Theoretical Criminology : From Modernity to Post-Modernism
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (771 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1859412203 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 536 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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It will provoke controversy based on different readers theoretical predilections and assumptions It deserves to be read widely. it offers a valuable account of the links between conceptions of crime, criminality, criminal justice and modernity a thoroughly exciting and intellectually stimulating book. -- Cambridge Law Journal, Nov 1995.
Wayne Morrison reviews the history and present state of criminology and identifies a range of social problems and large scale social processes which must be addressed if the subject is to attain intellectual commitment. This book marks a new development in criminological texts and will serve a valuable function not only for students and academics but for all those interested in the project of understanding crime in contemporary conditions.. This book incorporates many of the exciting debates in the social sciences and philosophy of knowledge concerning the issues of modernity and post-modernism. This book is designed to place criminological theory at the cutting edge of contemporary debates. It sets out a new project for criminology, a criminology of modernity, and offers a sustained critique of theorizing without a concern for social totalities
. Wayne Morrison, LLB, LLM, PhD, Barrister and Solicitor (New Zealand), Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary Westfield College
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