The theoretical foundations of criminology : place, time, and context /
"Written from a critical perspective, this book brings criminological theory to life. It presents the core theories of criminology as historical and cultural products and theorists as producers of culture located in particular places, writing in specific historical periods and situated in preci...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction
- 1. Setting the stage for the emergence of criminology
- Justice and the ancien regime
- Torture
- Regicide: the ultimate crime of the ancien regime
- Robert-Francois Damiens: a quest for justice
- The significance of Damiens for criminology
- `The tide is turning; the tone of life is about to change'
- The intellectuals
- Montesquieu
- The philosophes
- 2. Classicist criminology: the search for justice, equality and the rational `man'
- The Enlightenment and the origins of classicist criminology
- Human nature and the basis of society
- Crime, justice and the influence of classicism
- Cesare Beccaria
- On Crimes and Punishments
- On Crimes and Punishments; a manifesto for its time
- The historical influence of On Crimes and Punishments
- Jeremy Bentham
- Bentham on torture
- The panopticon: `The more strictly we are watched, the better we behave'
- The critique of Enlightenment ideas and classicist criminology
- Note continued: The problem of the social contract
- Who is equal before the law?
- Colonialism
- Gender and class bias in classicist thought
- The distinction between the public and private spheres
- The `Classicist Contradiction: between formal and substantive equality
- The problem of legal categorisation
- The focus on the criminal act
- Responses to undermining or violating the social contract: banishment and the birth of the penitentiary
- Banishment
- The Birth of the Penitentiary
- Modifying classicist ideas
- Defending Beccaria: the issue of social class
- Contemporary application of classicist thought in criminology
- Just Desserts'
- Rational-choice theory: `opportunity makes the thief
- 3. The positivist revolution, physiognomy, phrenology and the science of `Othering'
- Positivism
- Andre-Michel Guerry and Adolphe Quetelet: `moral statistics'
- The Italian school of criminology
- Cesare Lombroso
- Note continued: Lombroso's Criminal Man; atavism and phrenology
- A note on Lombroso's museum
- Criminal characteristics and tattooing
- Lombroso on women and crime
- Towards a more multi-factorial explanation
- Raffaele Garofalo and Enrico Ferri
- The application of Lombroso's theories
- Early critiques of Lombroso and the ideas of individual positivism
- Creating the `other': the presentation of the Irish
- `The persistence of the positivist paradigm': the twentieth century and beyond
- 4. Chicago School of Sociology: an explosion of ideas
- Chicago School of Sociology
- The University of Chicago
- Women of the university
- Annie Marion Maclean: the `mother of contemporary ethnography
- University women, criminology and criminal justice policy: a mixed legacy
- Men of the university
- The Park and Burgess years
- The Hull House settlement
- Theory and practice
- A women-centred approach
- Hull House Maps and Papers by the Residents of Hull House
- Note continued: Improving social conditions
- Crime policy
- Painting a rosy picture?
- Contributing to an intellectual climate
- Achieving a better tomorrow?
- 5. Developing a sociological criminology: Durkheim, Du Bois, Merton and Tannenbaum
- Emile Durkheim
- Society, social facts and social integration
- Society and punishment
- The perils of modern society
- The `normal' and the `pathological'
- L'affaire Dreyfus
- Durkheims legacy
- Across the Atlantic
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Slavery and the convict lease system
- The Philadelphia Negro
- Post-Philadelphia: the Atlanta School
- A snapshot of 1930s America
- Robert Merton and the American Dream
- Frank Tannenbaum and `the dramatization of evil'
- 6. Feminism: redressing the gender imbalance
- French women revile Lombroso
- `Feminist' and feminism
- The nineteenth century
- The suffragette movement
- The use of surveillance tactics against the suffragettes
- Feminist activism in Europe
- Note continued: Early feminism, crime and criminal justice
- The Contagious Diseases Acts and the work of Josephine Butler
- Violence against women
- A critique of the treatment of women in prison
- Feminism in the contemporary period
- The late 1960s onwards
- Liberal feminism
- Socialist feminism
- Radical feminism
- Radical feminism and violence against women
- Feminism and criminology
- Rethinking feminism
- Achieving the feminist `political project'
- The new radical feminist politics: `The suffragettes wouldn't stand for this'
- 7. Confronting the establishment: the emergence of critical criminology
- The historical context: poverty, resistance and the transformation of society
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Marx and Engels on crime
- W.A. Bonger
- Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer
- The rise of critical criminology
- The National Deviancy Conferences
- The New Criminology
- The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
- Note continued: Anarchism and criminology
- Problematising critical criminology
- Critical criminology: developments in Europe and the United States
- Addressing the politics of the time: critical criminology: from the 1980s to the early 2000s
- Left realism
- The `exceptional' state
- 8. From theoretical innovations to political engagement
- Never boring: cultural criminology
- `Beyond the horizon, across the divide': Southern criminology and green criminology
- Southern criminology
- Thinking about the planet: `greening criminology
- Concluding thoughts
- Political engagement.
