Theories of Crime and Crimes of Theorists: On the Topological Construction of Criminological Reality

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 219-252

  Arrigo, Bruce A ^a   Young, T R ^b  

^a ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Red Feather Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

criminological theory; cultural diversity; postmodernism; psychoanalysis; topological constructs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032392366     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354398082009     Document Type: Article

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