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The British Journal of Criminology 41:150-167 (2001)
© 2001 Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (formerly ISTD)

Critical Genres and Radical Criminology in Britain

A Microeconometric Analysis of the Under-reporting of Property Crime and Its Implications

George Pavlich*

Department of Sociology, University of Alberta.

Analyses highlighting the genres of critique engaged by radical criminologists are comparatively rare. The few exceptions tend to associate radical criminological thinking with a grammar of critique that (i) establishes universal criteria, (ii) judges (con)texts against these and (iii) prescribes paths of action accordingly. This is an unfortunate tendency since it ties radical thought to an increasingly anachronistic genre of critique, and does not arrest the dwindling plight of critical approaches, or resist dominant technocratic discourses in criminology. In an attempt at redress, this paper identifies four alternate genres of critique in British radical criminology of the 1960s-70s, and shows how these could spawn a deconstructive ethos from which to develop critical analysis with renewed legitimacy.


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