ABSTRACT
If nothing else, critical criminology demonstrates the ability of scholarship to continuously divide and subdivide into new forms, much like one of those malevolent, alien space viruses from a helplessly bad Hollywood bio-horror flick. Encompassing a range of monikers – Marxist, left realism, numerous forms of feminist criminology, and a potpourri of postmodernist approaches – its various proponents engage in a continuous debate over critical criminology’s essential meaning and scope (Bessant, 2002; Russell, 2002).
