Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice

ISBN-13: 9781412807555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str.

Jeffrey Ross

Opis

Understanding crime, criminals, and criminal justice from a radical/critical perspective is indispensable in today's academic, applied research, and policy sectors. Neglect of this approach leads to narrow-mindedness and the probability of repeating past mistakes or reinventing the wheel. Reading Cutting the Edge will encourage individuals and organizations, especially students and instructors, to think in innovative and new ways experimenting with new policy initiatives designed to improve not only criminal justice, but social and human justice as well.

Recenzje

Even for those who appreciated the first edition of the book, this new effort is worth looking at because it captures critical criminology's emerging focus on not just witnessing the effects of race, crime, and gender on justice, but also advocates a progressive agenda for change...The articles are uniformly well-written, interesting, and challenging...Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice make a substantial contribution toward the development of a criminology that has the potential to change individual lives and social institutions.- -John Randolph Fuller, Critical Sociology "Even for those who appreciated the first edition of the book, this new effort is worth looking at because it captures critical criminology's emerging focus on not just witnessing the effects of race, crime, and gender on justice, but also advocates a progressive agenda for change...The articles are uniformly well-written, interesting, and challenging...Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice make a substantial contribution toward the development of a criminology that has the potential to change individual lives and social institutions." -John Randolph Fuller, Critical Sociology "Even for those who appreciated the first edition of the book, this new effort is worth looking at because it captures critical criminology's emerging focus on not just witnessing the effects of race, crime, and gender on justice, but also advocates a progressive agenda for change...The articles are uniformly well-written, interesting, and challenging...Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice make a substantial contribution toward the development of a criminology that has the potential to change individual lives and social institutions." -John Randolph Fuller, Critical Sociology "Even for those who appreciated the first edition of the book, this new effort is worth looking at because it captures critical criminology's emerging focus on not just witnessing the effects of race, crime, and gender on justice, but also advocates a progressive agenda for change...The articles are uniformly well-written, interesting, and challenging...Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice make a substantial contribution toward the development of a criminology that has the potential to change individual lives and social institutions."-John Randolph Fuller, Critical Sociology

O autorze

Jeffrey Ian Ross is associate professor in the division of criminology, criminal justice, and social policy and a Fellow of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore. He is the author, co-author, editor and co-editor of twelve books, the most recent being Special Problems in Corrections.