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Author Daems, Tom

Title Criminology and Democratic Politics
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (313 p.)
Series Routledge Advances in Criminology Ser
Routledge Advances in Criminology Ser
Contents Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 A conversation with Richard Sparks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Authoritarian under-labouring? -- Environmental under-labouring -- Democratic hopes and authoritarian environmental levers -- Stimulating Sparks -- Criminology: good and evil -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
Chapter 4 Criminology's plausible worlds: Ideologies, crime control, and the practice of democratic under-labouring -- Introduction -- Criminology, politicization, politics -- Appraising plausible worlds: Bringing ideologies back in -- Prefiguring a better politics of crime: The practice of democratic under-labouring -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Public and southern criminologies: A possible encounter -- Parallel debates intersect -- Brief conceptual stops -- Far beyond the 'paradox of successful failure' -- Criminology and law -- Looking back -- Mapping the present -- Conclusions
Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Desistance research and penal policy -- Utilitarian rehabilitation -- Managerial rehabilitation -- Expressive rehabilitation -- Conclusion: Desistance research and democratic politics -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7 Understanding comparative penality: Some continuing conceptual and analytical challenges -- Comparative work as an exception -- Renewed interest in comparative work -- Continuing challenges in comparative criminology -- Conclusion: Punitiveness and penal policy -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 Punishment and epistemological politics in Europe
Defending the indefensible -- Sandbags against the rising tide? -- Torture and the power of epistemological politics -- Fooling Europe? Success and failure of the CPT -- Conclusion: European penology and the hermeneutics of suspicion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 9 Outrage marketing and deceptive campaigning: Populist and epistocratic pathologies of an anti-political era -- Introduction -- Hannah Arendt on lying in politics and the mobilization of the masses -- Two major branches of dysfunctional mass communication -- Conclusion and discussion -- References
Chapter 10 Epistemic public criminology: The fallacies of evidence-based policing -- Introduction -- Public criminology -- Evidence-based policing -- The logic of proactive policing -- Community-based policing -- Place-based policing -- Conclusion: The fallacies of evidence-based policing -- Coda: Epistemic public criminology -- References -- Chapter 11 Public perceptions of the seriousness of crime: A valid indicator of actual crime seriousness? -- Policy and legal background: The seriousness of crime and serious crime -- Public perceptions as indicator of actual seriousness
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Pleysier, Stefaan
ISBN 9781000288278
1000288277