Theorizing Criminal Justice : Eight Essential Orientations

by Kraska, Peter B.

• ISBN13: 9781577662280
• ISBN10: 1577662288
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1 Criminal Justice Theory: Why Ask Why?	1	(18)
Varieties of Theory	3	(2)
Theoretical Orientations as Metaphor	5	(2)
What Is Our Object of Study?	7	(2)
The Practicality of Theory	9	(1)
Theoretical Awakening	10	(1)
Eight Theoretical Orientations	11	(8)
2 Criminal Justice as Rational/Legalism	19	(22)
Rational/Legal Thinking and Assumptions	20	(1)
Defenders of Our Response to Crime	21	(2)
Article 1 Of Crimes and Punishments	23	(6)
Cesare Beccaria
Article 2 To Secure These Rights	29	(2)
Ernest van den Haag
Article 3 Deadly Myths about Crime and Punishment in the United States	31	(10)
Charles Logan & John J. Dilulio, Jr.
3 Criminal Justice as a System	41	(38)
The Garden Pond: Systems Theory and Concepts	41	(1)
The Criminal Justice Organism and System Thinking	42	(1)
Contributions to Our Understanding	43	(1)
One Orientation, Two Strains	44	(2)
Article 4 Origins of the Contemporary Criminal Justice Paradigm: The American Bar Foundation Survey, 1953-1969	46	(23)
Samuel Walker
Article 5 Science and Technology and the Criminal Justice System	69	(10)
The Institute for Defense Analysis
4 Criminal Justice as Crime Control vs. Due Process	79	(26)
Packer's Ambivalence about the Criminal Justice System	81	(1)
Value Clash: A Catalyst for Critique and Thought	82	(1)
From Forced Reaction to Choosing to Act	83	(2)
Article 6 Two Models of the Criminal Process	85	(16)
Herbert L. Packer
Article 7 Crime Control, Due Process and "The Case for the Prosecution": A Problem of Terminology?	101	(4)
Peter Duff
5 Criminal Justice as Politics	105	(32)
Thinking Politically: The Pursuit of Interests	106	(1)
Leftist and Rightist Ideology in Criminal Justice	107	(1)
Is Wright Right?	107	(1)
The Symbolism of Getting Tough	108	(1)
Two Directions	108	(2)
Article 8 Ideology and Criminal Justice Policy: Some Current Issues	110	(11)
Walter B. Miller
Article 9 The Desirability of Goal Conflict within the Criminal Justice System	121	(5)
Kevin N. Wright
Article 10 Crime, Culture, and Political Conflict	126	(11)
Stuart A. Scheingold
6 Criminal Justice as Socially Constructed Reality	137	(40)
Intellectual Foundation: The Interpretive School	138	(2)
Criminal Justice as Drama	140	(1)
Criminal Justice as Moral Panic	141	(1)
Myths and Criminal Justice	142	(1)
A Point of Departure	142	(3)
Article 11 The Police: Mandate, Strategies, and Appearances	145	(11)
Peter Manning
Article 12 Chicano Youth Gangs and Crime: The Creation of a Moral Panic	156	(11)
Marjorie S. Zatz
Article 13 Inventing Criminal Justice: Myth and Social Construction	167	(10)
Victor E. Kappeler
7 Criminal Justice as Growth Complex	177	(38)
The Notion of a Growth Complex	177	(2)
The Growth Complex Explained	179	(4)
Merging Complexes	183	(3)
Article 14 The Corrections-Commercial Complex	186	(11)
J. Robert Lilly & Paul Knepper
Article 15 The Crime Control Industry and the Management of the Surplus Population	197	(18)
Randall G. Shelden & William B. Brown
8 Criminal Justice as Oppression	215	(62)
Intellectual/Historical Context	216	(3)
Expansive and Diverse Coverage	219	(2)
Socialism, Critique and Praxis: A New Eclecticism	221	(1)
Bias and Subtlety	222	(3)
Article 16 Feminism and Criminology	225	(9)
Kathleen Daly & Meda Chesney-Lind
Article 17 Feminist Theory, Crime, and Justice	234	(11)
Sally S. Simpson
Article 18 Affirmative Race Law	245	(12)
Katheryn K. Russell
Article 19 Poverty and the Criminal Process	257	(4)
William J. Chambliss & Robert B. Seidman
Article 20 Crime Control in the Capitalist State	261	(10)
Richard Quinney
Article 21 Crisis and Control	271	(6)
Christian Parenti
9 Criminal Justice as Late Modernity	277	(46)
Understanding Criminal Justice through Late Modern Lenses	278	(2)
Five Key Themes	280	(4)
An Intellectual Project	284	(2)
Article 22 Crime Control and Social order	286	(16)
David Garland
Article 23 The New Penology: Notes on the Emerging Strategy of Corrections and Its Implications	302	(21)
Malcolm M. Feeley & Jonathan Simon
10 Conclusion	323	(4)
Index	327