Critical Voices in Criminology

Readers of criminology literature are presented with little more than thumbnail sketches as to the social characteristics or motivations of the authors one learns their status, institutional location and supposed credentials. Rarely are we presented with more detailed impressions of the authors, as a combination of positivist assumption and notions of professional competence seemingly renders such information unimportant However, increasing numbers of critical scholars are becoming aware of authorship as an issue; it matters who is addressing us. By taking these authors out of their methodological framework Critical voices in Criminology provides an opportunity for figures in and around critical criminology to discuss their own intellectual journeys into an with the discipline

Chris Powell is Professor of criminology at the University of Southern Maine