Becoming Criminal - The Socio-Cultural Origins of Law, Transgression and Deviance

Informationen zum Autor DON CREWE is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Klappentext This book consists of a fundamental deconstruction and reconstruction of the key concepts of Criminology and The Sociology of Law, providing a coherent expression of the relationships between these newly constructed concepts and thus a radically new statement of the relationship between society, crime and the law. Zusammenfassung This book consists of a fundamental deconstruction and reconstruction of the key concepts of Criminology and The Sociology of Law! providing a coherent expression of the relationships between these newly constructed concepts and thus a radically new statement of the relationship between society! crime and the law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Bruce Arrigo Acknowledgements Part One: What is Theory Chapter 1: Theory as Productive of Certainty: Teleology, Cause, Reason, and Emancipation. Chapter 2: Theory as Causal Explanation Chapter 3: The Nature of Theory Part Two: Will Chapter 4: Agency and Will Chapter 5: Being and Becoming Chapter 6: Becoming Part Three. Constraint Chapter 7: Power. Chapter 8: Constraint Chapter 9: Change and Complexity

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Preface by Bruce Arrigo Acknowledgements Part One: What is Theory Chapter 1: Theory as Productive of Certainty: Teleology, Cause, Reason, and Emancipation. Chapter 2: Theory as Causal Explanation Chapter 3: The Nature of Theory Part Two: Will Chapter 4: Agency and Will Chapter 5: Being and Becoming Chapter 6: Becoming Part Three. Constraint Chapter 7: Power. Chapter 8: Constraint Chapter 9: Change and Complexity

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DON CREWE is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: D Crewe, D. Crewe, Don Crewe, Crewe Don
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2013
• EAN: 9780230216815
• ISBN: 978-0-230-21681-5
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; B, Kulturwissenschaften, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Strafrecht, allgemein, Criminal Law, social and political philosophy, Social Philosophy, Crime and criminology, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Culture—Study and teaching, Criminological Theory, Criminology Theory, Crime—Sociological aspects, Crime and Society, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Criminal law: procedure and offences