NCJ Number
179152
Editor(s)
Bruce A. Arrigo Ph.D
Date Published
1999
Length
305 pages
Annotation
This text presents a comprehensive view of critical criminology, with a focus on implications of critical criminology theories for the concept of social justice.
Abstract
Contributors to the text look at a variety of critical and cutting-edge approaches to criminology by examining how these viewpoints influence and challenge current understanding of criminal law, crime, and deviance. Each article explores a different theoretical approach. In addition, each article includes an introduction featuring historical background on the development of that theory's critical criminology perspective, an abstract, and review questions that highlight noteworthy ideas. Articles deal with such theories as Marxist, socialist feminist, peacemaking, anarchist, postmodern feminist, and constitutive criminology and also address prophetic criticism, semiotics, critical race theory, chaos theory, catastrophe/topology theory, queer theory, and critical social justice. References, tables, and figures