Crime, Deviance, and Social Control in the 21st Century seeks to go beyond traditional criminology texts and handle the subject through a perspective focusing on power interest and social justice. Timely and accessibly written, the text provides a comprehensive overview of social and criminological theory, as well as recent trends in theorizing power and deviance. It also delves into the significant implications the committal and control of crime have for human rights.
This text aims to answer the questions: “Who has the power to decide which acts are deviant?”; “Whose interests are being served by a given law?”; and “Which social groups are being disadvantaged when society has been constructed along such legally demarcated lines?” The contributors dissect the criminalization of dissent, the changing nature of what constitutes deviance, internet hate, self-harming, transgender identities, the growing rise of transnational criminal enterprises, internet fraud, and the increased public attention on police practices.
With a Canadian focus placed in a global context, the text challenges readers to consider crime and deviance as socially structured phenomena, while recognizing that crime is a worldwide issue. Crime, Deviance, and Social Control in the 21st Century is a critical resource for undergraduate students in criminology, police services, and sociology.
FEATURES
offers an accessible and comprehensive introductory overview of criminology theory
employs a social justice approach to the fundamentals of criminology, deviance, law, and social control
includes bolded key terms, a glossary, real-world case studies, and questions for critical thinking
Chapter 1: Understanding Crime, Deviance, and Social Control, by Claudio Colaguori
Chapter 2: The Origins of Criminological Theory and Legacy Theories in the Study of Crime, Deviance, and Social Control, by Claudio Colaguori
Chapter 3: Critical and Contemporary Theories of Crime, Deviance, and Social Control, by Claudio Colaguori
Chapter 4: Cultural Criminology and Popular Media Representations of Crime, by Stephen Muzzatti, Claudio Colaguori, and Emma Smith
Chapter 5: Moral Regulation, Vice Crimes, and Social Control, by Claudio Colaguori, Juliette Jarvis, Jennifer Kusz, Richard Jochelson, David Ireland, Maggie Quirt, and Brandon Trask
Chapter 6: The Criminalization of Dissent, by Claudio Colaguori and Honor Brabazon
Chapter 7: Crime, Psychopathology, and the Idea of the Natural-Born Criminal, by Stephanie Griffiths, Jarkko Jalava, and Claudio Colaguori
Chapter 8: Violence, Violent Crime, and State Violence, by Claudio Colaguori
Chapter 9: Corporate Crime and Wrongdoing, and White-Collar Crime, by Dan AntonowiczandClaudio Colaguori
Chapter 10: Canadian Criminal Law: Policing, Prosecution, and Corrections, by Frances E. Chapman andClaudio Colaguori
Chapter 11: Scams, Fraud, and Cybercrime in a Globalized Society, by Michael Adorjan and Claudio Colaguori
Chapter 12: Indigenous Justice and Colonial Injustice: Remembering the Past to Change the Future, by Lisa Monchalin
Chapter 13: Transnational and Organized Crime in the Age of Globalization, by Kenneth Dowler and Claudio Colaguori
Biography
Claudio Colaguori is an Associate Professor in the Department of Equity Studies at York University. His research is informed by the fundamentals of Critical Theory and the application of its concepts and themes to the study of power relations in various fields.
“This book provides a stimulating insight into the expansive vortex of issues on crime, deviance, and social control in the 21st century. Nested in critical and social justice perspectives, it stretches the criminological imagination to accommodate its tectonic shifts, heterodox challenges, and marginalized epistemes. The book offers a lucid and captivating analysis of crime and social justice, as well as the centrality of power in the politics of criminalization and law enforcement. It is eclectic, comprehensive, and compelling, making it a key resource material for scholars and students of criminology, deviance and control, and social justice.”
—Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Brock University
“An extremely well-written, thoroughly researched book that offers an urgently new lens to familiar criminological subject matter.”
—Andrew Welsh, Associate Professor of Criminology and Associate Dean of Human and Social Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University
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