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The Futures of Criminology edited, by David Nelken. London: Sage 1994, vi + 250 pp (paperback £13.95).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1995

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References

1. Anthony Giddens The Consequences of Modernity (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990) p 15-16, emphasis in original.

2. Ibid.

3. See the debates within the feminist literature, for example Sandra Harding The Science Question in Feminism (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986); Maureen Cain ‘Realism, Feminism Methodology and Law’ (1986) International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 14, 3, 255 - 67 and Carol Smart ‘Feminist Approaches to Criminology or Postmodem Woman Meets Atavistic Man’,in L Gelsthorpe and A Moms (eds) Feminist Perspectives in Criminology (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1990).

4. Edward Thompson Whigs and Hunters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977).

5. Jurgen Habermas The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Cambridge Massecusetts: MIT Press, 1987) and Christopher Noms ‘The End of Ideology’ Revisited: the Gulf War, Postmodernism and Realpolitik’ (1993) Philosophy and Social Criticism 17,1, 1-40.

6. See particularly Sandra Walklate Vicrimology (Heme1 Hempstead Unwin Hyman, 1989) and Sandra Walklate ‘Victims, Crime Prevention and Social Control’, in R Reiner and M Cross (eds)B eyondLuw Md Order (Houndmills, Basingstoke:M acmillan, 1991).

7. For impressive contrary views see David Widgery Some Lives (1992) and Beatrix Campbell Goliath: Britain’s Dangerous Places (London: Methuen, 1993).