Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Critical criminologies: an introduction 1 -- Kerry Carrington and Russell Hogg -- PART 1 ISSUES AND DEBATES IN CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY -- 2 Defining 'power' and challenging 'knowledge': critical analysis as resistance in the UK 15 -- Phil Scraton -- 3 Critical criminology in the United States: the Berkeley School and theoretical trajectories 41 -- Herman Schwendinger, Julia R. Schwendinger and Michael J. Lynch -- 4 'Losing my religion': reflections on critical criminology in Australia 73 -- David Brown -- 5 Feminism and critical criminology: confronting genealogies 114 -- Kerry Carrington -- PART II NEW DIRECTIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR CRITICAL CRIMINOLOGY -- 6 For a psychosocial criminology 145 -- Tony Jefferson -- 7 Critical criminology and the punitive society: some new 'visions of social control' 168 -- John Pratt -- 8 Criminology beyond the nation state: global conflicts, human rights and the 'new world disorder' 185 -- Russell Hogg -- 9 Left, right or straight ahead: contemporary prospects for progressive and critical criminology 218 -- Judith Bessant -- 10 Critical criminology? In praise of an oxymoron and its enemies 243 -- Pat Carlen -- 11 Critical criminology in the twenty-first century: critique, irony and the always unfinished 251 -- Jock Young -- General index 275 -- Name index 284.