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Book SynopsisIn recent years, the academic study of ‘war’ has gained renewed popularity in criminology. This book illustrates its long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the discipline. Foregrounding established criminological work addressing war and connecting it to a wide range of extant sociological literature, the authors present and further develop theoretical and conceptual ways of thinking critically about war. Providing a critique of mainstream criminology, the authors question whether a ‘criminology of war’ is possible, and if so, how this seemingly ‘new horizon’ of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Can there be a “criminology of war”?; Theorising "war" within sociology and criminology; The war on terrorism: criminology’s “third war”; The “forgotten criminology of genocide”; From nuclear to “degenerate” war; The “dialectics of war” in criminology; Criminology’s “fourth war”? Gendering war and its violence(s); Conclusion: Beyond a “new” wars paradigm: bringing the periphery into view.
