René Girard and Criminal Justice
Aaron Pycroft
Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Strafrecht, Strafprozessrecht, Kriminologie
Beschreibung
This book highlights the significance of René Girard's work for key criminological debates to provide new perspectives. Girard explores the causes of violence in humans and his work is used to interpret cultural phenomena related to criminology and victimology. The book focuses in particular on Girard’s cultural anthropology of the victim as being foundational to social order. The scapegoat mechanism, as developed by Girard, is an anthropological reading of myth which provides a site of rich dialogue with criminology, victimology, theology and philosophy. The book explores how this provides readers with ontological, epistemological and methodological tools for both explaining and changing the practices of justice.
Kundenbewertungen
literary theory, violence, victimology, theology, critical criminology, social order, chaos, philosophy, complexity theory, ethics of institutions, massacre, Christian theology, scapegoating, cultural anthropology, punishment, child sexual abuse, justice, criminology theory