New Rules of Criminological Method: Passion, Perversity and Pathology

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

In this panel we aim to outline a new kind of approach to criminological theory which proposes that, instead of fantasising it as the science of errant objects, its gaze can profitably be re-directed towards the terrain of what until recently were considered ‘normal things’: normal people or normal organisations comprehended as inherently pathological social agents.

Sub Unit

• Area III. Theoretical Explanations of Crime and Criminal Behavior / 2. Critical, Conflict and Feminist Perspectives

Individual Presentations

• A Zombie Discipline? - Phil Carney, University of Kent

• Reimagining Criminology as a Science of the Normal: On the New Rules of the Criminological Method - Simon Hallsworth, University of Suffolk

• Building Walls and Shooting Messengers: Teratology and the New Rules of Criminalisation - Mike McGuire, University of Surrey

Chair

• Mike McGuire, University of Surrey