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Crime, Critique and Utopia

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Editors:
  1. Margaret Malloch

    1. University of Stirling, UK

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  2. Bill Munro

    1. University of Stirling, UK

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Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives (CCRP)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Utopia and Its Discontents

    • Margaret Malloch, Bill Munro
    Pages 1-20

  3. Crime, Critique and Utopian Alternatives

    • Margaret Malloch
    Pages 21-43

  4. Utopia and Penal Constraint: The Frankfurt School and Critical Criminology

    • Bill Munro
    Pages 44-61

  5. Erich Fromm: From Messianic Utopia to Critical Criminology

    • Michael Löwy
    Pages 62-70

  6. Crime and Punishment in Classical and Libertarian Utopias

    • Vincenzo Ruggiero
    Pages 71-89

  7. Visualising an Abolitionist Real Utopia: Principles, Policy and Praxis

    • David Scott
    Pages 90-113

  8. Towards a Utopian Criminology

    • Lynne Copson
    Pages 114-135

  9. Using the Future to Predict the Past: Prison Population Projections and the Colonisation of Penal Imagination

    • Sarah Armstrong
    Pages 136-163

  10. Techno-utopianism, Science Fiction and Penal Innovation: The Case of Electronically Monitored Control

    • Mike Nellis
    Pages 164-189

  11. From Penal Dystopia to the Reassertion of Social Rights

    • Loïc Wacquant
    Pages 190-209

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 210-212
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About this book

This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the application of a utopian method for uncovering the potential within criminology and criminal justice, as well as the relevance of the utopian impulse for developing a challenge to the status quo in academia and beyond.

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"Crime, Critique, and Utopia offers a humanistic utopianism that pushes readers bravely to envision a different future through utopian blueprints, social movements, messianic hope, and the search for radical alternatives. Utopian imagination and praxis are gravely needed in an era of mass incarceration, systemic police violence and militarization, and rapidly increasing inequality. Criminologists should heed this book's highly relevant call to resist positivism, overspecialization, and submission, and Critical Theorists should heed the contribution that critical criminology makes to projects with emancipatory intent and to an interdisciplinary unification of theory and practice." - Joan Braune, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Stirling, UK

    Margaret Malloch, Bill Munro

About the editors

Sarah Armstrong, Glasgow University, UK Lynne Copson, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK Michael Löwy, CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research), France Mike Nellis, University of Strathclyde, UK Vincenzo Ruggiero, Middlesex University, UK David Scott, University of Central Lancashire, UK Loïc Wacquant, University of California at Berkeley, USA

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