1st Edition

Governance and Regulation in Social Life Essays in Honour of W.G. Carson

Edited By Augustine Brannigan, George Pavlich Copyright 2007
272 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

272 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

Comprising fourteen articles by leading international contributors, including some of the most prominent socio-legal and criminological scholars working in the field, this volume is currently the only work available that critically examines W.G. Carson and his crucial influence in the turn towards sociological approaches to criminology and a criminological interest in governance and social... Read more

1. The Shift from Crime to Governance in the Sociology of Law George Pavlich and Augustine Brannigan  I. Are Occupational Health and Safety 'Crimes' really Criminal?  2. The Importance of Being Ambiguous: Theorizing White Collar Crime  Fiona Haines and Adam Sutton  3. Are Occupational Health and Safety Crimes Hostage to History? An Australian Perspective Richard Johnstone  4. The Continuing Price of Britain’s Oil: Business Organization, Precarious Employment and Risk Transfer Mechanisms in the North Sea Petroleum Industry Charles Woolfson  5. Jurisprudential Miscegenation: Strict Liability and the Ambiguity of Crime Arie Freiberg  6. The Sociology of Compliance-Based Regulation: An Intellectual History Paul Rock  II. Modalities of Governance, Social Control and Resistance  7. Symbolic and Instrumental Aspects of American Capital Punishment David Garland  8. The Law of Subaltern Discipline George Pavlich  9. A Genealogy of 'Fire Prevention' Pat O’Malley and Steven Hutchinson  10. Young People, Fire and Arson as Resistance Mike Presdee  III. Crime, Community and Social Justice  11. The Politics of Community and the Problem of the 'Stranger' Gordon Hughes  12. Responding to Crimes Against International Law Dirk Van Zyl Smit  13. Restorative Justice in Post-Genocidal Rwanda: From Community to Citizenship as a Basis for Social Justice Augustine Brannigan  14. Embedded Criminology and Knowledges of Resistance Reece Walters

Biography

Augustine Brannigan is based at the University of Calgary. His main research interests include social psychology, crime and deviance, and the social organization of criminal justice. George Pavlich is based at the University of Alberta, Canada. His main research interests are social theory and law; socio-legal Studies, governance, restorative justice and theories of crime.