Social Censure and Critical Criminology After Sumner
This edited collection focuses on the sociology of 'social censure' – the sociological term advocated by Colin Sumner in his seminal writing of the 1980s and 1990s. Social censure has become increasingly important in contemporary criminological writing. T
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Social Censure and Critical Criminology
Anthony Amatrudo Editor
Social Censure and Critical Criminology After Sumner
Editor Anthony Amatrudo Middlesex University London, UK
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For Colin Sumner—teacher, thinker, insurrectionist…
Preface
The first time, I set eyes on Colin Sumner was at an enrolment event for course options one afternoon in the old Institute of Criminology building in West Road Cambridge. All the staff had set out the aims and objectives for their courses in meticulous detail and took the students in the room through a series of PowerPoint presentations. Colin turned up a bit late dressed in a black roll-neck jumper, black trousers and black Chelsea boots. He was smoking a black Gitanes cigarette through a black cigarette holder. He certainly stood out from the rest of the teaching staff who stood before us in their shirts and ties and their understated Laura Ashley prints. He told the assembled room that he was not sure what he was teaching exactly but that he had just read a book and intended to build on that. Of course, I signed up and it proved a great choice. I was right to take his words as a sign of intellectual curiosity and not unpreparedness. Colin’s seminars were,
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