Existentialist Criminology captures an emerging interest in the
value of existentialist thought and concepts for criminological
work on crime, deviance, crime control, and criminal justice.
This emerging interest chimes with recent social and cultural
developments - as well as shifts in their theoretical consideration
- that are oriented around contingency and unpredictability. But
whilst these conditions have largely been described and analysed
through the lens of complexity theory, post-structuralist theory
and postmodernism, there exploration by critical criminologists in
existentialist terms offers a richer and more productive approach
to the social and cultural dimensions of crime, deviance, crime
control and, more broadly, of regulation and governance. Covering a
range of topics that lend themselves quite naturally to
existentialist analysis - crime and deviance as becoming and will,
the existential openness of symbolic exchange, the internal
conversations that take place within criminal justice practices,
and the contingent and finite character of resistance - the
contributions to this volume set out to explore a largely untapped
reservoir of critical potential.
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