1st Edition

Radicalization The Life Writings of Political Prisoners

By Melissa Dearey Copyright 2010
304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

Expanding the influence of auto/biography studies into cultural criminology, Radicalization: The Life Writings of Political Prisoners addresses the origins, processes and cultures of terrorist criminality and political resistance in a globalized world. Criminologists and penologists have long been aware of the sheer volume of autobiography emerging from our prisons. Political prisoners, POWs,... Read more

1. What is Radicalization? From the Civil Society to the Enemy Within  2. Using Auto/Biographical Methodologies to Analyze Radicalization  3. ‘There are So Many Roots…’: Sex, Sexuality, Gender and the Body in Political Prisoner Radicalization Narratives  4. ‘I Felt Myself Turning Cold like the Bottle of Coke’: Children, Childhood and ‘The Child’ in Political Prisoner Radicalization Narratives  5. Is Radicalization a Family Affair? A Tale of Two Families

Biography

Melissa Dearey is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull