scholarly journals Building on the shoulders of Bhaskar and Matthews: a critical realist criminology

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Matthew Wilkinson ◽  
Muzammil Quraishi ◽  
Lamia Irfan ◽  
Mallory Schneuwly Purdie
Keyword(s):  
Critical Realist ◽  
Realist Criminology

scholarly journals Realist Criminology and its Discontents

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Winlow ◽  
Steve Hall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Critical Criminology ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Ball Rolling ◽  
Realist Position ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Realist Criminology

Critical criminology must move beyond twentieth-century empiricist and idealist paradigms because the concepts and research programmes influenced by these paradigms are falling into obsolescence. Roger Matthews’ recent work firmly advocates this position and helps to set the ball rolling. Here we argue that Matthews’ attempt to use critical realist thought to move Left Realism towards an advanced position can help to put criminology on a sound new footing. However, before this becomes possible numerous philosophical and theoretical issues must be ironed out. Most importantly, critical criminology must avoid political pragmatism and adopt a more critical stance towards consumer culture’s spectacle. A searching analysis of these issues suggests that, ultimately, criminology is weighed down with obsolete thinking to such an extent that to remain intellectually relevant it must move beyond both Left Realism and Critical Realism to construct a new ultra-realist position.

scholarly journals Critical Realism and Feminist Criminology: Shall the Twain Ever Meet?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Claire Renzetti
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Feminist Criminology ◽  
Potential Synergy ◽  
Realist Criminology

This article assesses the commonalities and divergences between critical realist criminology and feminist criminology. Using Roger Matthews’ (2014) construction of Critical Realism as discussed in his book, Realist Criminology, the article first notes that critical realists have largely overlooked or dismissed feminist criminology, despite the potential synergy between the two perspectives. The article then identifies three major areas – (1) epistemology and research methods; (2) a critique of essentialism; and (3) commitment to culturally competent and client/community-centered interventions – in which the perspectives share similarities, while distinguishing the differences in each area as well. The article concludes with an invitation for dialogue between critical realists and feminist criminologists.

scholarly journals COVID-19 impacts on sport governance and management: a global, critical realist perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Terri Byers ◽  
Khevyn-Lynn Gormley ◽  
Mathieu Winand ◽  
Christos Anagnostopoulos ◽  
Remi Richard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Realist ◽  
Realist Perspective

scholarly journals The Social Construction of Internet Addiction in China: Youth between Reality and Temporal Autonomy in the Documentary Web Junkie

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-105
Author(s):  
Annika Pissin
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
The Social ◽  
China Today ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article addresses issues surrounding the social construction of internet addiction, focusing on conceptualisations of reality, escape, hope, and time. Drawing on a critical realist account of semiosis, the framing of internet addiction in China is analysed using the documentary film Web Junkie as an empirical pivot and point of departure. A contextual overview of relations, interests, and tensions surrounding youth and the internet in China is provided, and the film Web Junkie is briefly presented. The main body of the article consists of a critical analysis of conceptualisations of “reality” and “escape.” The core tension focused on in the analysis is the struggle over time, necessitating engagement with critical thought on hope and utopia. The analysis concludes that struggles over temporal autonomy underlie conflicting claims about “reality” and “escape” that are central to “internet addiction” and its treatment in China today.

“If I Don’t Allow Him to Have Sex With Me, Our Relationship Will Be Broken”: Rape, Sexual Coercion, and Sexual Compliance Within Marriage in Rural Cambodia

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110211
Author(s):  
Panteá Farvid ◽  
Rany Saing
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Forced Sex ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Consensual Sex ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Sexual Compliance ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage

Rape, sexual coercion, and sexual compliance within marriage are major components of gender-based violence globally. This article examines a range of non-consensual sexual experiences within heterosexual marriage in Aoral and Thpong districts in Kampong Speu, Cambodia. Interviews were conducted with 11 married women and thematically analyzed from a critical realist and feminist perspective. Four categories of non-consensual sex were identified and analyzed (rape/forced sex, sexual coercion, sexual compliance, and internalized pressure). These are discussed in detail, alongside the need for educational efforts that disrupt traditional gender norms that create a context conducive to women’s non-consensual sex in Cambodia.

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