Cartuyvels, Yves
[FUSL]
For Deviance et Société' s 30th anniversary the author proposes to come back to a lively epistemological debate on the objects of criminology that involved several outstanding figures of the journal fifteen years ago. This debate asked the question of whether or not the opposition between the ontologizing paradigm of «passage à l'acte» and the nominalistic paradigm of the social reaction could be overcome. The article proposes to underline the contemporary stakes riding on this debate with the help of a detour through mental health, for this is the field in which the temptation of resubstantializing deviance against the backdrop of identifying early behavioural disorders for predictive purposes, at the cost of rejecting the advanced principles of the sociology of social reaction, is surfacing again.
Bibliographic reference |
Cartuyvels, Yves. Criminology and its paradoxical subject matter: Returning to a debate which is more topical than ever. In: Déviance et société, Vol. 31, no. 4, p. 445-464 (2007) |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.3/112444 |