1st Edition

Existentialist Criminology

Edited By Donald J Crewe, Ronnie Lippens Copyright 2009
320 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

320 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice. This emerging interest chimes with recent social and cultural developments - as well as shifts in their theoretical consideration - that are oriented around contingency and unpredictability. But whilst... Read more

Introduction. Existentialism: Freedom, Being and Crime, D. Crewe and R. Lippens  1. Will to Self Consummation and Will to Crime: A Study in Criminal Motivation, D. Crewe  2. Being Accused, Becoming Criminal, G. Pavlich  3. Biaphobia, State Violence, and the Definition of Violence, W. Schinkel  4. Existentialism, Edgework, and the Contingent Body: Exploring the Criminological Implications of Ultimate Fighting, S. Lyng, R. Matthews, and W. Miller  5. Scrounging: Time, Space, and Being, J. Ferrell  6. White-Collar Offenders After the Fall from Grace. Stigma, Blocked Paths and Resettlement, B. Hunter  7. ‘We Just Live Day-to-Day’. A Case Study of Life after Release Following Wrongful Conviction, S. Farrall  8. The Seductions of Conformity. The Criminological Importance of a Phenomenology of Exchange, S. Mackenzie  9. Existentialism and the Criminology of the Shadow, B. Arrigo and C. Williams  10. Towards Existential Hybridization? A Contemplation on the Being and Nothingness of Critical Criminology, R. Lippens

Biography

Don Crewe, Ronnie Lippens