Title:
Postmodern criminology
Author:
Milovanovic, Dragan, 1948-
ISBN:
9780815324560
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Garland Publ., 1997.
Physical Description:
xvi, 266 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series:
Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1117.. Current issues in criminal justice ; v. 22
Garland reference library of social science; v. 1117.
Garland reference library of social science. Current issues in criminal justice ; v. 22.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Theoretical Integration. 1. Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodernist Thought. 2. The Decentered Subject in Law: Contributions of Topology, Psychoanalytic Semiotics, and Chaos Theory. 3. Borromean Knots and the Constitution of Sense in Juridico-Discursive Production. 4. Constitutive Criminology: The Maturation of Critical Theory / Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic -- Pt. 2. Application: Doing Affirmative Postmodern Analysis in Law, Crime, and Penology. 5. Jailhouse Lawyers and Jailhouse Lawyering. 6. Overcoming the Absurd: Prisoner Litigation as Primitive Rebellion. 7. The Necessity Defense, Substantive Justice, and Oppositional Linguistic Practice / Shelley Bannister and Dragan Milovanovic. 8. Constitutive Penology / Dragan Milovanovic and Stuart Henry. 9. Topology, Chaos, and Psychoanalytic Semiotics -- Pt. 3. Emerging Postmodern Methodologies: Integration and Application. 10. Chaos and Criminology: Phase Maps and Bifurcastion Diagrams.
11. Chaos, Meta-Modeling, and Criminology: Iterative Loops, COREL and Mandelbrot Sets. 12. Catastrophe Theory, Crime, and Peacemaking -- Conclusion: Toward the New Orderly (Dis)Order.