Criminal Justice in America: A Critical Understanding.

Richard Quinney

Little,Brown & Company

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. Quinney not only advanced criminological thought, he inspired scores of students of crime and criminal justice to reorient their perceptions of the justice system. The Social Reality of Crime swept the criminological community and motivated an entire generation of researchers to question definitions of crime and labels of criminality. The book's popularity quickly turned Quinney into a criminologist with an international reputation. Excerpts from the book's first chapter, which is devoted to the theory of the social reality of crime, are now routinely reprinted in anthologies on criminology and deviant behavior. The theory itself is discussed in most criminology textbooks. This new edition of The Social Reality of Crime will renew inspiration for Quinney's unique critical-social constructionist perspective that has been so significant to the development of theoretical work in the fields of criminology, social problems, and the sociology of law.

The Social Reality of Crime.

Class, State, & Crime: On the Theory & Practice of Criminal Justice

Prentice-Hall Press

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. Quinney not only advanced criminological thought, he inspired scores of students of crime and criminal justice to reorient their perceptions of the justice system. The Social Reality of Crime swept the criminological community and motivated an entire generation of researchers to question definitions of crime and labels of criminality. The book's popularity quickly turned Quinney into a criminologist with an international reputation. Excerpts from the book's first chapter, which is devoted to the theory of the social reality of crime, are now routinely reprinted in anthologies on criminology and deviant behavior. The theory itself is discussed in most criminology textbooks. This new edition of The Social Reality of Crime will renew inspiration for Quinney's unique critical-social constructionist perspective that has been so significant to the development of theoretical work in the fields of criminology, social problems, and the sociology of law.

The Social Reality of Crime (Law and Society Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Of Time and Place is Richard Quinney's celebration of-and elegy for-the family farm first settled by his great-grandparents fleeing the potato famine in Ireland. It is the farm of his birth and early years. When the house at the Old Place was torn down decades ago, the family photograph albums were carried up to the farmhouse. A few letters, some diary entries, and scrapbooks of obituaries and postcards and newspaper clippings survived to preserve a portion of the family history, along with photographs made later that documented life on the farm. This is the story of the several generations that lived on these few acres of rolling hills and wetlands in the southeast corner of Wisconsin. About the Author Richard Quinney is author of several books of autobiographical writing and photography, including Journey to a Far Place, For the Time Being, Where Yet the Sweet Birds Sing, Of Time and Place, Field Notes, A Lifetime Burning, Once Upon an Island, A Sense Sublime, The Morning Hour, Sketches, Still Life with Camera, Mystery of the Marsh, To This I Am Native, and On the Open Road.. His other books are in the field of sociology. His retrospective book of photographs is Things Once Seen. He is the founder of the independent press Borderland Books. He has had a career as a professor of sociology in American universities and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Of Time and Place

Borderland Books

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