Contemporary Criminology and Criminal Justice Theory

2.3 million people are imprisoned in the United States, a burgeoning prison industry is emerging, and the mainstream population is subject to searches and surveillance of every kind technologically imaginable. The U.S. has not solved the crime problem, and theoretical explanations continue to be mired in fifty year old understandings of criminal justice. This book casts a critical eye on scholarship in the field of criminal justice, and offers some new orientations to help develop explanations for twenty-first century criminology and criminal justice studies.

ISBN	0230615988	Pages	244
ISBN13	9780230615984 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan	Weight (grammes)	406
Imprint	Palgrave Macmillan	Published in	Basingstoke
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	223
Publication date	02 Oct 2009	Width (mm)	143
Library of Congress	2009006413	Spine width (mm)	20
DEWEY	364	Academic level	Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly
DEWEY edition	DC22

1	Introduction: Theories of Justice in Late Capitalism	1
2	History of Criminal Justice Theory	25
3	The Nature of Theory	39
4	The Nature of Law, Order, Crime, and Criminal Justice	57
5	"Liberation" Criminal Justice: Critical and Radical Theories	79
6	The Rule of Law and the Ruling Class	99
7	Roots of Reaction	117
8	Theories in Other Places: Europeans and Others	139
9	Frameworks for New Theories: Chaos and World Systems	157
10	An Iconic Theory of Criminal Justice	175
	Bibliography	195
	Index	227

"This book is solid and represents a needed corrective in our field: Advancing it theoretically through the development of criminal justice theory. Skoll articulates difficult material in a very accessible manner...It is exciting to come across a book that is absolutely needed in our field, and that pushes the disciplinary envelope through applying and synthesizing an intellectually sophisticated body of literature."--Peter Kraska, Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Crime and Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University

"In this essential book, Skoll's aim and accomplishment is to rearrange our perceptual fields, to challenge the anesthetizing effects and dogma of common sense, and to invite us to see differently so that we might act differently. So much of law and public policy turns on questions of competing metaphors and analogies, and challenging any controlling analogy is always a risky business...We enter an open space of rethinking and negotiation, a space

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