Table of Contents

Tables and Charts Preface Part 1: Constitutive Theory Introduction: Postmodernism and Constitutive Theory Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic Chapter 1. Constitutive Criminology: An Introduction to the Core Concepts Andrew Bak Part 2: Agency, Resistance, and Regulated Bodies in the Constitution of Crime Chapter 2. Sex, Law and the Paradox of Agency and Resistance in the Everyday Practices of Women in the "Evergreen" Sex Trade Lisa Sanchez Chapter 3. Constitutive Theory and the Homeless Identity: The Discourse of a Community Deviant Bruce A. Arrigo Chapter 4. Constituting O. J.: Mass-Mediated Trials and Newsmaking Criminology GreggBarak Chapter 5. Reconstituting the Monster: Images of Techno-Criminality at Century's End Dion Dennis Chapter 6. Bodies of Law: The Supreme Court, the Justices, and Death John Brigham Part 3: Societal Responses: Policing and Penology Chapter 7. Taking It to the Streets: Policing and the Practice of Constitutive Criminology James W. Williams Chapter 8. Policing Modernity: Scientific- and Community-Based Violence on Symbolic Playing Fields Victor E. Kappeler and Peter B. Kraska Chapter 9. Agency and Choice in Women's Prisons: Toward a Constitutive Penology Mary Bosworth Chapter 10. Revisiting Jailhouse Lawyers: An Excursion into Constitutive Criminology Jim Thomas and Dragan Milovanovic Part 4: Institutional Transformation and Constitutive Justice Chapter 11. Intentional Communities, the Fourth Way: A Constitutive Integration Robert C. Schehr Chapter 12. A Constitutive Theory of Justice: The Architecture of Affirmative Postmodern Legal Systems T. R. Young Conclusion: Constitutive Criminology Engages Its Critics--An Assessment Stuart Henry and Dragan Milovanovic About the Contributors Index

About the Author

Stuart Henry is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Valparaiso University. He is also the author and editor of several books, including Essential Criminology (with Mark M. Lanier); and The Criminology Theory Reader (with Werner Einstadter). Dragan Milovanovic is Professor of Criminal Justice at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author and editor of several books, including, with Stuart Henry, Constitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism. His other recent books are Postmodern Criminology; Chaos, Criminology and Social Justice: The New Orderly (Dis)Order; and Postmodern Criminology.

Reviews

"This book is a wonderful collection of imaginative work by people sensitively in touch with 'the co-production of crime' and punishment. I think the strength of the field is reflected in the variety of first-rate work this volume has attracted." - Hal Pepinsky, Indiana University This book argues that constitutive criminology can ultimately help society out of its obsession with the crime and punishment cycle. Based on applications and empirical research within the theoretical framework first presented in the editors' earlier volume, Constitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism, this new book brings together scholars and practitioners who have applied constitutive theory to specific areas of crime and justice practice. It extends development of the constitutive project by drawing together studies that found constitutive theory helpful in understanding distinct problems in the applied world of crime and justice.