Never boring: Jock Young as cultural criminologist. (December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ferrell, Jeff; Hayward, Keith J.
• Is Part Of: Crime, media, culture. Volume 10:Number 3(2014:Dec.)
• Page Start: 179
• Page End: 190
• Publication Date: 2014-12
• Subjects: critical criminology -- cultural criminology -- Jock Young; Crime in popular culture -- Periodicals; Crime and the press -- Periodicals; 364
• DOI: 10.1177/1741659014558756
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-6590

Abstract

Jock Young (1942–2013) was one of the world's foremost criminologists. This paper traces his academic career in sociology and criminology and its culmination in the theoretical, methodological, and interventionist approach known as cultural criminology. Drawing on a 2008 interview with Professor Young and the authors' longstanding relationship with him, this paper in addition explores the convergence of Young's intellectual trajectory with the emerging contours of cultural criminology.