Liquid Criminology: Doing imaginative criminological research

This book explores the ways in which criminological methods can be imaginatively deployed and developed in a world increasingly characterized by the blurred nature of social reality. Whilst recognizing the importance of positivist approaches and research techniques, it advocates a commitment to understanding the ways in which those techniques can be used imaginatively, at times in combination with less conventional methods, discussing the questions concerning risk, ethics and access that arise as a result.

Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 07/04/2016
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781472455239

About the Author

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman, Encountering the Everyday, The Transformation of Modernity, Utopia: Social Theory and the Future and Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences.

Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her recent publications include Victims: Trauma, Testimony, Justice (with R. McGarry) and The Contradictions of Terrorism (with G. Mythen).