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Imagining Crime


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Criminology | Social Theory

December 1995 | 240 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
An innovative and challenging book, Imagining Crime explores the inability of the so-called criminal-legal complex--criminology, criminal law, the media, and ordinary, everyday experiences--to solve the problem of crime, criminality, and the ways in which crime can be imagined. Using a novel framework that provides insights into the social construct of crime, author Alison Young examines how we conceptualize crime by critiquing a number of events that have been taken to represent a definitive aspect of crime. The crisis within the criminal-legal tradition is embodied within each event, which the author shapes through her discussion of criminology's resistance to feminist intervention, the ambiguities of victimization in relation to social justice in the city, conjugal homicide and illegal immigration, the pleasures of reading about crime in detective fiction, the discovery of the limits of representation of crime when children kill children, the spectacle of HIV/AIDS in criminal justice policies, and more. Written by one of the newest exciting and original thinkers in criminology and sociolegal studies, Imagining Crime offers undergraduates, graduates, and scholars a unique approach to crime that integrates issues in criminology, criminal justice, and criminal law with feminist theory, sociolegal studies, and cultural studies.
 
Textual Outlaws and Criminal Conversations
 
Criminology and the Question of Feminism
 
The Universal Victim and the Body in Crisis
 
The Scene of the Crime
Reading the Justice of Detective Fiction

 
 
The Bulger Case and the Trauma of the Visible
 
Criminological Concordats
On the Single Mother and the Criminal Child

 
 
Fatal Frames
HIV/AIDS as Spectacle in Criminal Justice

 
 
Afterthoughts
The Imagination of Crime

 

Alison Young

Alison Young is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Criminology at Melbourne University. She is author of Femininity in Dissent (1990, Routledge) and has also written numerous articles on the intersections of law, criminology and feminist theory. Her current research concerns art as a mode of criminal and deviant expression. More About Author

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