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Academic criminology is, these days, awash with what C. Wright Mills called ‘abstract empiricism’. It is now quite clear that there has been a rise in forms of research and publishing that offer nothing of value to the continued intellectual development of our discipline. This is not simply a matter of the icy winds of marketization battering away at our natural inquisitiveness and compelling us to engage in research simply in order to satisfy external audit. There is also a growing sense that the substance of our intellectual culture has ceased to invigorate a disciplinary dialectic that might yet allow us to think new thoughts and explain crime in new ways that are redolent of these straitened and brutalizing times. Criminology these days has lost much of the intellectual vitality that was rightly associated with its post-1960s development. Where are the new intellectual radicals willing to eschew convention and formulate new models of crime causation and criminal motivation that are firmly situated in the now

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