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Informationen zum Autor Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman , Encountering the Everyday , The Transformation of Modernity , Utopia: Social Theory and the Future and Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences . Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her recent publications include Victims: Trauma, Testimony, Justice (with R. McGarry) and The Contradictions of Terrorism (with G. Mythen). Klappentext This book explores the ways in which criminological methods can be imaginatively deployed and developed in a world increasingly characterized by the blurred nature of social reality. Whilst recognizing the importance of positivist approaches and research techniques, it advocates a commitment to understanding the ways in which those techniques can be used imaginatively, at times in combination with less conventional methods, discussing the questions concerning risk, ethics and access that arise as a result. Giving voice to cutting edge research practices both in terms of concepts and methods that shift the criminological focus towards the kind of imaginative work that comprised the foundations of the discipline, it calls into question the utility and credentials of mainstream work that fails to serve the discipline itself or the policy questions allied to it. A call not to 'give up on numbers' but also not to be defined by statistics and the methods that produce them, Liquid Criminology sheds light on a way of doing research for criminology that is not only creative but also critical. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, criminology and social policy with interests in research methods and design. Zusammenfassung This book explores the ways in which criminological methods can be imaginatively deployed and developed in a world increasingly characterized by the blurred nature of social reality. Whilst recognizing the importance of positivist approaches and research techniques! it advocates a commitment to understanding the ways in which those techniques can be used imaginatively! at times in combination with less conventional methods! discussing the questions concerning risk! ethics and access that arise as a result. Giving voice to cutting edge research practices both in terms of concepts and methods that shift the criminological focus towards the kind of imaginative work that comprised the foundations of the discipline! it calls into question the utility and credentials of mainstream work that fails to serve the discipline itself or the policy questions allied to it. A call not to 'give up on numbers' but also not to be defined by statistics and the methods that produce them! Liquid Criminology sheds light on a way of doing research for criminology that is not only creative but also critical. As such! it will appeal to scholars of sociology! criminology and social policy with interests in research methods and design. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Introducing ‘Liquid Criminology’, ( Sandra Walklate and Michael Hviid Jacobsen) Part I Using Conventional Methods Imaginatively 1. Doing Imaginative Criminology, (Pat Carlen) 2. Using Crime Surveys as Tools of Critical Insight and Progressive Change, (Walter S. DeKeseredy) 3. ‘Snitches Get Stitches’? Telling Tales on Homicide Detectives, (Louise Westmarland) 4. Forensic Criminology as Research Problem: Using Traditional Processes in a Forensic Context, (Wayne Petheri...
