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The New Criminology.
""The New Criminology was written at a particular time and place; it was a product of 1968 and its aftermath: a world turned upside down .It was a time of great changes in personal politics and a surge of politics on the left: Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism as well as radical social demo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to 40th anniversary edition; The New Criminology : where we came from, wherewe are going; Situating The New Criminology; The Millsian vision; The golden age of American sociology of deviance; The New Criminology and the NDC; The New Criminology: the explanatory agenda; The immediate years: Policing the Crisis andThe New Criminology; Realist and cultural criminology: the subsequent years; Is cultural criminology necessarily idiographic?; The tendencies of social institutions and situations; History and change.
- Progress in scope and in theoryThe pieces of the puzzle come together; Bibliography; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Classical criminology and the positivist revolution; The classical school of criminology; Neo-classical revisionism; The positivist revolution; The quantificationof behaviour; Scientificneutrality; The determinism of behaviour; 2. The appeal of positivism; The consensus world view; The determinism of behaviour; The science of society; The meshing of interests; Lombroso; Body types in biological positivism; The XYY chromosome theory; Eysenck; Trasler; Conclusion.
- 3. Durkheim and the break with 'analyticalindividualism'Durkheim's break with positivism; Durkheim's view of human nature; Durkheim on anomie and the division of labour; Durkheim on 'the Normal and the Pathological'; Durkheim as a biological meritocrat; Durkheim and a social theory of deviance; 4. The early sociologies of crime; Merton and the American Dream; The typology of adaptations; Merton-the cautious rebel; A pluralistic society; Mertonian anomie theory and a social theory of deviance; The Chicago school and the legacy of positivism; The city, social problems and capitalist society.
- The struggle for space and a sociology of the cityThe struggle for space and the phenomenology ofthe ecological structure; Society as an organism; Criticisms of differential associations theory; Behaviourist revisions to Sutherland's theory; The theory of subcultures and beyond; 5. Social reaction, deviant commitment and career; What is the social reaction or labellingapproach to deviance?; Deviance, behaviour and action; Primary and secondary deviance and the notion ofsequence or career; Social reaction: theory or perspective?; Power and politics; Conclusions.
- 6. American naturalism and phenomenologyThe work of David Matza; Subterranean values, neutralization and drift; Pluralism; The late Matza: becoming deviant?; American phenomenology and the study of deviance:ethnomethodology; Ethnomethodology and the phenomenological project; The ethnomethodological critique; 7. Marx, Engels and Bonger on crime andsocial control; Willem Bonger and formal Marxism; Conclusion; 8. The new conflict theorists; Austin Turk and Ralf Dahrendorf; Authority, stratificationand criminalization; Richard Quinney and the social reality of crime; 9. Conclusion.