Crime and social theory / Eamonn Carrabine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-181) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- The Sociological Imagination -- Organization of the Book -- 2. Formative Positions -- The Public Sphere and Enlightenment -- Early Criminologies -- Into the British University -- Sociological Indifference -- 3. Sociological Traditions -- Durkheim and Chicago -- Strain, Subculture, and Labelling -- The National Deviancy Conference -- Taking Sides -- Taking Stock -- Criminology as Discipline -- 4. Transgression -- Disreputable Pleasures -- Seductions and Edgework -- Doing Difference -- The Subcultural Legacy -- Conclusion -- 5. Control -- Revisiting the Classics -- Disciplinary Power and Societies of Surveillance -- Different Voices and the Civilizing Process -- Mass Incarceration and the New Penology -- Conclusion -- 6. Geography -- Criminal Areas and Divided Cities -- Organized Crime -- Crimes of the Powerful -- Empire, Harm, and Globalization -- Conclusion -- 7. Representation -- Moral Panics -- Critical Updates -- Ethics, Rhetoric, and Performativity -- Cultural Sociology -- Visual Criminology -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion.