1st Edition

The Social Reality of Crime

By Richard Quinney Copyright 2001
364 Pages
by Routledge

364 Pages
by Routledge

339 Pages
by Routledge

Richard Quinney's The Social Reality of Crime remains an eloquent and important statement on crime, law, and justice. At the time of its appearance in 1970, Quinney's theory not only liberated the field from a recitation of the practices of the police, courts, and corrections, it also represented a marked departure from traditional analysis which viewed criminal behavior as pathological.... Read more
1: A Theory of Crime; 1: The Social Reality of Crime; 2: Formulation of Criminal Definitions; 2: Criminal Law in Politically Organized Society; 3: Interests in the Formulation of Criminal Laws; 3: Application of Criminal Definitions; 4: Enforcement of Criminal Law; 5: Administration of Criminal Justice; 6: Penal and Correctional Administration; 4: The Social Basis of Politics; 7: Societal Organization and the Structuring of Behavior Patterns; 8: Action Patterns of the Criminally Defined; 5: Construction of Criminal Conceptions; 9: Public Conceptions of Crime; 10: The Politics of Reality

Biography

Roepke, Wilhelm