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dc.contributor.authorDonnermeyer, Joseph Fen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Walter S DeKeseredy and Molly Dragiewiczen
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-27T15:31:00Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.citationRoutledge Handbook of Critical Criminology, p. 289-301en
dc.identifier.isbn9780203864326en
dc.identifier.isbn9780415779678en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12632-
dc.description.abstractIf nothing else, critical criminology demonstrates the ability of scholarship to continuously divide and subdivide into new forms, much like one of those malevolent, alien space viruses from a helplessly had Hollywood bio-horror flick. Encompassing a range of monikers - Marxist, left realism, numerous forms of feminist criminology, and a potpourri of postmodernist approaches - its various proponents engage in a continuous debate over critical criminology's essential meaning and scope (Bessant, 2002; Russell, 2002). In one respect, this kind of intense dialogue about crime, deviance, punishment, justice, offending, victimization, corrections, prevention, and restoration is a healthy way to develop a set of alternative explanations and policy implications to mainstream versions of criminology, such as social disorganization, anomie, strain, social learning, differential association, and labelling theories (Tittle, 2000). On the proverbial "other hand," it becomes more challenging to apply critical criminology to new areas, such as rural crime, when no two scholars agree fully on what it is or what it should be. Hence, for the purposes of this chapter, critical criminology is accepted as a polyglot of concepts, theories, and interpretations about crime and deviance. However, this chapter also begins with the idea that all approaches to critical criminology argue for a structural explanation (yes, even the postmodernist varieties) of crime, that is, crime is rooted in economic, social, and political inequalities and social class, racism, hate, and other forms of segmented social organization, reinforced and rationalized by culturally derived relativistic definitions of conforming, deviant, and criminal actions, which separate, segregate, and otherwise cause governments at all levels and peoples everywhere to differentially and discriminately enforce offenders. All versions of critical criminology potentially can provide an understanding about how the specific contexts of crime may be unique expressions of values, beliefs, and norms by which one group controls and exploits "others," but these specific contexts are not uncommon and can be observed in a number of similar community/neighborhood and societal settings. In this sense, therefore, critical criminology's diversity of perspectives, from the macro to the micro, can be quite useful for furthering the study of rural crime because its eclectic combativeness with mainstream criminology allows scholars who turn their attention to crime in the non-urban context to understand how the particulars of crime in numerous and diverse rural settings inevitably have links to larger factors in ways strongly reminiscent of Mills's (1959) original description of the sociological imagination.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofRoutledge Handbook of Critical Criminologyen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge International Handbooksen
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dc.titleRural crime and critical criminologyen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsLaw and Societyen
dc.subject.keywordsCriminological Theoriesen
dc.subject.keywordsCriminal Law and Procedureen
local.contributor.firstnameJoseph Fen
local.subject.for2008160204 Criminological Theoriesen
local.subject.for2008180119 Law and Societyen
local.subject.for2008180110 Criminal Law and Procedureen
local.subject.seo2008940405 Law Reformen
local.subject.seo2008940402 Crime Preventionen
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local.profile.schoolSchool of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailjdonner2@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
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local.publisher.placeLondon, United Kingdomen
local.identifier.totalchapters38en
local.format.startpage289en
local.format.endpage301en
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local.title.maintitleRural crime and critical criminologyen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/151402124en
local.search.authorDonnermeyer, Joseph Fen
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local.year.published2012en
local.subject.for2020440205 Criminological theoriesen
local.subject.for2020480405 Law and society and socio-legal researchen
local.subject.for2020480503 Criminal procedureen
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