Governance and Regulation in Social Life - Essays in Honour of W.g. Carson

Informationen zum Autor Augustine Brannigan is based at the University of Calgary. His main research interests include social psychology! crime and deviance! and the social organization of criminal justice. George Pavlich is based at the University of Alberta! Canada. His main research interests are social theory and law; socio-legal Studies! governance! restorative justice and theories of crime. Zusammenfassung With leading international contributors, this text is the only work currently available that examines W.G. Carson and his crucial influence in the turn towards sociological approaches to criminology and a criminological interest in governance and social control. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Shift from Crime to Governance in the Sociology of Law Part 1: Are Occupational Health and Safety 'Crimes' Really Criminal? 2. The Importance of Being Ambiguous: Theorizing White Collar Crime 3. Are Occupational Health and Safety Crimes Hostage to History?: An Australian Perspective 4. The Continuing Price of Britain’s Oil: Business Organization, Precarious Employment and Risk Transfer Mechanisms in the North Sea Petroleum Industry 5. Jurisprudential Miscegenation: Strict Liability and the Ambiguity of Crime 6. The Sociology of Compliance-based Regulation: An Intellectual History Part 2: Modalities of Governance, Social Control and Resistance 7. Symbolic and Instrumental Aspects of American Capital Punishment 8. The Law of Subaltern Discipline 9. A Genealogy of 'Fire Prevention' 10. Young People, Fire and Arson as Resistance Part 3: Crime, Community and Social Justice 11. The Politics of Community and the Problem of the 'Stranger' 12. Responding to Crimes Against International Law 13. Restorative Justice in Post-genocidal Rwanda: From Community to Citizenship as a Basis for Social Justice 14. Embedded Criminology and Knowledges of Resistance

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• Authors: Augustine (University of Calgary Brannigan, Augustine Pavlich Brannigan
• Assisted by: Augustine Brannigan (Editor), Augustine (University of Calgary Brannigan (Editor), Brannigan Augustine (Editor), George Pavlich (Editor), George (University of Alberta Pavlich (Editor), Pavlich George (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2007
• EAN: 9781845681104
• ISBN: 978-1-84568-110-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / General, LAW / International, Corporate crime, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Legal aspects of criminology, Social Law, Criminology: legal aspects, Social law and Medical law