Critical voices in criminology / edited by Chris Powell.
Readers of criminological literature are presented with little more than thumbnail sketches as to the social characteristics or motivations of the authors. One learns their status, institutional location, and supposed credentials. Rarely are we presentedwith more detailed impressions of the authors...
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
c2009.
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| Series: | Critical perspectives on crime and inequality.
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| Summary: | Readers of criminological literature are presented with little more than thumbnail sketches as to the social characteristics or motivations of the authors. One learns their status, institutional location, and supposed credentials. Rarely are we presentedwith more detailed impressions of the authors as a combination of positivist assumptions and notions of professional competence seemingly render such information unimportant. However, increasing numbers of critical scholars are becoming aware of authorship as an issue; it matters who is addressing us. By taking these authors out of their method. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 256 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780739139776 0739139770 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |