Crime, critique and utopia
By: edited by Margaret Malloch, Senior Research Fellow, University of Stirling and Bill Munro, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Stirling
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781137009791
Subjects: Crime; History; Crime prevention
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on contributors; title: Utopia and its discontents / Margaret Malloch and Bill Munro; title: Crime, critique and utopian alternatives / Margaret Malloch; title: Utopia and penal constraint: the Frankfurt School and critical criminology / Bill Munro; title: Erich Fromm : from messianic utopia to critical criminology / Michael Lowy; title: Crime and punishment in classical and libertarian utopias / Vincenzo Ruggiero; title: Visualising an abolitionist real utopia : principles, policy and praxis / David Scott; title: Towards a utopian criminology / Lynne Copson; title: Using the future to predict the past : prison population projections and the colonisation of penal imagination / Sarah Armstrong; title: Techno-utopianism, science fiction and penal innovation : the case of electronically monitored control / Mike Nellis; title: From penal dystopia to the reassertion of social rights / Loïc Wacquan.