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Book SynopsisHow the colonial experience has been instrumental in shaping modern criminology
Trade Review'A dazzling body of scholarly work that will fertilise a lasting interest and sustainability of the development of African criminology' -- Thoman S. Mosely, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Table of ContentsAcknowledgement
Table of contents
Introduction
1. The Enlightenment and Euro American Theories of the Judicial Process
2. From Determinism to Meaning: The Emergence of Labeling Perspective
3. From Societal Reaction to Questions of Power: From Labelling to Radical Criminology
4. Feminist Perspectives and Critical Criminology
5. Lesbian Rape: Maternal Metaphors for the Patriarchal State and International Conflict Resolution
6. Post-Structuralism and Positivism in Criminological Theory
7. Social Fiction Sui Generis: The Fairy Tale Structure of Criminological Theory
8. Executive lawlessness and the struggle for democracy in Africa
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.
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.
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