Bearing witness to crime and social justice / Richard Quinney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinney, Richard.

Series:

SUNY series in deviance and social control

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical criminology.

Crime.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 289 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Featuring both scholarly and autobiographical writings, Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice follows Richard Quinney's development as a criminologist. Quinney's criminology is a critical criminology which he describes as a journey of witnessing to crime and social justice. Quinney's travels from the 1960s through the 1990s show a progression of ways of thinking and acting: from the social constructionist perspective to phenomenology, from phenomenology to Marxist and critical philosophy, from Marxist and critical philosophy to liberation theology, from liberation theology to Buddhism and existentialism. Along this journey, Quinney adopts a more ethnographic and personal mode of thinking and being. Each new stage of development incorporates what has preceded it; each change has been motivated by the need to understand crime and social justice in another or more complex way, in a way excluded from a former understanding. Each stage has also incorporated changes that were taking place in Quinney's personal life. Ultimately, there is no separation between life and theory, between witnessing and writing."--Jacket.

Contents:

Crime: Phenomenon, Problem, and Subject of Study

The Social Reality of Crime

There's a Lot of Folks Grateful to the Lone Ranger: With Some Notes on the Rise and Fall of American Criminology

A Critical Philosophy of Legal Order

The Production of a Marxist Criminology

The Prophetic Meaning of Social Justice

Crime and the Development of Capitalism

Myth and the Art of Criminology

The Way of Peace: On Crime, Suffering, and Service

Criminology as Moral Philosophy, Criminologist as Witness

Journey to a Far Place: The Way of Autobiographical Reflection

Try to Make it Real, Compared to What?

The Question of Crime: Enlightenment in the Allegory of Oxherding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-7914-9161-7

0-585-35857-5