1st Edition

Criminology, Civilisation and the New World Order

By Wayne Morrison Copyright 2006
422 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

422 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

424 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

Expertly authored by the co-editor of the best-selling text Cultural Criminology Unleashed , this book re-examines criminology in a global context. Wide-ranging and up-to-date, it covers the topics of colonialism and post-colonialism, genocide, state control, the impact of September 11th and the post-9/11 world. Exploring the relationship between a modern discipline and modernity, it... Read more
Introduction.  September 11, Sovereignty and the Invasion of 'Civilized Space'.  Relating Visions: Patterns of Integration and Absences.  Criminal Statistics, Sovereignty and the Control of Death: Representations from Quetelet to Auschwitz.  The Lombrosian Moment: Bridging the Visible and the Invisible or Restricting the Gaze in the Name of Progress?  Civilizing the Congo, Whose Story, Whose Truth: Wherewith Criminology?.  'A living Lesson in the Museum of Order': The Case of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Brussels.  Contingencies of Encounter, Crime and Punishment: On the Purposeful Avoidance of 'Global Criminology'.  A Reflected Gaze of Humanity: Reflections on Vision, Memory and Genocide.  Teaching the Significance of Genocide and Our Indifference: The Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, Bangladesh.  Enlightenment, Wedding Guests and Terror: the Exceptional and the Normal Revisited

Biography

Wayne Morrison is a member of the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London and Director of the University of London’s External Undergraduate Programmes for Law.