The criminological imagination
Jock Young.
- Cambridge Malden, MA Polity 2011.
- xi, 252 p. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-246) and index.
Closing down the imagination -- Measurement and the sexologists -- Amnesia and the art of skating on thin ice -- The bogus of positivism -- Loosening the Moorings: the emergence of cultural criminology -- Giuliani and the New York miracle -- Mayhem, Magic and Magaret Mead: towards a critical ethnography -- Subcultures as Magic: problems of urban ethnography -- Dangerous knowledge and the politics of imagination -- Rescuing the imagination.