Class, State, & Crime
Author: Richard Quinney
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 232
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Author: Richard Quinney
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Greenberg
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 778
ISBN-13: 1439905649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassic and contemporary viewpoints on crime.
Author: Neil Ewen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-04-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 3030564444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection from leading scholars in the fields of media, communications, cultural studies and a number of aligned areas looks to the intersection of capitalism, crime and the media. The text is founded on the principles of cultural criminology – that how we determine and understand crime lies in the social world and that the determination of crime and its mediation in popular culture have a political basis. The book consists of eleven chapters and is divided into three sections. Section one considers the intersection of crime and capitalism in a range of contemporary cultural texts. Section two examines how various power systems influence the operation of the media in its role of reporting crime and holding the powerful to account. Section three considers how texts in a variety of formats are used to conduct politics, communicate politics and enact political decision making.
Author: Richard Quinney
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780791447598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach stage has also incorporated changes that were taking place in Quinney's personal life. Ultimately, there is no separation bewteen life and theory, between witnessing and writing."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Richard Quinney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1351320343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published thirty years ago, Critique of the Legal Order remains highly relevant for the twenty-first century. Here Richard Quinney provides a critical look at the legal order in capitalist society. Using a traditional Marxist perspective, he argues that the legal order is not intended to reduce crime and suffering, but to maintain class differences and a social order that mainly benefits the ruling class. Quinney challenges modern criminologists to examine their own positions. As "ancillary agents of power," criminologists provide information that governing elites use to manipulate and control those who threaten the system. Quinney's original and thorough analysis of "crime control bureaucracies" and the class basis of such bureaucracies anticipates subsequent research and theorizing about the "crime control industry," a system that aims at social control of marginalized populations, rather than elimination of the social conditions that give rise to crime. He forcefully argues that technology applied to a "war against crime," together with academic scholarship, is used to help maintain social order to benefit a ruling class. Quinney also suggests alternatives. Anticipating the work of Noam Chomsky, he suggests we must first overcome a powerful media that provides a "general framework" that serves as the "boundary of expression." Chomsky calls this the manufacture of consent by providing necessary illusions. Quinney calls for a critical philosophy that enables us to transcend the current order and seek an egalitarian socialist order based upon true democratic principles. This core study for criminologists should interest those with a critical perspective on contemporary society.
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 117
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James W. Messerschmidt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book argues that capitalism, as an economic system, and patriarchy, as a form of gender organization, must be treated as interacting structures in any attempt to explain crime. It begins with a socialist feminist critique of the failure of Marxist criminology to analyze gender relations and the origin of female oppression accurately and, therefore, how these factors contribute to the development of crime in society. It then explores such topics as the limitations of both liberal and radical feminist viewpoints concerning crime, the causative factors for a variety of crimes, ranging from street crime to corporate crime, and the inadequacies of government's present conservative approach to crime.
Author: Ian Taylor
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter Kraska
Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN-13: 9780323286602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Todd Gordon
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781552661857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFramed within a Marxist class analysis, this study locates law and order policing as a central moment of capitalist state power. He argues that, as with policing historically, crime-fighting is not the principal aim of contemporary law and order policing -- rather the aim is the production of a new social order based on the severely diminished expectations of working people. Crime fighting matters only insofar as it helps in this process. Law and order policing is not really a fight against rampant and escalating crime; rather it is aimed at forcefully limiting any possibilities the able-bodied poor may try to pursue to avoid the worst forms of wage labour.