Critical Voices in Criminology

David Christopher Powell (Anthology Editor) , Chris Powell (Contributor) , Hillary Potter (Contributor) , Luis Fernandez (Contributor) , Sharon Pickering (Contributor) , Alan Mobley (Contributor) ,

Critical Voices in Criminology

David Christopher Powell (Anthology Editor) , Chris Powell (Contributor) , Hillary Potter (Contributor) , Luis Fernandez (Contributor) , Sharon Pickering (Contributor) , Alan Mobley (Contributor) ,

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Readers of criminological literature are presented with little more than thumbnail sketches as to the social characteristics or motivations of the authors. One learns their status, institutional location, and supposed credentials. Rarely are we presented with more detailed impressions of the authors as a combination of positivist assumptions and notions of professional competence seemingly render such information unimportant. However, increasing numbers of critical scholars are becoming aware of authorship as an issue; it matters who is addressing us. By taking these authors out of their methodological framework, Critical Voices in Criminology provides an opportunity for figures in and around critical criminology to discuss their own intellectual journeys into and within the discipline. The book offers the opportunity for contributors to reflect on their work and consider what they did not say. It also affords them the opportunity to describe their own 'channeling processes' by indicating how the pursuance of some themes/topics 'seemed' appropriate, sensible, or realistic, while others appeared less so, whether they internalized these particular themes, or attempted to contest and/or replace them.

Chapter 1 Butterfly or Dinosaur? Criminological 'Journeyman' and Romantic Pessimist
Chapter 2 Reflections of a Black Feminist Criminologist
Chapter 3 An Accidental Criminologist
Chapter 4 Traveling into Criminology
Chapter 5 Convict Criminology: 'Privileged Information and the Authority of Experience
Chapter 6 Identity Matters: Cultivating a Critical Criminologist
Chapter 7 From Dock to Doctor
Chapter 8 Goody Two Shoes Meets the Bad Girls
Chapter 9 'Hearing Voices, Bearing Witness': Reflections on Critical Analysis in Criminology
Chapter 10 Confessions of a Drive-by Intellectual
Chapter 11 Hither and Thigher No More: Reflections of a Retiring, but not Shy, Professor

Product details

Published	28 Aug 2009
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Extent	247
ISBN	9798216345909
Imprint	Lexington Books
Series	Critical Perspectives on Crime and Inequality
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

David Christopher Powell

Contributor

Chris Powell

Contributor

Hillary Potter

Contributor

Luis Fernandez

Contributor

Sharon Pickering

Contributor

Alan Mobley

Contributor

Nancy A. Wonders

Contributor

Roger Yates

Contributor

Ruth Waterhouse

Contributor

Phil Scraton

Contributor

Ray Michalowski

Contributor

Gary T. Marx

These readings could provide insightful succor to social science graduate students finding their way into academe-or out of it.... Highly recommended.

R.D. McCrie, Choice Reviews
Critical criminology is the last current frontier of social science where scholars vibrantly give voice to their displeasure and outrage at the injustice that surrounds us. Critical Voices in Crimininology offers personal recitals of the pleasures and pitfalls of going against the technocratic academic tide. It provides information about how many of the contributors became dedicated critics of the status quo, and it reports on their crusades. The book is an eye-opener that should hearten readers who will learn that there are alternative academic paths that strive to make the world a better place for all of us.

Gilbert Geis, University of Califonria, Irvine, former president of the American Society of Criminology