1st Edition
The Politics of Redress Crime, Punishment and Penal Abolition
By Willem De Haan
Copyright 1990
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1990, The Politics of Redress is a product of and commentary on significant developments in critical criminology. It shifts the emphasis from the criminologist as a police agent to a fighter for social justice. The author focuses on the role of punishment in society, in general, and in criminology, in particular, urging the reader to reimagine the concept of punishment,... Read more
Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Fuzzy morals and flaky politics 3. Explaining expansion 4. Explaining Contraction 5. Penal abolition and sociological imagination 6. The necessity of punishment in a just social order 7. Institutionalization of socialist legality 8. Conclusion Notes References Index
Biography
Willem de Haan
