Chaos, Criminology, and Social Justice: The New Orderly (Dis)Order

by Dragan Milovanovic

Book Overview

Chaos theory challenges the presumption that the cosmos is orderly, linear, and predictable--but it does not imply pure randomness and chance events. Rather, chaos-informed postmodernist analysis introduces a new vision by celebrating unexpected, surprise, ironic, contradictory, and emergent elements. Scholars in many disciplines are taking this perspective as an alternative to the entrenched structural functionalism and empiricism rooted in linear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275959120
• ISBN13: 9780275959128
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A revolution of thinking in social sciences....

Dragan Milovanovic compiled this excelllent collections of essays exploring chaos theory at work as seen in our contemporary word. The introduction and first chapter by Milovanovic are a must, inorder to understand the postmodernism and chaos. I highly recomend for any one in the field of criminology, psychology or sociology.