Becoming Criminal

This book consists of a fundamental deconstruction and reconstruction of the key concepts of Criminology and The Sociology of Law, providing a coherent expression of the relationships between these newly constructed concepts and thus a radically new statement of the relationship between society, crime and the law.

Preface by Bruce Arrigo Acknowledgements Part One: What is Theory Chapter 1: Theory as Productive of Certainty: Teleology, Cause, Reason, and Emancipation. Chapter 2: Theory as Causal Explanation Chapter 3: The Nature of Theory Part Two: Will Chapter 4: Agency and Will Chapter 5: Being and Becoming Chapter 6: Becoming Part Three. Constraint Chapter 7: Power. Chapter 8: Constraint Chapter 9: Change and Complexity