From Critical Criminology to the Criminological Imagination: An Interview with Jock Young

Sozzo, Máximo; Fonseca, David Santos

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“…Los Angeles: Sage, 2019. 22 Cordeiro referred to Máximo Sozzo and David Fonseca's interview with Jock Young, which were published both in English and in Portuguese (Sozzo and Fonseca 2016). 23 Howard S. Becker was a sociologist at the University of Chicago.…”

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“Through Roger Matthews' eyes": Glimpses of critical and left realist British criminology

Machado¹,

Cordeiro²

2022

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Roger Matthews was a British criminologist renowned as a left realist. He was Professor of Criminology at the University of Kent and was part of the National Deviancy Conference. In this interview, Matthews presented a brief context of the British socio-criminological academia in the 1970’s and on. He showed us the academic network between North American and British academics and the rivalry among them. Afterwards, Matthews talked about his impressions on European and Latin American Criminology. His statements led us to reflect about recent debates in the Brazilian criminological field and alert us of some limits of a marginal criminology.

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“Through Roger Matthews' eyes": Glimpses of critical and left realist British criminology

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Cordeiro²

2022

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“…‘Part of the globalized cultural thing’, he reflected, ‘is that it becomes tremendously apparent to people of the injustice of it all, for geographical location is just luck. It is not anything to do with anything other than just absolute luck’ (in Sozzo and Fonseca, 2016: 105). A sociologist and criminologist, Young sought to understand and elucidate the underpinning dynamics of this unjust world and the concomitant fallacies of ‘inclusion’.…”

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Storytelling, resilience and transitional justice: Reversing narrative social bulimia

Clark

2020

Theoretical Criminology

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This article is about storytelling and transitional justice. Utilizing the late Jock Young’s concept of social bulimia, it uses the author’s fieldwork with victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina to demonstrate that storytelling can become a social bulimic process of absorption and expulsion. The article’s key aim is to explore ways of addressing this. In so doing, it draws on the neurological concept of plasticity. Emphasizing the importance of ‘narrative plasticity’ in the sense of giving victims-/survivors more control over their stories, and linking the concept to resilience, it argues that narrative plasticity can help to address the absorption and exclusion dynamics of social bulimia—and thereby contribute to moving transitional justice in a new ecological direction.

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Rediscovering the Relative Deprivation and Crime Debate: Tracking its Fortunes from Left Realism to the Precariat

Webber

2021

Crit Crim

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This article revisits the concept of relative deprivation and asks whether it is still useful for criminology. The article traces the way relative deprivation has been used in the past to understand crime and how it has connections to other, more recent, additions to debates on social justice. I argue that relative deprivation has disappeared even in the place that it had become the key explanation for crime—left realism. In so doing, I explore the resurrection of left realism in criminology—what I refer to as “post-millennial left realism”—first, by those who were associated with it originally, and then with Hall and Winlow’s (2015, 2017) shift in emphasis to what they term “ultra-realism.” I maintain that relative deprivation is still a powerful concept for bridging several related areas that should still be central to the concerns of criminology—in part, because it is still a major concern in popular social science and social psychology. Why has it disappeared in criminology? I present an argument that suggests that the absence of certain research methods, such as ethnographic and qualitative or small-scale survey methods, has impoverished our understanding of the lived reality of people experiencing the social transformations of a networked, precarious society. The massive polarization and disruption in politics and social discourse, as well as the worldwide economic, public health, and social transformations (ranging from the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter protests to the COVID-19 global pandemic) have demonstrated the continued relevance and analytical power that relative deprivation, in its elaborated form, brings to questions of crime and justice.

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From Critical Criminology to the Criminological Imagination: An Interview with Jock Young

Cited by 3 publications

References 2 publications

“Through Roger Matthews' eyes": Glimpses of critical and left realist British criminology

“Through Roger Matthews' eyes": Glimpses of critical and left realist British criminology

Storytelling, resilience and transitional justice: Reversing narrative social bulimia

Rediscovering the Relative Deprivation and Crime Debate: Tracking its Fortunes from Left Realism to the Precariat

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