Bearing witness to crime and social justice

Author(s)

• Quinney, Richard

Bibliographic Information

Bearing witness to crime and social justice

Richard Quinney

（SUNY series in deviance and social control）

State University of New York Press, c2000

• alk. paper
• pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 life and theory, between witnessing and writing.

Table of Contents

Preface Part I. Witnessing 1. Crime: Phenomenon, Problem, and Subject of Study 2. The Social Reality of Crime 3. There's a Lot of Folks Grateful to the Lone Ranger: With Some Notes on the Rise and Fall of American Criminology 4. A Critical Philosophy of Legal Order 5. The Production of a Marxist Criminology 6. The Prophetic Meaning of Social Justice 7. Crime and the Development of Capitalism 8. Myth and the Art of Criminology 9. The Way of Peace: On Crime, Suffering, and Service 10. Criminology as Moral Philosophy, Criminologist as Witness Part II. Reflecting 11. Journey to a Far Place: The Way of Autobiographical Reflection 12. Try to Make it Real, Compared to What? 13. The Question of Crime: Enlightenment in the Allegory of Oxherding Notes Index

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• NCID: BA52101365
• ISBN:
  • 0791447596
  • 079144760X
• LCCN: 00020270
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 289 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV6019
  • DC21 : 364
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Critical criminology
  • LCSH : Crime
  • LCSH : Social justice
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07429046