Book review: Ross McGarry and Sandra Walklate, A Criminology of War?
| Author | Emma Milne |
| Published date | 01 February 2021 |
| Date | 01 February 2021 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/1362480620920126 |
920126TCR0010.1177/1362480620920126Theoretical CriminologyBook review
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Theoretical Criminology
2021, Vol. 25(1) 1 –3
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Ross McGarry and Sandra Walklate, A Criminology of War?, Bristol University Press: Bristol,
2019; 176 pp.: 9781529202595, £60 (hbk)
Reviewed by: Emma Milne, University of Plymouth, UK
Can there be a criminology of war? This is the focus of interrogation for Ross McGarry
and Sandra Walklate, in their book, A Criminology of War?. To address the question the
authors provide a detailed and critical interrogation of criminological approaches to the
study of war and war-related activities. In so doing they acknowledge that the study of
war is long-standing and interdisciplinary, with their intention ‘to keep criminological
scholars mindful that war is a conceptually, historically, temporally and spatially dynamic
[. . .] a complex and changing social phenomenon with a considerable history and ongo-
ing relevance’ (p. 13).
The contribution of the book to the study of war in the discipline of criminology is the
systematic and sophisticated interrogation, unpacking and critiquing of prior...
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