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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.
Governmental Criminology
Governmental Criminology
The term ‘governmental criminology’ immediately conjures up rather jaundiced visions of the tame criminology developed, promulgated and often effected by government institutions such as the British Home Office. Here, however, it refers simply to a rather variable approach to criminology influenced by Foucault's work on governmentality and the work of social theorists who have elaborated this into an analytical framework. Its origins lie in the splash created when Foucault's Discipline and Punish (1977) was parachuted into a critical criminology dominated by Marxist and symbolic interactionist approaches. That it ...
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