Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments

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.

JAMES HARDIE-BICK is Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University, UK. Recent publications include: "Erving Goffman, 1922-82" (co-authored with P. Hadfield) in Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology and "Skydiving and the Metaphorical Edge" in Ethnography in Context.
 
RONNIE LIPPENS is Professor of Criminology at Keele University, UK. His research interests include theoretical and organizational criminology. He is the co-editor of Existentialist Criminology.

Notes on Contributors
Introduction; J.Hardie-Bick & R.Lippens
Goffman, Existentialism and Criminology; J.Hardie-Bick & P.Hadfield
Subjectivation as Problem and Project: Is there an Existentialist Motif in Foucault?; C.Messner
Vengeance and Furies: Existential Dilemmas in Penal Decision Making; S.Green
Total Institutions and the Last Human Freedom; J.Hardie-Bick
Existential Predicaments and Constabulary Ethics; D.O'Rourke & J.Sheptycki
Heidegger, Restorative Justice and Desistance: A Phenomenological Perspective; D.Polizzi 
Crime, Harm and Responsibility; D.Crewe
Mystical Sovereignty and the Emergence of Control Society; R.Lippens
Index