- 296 pages
- English
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About this book
This book is about how the history of colonialism has shaped the definition of crime and justice systems not only in former colonies but also in colonialist countries. Biko Agozino argues that criminology in the West was originally tested in the colonies and then brought back to mother countries - in this way, he claims, the colonial experience has been instrumental in shaping modern criminology in colonial powers. He looks at how radical critiques of mainstream criminology by critical feminist and postmodernist thinkers contribute to an understanding of the relationship between colonial experience and criminology. But he also shows that even critical feminist and postmodernist assessments of conventional criminology do not go far enough as they remain virtually silent on colonial issues. Biko Agozino considers African and other postcolonial literature and contributions to counter colonial criminology, their originality, relevance and limitations. Finally he advocates a 'committed objectivity' approach to race-class-gender criminology investigations in order to come to terms with imperialistic and neo-colonialist criminology.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Enlightenment and Euro- American Theories of the Judicial Process 13Enlightened Retribution and Utilitarianism
- 2. From Determinism to Meaning: The Emergence of the Labelling Perspective
- 3. From Societal Reaction to Questions of Power: From Labelling to Radical Criminology
- 4. Feminist Perspectives and Critical Criminology 63Feminist Empiricism
- 5. Lesbian Rape: Maternal Metaphors for the Patriarchal State and International Conflict Resolution
- 6. Poststructuralism and Positivism in Criminological Theory
- 7. Social Fiction Sui Generis : The Fairy Tale Structure of Criminological Theory 103Tensions between Facticity and Validity 103The Murder of Reality
- 8. Executive Lawlessness and the Struggle for Democracy in Africa 113What is Crime and What is Punishment?
- 9. Radical Criminology in African Literature
- 10. Committed Objectivity in Race Class Gender Research
- 11. How Scientific is Criminal Justice? A Methodological Critique of Research on McCleskey v. Kemp and Other Capital Cases 173The Case of McCleskey
- 12. What is Institutionalised? The Race Class Gender Articulation of Stephen Lawrence
- 13. Criminal Records: The Toughest, the Police and the Thieves: The Policing of Peter Tosh and Popular Culture
- Conclusion: Beyond Criminological Orientalism
- Bibliography
- Index