Ross McGarry is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool and conjoint Chair of Criminology at Monash University.

Klappentext

With the academic study of 'war' gaining renewed popularity within criminology in recent years, this book illustrates the 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.

Zusammenfassung
In this book, the authors seek to question if a 'criminology of war' is possible, whilst providing an implicit critique of mainstream criminology. They also examine how this seemingly 'new horizon' of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.

Inhalt

Introduction: Can there be a "criminology of war"?; Theorising "war" within sociology and criminology; The war on terrorism: criminology's "third war"; The "forgotten criminology of genocide"; From nuclear to "degenerate" war; The "dialectics of war" in criminology; Criminology's "fourth war"? Gendering war and its violence(s); Conclusion: Beyond a "new" wars paradigm: bringing the periphery into view.