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This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance
for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to
the expansion of the criminological imagination. Agnotology - the
study of the cultural production of ignorance, has primarily been
proposed as an analytical tool in the fields of science and
medicine. However, this book argues that it has significant
resonance for criminology and the social sciences given that
ignorance is a crucial means through which public acceptance of
serious and sometimes mass harms is achieved. The editors argue
that this phenomenon requires a systematic inquiry into ignorance
as an area of criminological study in its own right. Through case
studies on topics such as migrant detention, historical
institutionalised child abuse, imprisonment, environmental harm and
financial collapse, this book examines the construction of
ignorance, and the power dynamics that facilitate and shape that
construction in a range of different contexts. Furthermore, this
book addresses the relationship between ignorance and the
achievement of 'manufactured consent' to political and cultural
hegemony, acquiescence in its harmful consequences and the
deflection of responsibility for them.
This book brings together a series of writings on the problems
facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical
priorities of critical analysis and their application to
substantive case studies of research in action. The books starting
point is criminology's failure to adequately investigate genocide,
western state terrorism, safety crime, environmental crimes, state
crimes against children, and many other harmful acts. It
establishes the conceptual and practical foundations for a new
generation of studies in criminology, and sets a new agenda for
critical criminology. Each chapter critically assesses the main
conceptual and empirical problems encountered in research and
indicates the ways in which work has been influenced by critical
criminology paradigms and enriched by other disciplines, bringing
to life the key theoretical debates within the discipline. This
book will be essential reading for students seeking an
understanding of the nature of the discipline of cr
This book brings together a series of writings on the problems
facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical
priorities of critical analysis and their application to
substantive case studies of research in action. The books starting
point is criminology's failure to adequately investigate genocide,
western state terrorism, safety crime, environmental crimes, state
crimes against children, and many other harmful acts. It
establishes the conceptual and practical foundations for a new
generation of studies in criminology, and sets a new agenda for
critical criminology. Each chapter critically assesses the main
conceptual and empirical problems encountered in research and
indicates the ways in which work has been influenced by critical
criminology paradigms and enriched by other disciplines, bringing
to life the key theoretical debates within the discipline. This
book will be essential reading for students seeking an
understanding of the nature of the discipline of cr
In this book Alana Barton explores the social control and
disciplining of unruly and 'deviant' women from the early
nineteenth century to the present day. Her particular focus is the
'semi penal' institution, a category that includes refuges,
reformatories and homes. She suggests that these occupy a unique
position within the social control 'continuum', somewhere between
the formal regulation of the prison and the informal control of the
'community' or domestic sphere, but at the same time incorporating
methods of discipline from both arenas. The book draws on Dr
Barton's extensive fieldwork at one such institution, currently a
women's bail and probation hostel, which opened as a reformatory in
1823. Barton begins by examining the ideological and social
conditions underpinning the creation of this institution,
deconstructing the dominant feminising discourses around
domesticity, respectability, motherhood, sexuality and pathology
that were mobilised to categorise and control its
nineteenth-century residents. She goes on to discuss the
contemporary experiences of women within the hostel and their
strategies for coping with or resisting the disciplinary regimes
and discourses imposed upon them. Her analysis reveals that many of
the discourses used to characterise and discipline women in
reformatories during the nineteenth century continue to be utilised
for the same purpose in a probation hostel nearly two hundred years
later. She also reveals that the distribution of power in
institutions is not fixed, but can be subtly negotiated and
redistributed. Concluding with an examination of current
developments in community punishments for women, this book will
make a significant contribution to the literature around
alternatives to custody for female offenders by strongly
challenging contemporary debates liberal, critical and feminist
around 'appropriate' and relevant penal policy for women.
In this book Alana Barton explores the social control and
disciplining of unruly and 'deviant' women from the early
nineteenth century to the present day. Her particular focus is the
'semi penal' institution, a category that includes refuges,
reformatories and homes. She suggests that these occupy a unique
position within the social control 'continuum', somewhere between
the formal regulation of the prison and the informal control of the
'community' or domestic sphere, but at the same time incorporating
methods of discipline from both arenas. The book draws on Dr
Barton's extensive fieldwork at one such institution, currently a
women's bail and probation hostel, which opened as a reformatory in
1823. Barton begins by examining the ideological and social
conditions underpinning the creation of this institution,
deconstructing the dominant feminising discourses around
domesticity, respectability, motherhood, sexuality and pathology
that were mobilised to categorise and control its
nineteenth-century residents. She goes on to discuss the
contemporary experiences of women within the hostel and their
strategies for coping with or resisting the disciplinary regimes
and discourses imposed upon them. Her analysis reveals that many of
the discourses used to characterise and discipline women in
reformatories during the nineteenth century continue to be utilised
for the same purpose in a probation hostel nearly two hundred years
later. She also reveals that the distribution of power in
institutions is not fixed, but can be subtly negotiated and
redistributed. Concluding with an examination of current
developments in community punishments for women, this book will
make a significant contribution to the literature around
alternatives to custody for female offenders by strongly
challenging contemporary debates liberal, critical and feminist
around 'appropriate' and relevant penal policy for women.
This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance
for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to
the expansion of the criminological imagination. Agnotology - the
study of the cultural production of ignorance, has primarily been
proposed as an analytical tool in the fields of science and
medicine. However, this book argues that it has significant
resonance for criminology and the social sciences given that
ignorance is a crucial means through which public acceptance of
serious and sometimes mass harms is achieved. The editors argue
that this phenomenon requires a systematic inquiry into ignorance
as an area of criminological study in its own right. Through case
studies on topics such as migrant detention, historical
institutionalised child abuse, imprisonment, environmental harm and
financial collapse, this book examines the construction of
ignorance, and the power dynamics that facilitate and shape that
construction in a range of different contexts. Furthermore, this
book addresses the relationship between ignorance and the
achievement of 'manufactured consent' to political and cultural
hegemony, acquiescence in its harmful consequences and the
deflection of responsibility for them.
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