Livy Visano
Crime and Culture: Refining the Traditions
Crime and Culture is a pathbreaking work in the critical study of crime and criminology. In this book Livy Visano begins with an overview of the standard perspectives on crime and delinquency. In the clear style that Dr. Visano's readers and students appreciate, he shows how we have come to understand crime in the conventional […]
Teaching Controversy
Typically, all teaching is challenging but this challenge becomes most apparent when it involves controversy. Teaching invites the process of experiencing the connection between oneself and the “other.” It is also the expression of power and cultural control. Customarily, courses are produced to protect and promote particular perspectives, and their meanings are always negotiated among […]
What Do They Know?: Youth, Crime and Culture
What Do They Know? is a comprehensive, contemporary, and controversial discussion of the differential impact of culture on youth crime. This book develops an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to the definitional and conceptual issues of youth crime. Written by a recognized critical criminologist, the book highlights the roles played by ideologies-capitalism, modernity, and liberalism-and institutions-media, […]