The Sparking Discipline of Criminology : John Braithwaite and the Construction of Critical Social Science and Social Justice.

Intro -- The sparking discipline of criminology -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Criminology in search of new frontiers -- Background -- A collection of essays -- To conclude -- Laudatio for John Braithwaite -- Betwen evangelism and charlatanism: Reflections on the social responsibility of criminology and other social sciences -- Introduction -- Declining quality of Western democracies and penal populism -- Uncertainty and risk -- Consumer democracy -- Penal populism -- Extension: is there more crime? -- Submitting welfare work to safety conditions -- Social sciences and criminology as democratic forces -- Social sciences are not objective -- The criminological straddle -- Opting for an "objective" scientific criminology -- Embedded criminology -- About players and floaters -- Between evangelism and charlatanism -- By way of conclusion -- References -- Our sense of justice: Values, justice and punishment -- Introduction: Meeting a Republican -- Normative theory and the question of values -- A study of values and punishment -- Non-interference, equality and punishment -- Data -- Results -- A study of values and state violence -- The egalitarian foundations of non-interference and state violence -- Data -- Results -- Normative theory, moral visions and penal systems -- Conclusion -- References -- Why criminology needs outsiders -- Introduction -- Five outsiders -- Why do we need outsiders? -- Foucault's external view on criminology, its strengths and its limits -- The silent response to 9/11 -- An external view on restorative justice research -- Conclusion -- References -- Braithwaite, criminology and the debate on public social science -- Introduction -- The predicaments of criminology today -- The 'public sociology' debate and its lessons -- Braithwaite (and Ericson) on public social science.

Re-thinking the 'failure' and promise of criminology -- Towards an historical hermeneutics of criminology -- By way of conclusion -- References -- Why research cannot but be trans-disciplinary in complex maters of ethos and justice -- Introduction -- Expertise and the politics of specialisation -- Ethos -- Liberal suspicion -- The creation of an alternative ethos -- By way of conclusion -- References -- Opportunities and dangers of capitalist criminology -- The boom market in criminology -- Regulatory capitalism - more opportunities and dangers -- Sparking criminology -- Ethos and Justice -- Consumerism and the clinical -- Criminology doing its bit in bringing universities to the rescue -- Community and equality -- Conclusion -- References -- Selected publications by John Braithwaite by subject -- Criminological Theory -- Peacebuilding -- Republicanism -- Restorative Justice -- About the authors -- About the series Society, Crime and Criminal Justice (Samenleving, Criminaliteit en strafrechtspleging) -- About Leuven University Press -- Contact -- Ordering information.

Over the past decades, the Australian social scientist John Braithwaite (1951) has played a crucial role in the development of international criminology. He is universally considered one of the most renowned criminologists of our times and he has characteristically put his scientific engagement at the service of humanity and society by aiming at social justice, participative democracy, sustainable development and world peace. His relentless efforts to create links between the study of criminology and other scientific disciplines has led the K.U.Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) to honour Braithwaite in February 2008 with an honorary doctorate.In this collection of essays a number of well-known academics reflect on the work of John Braithwaite by addressing two leading questions: What are the implications of a republican theory of justice for criminology and criminal policy? And secondly, what is the role of academic criminology in today's social, political and economic environment? The volume is concluded by an extensive and insightful contribution from John Braithwaite himself, not only reflecting on the preceding essays in the book, but also addressing the challenges and future directions for academic criminology in the present day.

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