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Crime, Violence and Modernity - Connecting Classical and Contemporary Practice in Sociological Criminology (Hardcover)
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Crime, Violence and Modernity - Connecting Classical and Contemporary Practice in Sociological Criminology (Hardcover)
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This book makes an original contribution to reconnecting
criminological inquiry to the core concerns of the classical
sociological imagination and to the intellectual resources of
comparative and historical sociology. Throughout the book Hughes
challenges the long-standing division of labour in criminology and
sociology more generally between 'theory', 'method' and 'research'.
Accordingly, the author's concerns here are as much about the craft
and working methods of being a sociological criminologist as it is
about theory and concepts. In the first half of the book, the key
conceptual and methodological premises of the classical
sociological tradition are outlined and the latter's potential for
revitalizing contemporary criminological research-theorizing are
assessed. These chapters also address the debate regarding the
relationship between crime and violence, and that of modernity and
the Western 'civilizing process'. In the second half of the book,
three areas of current criminological inquiry are explored through
the lens of the long-term, process-oriented and radically
relational perspective of contemporary Weberian and Eliasian
scholarship. Among the areas of comparative investigation explored
here are street crime, gangs and urban violence, genocide and
murderous ethnic cleansing, warfare, colonialism and human rights.
Written in a clear and direct style this book will appeal to
students and scholars of criminology, sociology and all those
interested in what a sociological lens brings to the practices of
contemporary criminology.
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