Reece Walters

Deviant Knowledge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the politics of criminology and the ways in which criminological knowledge is generated. It includes an overview of the politics and practice of conducting criminological research, and examines the ways that regulatory and governing authorities set research agendas, manipulate the processes and production of knowledge and silence or suppress critical voices through various techniques of neutralisation. It also promotes 'knowledges of resistance' - a position that promotes critique, challenges concepts of power and social order, wrestles with notions of truth and adheres to intellectual autonomy and independence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9781843920298
• ISBN-10: 1843920298
• Artikelnr.: 24992789

Autorenporträt

Reece Walters is Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Questions, contours and methods 2. Contours of criminological knowledge:
haunted by a spirit of pragmatism? 3. Criminology, government and public
policy 4. The politics and control of criminological knowledge 5. Silencing
the critics: the 'War on Terror' and the suppression of dissent 6. New
modes of governance and the commercialization of criminological knowledge
7. Reflections and new horizons