Chaos theory challenges the presumption that the cosmos is orderly, linear, and predictable―but it does not imply pure randomness and chance events. Rather, chaos-informed postmodernist analysis introduces a new vision by celebrating unexpected, surprise, ironic, contradictory, and emergent elements. Scholars in many disciplines are taking this perspective as an alternative to the entrenched structural functionalism and empiricism rooted in linear science. In the early 1990s studies began to emerge applying chaos theory to criminology, law, and social change. This book brings together some of the key thinkers in these areas. Part I situates chaos theory as a constitutive thread in contemporary critical thought in criminology and law. It seeks to provide the reader with a sensitivity to how chaos theory fits within the postmodern perspective and an understanding of its conceptual tools. Part II comprises chapters on applying the chaos perspective to critical criminology and law and, beyond, to peacemaking. Part III presents studies in chaos-informed perspectives on new social movement theory, social change, and the development of social justice. While the book emphasizes the usefulness of the conceptual tools of chaos theory in critical criminology and law, its ultimate goal goes beyond theory-building to provide vistas for understanding the contemporary social scene and for the development of the new just society.

Chaos, Criminology, and Social Justice: The New Orderly (Dis)Order

Politics & Social Sciences

Milovanovic, Dragan

Social Sciences

Praeger

Chaos, Criminology, and Social Justice: The New Orderly (Dis)Order (Praeger Series in Criminology and Crime Control Policy)

Postmodern Criminology (Routledge Library Editions: Criminology)

Routledge

Weberian and Marxian Analysis of Law: Development and Functions of Law in a Capitalist Mode of Production

Gower Pub.Co.

Revolution in Penology: Rethinking the Society of Captives

Revolution in Penology is a thoroughly original and thought-provoking critique of penal harm, the recursive pains of imprisonment cycle, and the normalization of violence. Relying on selected insights derived from continental philosophy, cultural studies, and chaos theory, internationally renowned social theorists, Bruce A. Arrigo and Dragan Milovanovic, deconstruct the human agency/social structure duality that sustains the prison form, its parts and segments understood as correctional principles/practices, and the prison industrial complex that is informed by and stands above them all.

Arrigo, Bruce A.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This volume presents the rich and provocative historical, theoretical, methodological, and applied developments within affirmative postmodern and post-structural criminology. This includes the evolution of thought that embraces the "linguistic turn" in crime, law justice, and social change. Previously-published articles authored by key thinkers are included throughout the book's five substantive sections. Collectively, they represent important reflections on the current criminological landscape in which symbolic, linguistic, material, and cultural realms of analyses are featured.

Postmodernist and Post-Structuralist Theories of Crime (The Library of Essays in Theoretical Criminology)

History

Constitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism

Constitutive Criminology offers an affirmative, holistic approach to the study of crime. Taking as its starting point that individuals not only shape the world but are shaped by it, this book argues that the behaviours of those who offend and victimize others cannot be understood in isolation from the society of which they are a part.   Instead of setting out to identify factors that cause offending, constitutive criminology examines the co-production of crime by human subjects and by the social and organizational structures that humans develop. The implications are, first, that crime must be deconstructed as a recurrent discursive process and, secondly, that conscious attempts must be made at reconstruction wi

Henry, Stuart

Sage Publications Ltd.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Postmodern Criminology (Current Issues in Criminal Justice)

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