Postmodernist and post-structuralist theories of crime / edited by Bruce A. Arrigo and Dragan Milovanovic

Contents: Introduction; Part I Theoretical Developments and Integrations: Constitutive criminology: the maturation of critical theory, Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic; The peripheral core of law and criminology: on postmodern social theory and conceptual integration, Bruce A. Arrigo; Post modern criminology: mapping the terrain, Dragan Milovanovic; The French connection: implications for law, crime and social justice, Bruce A. Arrigo, Dragan Milovanovic and Robert C. Schehr. Part II Critical Applications in Law, Crime, Justice and Social Change: Nome law: Deleuze and Guattari on the emergence of law, Jamie Murray; Advancing science and research in criminal justice/criminology: complex systems theory and non-linear analyses, Jeffery T. Walker; The power of community mediation: government and formation of self-identity, George Pavlich; Chaos theory and human agency: humanist sociology in a postmodern era, T.R. Young. Part III Transformational Analyses and Marginalized Identities: From restoration to transformation: victim-offender mediation as transformative justice, Robert Carl Schehr; Determinate sentencing: a feminist and postmodern story, Nancy A. Wonders; The abrogation of subjectivity in the psychiatric courtroom: toward a psychoanalytic semiotic analysis, Christopher R. Williams; Creating the responsible prisoner: federal admission and orientation packs, Mary Bosworth; Against 'green' criminology, Mark Halsey. Part IV International, Transnational and Post-National Directions: 'Let them eat cake': globalization, postmodern colonialism, and the possibilities of justice, Susan S. Silbey; Alternatives to what kind of suffering? Towards a border-crossing criminology, Ronnie Lippens; Doing newsmaking criminology from within the academy, Gregg Barak. Part V Postmodern and Post-Structural Criminology and its Interlocutors: Postmodernism, protest, and the new social movement, Joel F. Handler; Postmodern thought and criminological discontent: new metaphors for understanding violence, Martin D. Schwartz and David O. Friedrichs; Name Index.