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An indispensable international resource, The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Theory provides readers with a clear overview of criminological theory, enabling them to reflect critically upon the traditional, emergent and desirable theoretical positions of the discipline.This handbook is essential for libraries and scholars of all levels studying the rapidly developing, interdisciplinary field of criminology.
Realist Criminology Revisited
Realist Criminology Revisited
Just over twenty years ago Jock Young (1986) wrote a path breaking article which identified the failures of criminology and made the case for developing what became known as left, critical or radical realism. Over the past two decades however these failures have, if anything, become more entrenched. From a realist perspective the ongoing failures of academic criminology are seen to centre around its conceptual weaknesses, lack of methodological and analytic rigour and diminishing policy relevance. Among its most spectacular failures has been its ...
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