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Remembering Jock Young and the Praxis of a Radical Criminologist

Thu, Nov 20, 3:30 to 4:50pm, Marriott, Salon 6, Lower B2 Level

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This session brings together past and present students and colleagues of one of the founders of Critical Criminologist Jock Young who left us recently. We pay tribute to this giant of social science and assess his contribution to the struggle for a more humanistic criminology and social justice.

David C. Brotherton – John Jay College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

“Getting Ready for when the Tectonic Plates Shift – Crime, Disorder and the Radical Shift”

Michael Rowan – John Jay College
"Confronting 'inconvenient facts' without being 'mugged by reality': What the sociology of punishment could and should learn from Jock Young's radical left-realism."

Nigel South – University of Essex

“Jock as supervisor, mentor and friend”

Roger Matthews – University of Kent

“Rediscovering Realist Criminology: Making Criminology Politically, Socially and Practically Relevant.”

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