| Transformative Justice: Critical and Peacemaking Themes Influenced by Richard Quinney Contributor(s): Wozniak, John F. (Editor), Braswell, Michael C. (Editor), Vogel, Ronald E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0739109324 ISBN-13: 9780739109328 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $124.74 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2008 Annotation: Transformative Justice explores today's heightened moral conscience towards justice and suggests a model for needs-based compassionate criminology. Essayists examine the potential future for a transformed criminological system through theory and application, bringing to the forefront the question of activism and peacemaking in criminology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Law Enforcement |
| Dewey: 364.601 |
| LCCN: 2008031240 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.15 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The criminological contributions of Richard Quinney have spanned four decades and have spawned and energized both critical and peacemaking intellectual and activist movements in the field of Criminology. Quinney has been consistently recognized as one of a small handful of seminal thinkers in the discipline. The introduction illustrates how each chapter: has drawn inspiration from the crime-related writings of this influential criminologist; contains core assumptions of critical and peacemaking criminology; has application for the development of transformative justice as an alternative approach to the study of crime. Part 1 features chapters generally falling within the parameters of critical criminology. Here, critical analyses are directed toward: linkages of capitalism and political economy to crime; state/corporate crime; feminist concerns about moral conscience; views of crime and justice among convict criminologists; prison as an industrial complex. Part 2 exhibits chapters oriented toward the development of peacemaking criminology. As such, peacemaking criminology is explored in regard to: an emergent theoretical model; a synthesis of Quinney's peacemaking-oriented writings; women's crime and mothers in prisons; teaching and learning about justice through a non-violent perspective; advocating justice reforms on the internet; its future directions in terms of theory and application. |