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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.
Twentieth-Century Criminological Theory: From Aetiology to Controlology
Twentieth-Century Criminological Theory: From Aetiology to Controlology
As faithful reflectors and disseminators of approved ideas, most sociologically based criminological theory textbooks – sometimes after a quick trawl through nineteenth-century statistical work and early psychological schools – tend to avoid early Marxist, socialist and Freudian thought, which, as we can see clearly in the work of Engels (1987), Bonger (1916), Aichhorn (1931), Lacan (2006), Fromm (2000) and others, harboured strong post-positivist aetiological commitments to the examination of the motivations behind human behaviours such as criminality in their social, economic and cultural contexts. They also tend to avoid the work of the unique dualistic thinkers from the early twentieth century, such as Veblen and Simmel, with whom we had a brief ...
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