Overview
- Includes a foreword by Tony Bunyan, Emeritus Director of Statewatch
- Explores how theories of crime and deviance and social theories are creations of their time
- Focusses on the historical, cultural and contextual roots of critical criminology which are often ignored, and considers how they relate to current critical criminology
- Draws on Criminology, Sociology, Classics, History, Philosophy, Ancient Literature and Politics
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- deviance
- history of crime
- historical criminology
- greek drama
- greek literature
- social conflict
- philosophy
- crime and politics
- ancient greece
- hellenistic
- critical criminology
- criminological thought
- Greco-Roman
- Aesop’s fables
- classics
- history of law
- history of democracy
- radical thought
- criminology theory
- legitimacy
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stratos Georgoulas is Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Aegean, Greece. He is recognized in the scientific field of Critical Criminology, winning international awards for teaching in the USA (Fulbright), Canada, Slovakia, Syria, Jordan and Palestine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Origins of Radical Criminology, Volume II
Book Subtitle: From Classical Greece to Early Christianity
Authors: Stratos Georgoulas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67638-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67637-7Published: 30 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67640-7Published: 31 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67638-4Published: 29 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Critical Criminology, Criminological Theory, History of Philosophy, Classical Studies, Legal History