Contemporary Criminological Theory

This book offers a critical introduction to trends and developments in contemporary criminological theory. Designed both as a companion to An Introduction to Criminological Theory - also by Roger Hopkins Burke and published by Routledge - and as a standalone advanced textbook, it develops themes introduced previously in more detail, incorporates new critical and radical concepts and explores cutting-edge advances in theory. Key topics include the following:

¿ Constitutive, anarchist, green and species, bio-critical, cultural, abolitionist and convict criminologies
¿ Globalization and organized crime
¿ Southern theory
¿ Critical race theory
¿ Terrorism and state violence
¿ Gender, feminism and masculinity
¿ Ultra-realism
¿ Radical moral communitarianism

These key issues are discussed in the context of debates about the fragmentation of modernity and the postmodern condition; the rise of political populism, risk, surveillance and social contr