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Walter S. DeKeseredy and Molly Dragiewicz (eds), Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology

Walter S. DeKeseredy and Molly Dragiewicz (eds), Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 2014, Vol. 47(2) 299–301 Book Review ! The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0004865814531223 anj.sagepub.com Abingdon: Routledge, 2012, 529 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-77967, £140.00 (hbk) Reviewed by: Bruce M.Z. Cohen, Department of Sociology, University of Auckland, New Zealand With this original collection of mainly North American writings, Walter S. Dekeseredy and Molly Dragiewicz set out to provide ‘‘the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical and political contributions’’ (p. 6) on critical criminology. While the text is certainly the most extensive to be produced on the subject to date, some significant omissions and under- whelming chapters mean that the editors are only partly successful in achieving their aspirations. The first part of the book is a useful selection of chapters which grounds critical criminology in its historical developments. In profiling Anglo-American dynamics in the emerging scholarship of the 1960s and 1970s, both Jayne Mooney (Britain) and Raymond Michalowski (United States) highlight the challenge to positivist and classical criminology from groups of young Marxist academics. These chapters are inspirational in documenting the early years of radical discussion on crime and deviance, which is nicely summed up by the late Jock Young’s view of the National http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 2014, Vol. 47(2) 299–301 Book Review ! The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0004865814531223 anj.sagepub.com Abingdon: Routledge, 2012, 529 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-77967, £140.00 (hbk) Reviewed by: Bruce M.Z. Cohen, Department of Sociology, University of Auckland, New Zealand With this original collection of mainly North American writings, Walter S. Dekeseredy and Molly Dragiewicz set out to provide ‘‘the most up-to-date empirical, theoretical and political contributions’’ (p. 6) on critical criminology. While the text is certainly the most extensive to be produced on the subject to date, some significant omissions and under- whelming chapters mean that the editors are only partly successful in achieving their aspirations. The first part of the book is a useful selection of chapters which grounds critical criminology in its historical developments. In profiling Anglo-American dynamics in the emerging scholarship of the 1960s and 1970s, both Jayne Mooney (Britain) and Raymond Michalowski (United States) highlight the challenge to positivist and classical criminology from groups of young Marxist academics. These chapters are inspirational in documenting the early years of radical discussion on crime and deviance, which is nicely summed up by the late Jock Young’s view of the National

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