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  title info:
    title: Literary theory and criminology
  name:
    name part: McGregor, Rafe
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Literary Theory and Criminology demonstrates the significance of contemporary literary theory to the discipline of criminology, particularly to those criminologists who are primarily concerned with questions of power, inequality and harm. Drawing on innovations in philosophical, narrative, cultural and pulp criminology, it sets out a deconstructive framework as part of a critical criminological critique, praxis. This book comprises eight essays on globalization, criminological fiction, poststructuralism, patriarchal political economy, racial capitalism, anthropocidal ecocide, critical theory and critical praxis that argue for the value of contemporary literary theory to a critical criminology concerned with the construction of a just and sustainable reality in the face of climate change and other mass harms. This is the first criminology book to engage with literary theory from the perspective of criminology and provides a guide for criminologists who want to deploy literary theory as part of their research programs. It supersedes existing engagements with poststructuralism in the philosophical criminological tradition because it entails neither a constructionist ontology nor a relativist epistemology. It shows criminologists how literary theory offers the tools to first deconstruct and then reconstruct meaning and value. Literary Theory and Criminology is essential reading for all critical criminological theorists.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Mass Harms -- Criminologies -- De/Re/Construction -- Patriarchal Political Economy -- Racial Capitalism -- Anthropocidal Ecocide -- Writing -- Praxis.
  note: Rafe McGregor.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Crime in literature
  subject:
    topic: Criminology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Crime
    topic: Sociological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Criticism
  classification: PN56.C72 M343 2024
  classification: 364.01/9
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    title info:
      title: New directions in critical criminology
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230215
    record change date: 20230929201430.7
    record identifier: in00004743240