A Criminology of War?: New Horizons in Criminology

The study of war has found new popularity among criminologists in recent years. This book illustrates the long-standing engagement with this social phenomenon within the discipline. The authors present and further develop theoretical and conceptual ways of thinking critically about war. While providing an implicit critique of mainstream criminology, McGarry and Walklate also ask if a so-called ‘criminology of war’ is truly possible, and, if so, how this new aspect of the discipline might be usefully informed by sociology.