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Antifeminist backlash and critical criminology

open access: yes, 2011
The violence to liberty done by the NSA and the Patriot Act distracts the public from the more substantial oppression realized in Family Law Court, under the influence of the Violence against Women Act (VAWA), feminist jurisprudence, and child custody ...
Dragiewicz, M
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The Margins of Criminology: Challenges from a Feminist Epistemological Perspective

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2019
From Zaffaroni’s proposal for the production of a criminology with a marginal perspective, and based on the contributions of the feminist standpoint theory, this paper examines the limits of critical criminology in Brazil and the likely effect the ...
Camila Prando
doaj   +1 more source

Without Place, Is It Real?

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
This article reviews Matthews’ (2014) Realist Criminology as an opportunity to address larger shortcomings within critical criminology, which is the failure to develop an alternative theory of crime and place to the mainstream theories of social ...
Joseph F Donnermeyer
doaj   +1 more source

Intersectionality, rural criminology, and re-imaging the boundaries of critical criminology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
One of the significant shortcomings of the criminological canon, including its critical strands – feminist, cultural and green – has been its urbancentric bias. In this theoretical model, rural communities are idealised as conforming to the typical small-
Carrington, Kerry   +7 more
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Nils Christie: On the periphery but in the centre [PDF]

open access: yesTemida, 2016
Nils Christie’s contribution to criminology and victimology has been profound. This article traces the roots of contemporary concerns with critical and cultural victimology to his work.
Walkate Sandra
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice

open access: yesCritical Criminology
This article presents a rationale and strategy for bringing urgent attention to ‘minority’, ‘excluded’, and ‘marginalised’ perspectives within contemporary mainstream criminology.
Martin Glynn, D. Breen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology

open access: yes, 2011
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology is a collection of original essays specifically designed to offer students, faculty, policy makers, and others an in-depth overview of the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical, and political contributions ...
Dragiewicz, Molly, DeKeseredy, Walter S
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Between Positivism and Post-modernity? Critical Reflections on Jock Young�s The Exclusive Society. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This essay represents an attempt to reflect critically on Young's theoretical agenda and social-political prescriptions. By doing so, we suggest,useful insights can be garnered into both the ongoing difficulties faced by a leftist criminology, and the ...
Penna, Sue, Yar, Majid
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Centering Mothers in Feminist Criminology: A Critical Review of Literature on Mothers of Victims and Offenders

open access: yesFeminist Criminology
This article reviews the literature on mothers of victims and mothers of offenders through a feminist criminological lens. Results of our analysis of 52 articles from a twenty-year period indicated that, though situated on opposite sides of the criminal ...
Keren Gueta, Rachel Condry
semanticscholar   +1 more source

James Ellroy’s Critical Criminology: Crimes of the Powerful in the Underworld USA Trilogy

open access: yesCritical Criminology, 2019
This article argues for the criminological value of James Ellroy’s fiction, using his Underworld USA Trilogy (the “Trilogy”) as a case study. I present the Trilogy as a critical criminological enterprise, understood in the sense of offering a convincing ...
R. McGregor
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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