NCJ Number
138513
Editor(s)
H E Pepinsky,
R Quinney
Date Published
1991
Length
339 pages
Annotation
The essays presented in this book contribute to the emerging criminology of peacemaking, which seeks to alleviate suffering and thus reduce crime.
Abstract
Several essays address religious and humanist peacemaking traditions as well as feminist peacemaking traditions and women's experience. A selection of essays devoted to critical peacemaking traditions focus on images of unity and disunity in the juridic subject, the perpetuation of violence through criminological theory, the role of education in peacemaking, commonsense theories of crime, crime control as human rights enforcement, and conflict resolution. The concluding section considers the choice of peacemaking. 87 notes and 922 references