{"product_id":"abolish-criminology-9780367521332","title":"Abolish Criminology","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolish Criminology\u003c\/em\u003e presents critical scholarship on criminology and criminal justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven visions and practices for new world formations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book introduces readers to a detailed history and analysis of crime as a concept and its colonizing trajectories into existence and enforcement. These significant contexts buried within peculiar academic histories and classroom practices are often overlooked or unknown outside academic and public discussions, causing the impact of racializing-gendering-sexualizing histories to extend and grow through criminology's creation of crime, extending how the concept is weaponized and enforced through the criminal legal system. It offers written, visual, and poetic teachings from the perspectives of students, professors, imprisoned and formerly imprisoned persons, and artists. This allows readers to engage in multi-sensory, inter-disciplinary, and multi-perspective teachings on criminology's often discussed but seldom interrogated mythologies on violence and danger, and their wide-reaching enforcements through the criminal legal system's research, theories, agencies, and dominant cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbolish Criminology \u003c\/i\u003eserves the needs of undergraduate and graduate students and educators in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. It will also appeal to scholars, researchers, policy makers, activists, community organizers, social movement builders, and various reading groups in the general public who are grappling with increased critical public discourse on policing and criminal legal reform or abolition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eViviane Saleh-Hanna\u003c\/strong\u003e is Full Professor of Crime and Justice Studies and Director of Black Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Her scholarship centers wholistic justice, abolition, anti-colonialism, Black feminist hauntology, structurally abusive relationships, and freedom dreams inspired by Octavia E. Butler, Toni Morrison, and new world formations of Afrofuturism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason M. Williams \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Montclair State University. He's an activist scholar specializing in racial and gender disparity, and mistreatment within the criminal legal system; a nationally recognized and quoted qualitative criminologist with publications on re-entry, policing, and social control; and is engaged in community-grounded research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael J. Coyle \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, California State University, Chico. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTalking Criminal Justice: Language and the Just Society \u003c\/i\u003e(Routledge, 2013) and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eSeeing Crime: Penal Abolition as the End of Utopian Criminal Justice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50454782345490,"sku":"9780367521332","price":55.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8c112378-8aeb-4a4e-9b03-6f86bdf1a105.jpg?v=1729870654","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/abolish-criminology-9780367521332","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}