Postmodern Justice and Critical Criminology: Positional, Relational, and Provisional Science

With the publication of Time magazine’s last issue of the millennium (vol, 154, no.27), the weekly periodical proudly proclaimed that its “Person of the Century” was renowned theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein. The selection of Einstein is significant on a number of fronts and, as icon of the modernist age, he embodies the century’s triumph of science and technology. Indeed, few would disagree that his many “thought experiments” forever changed our fundamental understanding of the cosmos.