Intersectionality, rural criminology, and re-imaging the boundaries of critical criminology


Autoria(s): Carrington, Kerry; Donnermeyer, Joseph; DeKeseredy, Walter S.
Data(s)

10/09/2014

Resumo

One of the significant shortcomings of the criminological canon, including its critical strands – feminist, cultural and green – has been its urbancentric bias. In this theoretical model, rural communities are idealised as conforming to the typical small-scale traditional societies based on cohesive organic forms of solidarity and close density acquaintance networks. This article challenges the myth that rural communities are relatively crime free places of ‘moral virtue’ with no need for a closer scrutiny of rural context, rural places, and rural peoples about crime and other social problems. This challenge is likewise woven into the conceptual and empirical narratives of the other articles in this Special Edition, which we argue constitute an important body of innovative work, not just for reinvigorating debates in rural criminology, but also critical criminology. For without a critical perspective of place, the realities of context are too easily overlooked. A new criminology of crime and place will help keep both critical criminology and rural criminology firmly anchored in the sociological and the criminological imagination. We argue that intersectionality, a framework that resists privileging any particular social structural category of analysis, but is cognisant of the power effects of colonialism, class, race and gender, can provide the theoretical scaffolding to further develop such a project.

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/77435/

Publicador

Springer

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/77435/1/August_2_Intersectionality_Rural_Crime_and_Reimaging_Critical_Crim_editors_article.pdf

DOI:10.1007/s10612-014-9257-0

Carrington, Kerry, Donnermeyer, Joseph, & DeKeseredy, Walter S. (2014) Intersectionality, rural criminology, and re-imaging the boundaries of critical criminology. Critical Criminology, 22(4), pp. 463-477.

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Copyright 2014 The Author(s)

This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com

Fonte

Crime & Justice Research Centre; Faculty of Law; School of Justice

Palavras-Chave #160200 CRIMINOLOGY #Rural Criminology #Cultural Criminology #Feminist Criminology #Green Criminology #Critical Criminology #Intersectionality
Tipo

Journal Article