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9780791447604

Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791447604

  • ISBN10:

    079144760X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-11-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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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 li

Author Biography

Richard Quinney is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Northern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Part I. Witnessing
Crime: Phenomenon, Problem, and Subject of Study
3(64)
The Social Reality of Crime
67(16)
There's a Lot of Folks Grateful to the Lone Ranger: With Some Notes on the Rise and Fall of American Criminology
83(12)
A Critical Philosophy of Legal Order
95(14)
The Production of a Marxist Criminology
109(16)
The Prophetic Meaning of Social Justice
125(24)
Crime and the Development of Capitalism
149(22)
Myth and the Art of Criminology
171(8)
The Way of Peace: On Crime, Suffering, and Service
179(14)
Criminology as Moral Philosophy, Criminologist as Witness
193(24)
Part II. Reflecting
Journey to a Far Place: The Way of Autobiographical Reflection
217(16)
Try to Make it Real, Compared to What?
233(12)
The Question of Crime: Enlightenment in the Allegory of Oxherding
245(14)
Notes 259(16)
Index 275

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