Breaking Down the Pseudo-Pacification Process: Eight Critiques of Ultra-Realist Crime Causation Theory
(2019)
Journal Article
Wood, M. A., Anderson, B., & Richards, I. (2020). Breaking Down the Pseudo-Pacification Process: Eight Critiques of Ultra-Realist Crime Causation Theory. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 60(3), 642-661. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz069
This paper critically examines ultra-realist criminology’s two central crime causation theories: the breakdown of the pseudo-pacification process and special liberty. We identify a number of shortcomings in these theories pertaining to (1) their expl... Read More about Breaking Down the Pseudo-Pacification Process: Eight Critiques of Ultra-Realist Crime Causation Theory.