This paper considers the plight of criminology under post-disciplinary conditions. By returning to the etymology of the term “criminology”, it suggests how a critical and deconstructive approach (a logos) to crimen as accusation (judgement, verdict) could be used to develop a post-disciplinary criminology. The latter aims to challenge the technocratic priorities of governance that appear to have colonised many discourses framed around images of “crime”.
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