Realist Criminology : : Crime Control and Policing in the 1990s /

Realist Criminology : : Crime Control and Policing in the 1990s / / ed. by John Lowman, Brian MacLean.

In the 1980s in Britain a new school of critical criminology arose to challenge the political and philosophical idealism that characterized its critical predecessors, and to offer an alternative to the crime control policies of the 'New Right.' Arguing that by overemphasizing the crimes of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Ahluwalia, Seema,
Carlen, Pat,
Currie, Dawn H.,
Currie, Elliott,
DeKeseredy, Walter S.,
Havemann, Paul,
Lowman, John,
MacLean, Brian D.,
Matthews, Roger,
McQueen, Rob,
Menzies, Robert,
Michalowski, Raymond J.,
Pearce, Frank,
Pease, Ken,
Walklate, Sandra,
Young, Jock,
HerausgeberIn:
Lowman, John,
MacLean, Brian,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1992
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword: The Criminology That Came in Out of the Cold
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Left Realism, Crime Control, and Policing in the l 990s
  • Part One: The Case for Left Realism
  • 2. Realist Research as a Basis for Local Criminal Justice Policy
  • 3. Developing a Realist Approach to Penal Reform
  • 4. Retreatism, Minimalism, Realism: Three Styles of Reasoning on Crime and Drugs in the United States
  • Part Two: A Critical Assessment of Left Realism
  • 5. Canadian Realist Criminology in the 1990s: Some Reflections on the Quest for Social Justice
  • 6. Crime and Justice in Socialist Cuba: What Can Left Realists Learn?
  • 7. Beyond Realist Criminology
  • 8. The 'Left Regulation' of Prostitution: Reconciling Individual Rights and Collective Interests
  • 9. Why Company Law Is Important to Left Realists
  • Part Three: Left Realism and Feminism
  • 10. Women, Crime, Feminism, and Realism
  • 11. Feminism and Realism in the Canadian Context
  • 12. Counting What Counts: The Study of Women's Fear of Crime
  • 13. Confronting Woman Abuse in Canada: A Left-Realist Approach
  • Part Four: Left Realism and Victimology
  • 14. Researching Victims of Crime: Critical Victimology
  • 15. The Local Crime Survey: Pitfalls and Possibilities
  • 16. The Contribution of 'Left Realism' to the Study of Commercial Crime
  • 17. A Program of Local Crime Survey Research for Canada
  • Contributors

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