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CRIME, LAW AND JUSTICE NEW Postmodernist and Post-Structuralist Theories of Crime Edited by Bruce A. Arrigo, University of North Carolina, USA and Dragan Milovanovic, Northeastern Illinois University, USA The Library of Essays in Theoretical Criminology This volume offers a representative sampling of postmodernist-inspired theoretical advances in criminology, emphasizing their relevance for and application to criminology. The previously published articles are presented in five parts, reflecting some shared, but nevertheless evocative, themes. These are: Theoretical developments and integration; Critical applications in law, crime, justice and social change; Transformational analysis and marginalized identities; Postmodern and post-structural criminology and its interlocutors. Contents: INTRODUCTION: PART I: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND INTEGRATIONS: Constitutive criminology: The maturation of critical theory, Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic; The peripheral core of law and criminology: On postmodern social theory and conceptual integration, Bruce A. Arrigo; Post modern criminology: Mapping the terrain, Dragan Milovanovic; The French connection: Implications for law, crime and social justice, Bruce A. Arrigo, Dragan Milovanovic and Robert C. Schehr. PART II: CRITICAL APPLICATIONS IN LAW, CRIME, JUSTICE AND SOCIAL CHANGE: Nome law: Deleuze and Guattari on the emergence of law, Jamie Murray; Advancing science and research in criminal justice/criminology: Complex systems theory and non-linear analyses, Jeffery T. Walker; The power of community mediation: Government and formation of self-identity, George Pavlich; Chaos theory and human agency: Humanist sociology in a postmodern era, T.R. Young. PART III: TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSES AND MARGINALIZED IDENTITIES: From restoration to transformation: victim-offender mediation as transformative justice, Robert Carl Schehr; Determinate sentencing: A feminist and postmodern story, Nancy A. Wonders; The abrogation of subjectivity in the psychiatric courtroom: Toward a psychoanalytic semiotic analysis, Christopher R. Williams; Creating the responsible prisoner: Federal admission and orientation packs, Mary Bosworth; Against ‘green’ criminology, Mark Halsey. PART IV: INTERNATIONAL,TRANSNATIONAL AND POST-NATIONAL DIRECTIONS: ‘Let them eat cake’: Globalization, postmodern colonialism, and the possibilities of justice, Susan S. Silbey; Alternatives to what kind of suffering? Towards a border-crossing criminology, Ronnie Lippens; Doing newsmaking criminology from within the academy, Gregg Barak. PART V: POSTMODERN AND POST-STRUCTURAL CRIMINOLOGY AND ITS INTERLOCUTORS: Postmodernism, protest, and the new social movement, Joel F. Handler; Postmodern thought and criminological discontent: New metaphors for understanding violence, Martin D. Schwartz and David O. Friedrichs; NAME INDEX. Includes 18 previously published journal articles August 2010 538 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-2927-6 £150.00 8 LEGAL REFERENCE 2010 Law and Legal Studies 2010 www.ashgate.com/law FORTHCOMING Social, Ecological and Environmental Theories of Crime Edited by Jeffery T. Walker, University of Arkansas, USA The Library of Essays in Theoretical Criminology One of the oldest and most extensive forms of criminology falls within what is referred to, among other names, as social ecology. Recent influential research papers in this field and that of environmental criminology are gathered together in this collection. The range of topics includes human ecology and the Chicago School, social disorganization theory, neighborhoods and crime, as well as groundbreaking research work in environmental criminology. Contents: INTRODUCTION: AVAILABLE NOW… PART I: THE EARLY DAYS – HUMAN ECOLOGY: The study of the delinquent as a person, Ernest W. Burgess; The ecological approach to the study of the human community, Roderick D. McKenzie; Human ecology, Robert E. Park; Ecology and human ecology, Amos H. Hawley. PART II: SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION AND BEYOND: The neighborhood and child conduct, Henry D. McKay; A rejoinder, Clifford R. Shaw; The conflict of values in delinquency areas, Solomon Kobrin; Community structure and crime: Testing social disorganization theory, Robert J. Sampson and W. Byron Groves. PART III: THE FOCUS ON DETERIORATING NEIGHBORHOODS: Dangerous places: crime and residential environment, Dennis W. Roncek; Community change and patterns of delinquency, Robert J. Bursik, Jr. and Jim Webb; Broken windows, James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling; Neighborhood and delinquency: An assessment of contextual effects, Ora Simcha-Fagan and Joseph E. Schwartz; Neighborhood social capital as differential social organization: Resident and leadership dimensions, Robert J. Sampson. PART IV: THE RISE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY: Crime prevention and control through environmental engineering, C. Ray Jeffery; The spatial patterning of burglary, Paul J. Brantingham and Patricia L. Brantingham; Some effects of being female on criminal spatial behavior, George F. Rengert; Crime seen through a cone of resolution, Paul J. Brantingham, Delmar A. Dyreson and Patricia L. Brantingham; Cities and crime: A geographic model, Keith Harries; The effects of building size on personal crime and fear of crime, Oscar Newman and Karen A. Franck; The methods and measures of centrography and the spatial dynamics of rape, James L. LeBeau; Nodes, paths and edges: Considerations on the complexity of crime and the physical environment, Patricia L. Brantingham and Paul J. Brantingham. PART V: RECENT WORKS IN SOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY: Crime measures and the spatial analysis of criminal activity, Martin A. Andresen; A temporal constraint theory to explain opportunity-based spatial offending patterns, Jerry Ratcliffe; Where size matters: Agglomeration economies of illegal drug markets in Philadelphia, Travis A. Taniguchi, George F. Rengert and Eric S. McCord; The future of Newman’s defensible space theory: Linking defensible space and the routine activities of place, Daniell M. Renald and Henk Elffers; Advancing science and research in criminal justice/criminology: Complex systems theory and non-linear analyses, Jeffery T. Walker; NAME INDEX. Includes 26 previously published journal articles April 2011 c. 562 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-2897-2 c. £150.00 2010 Law and Legal Studies Catalogue Visit www.ashgate.com/cataloguedownload to view the Law and Legal Studies 2010 catalogue as a PDF, or click on the cover image at www.ashgate.com/law
SERIES PIONEERS IN CONTEMPORARY CRIMINOLOGY Series Editor: David Nelken, Cardiff University, UK, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and University of Macerata, Italy The titles in this series bring together the best published and unpublished work by the leading authorities in contemporary criminological theory. By drawing together articles from a wide range of journals, conference proceedings and books, each title makes readily available the authors’ most important writings on specific themes. For more information on this series, including a full list of titles available, contents listings and more, please visit www.ashgate.com/legalreference NEW Building Modern Criminology Forays and Skirmishes David F. Greenberg, New York University, USA Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology These seminal papers gathered here have helped to build a logically coherent, empirically grounded criminology that understands the criminal law, patterns of crime and social responses to it in their historically-specific, social contexts. Contents: INTRODUCTION: PART I: CAUSES OF CRIME: Delinquency and the age structure of society; The gendering of crime in Marxist theory; Time series analysis of crime rates; Long-term trends in crimes of violence; modeling criminal careers. PART II: THE EFFECTS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: The effect of arrests on crime: a multivariate panel analysis; The incapacitative effect of imprisonment: some estimates. PART III: UNDERSTANDING THE CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: The dialectics of crime control (with Drew Humphries); The dynamics of oscillatory punishment processes; The prison as a lawless agency (with Fay Stender); Punishment, division of labor, and social solidarity; State prison populations and their growth, 1971–1991 (with Valerie West); Siting the death penalty internationally (with Valerie West); NAME INDEX. Includes 12 previously published essays & articles September 2010 524 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-2874-3 £85.00 NEW A Criminological Imagination Essays on Justice, Punishment, Discourse Pat Carlen, Kent University, UK Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology This collection of Carlen’s key essays on a wide range of subjects is informed by a common assumption: that while criminal justice must remain imaginary in societies based upon unequal and exploitative social relations, one task of a criminological imagination might be to suggest why this is so, and how things could be otherwise. Contents: INTRODUCTION: PART I: DISCOURSE/IDEOLOGY/SOCIAL CONTROL: The staging of magistrates’ justice; Magistrates courts: A game theoretic analysis; Remedial routines for the maintenance of control in magistrates’ courts; Official discourse (with F. Burton); Controlling measures: The repackaging of common-sense opposition to women’s imprisonment in England and Canada; Imaginary penalities and risk-crazed governance. PART II: WOMEN/PRISONS/PUNISHMENT: Virginia, criminology and the anti-social control of women; Papa’s discipline: An analysis of disciplinary modes in the Scottish women’s prison; Why study women’s imprisonment? Or anyone else’s?; On rights and powers: some notes on penal politics; Crime, inequality and sentencing; ‘Underclass’ crime and imprisonment: The continuing need for agendas of utopianism, abolitionism and socialism in criminology and criminal justice; Death and the triumph of governance? Lessons from the Scottish women’s prison; Imprisonment and the penal body politic: The cancer of disciplinary governance; Analyzing women’s imprisonment: abolition and its enemies. PART III: FEMINISM/CRIMINOLOGY/CRITIQUE: Against the politics of sex discrimination: For the politics of difference and a women-wise approach to sentencing; Criminal women and criminal justice: The limits to, and potential of, feminist and left realist perspectives; Criminology Ltd: the search for a paradigm; Critical criminology? In praise of an oxymoron and its enemies; Official discourse, comic relief and the play of governance; NAME INDEX. Includes 20 previously published essays and articles July 2010 402 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-2931-3 £85.00 Thinking about Punishment Penal Policy Across Space, Time and Discipline Michael Tonry, University of Minnesota, USA Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology This collection of Michael Tonry’s key writings on penal policy and criminal justice brings together three clusters of topics not usually treated together: Penal policy trends in western countries, racial and ethnic disparities, and sentencing policies, practices, and theories. Recent research in the past few decades has shown that these topics are inextricably interrelated. Contents: INTRODUCTION: PART I: RACE AND ETHNICITY: Malign neglect; Ethnicity, crime and immigration; The malign effects of drugs and crime control policies on black Americans, (with Matthew Melewski). PART II: COMPARATIVE PENAL POLICY: Symbol, substance and severity in Western penal policies; Punishment policies and patterns in Western countries; Determinants of penal policies. PART III: AMERICAN PENAL POLICY: Sense and sensibility in American penal culture; Cycles and sensibilities; Emerging explanations of American punishment policies. PART IV: SENTENCING POLICY: Sentencing reform in America (with Norval Morris); Mandatory penalties; Sentencing matters; Purposes and functions of sentencing. PART V: PUNISHMENT THEORY: Interchangeability of punishments in principle; Proportionality, parsimony, and interchangeability of punishments; Obsolescence and immanence in penal theory and policy. NAME INDEX. Includes 16 previously published essays and articles 2009 554 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-2905-4 £85.00 NEW Victims, Policy-making and Criminological Theory Selected Essays Paul Rock, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Pioneers in Contemporary Criminology Paul Rock’s classic journal articles brought together here reflect two of his preoccupations, theoretical and empirical, and form part of what has been, in effect, a running series of comparative ethnographies of government decision-making about the role of the victim in and around the criminal justice system. Contents: INTRODUCTION: Published writings; Observations on debt collection; Some problems of interpretative historiography; Law, order and power in late 17th and early 18th century England; Governments, victims and policies in two countries; The present state of criminology in Britain; Witnesses and space in a Crown court; Introduction: the emergence of criminological theory; The social organization of a Home Office initiative; The opening stages of criminal justice policy making; Sociology and the stereotype of the police; Murderers, victims and ‘survivors’: The social construction of deviance; Victims, prosecutors and the state in 19th century England and Wales; Chronocentrism and British criminology; Aspects of the social construction of victims in Australia; Urban homelessness, crime and victimisation in England (with Tim Newburn); Treatment of victims in England and Wales; NAME INDEX. Includes 16 previously published essays and articles May 2010 380 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-2926-9 £85.00 CRIME, LAW AND JUSTICE WWW.ASHGATE.COM/LEGALREFERENCE 9
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