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Criminology and the Public Sphere: Arguments for Utopian Realism

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In the struggle against the loudest voices in our societies — politicians, editorialists and commentators — scientific discourse has all the cards stacked against it: the difficulty and slowness of its construction, which means it generally arrives after the battle is over; its inevitable complexity, which tends to discourage simplistic or suspicious minds, and above all its distance from received ideas and spontaneous convictions (Bourdieu, 1993, p. viii).

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  1. Ian Loader
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Thames Valley University, UK

    Paul Walton (Professor of Communications) (Professor of Communications)

  2. Middlesex University, Enfield, UK

    Jock Young (Head of the Centre for Criminology) (Head of the Centre for Criminology)

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Loader, I. (1998). Criminology and the Public Sphere: Arguments for Utopian Realism. In: Walton, P., Young, J. (eds) The New Criminology Revisited. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26197-0_10

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