Critique of the Legal Order: Crime Control in Capitalist SocietyRoutledge, 2018 M02 6 - 234 páginas Originally 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. |
Contenido
Preface | |
2 | |
3 | |
Class Basis of the Presidents Crime Commission | |
The Riot Commission and the Violence | |
The Omnibus Crime Bill | |
Crisis | |
5 | |
Ideology | |
6 | |
Counterrevolution | |
Struggle for a Socialist Society | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Critique of the Legal Order: Crime Control in Capitalist Society Richard Quinney Vista previa limitada |
Critique of Legal Order: Crime Control in Capitalist Society Richard Quinney,Randall G. Shelden Sin vista previa disponible - 1974 |
Critique of the Legal Order: Crime Control in Capitalist Society Richard Quinney,Randall G. Shelden Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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