Critical Voices in Criminology

by Powell, David Christopher; Powell, Chris; Potter, Hillary; Fernandez, Luis; Pickering, Sharon; Mobley, Alan; Wonders, Nancy A.; Yates, Roger; Waterhouse, Ruth; Scraton, Phil; Michalowski, Ray; Marx, Gary T.

• ISBN13: 9780739120330
• ISBN10: 0739120336
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-21
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Readers of criminology literature are presented with little more than thumbnail sketches as to the social characteristics or motivations of the authors one learns their status, institutional location and supposed credentials. Rarely are we presented with more detailed impressions of the authors, as a combination of positivist assumption and notions of professional competence seemingly renders such information unimportant However, increasing numbers of critical scholars are becoming aware of authorship as an issue; it matters who is addressing us. By taking these authors out of their methodological framework Critical voices in Criminology provides an opportunity for figures in and around critical criminology to discuss their own intellectual journeys into an with the discipline

Author Biography

Chris Powell is Professor of criminology at the University of Southern Maine

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Who Are These Guys?	p. xi
Butterfly or Dinosaur? Criminological "Journeyman"; and Romantic Pessimist	p. 1
Reflections of a Black Feminist Criminologist	p. 23
An Accidental Criminologist	p. 39
Traveling into Criminology	p. 53
Convict Criminology: "Privileged Information" and the Authority of Experience	p. 67
Identity Matters: Cultivating a Critical Criminologist	p. 91
From Dock to Doctor	p. 109
Goody Two Shoes Meets the Bad Girls	p. 125
"Hearing Voices, Bearing Witness": Reflections on Critical Analysis in Criminology	p. 143
Confessions of a Drive-By Intellectual	p. 185
Hither and Thither No More: Reflections of a Retiring, but Not Shy, Professor	p. 205
About the Contributors	p. 253
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