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Counter-colonial criminology : a critique of imperialist reason / Biko Agozino ; with a foreword by Stephen Pfohl.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003Description: xiv, 281 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 074531886X
  • 9780745318868
  • 0745318851
  • 9780745318851
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.09 21
LOC classification:
  • HV6018 .A37 2003
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. The Enlightenment and Euro-American Theories of the Judicial Process -- 2. From Determinism to Meaning: The Emergence of the Labelling Perspective -- 3. From Societal Reaction to Questions of Power: From Labelling to Radical Criminology -- 4. Feminist Perspectives and Critical Criminology -- 5. Lesbian Rape: Maternal Metaphors for the Patriarchal State and International Conflict Resolution -- 6. Poststructuralism and Positivism in Criminological Theory -- 7. Social Fiction Sui Generis: The Fairy Tale Structure of Criminological Theory -- 8. Executive Lawlessness and the Struggle for Democracy in Africa -- 9. Radical Criminology in African Literature -- 10. Committed Objectivity in Race-Class-Gender Research -- 11. How Scientific is Criminal Justice? A Methodological Critique of Research on McCleskey v. Kemp and Other Capital Cases -- 12. What is Institutionalised? The Race-Class-Gender Articulation of Stephen Lawrence -- 13. Criminal Records: The Toughest, the Police and the Thieves: The Policing of Peter Tosh and Popular Culture -- Conclusion: Beyond Criminological Orientalism -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-265) and index.

Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. The Enlightenment and Euro-American Theories of the Judicial Process -- 2. From Determinism to Meaning: The Emergence of the Labelling Perspective -- 3. From Societal Reaction to Questions of Power: From Labelling to Radical Criminology -- 4. Feminist Perspectives and Critical Criminology -- 5. Lesbian Rape: Maternal Metaphors for the Patriarchal State and International Conflict Resolution -- 6. Poststructuralism and Positivism in Criminological Theory -- 7. Social Fiction Sui Generis: The Fairy Tale Structure of Criminological Theory -- 8. Executive Lawlessness and the Struggle for Democracy in Africa -- 9. Radical Criminology in African Literature -- 10. Committed Objectivity in Race-Class-Gender Research -- 11. How Scientific is Criminal Justice? A Methodological Critique of Research on McCleskey v. Kemp and Other Capital Cases -- 12. What is Institutionalised? The Race-Class-Gender Articulation of Stephen Lawrence -- 13. Criminal Records: The Toughest, the Police and the Thieves: The Policing of Peter Tosh and Popular Culture -- Conclusion: Beyond Criminological Orientalism -- Bibliography -- Index.

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