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In recent years, the academic study of ‘war’ has gained renewed popularity in criminology. This book illustrates its long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the discipline.
Foregrounding established criminological work addressing war and connecting it to a wide range of extant sociological literature, the authors present and further develop theoretical and conceptual ways of thinking critically about war. Providing a critique of mainstream criminology, the authors question whether a ‘criminology of war’ is possible, and if so, how this seemingly ‘new horizon’ of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.
Ross McGarry is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool.
Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool and conjoint Chair of Criminology at Monash University.
Introduction: Can there be a “criminology of war”?;
Theorising "war" within sociology and criminology;
The war on terrorism: criminology’s “third war”;
The “forgotten criminology of genocide”;
From nuclear to “degenerate” war;
The “dialectics of war” in criminology;
Criminology’s “fourth war”? Gendering war and its violence(s);
Conclusion: Beyond a “new” wars paradigm: bringing the periphery into view.