Travels of the criminal question : cultural embeddedness and diffusion edited by Dario Melossi, Maximo Sozzo and Richard Sparks.

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Melossi, Dario

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oñati international series in law and societyPublication details: Oxford Hart Publishing 2011Description: ix, 223 p.; 24 cmISBN:

9781849460774

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DDC classification:

364.01 MEL.T

Summary: 'The criminal question' draws attention to the specific location and constitution of a given field of forces, and the themes, issues, dilemmas and debates that compose it. At the same time it enables connections to be made between these embedded realities and the wider, conceivably global, contours of influence and flows of power with which it connects. This in turn raises many questions. How far do the responses to crime and punishment internationally flow from and owe their contemporary shape to the cultural and economic transformations now widely known as 'globalisation'? How can something that is in significant ways embedded, situated, and locally produced also travel? What is not in doubt is that it does travel ù and travel with serious consequences. The international circulation of discourses and practices has become a pressing issue for scholars who try to understand their operation in their own particular cultural contexts. This collection of essays seeks a -- constructive comparative view of these tendencies to convergence and divergence. -- Dario Melossi is Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna. -- Mßximo Sozzo is Professor of Sociology and Criminology in the Faculty of Social and Juridical Sciences at the National University of Litoral. -- Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh. --Book Jacket. Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction. Criminal Questions: Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion 2.Concepts of Culture in the Sociology of Punishment / Dario Melossi / Máximo Sozzo / Richard Sparks 3.Neoliberalism's Elective Affinities: Penality, Political Economy and International Relations / David Garland 4.Theorising the Embeddedness of Punishment / Dario Melossi 5.State Form, Labour Market and Penal System: the New Punitive Rationality in context / David Nelkenx 6.Post-Fordism and Penal Change: The New Penology as a Post-Disciplinary Social Control Strategy / Iñaki Rivera Beiras 7.Lombroso's 'La Donna Delinquente': its Strange Journeys in Italy, England and the USA, Including Scenes of Mutilation and Salvation / Alessandro De Giorgi 8.The Governance of Crime in Italy: Global Tendencies and Local Peculiarities / Nicole Rafter 9.Cultural Travels and Crime Prevention in Argentina / Rossella Selmini.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

'The criminal question' draws attention to the specific location and constitution of a given field of forces, and the themes, issues, dilemmas and debates that compose it. At the same time it enables connections to be made between these embedded realities and the wider, conceivably global, contours of influence and flows of power with which it connects. This in turn raises many questions. How far do the responses to crime and punishment internationally flow from and owe their contemporary shape to the cultural and economic transformations now widely known as 'globalisation'? How can something that is in significant ways embedded, situated, and locally produced also travel? What is not in doubt is that it does travel ù and travel with serious consequences. The international circulation of discourses and practices has become a pressing issue for scholars who try to understand their operation in their own particular cultural contexts. This collection of essays seeks a --
constructive comparative view of these tendencies to convergence and divergence. --
Dario Melossi is Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Bologna. --
Mßximo Sozzo is Professor of Sociology and Criminology in the Faculty of Social and Juridical Sciences at the National University of Litoral. --
Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh. --Book Jacket.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction. Criminal Questions: Cultural Embeddedness and Diffusion
2.Concepts of Culture in the Sociology of Punishment / Dario Melossi / Máximo Sozzo / Richard Sparks
3.Neoliberalism's Elective Affinities: Penality, Political Economy and International Relations / David Garland
4.Theorising the Embeddedness of Punishment / Dario Melossi
5.State Form, Labour Market and Penal System: the New Punitive Rationality in context / David Nelkenx
6.Post-Fordism and Penal Change: The New Penology as a Post-Disciplinary Social Control Strategy / Iñaki Rivera Beiras
7.Lombroso's 'La Donna Delinquente': its Strange Journeys in Italy, England and the USA, Including Scenes of Mutilation and Salvation / Alessandro De Giorgi
8.The Governance of Crime in Italy: Global Tendencies and Local Peculiarities / Nicole Rafter
9.Cultural Travels and Crime Prevention in Argentina / Rossella Selmini.

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