Deviant Knowledge

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This book examines the politics of criminology and the ways in which criminological knowledge is generated. It includes an overview of the politics and practice of conducting criminological research, and examines the ways that regulatory and governing authorities set research agendas, manipulate the processes and production of knowledge and silence or suppress critical voices through various techniques of neutralisation. It also promotes 'knowledges of resistance' - a position that promotes critique, challenges concepts of power and social order, wrestles with notions of truth and adheres to intellectual autonomy and independence.

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Reece Walters is Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK.

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Reece Walters examines the politics of criminology and the ways in which criminological knowledge is generated. The text includes an overview of the politics and practice of conducting criminological research and the ways that regulatory and governing authorities set research agendas.