
Building Complex Temporal Explanations of Crime
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A thoroughly engrossing invitation to criminologists to take history seriously. It is a compelling book, which casts a critical eye on complexity, continuity and change. Written with flair and imagination, it provides a bold, dynamic framework to challenge the existing parameters of criminological inquiry. Original, ambitious and thought provoking - this is an important and timely work. Eamonn Carrabine, Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Essex A timely and refreshing read from start to finish. By offering complex answers to complex problems, Professor Farrall presents a compelling vision of criminology which is underpinned by interdisciplinarity, context, temporal processes and agency. Essential reading for anyone seeking to develop and challenge their own thinking around issues of crime. Neil Chakraborti, Professor in Criminology, University of Leicester'The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living', claimed Marx in 1852. Stephen Farrall does not think of the relations between past and present in such drastic or fateful terms. Yet he is equally concerned with the laminations of past influences on our present culture and conduct. Farrall has a rare capacity to connect quantitative observations of crime and control with an historical sensibility, and with problems of social, sociological and political theory. For these reasons Farrall is able in this book to offer refreshing new perspectives on levels of explanation in thinking about crime, and to make the topic of complexity seem not only accessible but invigorating. Farrall encourages us to feel that we too can and should reach for solutions that are at once 'historical, spatial, economic, cultural and agentic'. Richard Sparks, School of Law, Univ of EdinburghMore details
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Introduction.- Chapter One: Recognising Complexity.- Chapter Two: Historical and Constructivist Institutionalisms.- Chapter Three: Why-Because Analyses.- Chapter Four: Realistic Evaluation.- Chapter Five: Where have All the People Gone? Theories of Structuration, Practice and Agency.- Chapter Six: Research Designs and Research Methods.- Chapter Seven: An Exemplar.- Chapter Eight: Concluding Observations.- Glossary.
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