Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason

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Acknowledgement Table of contents Introduction 1. The Enlightenment and Euro American Theories of the Judicial Process 2. From Determinism to Meaning: The Emergence of Labeling Perspective 3. From Societal Reaction to Questions of Power: From Labelling to Radical Criminology 4. Feminist Perspectives and Critical Criminology 5. Lesbian Rape: Maternal Metaphors for the Patriarchal State and International Conflict Resolution 6. Post-Structuralism and Positivism in Criminological Theory 7. Social Fiction Sui Generis: The Fairy Tale Structure of Criminological Theory 8. Executive lawlessness and the struggle for democracy in Africa 9. Radical Criminology In African Literature' 10. Committed Objectivity in Race-Class-Gender Research 11. How Scientific is Criminal Justice? A Methodological Critique of research on McCleskey V. Kemp and other capital cases. 12. What is Institutionalised? The Race-Class-Gender Articulation of Stephen Lawrence' 13. 'Criminal Records: The Toughest, The Police and The Thieves The Policing of Peter Tosh and Popular Culture' Conclusion: Beyond Criminological Orientalism. Bibliography About The Author Endonotes