Ironies of Crime, Control, and Criminology |
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Authors: | Scott Jacques Richard Wright |
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Institution: | (1) School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, 600 Dyer Hall, Clifton Avenue, P.O. Box 210389, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0389, USA;(2) Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri—St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA |
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Abstract: | Irony is a kind of communication in which shared knowledge about a particular context is formed as a counter-intuitive statement
with hidden meaning. Irony is important because it branches the tree of knowledge and balances morality. This paper reviews
the definition and value of irony; examines ironic works on crime and control; proposes an irony of criminology: it can be
studied with science and thereby improved; draws on this idea to provide a method-based theory of theory and findings; and
concludes by discussing implications for future work in reflexive criminology. |
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