Jock Young
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Jock Young
Biography
Jock Young was educated at the
He was Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology at the
At Middlesex he devised the first postgraduate course in crime and deviancy in the UK. With his colleagues, most notably
Subsequently, his theoretical interests were oriented towards cultural criminology, publishing with Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward Cultural Criminology: An Invitation (2008), which was awarded the Distinguished Book Award of the International Division of the American Society of Criminology. He completed a trilogy of books about social life and sociological research in late modernity: The Exclusive Society (1999), The Vertigo of Late Modernity (2007) and The Criminological Imagination (2011).
In 2022, the Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice renamed its annual distinguished book award "The Jock Young, Criminological Imagination" award in his honor.
In the 21st century Young published sixteen articles in refereed journals on topics ranging from the US/UK
Personal life
Jock Young was born in Midlothian, Scotland, the son of a lorry driver. He died of anaplastic thyroid cancer on 16 November 2013.[2]
Major works
- Young, J. (1971) The Drugtakers: The Social Meaning of Drug Use, London: Judson, McGibbon and Kee
- Taylor, I., Walton, P. & Young, J. (1973) The New Criminology: For a Social Theory of Deviance (International Library of Sociology), London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-03447-7
- Lea, J., and Young, J. (1984) What Is to Be Done About Law and Order?, London: Penguin.
- Young, J. (1999) The Exclusive Society: Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity. London; Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. ISBN 0-8039-8151-1
- Young, J. (2007) The Vertigo of Late Modernity, London: Sage Publications. ISBN 1-4129-3574-1
- Ferrell, J., Hayward, K., Young, J. (2008) Cultural Criminology: An Invitation, London: Sage.
- Young, J. (2011) The Criminological Imagination, Cambridge: Polity.
References
- S2CID 220635491.
- ^ a b "John Jay Mourns the loss of Jock Young, Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology – CUNY Newswire – CUNY". .cuny.edu. Archived from the original on 9 March 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
- ^ Matthews, Roger; Hayward, Keith (4 December 2013). "Jock Young". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
Further reading
- Hayward, K., Maruna, S., Mooney, J. (2010) Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology, London: Routledge.
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