Good Books on crime???
Mar 6 2005
#2
Discipline and Punish, Foucault
Mar 6 2005
#3
The hanging tree- V.A.C Gatrell
Ok he was my lecturer last year but its a pretty good book
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-285332-5
Bit pricy, but thats what the library is for...
Mar 6 2005
#4
Uh, dunno about book, but Bizarre magazine has some weird fucked up crime stuff! This month they had a story about some woman who cuts babies out of women! 
and they usualy have other bits and peices.
Mar 7 2005
#5
You could have a look at 'The Struggle to be Human: Crime, Criminology & Anarchism', by L.Tifft & D.Sullivan (Cienfuegos Press). Not read it myself, but it might be useful.
Mar 7 2005
#6
Ed read one he said was ace... Crime Class and Corruption I believe, by someone in the SWP (seriously!)
Mar 7 2005
#7
Don't have a book name to hand, but check out labelling theory, it has a lot to say about crime and discourses and can be a good complement to a class analysis of crime.
Mar 8 2005
#8
Svejk wrote:
You could have a look at 'The Struggle to be Human: Crime, Criminology & Anarchism', by L.Tifft & D.Sullivan (Cienfuegos Press). Not read it myself, but it might be useful.
god that sounds appalling
Mar 8 2005
#9
Jeff Ferrell is a pretty prominent critical criminologist. can't think if any of his books tho.
he does stuff about graffitti too 8)
Mar 9 2005
#10
cantdocartwheels wrote:
Svejk wrote:
You could have a look at 'The Struggle to be Human: Crime, Criminology & Anarchism', by L.Tifft & D.Sullivan (Cienfuegos Press). Not read it myself, but it might be useful.god that sounds appalling
Well, erm... don't read it then.
But, hey, thanks for sharing.
Mar 9 2005
#11
You could have a look at 'The Struggle to be Human: Crime, Criminology & Anarchism', by L.Tifft & D.Sullivan (Cienfuegos Press).
If i remember correctly the authors paid for the printing costs because Cienfuegos wouldn't publish it otherwise.i could be wrong tho and just be spreading false rumors. Having read it a long time ago, i don't think it was anything special, although it might a place to strart as it will be dirt cheap as it didn't sell well. Has Freedom got any copies knocking around still.
Mar 9 2005
#12
Ill be going to freedom soon, ill be able to find out face to face!
Mar 11 2005
#13
I agre with the above poster that you should get Foucouallt.
You could also write something about the political trials in so called democracies for examle Abu Jamal and Jeffrey Luers in USA or the Gothenburg trials in Sweden.
There is also an issue of the Situationist Internationale that is about crime as classwar in which they claim that youth criminals are the new DADA. An easier to find article might be Why i love shoplifting, published in Days of war nights of love (Crimethinc) if you want to show some pro crime material.
Mar 14 2005
#14
It would be well worth your time checking out the work of Vincenzo Ruggiero
The New European Criminology: Crime and Social Order in Europe
Organized and Corporate Crime in Europe: Offers That Can't Be Refused
Eurodrugs: Drug Use, Markets and Trafficking in Europe
Crime and Markets: Essays in Anti-criminology
Western European Penal Systems: A Critical Anatomy
Mar 14 2005
#15
zobag wrote:
Discipline and Punish, Foucault
Another vote for that one.
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