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Author Quinney, Richard

Title Critique of the Legal Order : Crime Control in Capitalist Society
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (170 pages)
Series Law and Society
Recht und Gesellschaft.
Contents Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Introduction to the Transaction Edition; Preface; 1 A Critical Philosophy of Legal Order; The Positivistic Mode; The Social Constructionist Mode; The Phenomenological Mode; Critical Philosophy; Developing a Critical Philosophy of Legal Order; 2 Knowledge and Order; The Search for Order; Sociology of Law; Criminology; Scholarship in the Service of Social Control; Social Science and the Violence Commission; Behavior Manipulation and Control; 3 Preservation of Domestic Order by the Ruling Class; The Class Structure of Capitalist Society
Law as an Arm of the Ruling ClassClass Basis of the Presidentâ#x80;#x99;s Crime Commission; The Riot Commission and the Violence Commission; The Omnibus Crime Bill; Shaping Domestic Policy: The Ced; Crime Control Bureaucracies; The Revolutionary Consequences of the Capitalist Crisis; 4 Crime Control in the Capitalist State; The Capitalist State; Legislation of Crime Control; Crime Control Bureaucracy: Leaa; Legal Repression by the Justice Department; The Technology of Crime Control; War on Crime: Strategy and Action; Reform, Repression, and Resistance; 5 Ideology of Legal Order
Legal Ideology in Capitalist SocietyThe Moral Basis of the Legal Order; Civil Liberties and Selective Repression; Shaping Public Opinion About Crime; Mass Media in the Transmission of Official Ideology; Transcending the Official Ideology; 6 Toward a Socialist Society; The Contradictions of Capitalism; Reform as Adaptive Mechanism; Criminal Justice Reforms; The Oppression of Correctional Reform; The Socialist Alternative; Emerging Revolutionary Consciousness and the Counterrevolution; Struggle for a Socialist Society
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Subject Criminal law.
Critical legal studies.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Criminal law -- Philosophy
Critical legal studies
Sociological jurisprudence
Form Electronic book
Author Shelden, Randall G
Sheldon, Randall
ISBN 9781351320344
1351320343