Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11636
Title: History of critical criminology in Australia
Contributor(s): Carrington, Kerry  (author); Hogg, Russell G  (author)
Publication Date: 2012
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11636
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.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology, p. 46-60
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780203864326
9780415779678
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160204 Criminological Theories
189999 Law and Legal Studies not elsewhere classified
180119 Law and Society
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 440205 Criminological theories
450599 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community not elsewhere classified
480404 Law and religion
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified
949999 Law, Politics and Community Services not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 230499 Justice and the law not elsewhere classified
239999 Other law, politics and community services not elsewhere classified
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/151402124
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415779678/
Series Name: Routledge International Handbooks
Editor: Editor(s): Walter S DeKeseredy and Molly Dragiewicz
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter

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