Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • James Hardie-Bick, Ronnie Lippens

   Pages 1-14

3. Goffman, Existentialism and Criminology

   • James Hardie-Bick, Phil Hadfield

   Pages 15-35

4. Subjectivation as Problem and Project: Is there an Existentialist Motif in Foucault

   • Claudius Messner

   Pages 36-60

5. Vengeance and Furies: Existential Dilemmas in Penal Decision-Making

   • Simon Green

   Pages 61-84

6. Total Institutions and the Last Human Freedom

   • James Hardie-Bick

   Pages 85-107

7. Existential Predicaments and Constabulary Ethics

   • Danny O’Rourke-Dicarlo, James Sheptycki

   Pages 108-128

8. Heidegger, Restorative Justice and Desistance: A Phenomenological Perspective

   • David Polizzi

   Pages 129-155

9. Crime, Harm and Responsibility

   • Don Crewe

   Pages 156-174

10. Mystical Sovereignty and the Emergence of Control Society

    • Ronnie Lippens

    Pages 175-193

11. Back Matter

    Pages 194-203

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This collection focuses on the existential predicaments and choices that underpin current debates and developments in the governance of crime and criminal justice and argues for the relevance of existentialist thought for enhancing a critical and philosophically inspired criminological imagination.

• crime
• criminal justice
• criminology
• existentialism
• liberty
• Michel Foucault
• philosophy

• Keele University, UK

  James Hardie-Bick, Ronnie Lippens

DON CREWE Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK SIMON GREEN Lecturer in Community Justice and Criminology, University of Hull, UK PHIL HADFIELD Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, UK CLAUDIUS MESSNER Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Law, University of Salento, Italy DANNY O'ROURKE-DICARLO Lecturer in Social Science, York University, Canada DAVID POLIZZI Assistant Professor of Corrections, Indiana State University, USA JAMES SHEPTYCKI Professor of Criminology, York University, Canada

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