1st Edition

Imagining Criminology An Alternative Paradigm

By Frank P. Williams 3rd Copyright 1999
220 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1999. This concludes work on a series Current Issues in Criminal Justice.  Criminology. The book represents another milestone in a criminologist’s journey to uncover some “truths” about the discipline and to reflectcritically on how that field has evolved. This journey, some of youmay remember, began in The Sociology of Criminological Theory:Paradigm... Read more
Chapter One: Thought and Ideology, Chapter Two: Recent Criminological Theorizing , Chapter Three: A Critique of Contemporary Criminological Theory , Chapter Four: Conceptualizing and Measuring, Chapter Five: The Search for Reality, Chapter Six: Chaos, Complex Systems, and Self-Organized Criticality, Chapter Seven: A Critical-Incident Orienting-Perspective, Chapter Eight: Specific Features of the Perspective , Chapter Nine: Implications of a Critical-Incident Metatheory, Chapter Ten: Conclusions

Biography

Frank P Williams III