Deviant Knowledge
Author | : Reece Walters |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781135991395 |
ISBN-13 | : 1135991391 |
Rating | : 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Download or read book Deviant Knowledge written by Reece Walters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics of criminology and the ways in which criminological knowledge is generated. It includes an overview of the politics and practice of conducting criminological research, and examines the ways that regulatory and governing authorities set research agendas, manipulate the processes and production of knowledge and silence or suppress critical voices through various techniques of neutralisation. It also promotes 'knowledges of resistance' - a position that promotes critique, challenges concepts of power and social order, wrestles with notions of truth and adheres to intellectual autonomy and independence.