The Politics of Criminology—Critical Studies on Deviance and Social Control

This collection of over twenty critical essays addresses several topics and political issues in modern and historical criminology. The essays are organized into three major sections, the first focusing on the past of criminology and just what it could or ultimately can't mean for criminologists to be politically progressive forces. The second and largest section offers case-studies in contemporary critical criminology that include the Lehman Brothers, public order policing in the UK, and the criminalization of migration policy. The last is a special section devoted to criminological thought coming out of the University of the Aegean's "Lab for the Sociology of Youth, Leisure and Sports." Topics explored in that section include the 2008 Greek youth-rebellions, LGBT movements and biopolitics, participant observation on Greek police culture, and an analysis of the free software movement and the social construction of crime. Most of the contributors are Greek or European criminologists, sociologists and political scientists. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)