1. A Criminology of War?
- Author
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McGarry, Ross, Walklate, Sandra, McGarry, Ross, and Walklate, Sandra
- Subjects
- War crimes, Criminology, War and crime
- Abstract
In recent years, the academic study of ‘war'has gained renewed popularity in criminology. This book illustrates its long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the discipline. Foregrounding established criminological work addressing war and connecting it to a wide range of extant sociological literature, the authors present and further develop theoretical and conceptual ways of thinking critically about war. Providing a critique of mainstream criminology, the authors question whether a ‘criminology of war'is possible, and if so, how this seemingly ‘new horizon'of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.
- Published
- 2019