Crime, Critique and Utopia [electronic resource] /
Malloch, Margaret.author.
Munro, Bill.author.
This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the application of a utopian method for uncovering the potential within criminology and criminal justice, as well as the relevance of the utopian impulse for developing a challenge to the status quo in academia and beyond.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Utopia and its discontents / Margaret Malloch and Bill Munro -- Crime, critique and utopian alternatives / Margaret Malloch -- Utopia and penal constraint: the Frankfurt School and critical criminology / Bill Munro -- Erich Fromm : from messianic utopia to critical criminology / Michael Lowy -- Crime and punishment in classical and libertarian utopias / Vincenzo Ruggiero -- Visualising an abolitionist real utopia : principles, policy and praxis / David Scott -- Towards a utopian criminology / Lynne Copson -- Using the future to predict the past : prison population projections and the colonisation of penal imagination / Sarah Armstrong -- Techno-utopianism, science fiction and penal innovation : the case of electronically monitored control / Mike Nellis -- From penal dystopia to the reassertion of social rights / Loïc Wacquan.
This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the application of a utopian method for uncovering the potential within criminology and criminal justice, as well as the relevance of the utopian impulse for developing a challenge to the status quo in academia and beyond.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Crime-Sociological aspects.
Criminal law.
Critical criminology.
Criminology.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Crime and Society.
Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.
Critical Criminology.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.