Critical Criminology

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• Preface 1. Critical criminologies: an introduction Part 1: Issues and debates in critical criminology 2. Defining 'power' and challenging 'knowledge': critical analysis as resistance in the UK 3. Critical criminology in the United States: the Berkeley School and theoretical trajectories 4. 'Losing my religion': reflections on critical criminology in Australia 5. Feminism and critical criminology: confronting genealogies Part 2: New directions and challenges for critical criminology 6. For a psychosocial criminology 7. Critical criminology and the punitive society: some new 'visions of social control' 8. Criminology beyond the nation state: global conflicts, human rights and the 'new world disorder' 9. Left, right or straight ahead: contemporary prospects for progressive and critical criminology 10. Critical criminology? In praise of an oxymoron and its enemies 11. Critical criminology in the twenty-first century: critique, irony and the always unfinished