Abolish Criminology

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Synopsis

Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on criminology and criminal justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven visions and practices for new world formations.The book introduces readers to a detailed history and analysis of crime as a concept and its colonizing trajectories into existence and enforcement. These significant contexts buried within peculiar academic histories and classroom practices are often overlooked or unknown outside academic and public discussions, causing the impact of racializing-gendering-sexualizing histories to extend and grow through criminology’s creation of crime, extending how the concept is weaponized and enforced through the criminal legal system. It offers written, visual, and poetic teachings from the perspectives of students, professors, imprisoned and formerly imprisoned persons, and artists. This allows readers to engage in multi-sensory, inter-disciplinary, and multi-perspective teachings on criminology’s often discussed but seldom interrogated mythologies on violence and danger, and their wide-reaching enforcements through the criminal legal system’s research, theories, agencies, and dominant cultures.Abolish Criminology serves the needs of undergraduate and graduate students and educators in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. It will also appeal to scholars, researchers, policy makers, activists, community organizers, social movement builders, and various reading groups in the general public who are grappling with increased critical public discourse on policing and criminal legal reform or abolition.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Studies in Penal Abolition and Transformative Justice
Author:
Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Jason M. Williams, Michael J. Coyle
ISBN:
9781000875485
Related ISBNs:
9780367817114, 9780367419905, 9780367521332
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
196
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-08-25
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2023
Copyright by:
selection and editorial matter, Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Jason M. Williams, and Michael J. Coyle 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies