Philosophy, Crime, and Criminology

Contributors

contributors bruce a. arrigo is a professor and former chair in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina– Charlotte, with additional faculty appointments in the psychology department, the Public Policy Program, and the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics. He has published extensively in the areas of social and criminological theory, sociolegal studies , criminal psychology, and problems in crime and social justice. His recent books include Psychological Jurisprudence: Critical Explorations in Law, Crime, and Society (2004); with Stacey L. Shipley, The Female Homicide Offender: Serial Murder and the Case of Aileen Wuornos (2004); with Christopher R. Williams, Theory, Justice , and Social Change: Theoretical Integrations and Critical Applications (2004); and with Dragan Milovanovic and Robert C. Schehr, The French Connection in Criminology: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change (2005). Arrigo is a past recipient of the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award (2000), sponsored by the Division of Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association through the Law-Psychology Division of the APA and a fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He is the founding and current editor for the book series Critical Perspectives in Criminology (University of Illinois Press) and Criminal Justice and Psychology (Carolina Academic Press). michelle brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University. Her research interests include the study of media, punishment, risk, and cultural theory. She recently coedited and contributed to a volume entitled Media Representations of September 11 (2003), an anthology that examines interdisciplinary interpretive approaches to media coverage of the 2001 terrorist attacks. lynn s. chancer is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Fordham University. She is the author of Sadomasochism in Everyday Life (1992), Reconcilable Differences: Beauty, Pornography , and the Future of Feminism (1998), and High Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes (2005). She is also coeditor of Theoretical Criminology: An International Journal. bruce dicristina is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Dakota. His research interests center on the philosophical foundations of criminological inquiry, the sociology of crime and punishment, and classical sociological theory. He is the author of Methods in Criminology: A Philosophical Primer (1995). jeff ferrell is a professor of criminal justice at Texas Christian University . He is the author of Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality (1996), Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy (2001/2002), and Wreckage and Reclamation: Studies in Cultural Criminology (forthcoming), and lead coeditor of four books: Cultural Criminology (1995), Ethnography at the Edge (1998), Making Trouble (1999), and Cultural Criminology Unleashed (2004). He is the founding and current editor of the New York University Press Book Series Alternative Criminology, and one of the founding and current editors of the journal Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. In 1998 he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology. 280 / contributors contributors / 281 jessie klein is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Lehman College at the City University of New York. Klein is the author of several chapters on the role of masculinity in school shootings. She is presently working on a book called Sexuality and School Violence. ronnie lippens is a reader in criminology at Keele University (U.K.). He has published work on theories of justice, social justice, dependency theory and Third World studies, organizational criminology, and the postmodern turn in critical criminology. More recently, however, his research interests focus on critical legal studies, particularly on legal semiotics and legal iconography, and on the role and place of the Imaginary in the production and reproduction of (visions of) law, peace, and justice. His publications on these topics include a collection he recently edited under the title Imaginary Boundaries of Justice (2004). dragan milovanovic is a professor of justice studies at Northeastern Illinois University. He has published extensively in the area of postmodern criminology, law, and social justice, particularly focusing on psychoanalytic semiotics, chaos theory, edgework, and catastrophe theory. His most recent books include Critical Criminology at the Edge (2003) and An Introduction to the Sociology of Law (2003). christopher r. williams is an associate professor of criminology at the University of West Georgia. He has published in the areas of critical social and criminological theory, the sociology...