Theoretical criminology: from modernity to post-modernism

1. Narrating the mood of the times : confusion, self-doubt, and ambivalence -- 2. The problem of modernity -- 3. The theorists of modernity : an introduction to Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Freidrich Nietzsche -- 4. The problem of classical criminology : stabilising disorder through law,...

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Main Author: Morrison, Wayne (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: London Sydney Cavendish Publishing 1995
In:Year: 1995
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Criminology
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Summary:1. Narrating the mood of the times : confusion, self-doubt, and ambivalence -- 2. The problem of modernity -- 3. The theorists of modernity : an introduction to Max Weber, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Freidrich Nietzsche -- 4. The problem of classical criminology : stabilising disorder through law, or how to achieve the rule of law and hide the chaos of early modernity -- 5. Reading the texts of classical criminology : beyond mere command into systematic legitimation -- 6. Criminological positivism I : the search for the criminal man, or the problem of the duck -- Criminological positivism II : psychology and the positivisation of the soul -- 8. Criminological positivism III : statistics, quantifying the moral health of society and calculating nature's laws -- 9. Positivism and the dream of organised modernity -- 10. Morality, normalcy and modernity : the moral intensity of everyday life -- 11. Locality and criminology : from the polis to the post-modern city -- 12. Criminology and the culture of modernity -- 13. Culture and crime in the post-modern condition -- 14. Labelling theory, and the work of David Matza -- 15. Crime and the existentialist dilemma -- 16. Modernity, gender and crime : from the biological paradigm into feminist interpretations -- 17. Contemporary social stratification and the development of the underclass -- 18. Building criminological theory in post-modernism.
Physical Description:xvii, 518 Seiten
ISBN:9781843144083
DOI:10.4324/9781843144083