A Science of Otherness?: Rereading the History of Western and US Criminological Thought

Yoav Mehozay

doi:10.46692/9781529209136

This book presents a critical history of criminological thought from the Enlightenment to the present day. Mehozay contends that Western criminological approaches are based upon 'otherness' which validate projects of control and exclusion, modernization and care, and even eugenics.

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Rereading the History of Western and US Criminological Thought

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-viii

1 - Introduction: Criminology as Otherness?
pp 1-20

2 - The Classical School: Otherness as an Ideology of an Imaginary Bourgeois Society
pp 21-41

3 - The Early Days of Positivist Criminology: An Ideology of Universalism and Otherness
pp 42-62

4 - Two Versions of Otherness: Between Eugenics and Modernization Theory
pp 63-80

5 - Otherness as Subculture
pp 81-103

6 - Managing the Other: Otherness in Practice
pp 104-123

7 - Conclusion: A Science of Otherness?
pp 124-137

Notes
pp 138-143

References
pp 144-157

Index
pp 158-164

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