This collection focuses on the existential predicaments and choices that underpin current debates and developments in the governance of crime and criminal justice and argues for the relevance of existentialist thought for enhancing a critical and philosophically inspired criminological imagination.
Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments
Table of contents
Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Hardie-Bick & R.Lippens Goffman, Existentialism and Criminology; J.Hardie-Bick & P.Hadfield Subjectivation as Problem and Project: Is there an Existentialist Motif in Foucault?; C.Messner Vengeance and Furies: Existential Dilemmas in Penal Decision Making; S.Green Total Institutions and the Last Human Freedom; J.Hardie-Bick Existential Predicaments and Constabulary Ethics; D.O'Rourke & J.Sheptycki Heidegger, Restorative Justice and Desistance: A Phenomenological Perspective; D.Polizzi Crime, Harm and Responsibility; D.Crewe Mystical Sovereignty and the Emergence of Control Society; R.Lippens Index