Description
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Critical and Cultural Criminological Theory is a crucial scholarly resource for contemporary theorizing about crime, harm, and justice. Departing from earlier etiological or structural approaches, this volume highlights the rich and evolving field of theorizing in criminology by bringing together critical and cultural criminologies as conjoined subfields.This Handbook draws together a wide body of empirical work examining institutional processes and cultural practices in relation to crime and the criminal justice system. With this lens of inquiry, traditional binaries—including that between "meaning" and "material arrangement"—are no longer sustainable. Across thirty-one chapters, the volume provides in-depth and accessible reviews of the main critical/cultural approaches to research in criminology and foregrounds key international debates. It promotes the recognition that political orders are founded on narratives of crime, systems of surveillance, and punishment, and that meaning is tied to their regulation. Critical criminology and cultural theories share a mutual debt because society, power, and culture do.The Handbook offers insights into the history and status of the contemporary theoretical field, areas for possible theoretical advancement, the relationship between theory and politics/(in)justice, and indications of how different theories can inform empirical research. This volume will help students, scholars, activists, and practitioners better understand the inescapable importance of theoretical frameworks for understanding criminal justice institutions, crime, and associated social harms.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Variety and Division in Critical/Cultural Criminological TheoryKevin D. Haggerty and Lois Presser FOUNDATIONAL APPROACHES2. Cultural Criminology: Beginning to End?Travis Linnemann and Dylan Sears3. Feminist CriminologyVenessa Garcia and Janice Clifford4. Queer CriminologyXavier Guadalupe-Diaz and Rachael Miller5. Green CriminologyRagnhild Sollund and David R. Goyes6. Narrative CriminologyRebecca Bunn and Jennifer Fleetwood7. Visual CriminologyBill McClanahan CENTERING IDENTITY AND CHALLENGING EXPERTISE 8. Black CriminologyLeah C. Butler 9. Intersectional Theorizing About Crime and JusticeCassandra Mary Frances Young 10. Convict CriminologyJennifer M. Ortiz, Grant Tietjen, and Daniel Kavish11. Criminology, Postmodernism, Globalization: Lessons from an Intellectual JourneyWayne Morrison12. Criminology and RealismJohn Lea THEORIZING BEYOND THE USUAL OBJECTS 13. Theorizing CybercrimeKevin F. Steinmetz and Adrienne L. McCarthy 14. Theorizing Sex WorkSusan Dewey 15. Theorizing State Harm David Kauzlarich and Dawn Rothe 16. Theorizing Modern Genocide Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira and Nicole Fox17. Theorizing War Ivan Shmatko and Cameron Graham18. Theorizing Hate CrimeZoë James and Katie McBride 19. Theorizing VictimizationAntony Pemberton and Eva Mulder INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR PRACTICES 20. Theorizing Media, Crime, and CriminologyRay Surette 21. Theorizing the Carceral Ashley T. Rubin22. Theorizing Subcultures and Crime J. Patrick Williams and Samuel Judah23. Theorizing the Crime/Surveillance NexusAndrew Goldsmith and Mark A. Wood 24. Migration and BordersAna Aliverti, Monish Bhatia, and Rimple Mehta 25. Crime, Technology, and ScienceKeith GuzikLEADING EDGES26. Theorizing the Spatial Turn in CriminologyMattias De Backer27. Risk and Crime: Old Stories, New ChallengesMarc Schuilenburg and René van Swaaningen28. AbolitionJudah Schept29. Bourdieusian CriminologyAlistair Fraser and Sveinung Sandberg 30. Foucault's Influence and Relevance for Critical CriminologyStephen Pfohl31. Public CriminologyKathryn Henne, Rita Shah, and Felicity Gray
