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Critical Criminology at the Edge
Postmodern Perspectives, Integration, and Applications
Dragan Milovanovic
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Critical Criminology at the Edge

Postmodern Perspectives, Integration, and Applications

Dragan Milovanovic Dragan Milovanovic

July 2002

Praeger

Series: Praeger Series in Criminology and Crime Control Policy

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Introduces key emerging perspectives in postmodern analysis and discusses their application in criminology, law, and social justice.

This study introduces key emerging perspectives in postmodern analysis and discusses how they might be integrated, synthesized, and applied in criminology, law, and social justice. Milovanovic first familiarizes readers with discourse analysis (Lacanian), chaos theory, catastrophe theory, and edgework theory. Next, he covers various practical applications through literature and film, in client-lawyer practices, etc. These new critical perspectives will be invaluable tools for scholars in law, criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and law enforcement.

These theories shed light on how nonmaterially motivated forms of crime, those that provide adrenalin rushes or excitement, can be understood. They help to explain the development of sudden forms of violence, such as criminal acts by disgruntled workers, as well as how mediation practices can curtail such escalating violence. Milovanovic also demonstrates how constitutive theorizing can serve as an umbrella integrative theory, which provides sufficient space for various syntheses. A case-in-point is how edgework theory (adrenalin rush, excitement, visceral experiences) can be understood in criminology and in the establishment of social justice.
Introduction
Critical Criminology at the Edge: Emerging Perspectives in Critical Analyses in Law, Criminology, and Social Justice
Discourse Analysis: Lacan and Psychoanalytic Semiotics
Chaos Theory: Dynamic Systems Theory
Catastrophe Theory: Folds, Cusps, Jumps, and Singularities
Edgework: Boundaries, Edges, Excitement, and Visceral Experiences
Integrations, Syntheses, and Applications in Critical Criminology, Law, and Metonymy in Criminology
The Literal, Cinematic, and Trail Court Text: "Reality" TV Policing, Detective Fiction, Trials, and the Spoken Subject
Psychoanalytic Semiotics, Chaos, and Rebellious Lawyering
Catastrophe Theory in Criminology and Social Justice: Peacemaking Criminology
Edgework, Monism, and Constitutive Criminology: Toward an Integrated Topography
Conclusion
References




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