The New Primer in Radical Criminology
Title | The New Primer in Radical Criminology PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Lynch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Social Science |
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The third edition of this text defines radical criminology as a way of doing criminology that frames the problem of crime in terms of class, race, gender, culture and history. Whereas the preceding edition, published in 1989, viewed social class as the central focus of radical criminology, over the past decade the scope of radical criminology has expanded to include race, gender, culture, history, post-modernism and left-realism, among other movements.
A Primer in Radical Criminology
Title | A Primer in Radical Criminology PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Lynch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Primer in Radical Criminology
Title | Primer in Radical Criminology PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond J. Michalowski |
Publisher | Ingram |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781881798644 |
"... no understanding of crime and control is complete with-out an informed insight into the ways in which power and equality shape social and concrete realities. At once accessible and sophisticated, The New Primer in Radical Criminology succeeds in providing such insight both to the professional criminologist and to the beginning student. We are fortunate that Primer ... will continue to serve as an invaluable survey of critical criminology's theoretical and research contributions."Prof. Francis T. Cullen, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati
A Primer in Radical Criminology
Title | A Primer in Radical Criminology PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Lynch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Social Science |
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The contents of this book include the Marxist theories on state and law, the radical concept of crime, incipient radicalism: conflict and labeling approaches, the causes of crime: a radical view, traditional contributions to radical criminology, the radical perspective on policing, the American court system: a justice model, a critical interpretation of punishment and corrections,and the policy implications of the radical position.
Explaining Crime
Title | Explaining Crime PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh D. Barlow |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780742565104 |
This book provides a concise but comprehensive review of the full range of classic and contemporary theories of crime. With separate chapters on the nature and use of criminological theory as well as theoretical application, the authors render the difficult task of explaining crime more understandable to the introductory student. All of the main theories in criminology are reviewed including classical and rational choice, biological, psychological, and evolutionary, social structural, social process, critical, general, and integrated approaches. Copious examples of the spirit of the theories are supplied, many with a popular culture (e.g., film and music) connection.
Rules for Radicals
Title | Rules for Radicals PDF eBook |
Author | Saul Alinsky |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2010-06-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0307756890 |
“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.
Cutting the Edge
Title | Cutting the Edge PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Ian Ross |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2018-02-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351523864 |
Understanding crime, criminals, and criminal justice from a radical/critical perspective is indispensable in today's academic, applied research, and policy sectors. Neglect of this approach leads to narrow-mindedness and the probability of repeating past mistakes or reinventing the wheel. Cutting the Edge by Jeffrey Ian Ross will encourage individuals and organizations, especially students and instructors, to innovatively identify ways of experimenting with new policy initiatives designed to improve not only criminal justice, but social and human justice as well. Ross has significantly changed this volume to include six new chapters and three revised ones as well. The studies chosen demonstrate the difference between critical criminology and other approaches used to study and explain criminological phenomena. The authors do not approach the inequalities of the criminal justice system as phenomena that should be studied, but as wrongs that must be righted. Cutting-edge critical criminology combines concerns about fairness in punishment, tools of class analysis and the insights of feminism, postmodernism, and ethnography. The authors included here wield these newer tools with elegance and enthusiasm. Written with passion by experts in the field, the book engages the mind as fully as it engages the emotions.