This collection focuses on the existential predicaments and choices that underpin current debates and developments in the governance of crime and criminal justice and argues for the relevance of existentialist thought for enhancing a critical and philosophically inspired criminological imagination.
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CONTRIBUTORS: James Hardie-Bick, R. Lippens
EAN: 9780230283152
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 454 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-11-08
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GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, PHILOSOPHY / Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Crime and criminology, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Social and political philosophy
DON CREWE Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKSIMON GREEN Lecturer in Community Justice and Criminology, University of Hull, UKPHIL HADFIELD Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, UKCLAUDIUS MESSNER Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Law, University of Salento, ItalyDANNY O'ROURKE-DICARLO Lecturer in Social Science, York University, CanadaDAVID POLIZZI Assistant Professor of Corrections, Indiana State University, USAJAMES SHEPTYCKI Professor of Criminology, York University, Canada