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Constructing the New Political Criminology: Power, Authority, and the Post-Liberal State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Stuart A. Scheingold
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The purpose of this paper is to make a case for a new political criminology—that is, to argue that a meaningful and coherent intellectual enterprise is developing across disciplinary lines. This new political criminology is distinctive in three ways:

• It is criminology in that it is rooted in conceptions of, and concerns about, the ramifications of street crime.

• It is political in that its focus is on the way crime control strategies both reflect and influence the distribution of power within the polity.

• It is new in that it is influenced by postmodern understandings of, and disillusionment with, the liberal state.

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Symposium: Special Issue in Honor of Herbert Jacob
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , Fall 1998 , pp. 857 - 895
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1998 

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