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Cultural Criminology: The Time is Now
Cultural criminology understandscrime and its control asproductsofmeaning. It exploressimultaneously the macro-, meso-and micro-levels of social life, sensitive tothe operation of power, in order to produce critical analyses that are politically potent and germane to contemporary circumstances. The cultural criminological project is broad and inclusive, but focused and urgent. It relishes coalition and collaboration, clarity of thought and purpose,praxis and intervention. In its relatively short history,it has carved out a distinctive identity whilst contributing something to the development of a host of other perspectives. This article begins by offeringa contemporary definition of cultural criminology, including some reflection on its antecedentsand theresponses that have recently been addressed toits critics. This is followed by a discussion of the concerns cultural criminology shares with a variety of complementary perspectives and how it can be used to address malign structures and discourses. Finally, the relationship thatthe sub-discipline might form with transformative politicsisexploredbriefly. As truth and meaning have become the theatresof struggle between fundamentally opposed political positionspromising radically different visions of crime, criminalisation, criminal justice and everyday life,never has cultural criminology been more prescient and necessary. Thetime for cultural criminology is now
C*-algebras of Hilbert module product systems
We consider a class of C*-algebras associated to one parameter continuous
tensor product systems of Hilbert modules, which can be viewed as continuous
counterparts of Pimsner's Toeplitz algebras. By exhibiting a homotopy of
quasihomomorphisms, we prove that those algebras are -contractible. One
special case is closely related to the Rieffel-Wiener-Hopf extension of a
crossed product by R considered by Rieffel and by Pimsner and Voiculescu, and
can be used to produce a new proof of Connes' analogue of the Thom isomorphism
and in particular of Bott periodicity. Another special case is closely related
to Arveson's spectral C*-algebras, and is used to settle Arveson's problem of
computing their K-theory, extending earlier results of Zacharias to cover the
general case.Comment: 11 pages (added an example and an appendix, corrected typos and
improved exposition
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