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Contemporary Anarchist Criminology: Against Authoritarianism and Punishment offers a cutting-edge critical assessment of criminology by creating provocative discussions regarding business as usual in the criminal justice system. This exciting interdisciplinary book explores a diversity of topics that range from the construction of criminal law, to Lombroso, to deviant behavior, to prison abolition, to transformative justice, to restorative justice, to environmental justice, and to the prison industrial complex. Contemporary Anarchist Criminology is a must-read book for anyone looking for a serious critique of the criminal justice system, specifically for those in sociology, political science, criminology, peace and conflict studies, and criminal justice. Contemporary Anarchist Criminology is not for the timid, but for those wanting to challenge and dismantle the current forms of domination, oppression, and injustice that frame and define the current system of justice.
List of contents
Luis A. Fernandez: Foreword - Acknowledgements - Anthony J. Nocella II/Mark Seis/Jeff Shantz: Introduction: The Rise of Anarchist Criminology - Jeff Ferrell: Against the Law: Anarchist Criminology - Harold E. Pepinsky: Communist Anarchism as an Alternative to the Rule of Criminal - Jeff Shantz: Lombroso and the Anarchists: Anarchism in the Formation of Criminology - Colleen Hackett/Ben Turk: "Freedom First": Pursuing Abolition Through Supporting Prisoner Resistance - Laura Magnani: From Prison Abolition to Transformative Justice - Mark Seis: An Anarchist Criminology for Understanding Environmental Degradation - Reverend David "Wolf Eyes" Rose, Sr.: The Staff of Chronos - Maurice L. Graham: Actual Connections to Slavery in the Prison System - Sean Swain: On Crime and Deviance - Contributors - Index.
About the author
Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Institute for Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed book chapters or articles and over forty books.
Mark Seis, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He has published on a variety of topics ranging from the juvenile death penalty to environmental policy.
Jeff Shantz, Ph.D., currently teaches critical theory, elite deviance, and community organizing in the Department of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Metro Vancouver, Canada.
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Contemporary Anarchist Criminology: Against Authoritarianism and Punishment offers a cutting-edge critical assessment of criminology by creating provocative discussions regarding business as usual in the criminal justice system.
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"Finally, the first book on anarchist criminology!! What took so long. Now can we have prison abolition? A must read for anyone that cares about people."-Editorial Board, Poetry Behind the Walls
