Malloch / Munro Crime, Critique and Utopia

2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-00980-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Critical Criminological Perspectives

This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the application of a utopian method for uncovering the potential within criminology and criminal justice, as well as the relevance of the utopian impulse for developing a challenge to the status quo in academia and beyond.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malloch, Margaret

Munro, Bill

Malloch, M.

Munro, W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Utopia and Its Discontents; Margaret Malloch and Bill Munro 2. Crime, Critique and Utopian Alternatives; Margaret Malloch 3. Utopia and Penal Constraint: The Frankfurt School and Critical Criminology; Bill Munro 4. Erich Fromm: From Messianic Utopia to Critical Criminology; Michael Lowy 5. Crime and Punishment In Classical and Libertarian Utopias; Vincenzo Ruggiero 6. Visualising an abolitionist real utopia: principles, policy and praxis; David Scott 7. Towards a Utopian Criminology; Lynne Copson 8. Using the Future to Predict the Past: Prison Population Projections and the Colonisation of Penal Imagination; Sarah Armstrong 9. Techno-Utopianism, Science Fiction and Penal Innovation: the case of Electronically Monitored Control; Mike Nellis 10. From Penal Dystopia to the Reassertion of Social Rights; Loïc Wacquant

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Armstrong, Glasgow University, UK
Lynne Copson, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK
Michael Löwy, CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research), France
Mike Nellis, University of Strathclyde, UK
Vincenzo Ruggiero, Middlesex University, UK
David Scott, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Loïc Wacquant, University of California at Berkeley, USA