Building on the shoulders of Bhaskar and Matthews: a critical realist criminology

Building on the insights of late Roy Bhaskar and Roger Matthews, as well some recent developments in ultra-realist criminology, this article introduces delineates core intellectual contours a Critical Realist Criminology (CRC) based principles of: The ‘emergent,’ stratified ontology crime offender;the full critical realist account dialectics being becoming, including spiritual turn realism, applied to processes criminal justice reform;maximal inclusion diverse theoretical research positions primacy methodological selection;a ‘serious’ relationship criminologists with professionals, institutions policy-makers justice.These are directed at developing criminology that ‘underlabours’ recovery human flourishing for victims perpetrators society large, in-depth inquiry into what counts purposes incarceration.