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Realist criminology

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Realist criminologyRoger Matthews.
Author:	Matthews, Roger,
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014.
Description:	200 p. :4 graphs.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Notes:	Epublication based on: 9781137445704, 2014.
Subject:	Critical criminologyPhilosophy.
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137445718 (electronic bk.) :

Realist criminology
Matthews, Roger,1948-

Realist criminology[electronic resource] /Roger Matthews. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014. - 200 p. :4 graphs.

Electronic book text.

Author Preface 1. The Successes and Failures of Modern Criminology 2. A Framework of Analysis 3. The Problem of Method 4. Rational Choice, Routine Activities and Situational Crime Prevention 5. From Cultural Criminology to Cultural Realism 6. The Myth of Punitiveness Revisited 7. Governing the Present Epilogue: For a Public Criminology.

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This book challenges contemporary criminological thinking, providing a thorough critique of mainstream criminology, including both liberal criminology and administrative criminology. It sets a new agenda for theoretical and practical engagement, and for creating a more effective and just criminal justice system.Criminology has expanded significantly as an academic discipline, but it has been argued that it is becoming increasingly socially and politically irrelevant. This books aims to address this problem by rethinking the theoretical underpinnings and research methods we use, to form a criminology that is critical, engaged and useful. The left realist approach to criminology has changed considerably over the past twenty years and continues to make an important contribution to the theoretical study of crime, as well as issues such as crime prevention, policing, prisons, and community safety. As one of the pioneers of realist criminology, Roger Matthews presents a coherent overview of its development and continued relevance. By providing a critique of some of the dominant approaches in criminology, this book sets a new agenda for theoretical and practical engagement and will appeal to all those interested in making sense of contemporary forms of social control and developing types of analysis and intervention which are designed to produce a more effective and just criminal justice system.

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Roger Matthews is Professor in Criminology at the University of Kent, UK.

ISBN: 1137445718 (electronic bk.) :£25.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Critical criminology
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: HV6025 / .M366 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 364

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520 1 $a Roger Matthews, a pioneer of realist criminology, is one of the most interesting and important criminological theorists in Britain today. In this exciting new work, he sets out the stall for critical realism - a sophisticated appraisal of and provocative challenge to mainstream criminology. It is just the stimulus to fresh debate that the discipline needs. Realist Criminology is essential reading for all serious students and scholars of criminology. - Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford, UK In this timely and wide-ranging book, one of realist criminology's most respected pioneers argues forcefully for a criminology that is honest, engaged, and socially responsible-a criminology that both takes the human toll of crime seriously and supports interventions that advance public safety, human emancipation and social justice. This is a vision that should help to shape debates about the tools and aims of the study of crime for many years to come. - Elliott Currie, University of California, Irvine, USA We can learn from critical criminology as we sustain a commitment to working on a realist construction site. This means taking crime seriously, struggling for crime prevention through creating a more just society. In this book, Roger Matthews re-joins that tradition in a way that is contemporarily responsive to competing traditions. - John Braithwaite, Australian National University, Australia.
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