{"product_id":"criminological-imagination-hardback-9780745641065","title":"Criminological Imagination (Hardback) 9780745641065","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCriminological Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJock Young (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745641065, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 July 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.9 x 16 x 2.8 cm, 0.535 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Great teachers like Young translate between cultural forms and fields of knowledge.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKriminologisches Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'The terms \"criminology\" and \"imagination\" do not naturally belong together. Jock Young's singular achievement is to apply a fine \"criminological imagination\", exposing the soulless discourse of mainstream criminology and reflecting upon the alternative critical tradition in which he himself played such a central role.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eStan Cohen, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘If reading a clever and consequential book were a crime, you would get arrested and hauled straight to jail for picking up \u003ci\u003eThe Criminological Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e. Adapting and deepening C.-Wright Mills's classic critique of the foibles of sociology, Young not only offers a razor-sharp diagnosis of how criminology lost its way in a funny-mirror house of methodological fetishism, empirical legerdemain, conceptual confusion and policy subservience. He also clears a path toward rescue and renewal: criminology can regain its analytic poise and civic relevance by embracing its sociological grounding and by reconnecting crime to formations of meaning and power. This book will energize all those who wish to free the craft from the clutches of the profession, and it is sure to fire up vigorous debate between and among partisans of mainstream and critical criminology.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLoïc Wacquant, author of \u003ci\u003eUrban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePunishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFor the last three decades Jock Young's work has had a profound impact on criminology. In this provocative new book, Young rejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today. His erudite and entertaining examination of what's gone wrong with criminology draws on a range of research - from urban ethnography to sexology and criminal victimization studies - to illustrate its failings.  \u003cp\u003e Young makes a passionate case for a return to criminology's creative and critical potential, partly informed by the new developments in cultural criminology. A late-modern counterpart to C. Wright Mills' classic \u003ci\u003eThe Sociological Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, this inspirational piece of writing from one of the most brilliant voices in contemporary criminology will command widespread attention. The concluding part of the author's trilogy of influential texts including \u003ci\u003eThe Vertigo of Late Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Exclusive Society\u003c\/i\u003e, it will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of criminology, and the social sciences more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: The Legacy of C. Wright Mills \u003cbr\u003e1. Closing Down the Imagination \u003cbr\u003e2. Measurement and the Sexologists \u003cbr\u003e3. Amnesia and the Art of Skating on Thin Ice \u003cbr\u003e4. The Bogus of Positivism \u003cbr\u003e5. The Loosening of the Moorings: The Emergence of Cultural Criminology \u003cbr\u003e6. Giuliani and the New York Miracle \u003cbr\u003e7. Magic, Mayhem and Margaret Mead: Towards a Critical Ethnography \u003cbr\u003e8. Subcultures as Magic: Problems of Urban Ethnography \u003cbr\u003e9. Dangerous Knowledge and the Politics of the Imagination \u003cbr\u003e10. Rescuing the Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407306256664,"sku":"9780745641065","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745641065.jpg?v=1784160502","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/criminological-imagination-hardback-9780745641065","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}