Critical Criminology

This book sets to explore the key issues and future prospects facing critical criminology, bringing together a set of leading authorities in the field from the UK, Australasia and the USA. A key concern of the book is to review the possibilities and strategies of pursuing critical criminological scholarship in the context of an increasingly dominant administrative criminology paradigm, reflected in the rise of neo-liberalism, a 'governmentalised' criminology of risk, crime control and situational crime prevention. <p>Preface 1. Critical criminologies: an introduction <strong>Part 1: Issues and debates in critical criminology</strong> 2. Defining 'power' and challenging 'knowledge': critical analysis as resistance in the UK 3. Critical criminology in the United States: the Berkeley School and theoretical trajectories 4. 'Losing my religion': reflections on critical criminology in Australia 5. Feminism and critical criminology: confronting genealogies <strong>Part 2: New directions and challenges for critical criminology</strong> 6. For a psychosocial criminology 7. Critical criminology and the punitive society: some new 'visions of social control' 8. Criminology beyond the nation state: global conflicts, human rights and the 'new world disorder' 9. Left, right or straight ahead: contemporary prospects for progressive and critical criminology 10. Critical criminology? In praise of an oxymoron and its enemies 11. Critical criminology in the twenty-first century: critique, irony and the always unfinished</p>