NCJ Number
214910
Journal
Theoretical Criminology Volume: 10 Issue: 2 Dated: May 2006 Pages: 223-244
Date Published
May 2006
Length
22 pages
Annotation
Concerned with the preoccupation of criminology with concepts that need to preserve a number of dual divisions in its conception of the world, this article argues that the intended division of science and society, nature and culture, and beings and things actually depend on each other, suggesting criminology of hybrids.
Abstract
The division within criminology of science and society, nature and culture, and beings and things has closed off the very real possibility that the most effective explanations and understandings of crime and control arise at the interstices. The divisions used in criminology have had an effect in involving an assumption about the orientation of the human world and the object-world towards each other. The complexities of contemporary technological culture demand the dissolution or closure of dual oppositions and human/technical splitting in the apprehension of the phenomenon of crime. The possibilities of actor-network theory are considered in relation to crime and law. The need for a criminology of hybrids that is concerned with the mapping of technosocial networks is suggested. References