Crime, Governance and Existential Predicaments

DON CREWE Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK SIMON GREEN Lecturer in Community Justice and Criminology, University of Hull, UK PHIL HADFIELD Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, UK CLAUDIUS MESSNER Associate Professor of the Philosophy of Law, University of Salento, Italy DANNY O'ROURKE-DICARLO Lecturer in Social Science, York University, Canada DAVID POLIZZI Assistant Professor of Corrections, Indiana State University, USA JAMES SHEPTYCKI Professor of Criminology, York University, Canada

This collection focuses on the existential predicaments and choices that underpin current debates and developments in the governance of crime and criminal justice and argues for the relevance of existentialist thought for enhancing a critical and philosophically inspired criminological imagination.This collection focuses on the existential predicaments and choices that underpin current debates and developments in the governance of crime and criminal justice and argues for the relevance of existentialist thought for enhancing a critical and philosophically inspired criminological imagination.