International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 2004
In life we make progress by conflict and in mental life by argument and disputationy There must b... more In life we make progress by conflict and in mental life by argument and disputationy There must be confrontation and opposition, in order that sparks may be kindled. Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001a), p. 20 1. Irony and contradiction Radical criminology, observes Stanley Cohen, is predicated on an unmistakable paradox or irony: it brought about not the end of academic institutionalized criminology, but rather its emphatic rejuvenation. To acknowledge this is to recognize that it has inspired a number of studies profoundly deeper in significance and incomparably wider in scope than anything attempted by criminologists four or five decades ago (a point made luminously explicit in Jock Young's chapter in this volume: esp., at pp. 259-260); that it has redefined the subject matter of criminology, placing social control at its very centre; and that it has convinced even the most intransigently 'correctionalist' of criminologists that, in Roger Hood's words, 'criminal behaviour as a social entity does not exist independently of the apparatus
International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 2004
In life we make progress by conflict and in mental life by argument and disputationy There must b... more In life we make progress by conflict and in mental life by argument and disputationy There must be confrontation and opposition, in order that sparks may be kindled. Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001a), p. 20 1. Irony and contradiction Radical criminology, observes Stanley Cohen, is predicated on an unmistakable paradox or irony: it brought about not the end of academic institutionalized criminology, but rather its emphatic rejuvenation. To acknowledge this is to recognize that it has inspired a number of studies profoundly deeper in significance and incomparably wider in scope than anything attempted by criminologists four or five decades ago (a point made luminously explicit in Jock Young's chapter in this volume: esp., at pp. 259-260); that it has redefined the subject matter of criminology, placing social control at its very centre; and that it has convinced even the most intransigently 'correctionalist' of criminologists that, in Roger Hood's words, 'criminal behaviour as a social entity does not exist independently of the apparatus
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