RT Article
T1 Between positivism and post-modernity? Critical reflections on Jock Young's The Exclusive Society
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 44
IS 4
SP 533
OP 549
A1 Yar, Majid
A1 Penna, Sue
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639316272
AB Jock Young's The Exclusive Society (1999) attempts to revitalize criminology's engagement with issues around social exclusion by drawing upon recent developments in the wider fields of social, cultural and political theory. In this article, we critically examine the relationship between this work and the traditions of realist and positivist criminology, and reflect upon the difficulties encountered by a criminology that draws upon accounts of modernity' and modernization' in order to explain the genesis of crime and recent shifts in crime control. We suggest that the tensions and difficulties thrown up by Young's account in fact epitomize challenges faced by critical criminologists more broadly, as they attempt to integrate established disciplinary concerns, concepts and methodologies with newer perspectives in social analysis, and to tackle the impact of processes of social change upon crime and criminalization
K1 Kriminalität
K1 Soziale Exklusion
K1 Kriminologische Theorien
K1 Kriminologie
K1 Positivistische Kriminologie
K1 Modernisierung
K1 Kritische Kriminologie
K1 Politische Theorie
K1 Sozialtheorie
K1 Moderne
K1 Kulturtheorie
DO 10.1093/bjc/azh031