Crime, Critique and Utopia

This book explores the relevance of utopia in relation to contemporary criminology. The range of contributors explore the application of a utopian method for uncovering the potential within criminology and criminal justice, as well as the relevance of the utopian impulse for developing a challenge to the status quo in academia and beyond.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Utopia and Its Discontents; Margaret Malloch and Bill Munro 2. Crime, Critique and Utopian Alternatives; Margaret Malloch 3. Utopia and Penal Constraint: The Frankfurt School and Critical Criminology; Bill Munro 4. Erich Fromm: From Messianic Utopia to Critical Criminology; Michael Lowy 5. Crime and Punishment In Classical and Libertarian Utopias; Vincenzo Ruggiero 6. Visualising an abolitionist real utopia: principles, policy and praxis; David Scott 7. Towards a Utopian Criminology; Lynne Copson 8. Using the Future to Predict the Past: Prison Population Projections and the Colonisation of Penal Imagination; Sarah Armstrong 9. Techno-Utopianism, Science Fiction and Penal Innovation: the case of Electronically Monitored Control; Mike Nellis 10. From Penal Dystopia to the Reassertion of Social Rights; Loïc Wacquant