Contemporary Criminology and Criminal Justice Theory Evaluating Justice Systems in Capitalist Societies

by Skoll, Geoffrey R.

• ISBN13: 9780230615984
• ISBN10: 0230615988
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230101111
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

2.3 million people are imprisoned in the United States, a burgeoning prison industry is emerging, and the mainstream population is subject to searches and surveillance of every kind technologically imaginable. The U.S. has not solved the crime problem, and theoretical explanations continue to be mired in fifty year old understandings of criminal justice. This book casts a critical eye on scholarship in the field of criminal justice, and offers some new orientations to help develop explanations for twenty-first century criminology and criminal justice studies.

Author Biography

Geoffrey R. Skoll is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Buffalo State College. He has a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology and MSW in clinical social work. Previous publications include Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk: An Ethnography of a Drug Abuse Treatment Facility (1992). His current interests focus on social theory, terrorism, and the death penalty in comparative perspective.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Theories of Justice in Late Capitalism

History of Criminal Justice Theory

The Nature of Theory

The Nature of Law, Order, Crime, and Criminal Justice

‘Liberation’ Criminal Justice: Critical & Radical Theories

The Rule of Law and the Ruling Class

Roots of Reaction

Theories in Other Places: Europeans and Others

Frameworks for New Theories: Chaos and World Systems

An Iconic Theory of Criminal JusticeIntroduction: Theories of Justice in Late Capitalism

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