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Steve Hall uses cutting-edge philosophy and social theory to analyse patterns of crime and harm and illuminate contemporary criminological issues. He provides a fresh, relevant critique of the philosophical and political underpinnings of criminological theory and the theoretical canon's development during the twentieth century, and applies new Continental philosophy to the criminological problem.
Unmatched in its sophistication yet written in a clear, accessible style, this dynamic and highly engaging book is essential reading for all students, researchers and academics working in criminology, sociology, social policy, politics and the social sciences in general.
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Conclusion
The root of criminological theory's aetiological crisis is its palpable failure to explain why liberal-capitalist life constitutes and reproduces throughout its social structure conspicuous and influential subjectivities that reject solidarity for a form of competitive individualism, one which is willing to risk harm to others as it furthers its own interests. The time has come to consider the possibility that this failure has been self-imposed. The liberalleft thinking that dominates the discipline as the sole official opposition to conservatism honed its thinking in the shadow of the Gulag and the Holocaust. Whilst these unsurpassed historic crimes taught us of the evils of hatred, pathologization and demonization, the revulsion and guilt we felt in the aftermath constituted an inverted ‘politics of anxiety’. The imagined object ...
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