Postmodern criminology

N.Y., L.: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. — 266 p.Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Theoretical Integration
Dueling Paradigms: Modernist v. Postmodernist Thought
The Decentered Subject in Law: Contributions of Topology, Psychoanalytic Semiotics, and Chaos Theory
Borromean Knots and the Constitution of Sense in Juridico-Discursive Production
Constitutive Criminology: The Maturation of Critical Theory
Application: Doing Affirmative Postmodern Analysis in Law, Crime, and Penology
Jailhouse Lawyers and Jailhouse Lawyering
Overcoming the Absurd: Prisoner Litigation as Primitive
The Necessity Defense, Substantive Justice, and Oppositional Linguistic Practice
Constitutive Penology
Topology, Chaos, and Psychoanalytic Semiotics
Emerging Postmodern Methodologies: Integration and Application
Chaos and Criminology: Phase Maps and Bifurcation Diagrams
Chaos, Meta-Modeling, and Criminology: Iterative Loops, COREL and Mandelbrot Sets
Catastrophe Theory, Crime, and Peacemaking
Conclusion: Toward the New Orderly (Dis)Order
References
Cases Cited
Index