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Intersectionality, Rural Criminology, and Re-imaging the Boundaries of Critical Criminology
Critical Criminology, Vol.22(4), pp.463-477
2014
Abstract
One of the significant shortcomings of the criminological canon, including its critical strands-feminist, cultural and green-has been its urbancentric bias. In this theoretical model, rural communities are idealised as conforming to the typical small-scale traditional societies based on cohesive organic forms of solidarity and close density acquaintance networks. This article challenges the myth that rural communities are relatively crime free places of 'moral virtue' with no need for a closer scrutiny of rural context, rural places, and rural peoples about crime and other social problems. This challenge is likewise woven into the conceptual and empirical narratives of the other articles in this Special Edition, which we argue constitute an important body of innovative work, not just for reinvigorating debates in rural criminology, but also critical criminology. For without a critical perspective of place, the realities of context are too easily overlooked. A new criminology of crime and place will help keep both critical criminology and rural criminology firmly anchored in both the sociological and the criminological imagination. We argue that intersectionality, a framework that resists privileging any particular social structural category of analysis, but is cognisant of the power effects of colonialism, class, race and gender, can provide the theoretical scaffolding to further develop such a project.
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- Title
- Intersectionality, Rural Criminology, and Re-imaging the Boundaries of Critical Criminology
- Authors
- Kerry Carrington (Author) - Queensland University of TechnologyJoseph F. Donnermeyer (Author) - The Ohio State UniversityWalter S. DeKeseredy (Author) - West Virginia University
- Publication details
- Critical Criminology, Vol.22(4), pp.463-477
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Date published
- 2014
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10612-014-9257-0
- ISSN
- 1572-9877; 1205-8629
- Copyright note
- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99651596302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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