History of critical criminology in Australia

Title
History of critical criminology in Australia
Publication Date
2012
Author(s)
Carrington, Kerry
Hogg, Russell G
Editor
Editor(s): Walter S DeKeseredy and Molly Dragiewicz
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
London, United Kingdom
Edition
1
Series
Routledge International Handbooks
UNE publication id
une:11835
Abstract
Those working in the critical criminology tradition have been centrally concerned with the social construction, variability and contingency of the criminal label. The concern is no less salient to a consideration of critical criminology itself, and any history of critical criminology (in Australia or elsewhere) should aim itself to be critical in this sense. The point applies with equal force to both of the terms 'critical' and 'criminology'. The want of a stable theoretical object has meant that criminology itself needs to be seen not as a distinct discipline but as a composite intellectual and governmental hybrid, a field of studies that overlaps and intersects many others (sociology, law, psychology, history, anthropology, social work, media studies and youth studies to name only a few). In consequence, much of the most powerful work on subjects of criminological inquiry is undertaken by scholars who do not necessarily define themselves as criminologists first and foremost, or at all. For reasons that should later become obvious this is even more pronounced in the Australian context. Although we may appear at times to be claiming such work for criminology, our purpose is to recognize its impact on and in critical criminology in Australia.
Link
Citation
Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology, p. 46-60
ISBN
9780203864326
9780415779678
Start page
46
End page
60

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