Cutting the Edge Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice

Name: Cutting the Edge Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice
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ISBN: 9780275957087

ISBN-10: 027595708X

ISBN-13: 9780275957087

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Authors: LLC ABC-CLIO

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This book introduces the reader to the critical issues, important trends, theories, and various subdisciplines in the current manifestation of radical and critical criminology and criminal justice, including postmodernism, left realism, feminism, and peacemaking. Since its articulation in the 1960s, radical and critical criminology has matured into a diverse body of work encompassing a variety of interesting perspectives. Contributors to this volume examine emerging issues in the theory (the importance of classics in radical theory, the market economy, the introduction of anarchist theory) and traditional concerns of criminology and criminal justice (white collar crime, police, prisons,…

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Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 10/28/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Foreword



Cutting the Edge


Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?



The Contributions of Marx, Weber, and Simmel


The Common Ground is the Cutting Edge



Understanding Crime and Social Control in Market Economies


Looking Back and Moving Forward



Time for an Integrated Critical Criminology



Marxist Criminology and Lacanian Psychoanalysis


Outline for a General Constitutive Theory of Crime



Stumbling Toward a Critical Criminology (and into the Anarchy and Imagery of Postmodernism)



New Directions in Critical Criminology and White Collar Crime



Radical and Critical Criminology's Treatment of Municipal Policing



Critical Criminology, Social Control, and an Alternative View of Corrections



Critical and Radical Perspectives on Community Punishment: Lessons from the Darkness



Razing the Wall: A Feminist Critique of Sentencing Theory, Research, and Policy



The Similarities in Conservative and Liberal Juvenile Justice Policies: Is There a Critical Alternative?



References


Index