Keywords in Criminology: A Cultural Dictionary [Hardcover]

Foreword??Age of Reason? Anomie? Art? Borders? Casanova? Conflict? Crowds? Defunding? Dirty Collar Crime? Ethnicity? Evil? Excrements? Fallism? Harm, beauty and pleasure? I am drugs? Interactions and labeling? Killing women? Legalization? Lombroso? Narratives and performances? Organized crime? Pandemics? Power crime? Pre-crime? Prevention and degrowth? Prisons? Religion? Reparation? Resistance? Shame? Silence? South? States? Sun Tzu and business? Technology? Terror? Thrills? Utopia? Victims? War? Weapons

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Taking inspiration from the classic text by Raymond Williams, Keywords in Criminology reflects on the language used by criminologists and offers a one-stop guide to core concepts in the discipline. Written for the budding Criminology student, it offers a specialized but plain dictionary for a specialized discipline.

'Emulating Raymond Williams' classic text, first published in 1976, Ruggiero's Keywords in Criminology excels. Its content deliberately prioritizes words open to competing interpretation. Entries on excrements, evil, harm, beauty and pleasure, war, for example, are excavated shining a bright light on his classical scholarship and his grasp of art and literature. All seen through the criminological lens. A tour de force from a scholar whose loss will be keenly felt'.

Sandra Walklate, Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool

Vincenzo was the Renaissance Man of international criminology  a critical polymath with an aesthetic eye and a creative sociological imagination. His scholarship drew on politics, economics, sociology, history, literature, languages, art and, of course, criminology  all reflected in this inimitable cultural dictionarlÃI