1. Challenging Academic Orthodoxy: Recognising and Proclaiming ‘Values’ in Critical Social Research 2. ‘Unreasonable Force’: Policing Marginalised Communities in the 1980s 3. ‘Lost Lives, Hidden Voices’: Deaths and Violence in Custody 4. Hillsborough: Negligence without Liability 5. ‘Licensed to Kill’: The Dunblane Shootings and their Aftermath 6. Children on Trial: Prosecution, Disclosure and Anonymity 7. ‘Asbo-mania’: The Regulation and Criminalisation of Children and Young People 8. Children, Young People and Conflict in the North of Ireland 9. Self Harm and Suicide in a Women’s Prison 10. ‘Nasty Things Happen in War’ 11. ‘Speaking Truth to Power’: Critical Analysis as Resistance
Biography
Phil Scraton is Professor of Criminology in the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Queen’s University, Belfast. His primary research includes: the regulation and criminalisation of children and young people; violence and incarceration; the politics of truth and official inquiry; critical analysis. His most recent books are Hillsborough: The Truth (2000) and Beyond September 11: An Anthology of Dissent (2002).
This book is one of the most powerful and well written sociological treaties on power and criminalisation of this decade. It demonstrates the inherent weaknesses of much of mainstream sociology, advocating with great force and empathy the need for critical analysis of the forces of marginalisation and exclusion and for seeing the criminal justice system "from below".’ Professor Thomas Mathiesen, Professor of the Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, Norway‘An important contribution to criminological theory, grounded in the author's deep knowledge of troubling public issues and long-time commitment to social justice.’ Professor Emeritus Tony Platt, California State University, Sacramento, USA
