Expanding the Criminological Imagination

This book brings together a series of writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critical analysis and their application to substantive case studies of research in action. Its main aim is to establish the conceptual and practical foundations for a new generation of studies in criminology, and to set a new agenda for critical criminology. Each chapter will critically assess the main conceptual and empirical problems they have encountered in their research, and to bring to life the key theoretical debates within the discipline. This book will be essential reading for students seeking an understanding of the nature of the discipline of criminology and criminological research. <p>1. Introduction: developing criminological imagination 2. Critical criminology and the intensification of the authoritarian state 3. Confronting the 'hegemony of vision': state, space and urban crime prevention 4. The 'worse' of two evils? Double murder trials and gender in England and Wales 1900-1953 5. 'Talking about resistance': women political prisoners and the dynamics of prison conflict, Northern Ireland 6. Changing focus: 'drug-related crime' and the criminological imagination 7. Taking crime seriously? Disaster, justice and impunity 8. Towards a criminology for human rights 9. Conclusion: expanding the imagination - moving beyond criminology?</p>