Literary Theory and Criminology (New Directions in Critical Criminology) - Softcover

McGregor, Rafe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 103226280X ISBN 13: 9781032262802

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

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 globalisation, 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 programmes. 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.

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About the Author

Rafe McGregor is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Edge Hill University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103226280X
• ISBN 13: 9781032262802
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220