Ignorance, Power and Harm Agnotology and The Criminological Imagination

Ignorance, Power and Harm Agnotology and The Criminological Imagination / edited by Alana Barton, Howard Davis.

This book discusses the concept of 'agnosis' and its significance for criminology through a series of case studies, contributing to the expansion of the criminological imagination. Agnotology – the study of the cultural production of ignorance, has primarily been proposed as an analytical...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Barton, Alana (Editor), Davis, Howard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Critical Criminological Perspectives
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Critical criminology.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Corrections.
Punishment.
Political Crimes.
Commercial crimes.
Political sociology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction; Alana Barton and Howard Davis
  • Chapter 2. Agnotology and the Criminological Imagination; Alana Barton, Howard Davis and Holly White
  • Chapter 3. Counterinsurgency, Empire and Ignorance; Mark McGovern
  • Chapter 4. The Ideology and Mechanics of Ignorance: Child Abuse in Ireland, 1922-1973; Anthony Keating
  • Chapter 5. Framing the Crisis: Private Capital to the Rescue; Steve Tombs
  • Chapter 6. Managing Ignorance about Māori Imprisonment; Riki Mihaere and Elizabeth Stanley
  • Chapter 7. Border (Mis)management, Ignorance and Denial; Victoria Canning
  • Chapter 8. Climate Change Denial: ‘Making Ignorance Great Again’; Reece Walters
  • Chapter 9. Spectacular Law and Order: Photography, Social Harm and the Production of Ignorance; Alex Dymock
  • Chapter 10. Penal Agnosis and Historical Denial: Problematising ‘Common Sense’ Understandings of Prison Officers and Violence in Prison; David Scott.

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