The criminological imagination / Jock Young.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, Jock
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Criminology.
Physical Description:xi, 252 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Closing down the imagination
  • Measurement and the sexologists
  • Amnesia and the art of skating on thin ice
  • The bogus of positivism
  • Loosening the Moorings: the emergence of cultural criminology
  • Giuliani and the New York miracle
  • Mayhem, Magic and Magaret Mead: towards a critical ethnography
  • Subcultures as Magic: problems of urban ethnography
  • Dangerous knowledge and the politics of imagination
  • Rescuing the imagination.