Cultural Criminology

Alessandro De Giorgi is an Italian-born criminologist and critical social theorist whose work focuses on the intersections of punishment, migration, and neoliberal governance. Currently based in the United States, De Giorgi’s research examines how economic restructuring, global inequality, and intensified border regimes shape the contemporary penal landscape. He is known for combining empirical research with

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Jock Young was a pioneering British criminologist whose work spans critical criminology, left realism, and cultural criminology. He began his career with the co-authored New Criminology and went on to help found the tradition of left realism in the 1980s. Young later became a central figure in cultural criminology, analyzing crime through the lenses of

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