ABSTRACT
The philosophy of existentialism is underdeveloped within criminology theory, but it is only a short step from Matza, the culture of contingency, and our understanding of the division of the self within late-modernity. The radical philosophy of existentialism is the expression of the late-modern experience, it starts with the realisation of the death of God, and, accordingly, the necessity for us to make ourselves constantly anew. It is to this perspective that we now turn.
