2. Cultural criminology continued 3. Criminologies of the market 4. Punishment and political economy 5. Governing through crime 6. Criminology and consumerism 7. Feminist Criminologies 8. Queer Criminologies 9. The Politics of Sexuality: Alternative visions of sex and social change 10. Southern & Decolonial Criminologies 11. The Criminology of Mobility 12. Green Criminologies 13. Criminology and Cyber Technologies PART II: Critical issues for the 21st century 14. Crime And Media 15. Crime, Risk and Algorithms 16. The Criminal Pursuit of Serious White-Collar Crimes 17. Hate Crimes 18. Criminology and Terrorism: Toward a critical approach 19. Violence Against Women 20. Atrocity: The Latin American experience 21. Criminology And Criminal Justice in the New World of the Covid-19 Pandemic 22. Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes 23. The Challenge of State Crime 24. Mass Incarceration 25. Prisoner Reentry as Myth and Ceremony 26. Towards The Global Elimination of the Death Penalty: A Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Punishment 27. Peculiar Institution: America’s death penalty today 28. Desistance: Envisioning futures 29. Alternative Criminologies, Academic Markets and Corporatism in Universities

Über Autor(innen)

Pat Carlen has published over 20 books on criminal and social justice. Co- founder (with Chris Tchaikovsky) of the UK campaigning group Women in Prison and Editor- in- Chief of the British Journal of Criminology 2006– 2013, she has been a recipient of: the American Society of Criminology’s Sellin- Glueck Prize for Outstanding International Contributions to Criminology, the British Society of Criminology’s Award for Outstanding Achievement and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Lincoln University.

Leandro Ayres França is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Reading. In Brazil, he worked for over a decade as a criminal lawyer and later as a Penal Police Officer in Rio Grande do Sul, serving as a legal adviser to the Superintendent’s Cabinet and as a trainer at the Penitentiary Services School; he has taught at Faculdade Estácio (Porto Alegre), the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), and the Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC). Since 2016, he has coordinated GECC/CRIMLAB. Leandro is the co-author of the award-winning As Marcas do Cárcere (2016), with Alysson Ramos Artuso and Alfredo Steffen Neto; co-editor of Alternative Criminologies (2017) and Justice Alternatives (2019), with Pat Carlen – both also published in Brazil; and editor of the Atlas do Pensamento Criminológico Brasileiro (2022).